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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Season 5/ Episode 9 "Four Minutes" – Recap and Review (with Spoilers) | Finale https://tinyurl.com/2jwndpzg

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THOUGHTS WHILE WATCHING GILMORE GIRLS: SEASON 3, EPISODE 2: HAUNTED LEG-TUMBLR IS HUNGIE AND KEEPS EATING MY POSTS

The Netflix synopses (synopseses? Synposi? Where are you, Jess Mariano? You're my only hope) made this episode seem like it was going to be heavily En-Crusty'd (Christopher focused) but then the lovely @frazzledsoul told me that in this episode Rory takes Christopher to school (metaphorically) and this is also the episode where Jess takes RORY down a peg in a GLORIOUS confrontation at Doose's Market. If there's one thing I love seeing in Gilmore GIrls it's a good peg lowering. In fact, it gives me such immense satisfaction to see Rory in particular get taken down a peg that the three times Dean does it to her are the only times I actually side with Dean. Let the Notch-Taking-Down Party commence. But first....Happy 18th birthday, Jess! You're legal, mister! I am solidly and forever in the Late August/ Early September Birthday Camp (I have my reasons) and we're already there on the show! It's been almost a year since he arrived in Stars Hollow as a 17 year old! I'm gonna make it easy and say it was September 1st.

Now you can visit the strip club, and buy porn and cigarettes legally! You're a man now! (well, at least you could buy cigarettes at 18 years old 20 years ago. It's 21 now). Episode begins with Emily still being predictably salty about last week's FND, where Lorelai snuck out of the house while her parents were fighting over her breakup with Crusty.

Don't listen to her. You do can do whatever you want, even while you're on the clock. My little shmushkins. My apple dumpling. My peach tart. My banana muffin. My jelly donut. You're gonna make a bazillion dollars with your books some day and show em all. *pinches his cheeks* Lorelai is coming down with an illness which I shall diagnose as mononucleosis (aka the kissing disease) that she contracted from making out with Dean Forrester.

Lorelai has no qualms about leaving the house to eat out every single day in a crowded diner and spread her germs all over town, instead of keeping her ass in bed, I guess. She's also incapable of purchasing and opening a can of soup and dumping it in a pot on the stove (or hell, even sticking it in the microwave) so she wakes up each day and chooses to be a Disease Vector. If she wasn't (presumably) still married to Luke in 2020 to cook her meals for her at home I don't know how she survived the pandemic. Luke: You know what helps a cold? A healthy immune system. You know how to get a healthy system? By not eating crap and blowing out your brain cells with coffee. Eat a vegetable now and then or some high fiber cereal. At least eat the carrots in the soup? Three minutes in and he's already Insulting Lorelai (while, uh, also insulting himself at the same time?) Whee, I'm loving this episode already! More Peg-Lowering, please! Several people on this show are going to be HUMBLED and I am HERE for it. But why is Luke always downselling food that he puts on his own menu? I know Lorelai and Rory don't ever pay him anyway, but doesn't he want to attempt to make some money? "My food will make you fat and sick and kill your brain cells. Don't eat it. Go eat somewhere else." Or is it that he's a-okay with poisoning the rest of Stars Hollow with copious amounts of junk food but wants to spare Lorelai and Rory the same fate? One would also suppose he doesn't actually have said vegetables or fiber rich cereal on his menu in the first place (it's a fucking diner) and that would mean Lorelai would have to pour herself her own cereal at home. Perish the thought. Is Luke secretly some kind of California Hipster in denial? Would he be more at home opening some kind of vegan cafe where he serves wheat grass shots and kombucha and avacado toast, you know, all the stuff Milo Ventimiglia eats. (But Milo’s a big junk food junky too, he's a bit of a paradox, that man). What does he feed Jess, by the way? In his first appearance he was planning to stuff his already neglected and malnourished nephew full of Corn Flakes and Pop Tarts.

Grandpa here is going to live to be 115 probably, but only if you shut up, you're already sending him to an early grave.

