The Gilded Age
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I reap rich rewards in life from being easily impressed.
As my notes say, what a dillweed.
The Big Event is the lighting-up of the New YorkTimesbuilding.
Everyone is organizing excursions to witness it, and if you dont go, youre a big loser.
This brings us to Marian!
The fired Miss Turner!
The unemployed Miss Turner.
Bertha assumes its Oscar but then later sees Larry speaking with Miss Turner and pretty much immediately fires her.
Id feel bad for her if Miss Turner were not the Worst.
Anyway, lets all wait for Miss Turners Revenge, which will surely come about eventually.
Just give me this power-hungry couple bent on social and economic domination!
Who can say what drives people?
I spent hours and hours studying the spelling-bee words in elementary school, and why?
To beat my older brother, and I did, and it was extremely satisfying.
What is Berthas version of beating her older brother in a spelling bee?
One can only hazard a guess.
I want Berthas master plan to be to reach the pinnacle of society, only to dismantle it.
In contrast, that wont be an issue if he does something else.
This inevitably makes you wonder about the wisdom ofall of Meryl Streeps children taking up acting.
George is receptive to this, so maybe Larry will carve out his own destiny after all.
As they discuss Edison, Fortune mentions that Black inventor Lewis Latimer improved the carbon filaments in light bulbs.
Peggy replies that shes sure Mr. Edison will give Latimer his due credit at the ceremony.
Tom and Marian … are the worst.
They have so much screen time together.
Screen time when we could be focusing on literally any other character.
Why was that one servant man spying on that woman entering a house a few episodes ago?!
I want to focus on that!
What does THAT mean?
OMG, hes the worst.
I hate this story line.
I hate it so much.
The ending is LOVELY.
It all feels very awe-inspiring.
Ward McAllister calls it a turning point in history, asking if theyre heading in the right direction.
Bertha is a woman of action!
Except for the social registrar and everything Aurora Fane tells her to do.
BARE CHRISTINE BARANSKI ARMS.