EVERYONE STOP EATING AND TALKING. THE QUEEN HAS ARRIVED! Anyone else think its funny that Lorelai and Rory and Luke are ilke the mayors of Stars Hollow who know everything down to when the mailman's dog farts but nobody knows who Shane is, where she came from, who her family is, when she moved in, where she lives, how she ended up with Jess...ANYTHING? Nobody even seems to know her name? Silence from Miss Patty and Babette? Lane and Dean never informed Rory that Jess was never in school, that he supposedly pulled the fire alarm, stole 500 baseballs, etc etc. again, shouldn't Lane be absolutely losing her mind to spill this piping hot tea that Jess has been hooking up with some mysterious blond skankbag all summer? And Dean too, shouldn't he always be dying to tell Rory anything that would cast Jess in an unfavorable light and make her think less of him? What is with this town where they'll hold an emergency meeting because he drew on a sidewalk with some chalk but when he actually does something worth talking about, nobody wants to narc on him? They fear him, that's what it is. What is Shane's last name by the way? I made up a poll and asked you to decide on her last name and I'm currently awaiting the results, which I will use going forward.

Jess and Shane continue to give Rory Gilmore a sexual awakening so immense it could knock our fucking solar system out of alignment. That boom you just heard was Jupiter and Saturn crashing into one another from the sheer force of Rory Gilmore's quivering loins.

Tomatos Sign. I wonder how much money Jessica Kiper was paid to stick her tongue in Milo's mouth and say "Hey" and "Jess". Did she have to audition? I would do the job for free. I would keep screwing up just so the director could yell "Cut" and I could do as many takes as possible. Warner Brothers could own me for the rest of my life just for that opportunity.

Meow! All she did was say his name, lol. Someone's cranky. You know what would cure that bad mood? A good handjob from Shane (last name soon to be announced). This whole "no strings attached sexual gratification" deal that was seemingly dropped in his lap? Meh, whatever. He'll do it, but he'll be reading the entire time. Meanwhile, this is Dean waiting 5 years for Rory to put out:

(By the way, Mr. Mariano, don't ever tell a woman to "relax") Jess sighs and leaves in the middle of his shift (Lorelai should be proud), leaving his customers wondering where their pancakes are, to go have sex with Shane somewhere public and indecent, leaving Rory in their horny wake. Perhaps Jess has the intuition that the cold, clammy, looming hand of Celibacy (aka his own hand and a jumbo size bottle of lotion) will soon be upon him so he better seize these opportunities.

Love it when she says shit like this as if her boyfriend Dean Forrester is some fucking chatterbox (he'll grunt a few words as he's also a typical teenage boy like Jess and she'll go "That's So INTERESTING Dean! Do go on. I love you, little buttered croissant"), and also like she should actually expect Jess to talk around her when he knows she's going to pick on him even worse if he does have something to say.

Too late. That's hilarious- I forgot that Dean was about to show up just now and prove my point.

She's still wearing that stupid quarter on a string on her wrist. I will give this show credit for being very consistent with some of the small details like this. Every day for 2+ years straight, Alexis Bledel shows up at Wardrobe and they slap that thing on her wrist. That cup is HUGE.

Yeah. What? I could teach a comatose goldfish to say "I already ate breakfast." The hell is your point?

Oh god. It's that episode where Kirk and Lorelai go on a "Date". I do not remember how it goes but I'm gonna take a stab in the dark here and predict that it was sufficiently awkward. Honestly...Lorelai has done MUCH worse before and will continue to do much worse than Kirk. Mommy issues aside, Kirk has more redeeming qualities than Max or Crusty. Like, at least Kirk is ambitious. Lorelai is still only a few months removed from banging Crusty who wouldn't know the meaning of hard work if it bit him in the ass. I hope something bites Crusty in the ass. Like a rabid possum. Kirk...."Let's go out...In two weeks. I heard you have a cold. It takes two weeks for a virus to leave the immune system." He's also smart and would survive the pandemic. "You might be the prettiest girl I've ever seen. Outside of a filthy magazine."

It's the first day of senior year for Rory and our other Stars Hollow teens.

It's all downhill for Rory after high school.

Nobody tell her. L: I cannot go out with Kirk! R: Why not? L: He's Kirk! Poor Neurodivergent Kirk.

Fixed it.

i was about to say "What the what! Lorelai is actually pouring her own cereal?" but it's Rory wno's making her own breakfast and Lorelai is just pouring marshmallows into the bowl (who does that? That's not a thing. Here in The United States of America, there are already cereals that come with marshmallows). I mean, at least she's eating at home and "helping". Good for you for helping to feed to your chiild, Lorelai. Even if she's eschewing the (marginally) more healthy Raisin Bran in favor of Rice Krispies. I'm going to add a new feature to the ends of these posts: I call it: Things Googled While Watching GIlmore GIrls. Birthday Party Icons, How Old To Buy CIgarettes in Connecticut, Definition of Proclivities, How Many Words Can A Parrot Learn

[frazzledsoul]

Asking a few people their thoughts on this! Sticking only to the original series run, excluding AIYTL and excluding any visions you may have heard AmyShermanPalladino herself had for this scenario, what is your personal vision of what would have happened to Jess and Rory had Milo not left the show at the end of s3? Would they still have broken up at the end of season 3, then gotten back together later, or stayed together? Are they going to somehow date the entire time Rory is at Yale (it's incredibly unlikely he's going to go to Yale with her, so what are they going to show him doing in his early 20's pre-Truncheon?) Some arc where their relationship is more on and off and they date other people? Thoughts please.

So I'm not sure what Amy was thinking asking Milo to sign that big contract. I can't imagine that there ever would be a compelling reason for Jess to stick around Stars Hollow, and while she might be willing to invent a workplace and some co-workers for Truncheon for a single episode of the show, it's highly unlikely she's going to want to do that as a plot thread full time if those characters are never going to interact with anyone else on the main set. It's just not plausible.

However, putting all the logistical issues aside I don't think they would have stayed together. I think the class issues alone would probably have defeated them and Jess needed to go out and develop his own identity. He can't do that if he's just the guy on the fringes of her (more boring) story. He needed to figure out who he was on his own. And that entire story was probably too much for this show.

However, if ASP had kept Milo around I guess she wouldn't have had to inflict Jason (sorry Jason) and his scintillating insurance industry storylines on us as an excuse not to hook up Luke and Lorelai.

[saltygilmores]

-Milo Ventimiglia to AmyShermanPalladino when he requested that Jess get hit by a bus

He’s so pretty… I want him to be grievously injured

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The problem with Rory having a junior prom is that Dean Forrester would be her date. She didn't start dating Jess until her senior year.

Dean already accompanied Rory to sophmore dance and the debutante ball AND they did some swaying at the dance marathon, if you can count that, he is not getting a 3rd or 4th dance, not on my watch. He doesn't deserve that. He deserves to be flattened by a runaway bus. AmyShermanPalladino teasing us with Jess and Rory going to senior prom and so cruelly ripping that away was one of her highest crimes.

I agree about more Christmas episodes. They need to include some kind of gift exchange because I have a desperate curiosity to see what everyone buys for each other.

Why didn't we get more school dance episodes? Emily said that if Rory doesn't go to winter formal she is "missing out on something" and will regret it later, but she didn't say anything about her junior or senior prom? Honestly Rory's Dance (1x09) is one of the best episodes, they should have done this theme more often.

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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Season 5/ Episode 7 "A House Full of Extremely Lame Horses" – Recap and Review (with Spoilers)

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THOUGHTS WHILE WATCHING GILMORE GIRLS: S3/EP4/ONE’S GOT CLASS THE OTHER ONE DYES (PART 4- THE KAREN-ING)

Lane's hair has now been sufficiently purpled, and the deed has been documented with a quaint Polaroid camera, but then she hears her mother's footsteps and descends into a panic spiral. She sends Rory back to the beauty supply store to buy black hair dye. Shane is on the phone with someone as a customer approaches (her manager, Cynthia, is chill with it). Let's listen.

Shane is clearly talking to Jess, Rory knows it, and the missing object in question is absofuckinglutely her discarded bra, because Salty says so. Salty declares that this is actualy a delicious nugget of foreshadowing to that future scene where Rory finds a bra in the backseat of Jess' car.

Rory! Cover your virgin ears! Your innocent little mind can't possibly process whatever filth you're about to hear!

She goes on to tell Jess that she feels too bloaty to eat, on the other end of the line Jess presumably disputes that bloaty is a word, , she insists to him that bloaty is valid because she says so. Jess says something on the other line that causes Shane to call him a jerk. Hearing Shane discuss this made up word makes Rory incredibly angry for some reason and she proceeds to go FullMegaKaren on her. Is that the real reason he offed Shane and fed her to the swans? An etymology argument or a game of Scrabble gone horribly wrong? Let's get ready to see Rory Karen like she has never Karen'd before.

Hang it up Shane, you have a Mini Karen at your register and she's clearly not interested in hearing about when, where, and how you like to get off. Narrator: Rory Gilmore did indeed, have all day, because she had no job.

Adult Rory in 2023: "This coupon for 50 cents off black hair dye expired in 2002, but I demand you honor it. *Reading name tag* Shane, is it? Well, Shane, I would like to speak with your manager." Rory never met a blond girl secure in her sexuality or another teenager with a job that she didn't like. I swear to god Rory, it would be in your best interests to be nice to this girl, because you know Jess is going to discard her soon enough (yeeting her into a lake) so if you want Jess for yourself that badly in the future, you should be asking her for advice. (failing that, Madelyn and Louise). In the greatest and as far as I'm fucking concerned only Slutty Philadelphia Jess fic, Stop Thinking You're The Only Option, Rory befriends a girl who gives her advice on how to give proper handjobs and blowjobs. And Rory listens. And Jess is grateful. She's not going to get that kind of useful information from Lane or her mother. I'm just sayin. Shane is a modern woman and she reads Cosmo.

Cynthia! Get in here! We have a Code Karen! Threat Level 5! And it clearly was a business call. When it comes to middday booty calls, Shane is all business. Seriously, what the fuck Rory? What set you off into this MegaKaren Mode? You can't handle a little friendly competition now, good luck at Yale, sister.

Per The Oxford English Dictionary: "There is one meaning in OED's entry for the adjective bloaty. This word is now obsolete. It is only recorded in the early 1700s." Not only is Shane a future homocide victim, she's also a time traveler. But she is technically correct. The best kind of correct. Ready for one of the lamest AmyShermanPalladino penned insults ever put to paper?

It's no “I’m not fighting you, it would be like fighting an accountant! I’ll call you when I need my taxes done!” (Dean to Tristan) but it's up there. You know it's a good thing Shane doesn't work at Luke's or somewhere else that Rory likes to eat or she'd be spitting in her food (like what Jess does to Dean's food whenever he comes in to Luke's).

Moments after this incident, Shane calls her manager Cynthia and they slap up a sign next to the register with Rory's photo that says "Do not sell to this person".

[saltygilmores]

Your theory that the baseball theft was actually a slow and methodical one taking place over a series of days is intriguing and much more plausible than tiny little Jess Mariano trying to haul away 150 pounds of baseballs all at once. But on the other side of the coin, even if he snatched fifty baseballs a day, it would still take him 10 days or two full school weeks, if he's even at school 5 days a week which he wasn't. Also, now I'm thinking that since Deeny Weeny loves softball & AmyShermanPalladino has made numerous attempts to paint him as some sort of occasional jock in between bouts of manipulating Rory, I will now headcanonize that Dean was on the Stars Hollow High baseball team and Jess did it to screw with Dean and his team. Now, once he had these baseballs in his possesion, where on Earth did he dump them?!

Nothing is more absurd than Jess stealing all of Stars Hollow High’s baseballs. Why?? Where is he keeping them? The apartment above the diner is tiny—did he shove them all in a drawer? And how did Luke not notice all of them? Were they eventually returned? Exactly how many did he steal? Was it all at once or slowly? How many baseballs does this high school have??

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WIG REVIEW: THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL

You guys, I finished watching this and yes, it is marvelous! But as a huge fan of Gilmore Girls, I would expect nothing less from the Sherman-Palladinos. And Mrs. Maisel is much like Gilmore Girls in that they both have alliterative titles and are about fast-talking, smart, funny, pretty, impulsive, and usually self-destructive women. The differences are that Mrs. Maisel is set in 1958 and therefore doesn’t include as many pop-cultural references per second (though it does include many phrases that no one uttered in 1958 - I’m almost ready for someone to say “turnt” in one of these episodes….get it together Amy S-P!) and Mrs. Maisel (Midge if you’re nasty) has the opposite of a close relationship with her kids (to the point where I might actually want to call child services?). BUT WHAT ABOUT THE WIGS? Let’s discuss.

As Midge Maisel, Rachel Brosnahan is pretty marvelous (with a title like this, I guess marvelous is the adjective to always use?) and very pretty and pretty funny. Her wig, however, is total nonsense. Despite every scene of this 50s explosion of a show looking like it cost ALL THE MONEY, as usual, the wig budget seems to be bupkis. 

In some shots, this monstrosity is hidden under a hat or headband which covers the main issue of the subpar texture and seamwork. 

But for the most part, the flaws are right out in the open, just as any flawed Sherman-Palladino heroine would have it? 

Seriously, though, it’s bad, and as the season progresses, it gets worse and worse. The texture is so dried out and the part is just downright awful.

I think the only time Midge’s hair looks ok is when she’s been out in the rain on a bender (same?)

It should be mentioned that Midge’s mom also has a wig and it’s not as bad but it’s also not great. Tony Shalhoub as Midge’s dad is REALLY GREAT THOUGH. Also Kevin Pollack plays Midge’s father-in-law and I’m just really glad he’s getting work even though he has to suffer through a flashback wig sequence that I couldn’t find a picture of but that is probably for the best since as usual men’s wigs are always the worst.

Speaking of the worst, Midge’s husband/soon-to-be-ex-husband (?) Joel is absolutely the worst. I didn’t include a picture of him on this blog (instead please enjoy another pic of the wonderful Tony Shalhoub) because I hate him so much. Even more than I hated Lorelei Gilmore’s ex (AND THAT IS A LOT). At one point, someone calls him Sal Mineo (SICK BURN) and I truly hope that in Season 2 he goes the way of Sal Mineo - aka I hope he’s stabbed to death in a dark alleyway and then 40 years later his name is used as a comic punchline. Too harsh? Nope, this character is the pits. 

However, Alex Borstein as Susie, Midge’s manager is ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL AND DESERVING ALL THE AWARDS. Not only does she deliver the Sal Mineo sick burn but about 1000 sick burns per episode. I’m also a sucker for any narrative involving two women from opposite walks of life becoming friends and realizing their own potential through said friendship. AMEN SISTERS. STILL, LOOK AT THAT EFFING AWFUL WIG ON MIDGE.

In conclusion, do yourself a favor and watch this show because it’s really charming and wonderful despite its flaws (MUCH LIKE ANY AMY SHERMAN-PALLADINO HEROINE), however one of its major flaws is the wigs. Throw some more $$ at the wig budget next season, Amazon! Lord knows I throw enough $$ on random orders of crap every week for you to afford it! Put it on my tab!

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Urie Re-joins Foster In the Broadway-L.A. Revival Of "Once Upon A Mattress"

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Michael Urie, Sutton Foster, and the cast of Encores’ Once Upon a Mattress. Photo by Joan Marcus. The New York Theater Report: Michael Urie Joins Cast of the Broadway Bound Revival of Once Upon a Mattress. Michael Urie, who was just on Broadway delighting us all in the revival of Spamalot, will reprise his Off-Broadway performance opposite Sutton Foster (Broadway’s Sweeney Todd) in the upcoming…