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The Great - Season Two · The Art of Costume Podcast

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Though, I will say, I did yelp when he stabbed her hand, I was
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not emotionally prepared for that.
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Right? Right.
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I was like, oh, this is serious. Yeah.
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And like stabbing in the hand. You know, how you don't like,
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people crawling on the walls? Yeah, I don't like people
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getting Stabbed in the hand. I'm like I can't I can't do
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that. I have a phobia of that cast.
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I'm Elizabeth Joy glass and I'm Spencer the great hello
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Elizabeth hello Spencer huzzah huzzah wowee.
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I feel like we should just get into this Cove the great season
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2. Is even crazier than the great
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season one. Yeah, some of you might be
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wondering, hey what happened to season one?
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Well, luckily, for you, we did our Patron episode this month,
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all about the great season one. So if you really want to keep
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time into those costumes, head over to our patreon, we have a
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great episode there. Today's all about up season to
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yesterday's all about season. Two of you haven't seen season
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to get Hulu. It's kind of cheap with that
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only costs, The Who ads are so loud.
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Have you noticed this? They are.
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This is okay. This is a problem.
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I have not just with Hulu but like with the YouTube and other
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like platforms that have commercials I'm like, I can
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barely hear the show. Y and then I'm like startled.
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I'm like I'm almost scared to death on a regular basis when I
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watch these platforms because it's like the commercials are so
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loud. Full disclosure, I had to watch
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both seasons of The Great in preparation for a recordings
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this week, so that's that's 20 episodes.
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So that includes some time in bed and I like you do not have
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the best hearing. So I have my volume at like, a
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solid 100 in bed and still, you could sometimes barely make out
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like what Catherine saying you're and ones Whispering.
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I have subtitles on suddenly Hulu is Lasting this IMVU
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commercial at, like, 1:00 in the morning that like, shakes my
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entire apartment building, Lily shakes my entire nervous system.
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I can't, I'm just like, like if I have some sort of medical
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emergency while watching Hulu, Hulu should be blamed because
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what they're the loudness of their commercials, probably
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triggered. It that being said, We still are
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looking for sponsors. So feel free to hit us up but
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yeah, it's just we need to talk about the volume of your
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commercials. That's all there needs to be an
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adjustment in that area may be like we're in a commercial
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start. The vibe automatically adjust,
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you know, like like the brightness on your phone.
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Yes, we need that for audio. Well, if you're listening to
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this podcast I hope you're wearing comfortable headphones.
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Yeah. And enjoying are Umm I don't
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think we're very loud. I don't think we are.
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I hope or not. Yeah, house with admire to calm
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collected. Soothing yeah, soothing
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soothing, soothing voices better my cup of tea?
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Yes. Yes.
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I'm your ride to work at a comfortable level.
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As you Glide down the highway Let's get into the great season
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2. It is an occasionally true
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story, everybody, and being the history nerd that I am.
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I have to stress how Loosely based on history this really is.
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And if you want to know the real story of Catherine, the Great
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there is the wonderful YouTube Channel History, tea time with
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lynsey holiday. She does a great two-part series
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on Catherine, the Great PBS Masterpiece, This also has a
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mini series on Catherine, the Great.
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And if you have young ones and you want to teach them about
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strong, female leaders throughout history.
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The Royal Diaries has a historical fiction book called
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Catherine, the Great journey. I love the freight.
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So, if you want to know the real story or educate, your young
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ones, here are your resource. I believe.
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I thought I read that season 2. They changed it to like like a
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The barely true story or something.
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I don't know. Yeah, well, that's the goal for
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a season 3, I don't know. No, it was definitely season two
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like after her husband died within.
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Like, I think weeks of her like, taking over died in prison right
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clothes. All right.
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Well, I'll bring us in with a summary.
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This is the summary for the great season 2.
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Four months after she launched a coup against her husband,
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Catherine gains the upper hand in her war against Peter and her
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reign as a begins. But with the crown comes a
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variety of obstacles, including grief, pregnancy, crocodiles
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macaroons, and even a visit from Catherine's mother and that is
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season 2 that is season 2. If you don't want spoilers, stop
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turn around. Go to Hulu, don't forget the
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lower the volume. In commercials or going behind
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the Wardrobe, we have series Creator, Tony McNamara, and
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costume designer. Sharon long Spencer, what the
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hell are you doing? I knew you had a weight on your
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desk. I knew you had a wig on your
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desk. Oh my gosh.
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Spencer, you're like it. I love it.
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Oh my gosh, this guy. He was like, showing me
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something yesterday and I'm like, oh, Spencer, you have a
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wig on your desk and he's like, no.
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I don't know, I don't know. I don't like like really
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thought. I don't know why you're denying
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it but okay. It was so stupid.
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I was trying to say something else was like, oh crap.
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She's on the wig. All I could do is just deny.
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I was like too. Very strange when I guess it's
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his business. Let's see.
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You fit inspired by Peter. Yeah, I've just really, I've
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just really become such a period person.
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Over all of our past episodes. The Gilded Age we're talking
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about doing Bridge Orton, you know, the great, all these
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different period, things they've done.
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I'm just diving into this world. I am Spencer, the great.
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You know, this is my world. I got the wig, I got the T, I'm
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ready, I love it. I love it.
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Of it. I was gonna send one to you, but
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I thought that would have needed some explaining plus I just
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didn't. Yeah, I'm sorry.
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That's fine. There's always Bridget in any
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way we have costume designer. Sharon long, whose notable work
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is the Harry Styles. Music video, kiwi Chloe.
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Be excited about that. Sure, I talked to Cosmopolitan
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quite a bit about coming on to the great.
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She said and she said, I have to say they're not the most
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exciting dresses. She Catherine, the Great tended
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towards very loose clothing. There are some actual garments
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left and they wouldn't inspire you at all her wedding dress and
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her Her coronation dresses. Are the two that would take your
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breath away. I found it better to read about
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her. Then to look at those pieces of
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clothes clothing because you would never think they belonged
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to a queen. She tried very hard, not to over
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all people, so that she was very approachable.
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She never wore the same dress twice, if it made an impact,
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once it would never make the same impact again.
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So she was like season two new costume designer.
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She's like, okay, let's figure out who Catherine.
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The Great was and then was kind of like, oh hmm, never mind,
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never mind, that's real this back.
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And she really took inspiration from who Catherine?
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The woman was and then clearly kicked it up up up, like a
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million notches? Yes.
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She also talks about how her season one look impacted her
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designs for the second season, Sharon said season Once costume
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designer Emma. Fryer designed for Katherine as
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a very young woman. So she had quite youthful, fresh
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colors, like, pale blue, yellow. Mauve.
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It seemed appropriate to keep her in the same color ways.
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I couldn't see the character of In whose German and very
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practical suddenly going into dark colors.
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L, looks fantastic in pastels and you always want your Leading
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Lady to look her best towards the end of season 2.
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That's when I started breaking into other colors.
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I purposely left the red until the end.
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So she was like, you know what? Emma, fryer, she had it down.
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Yeah, well just color plays such a huge role.
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On the show. It really is like almost a part
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of the characters. It really is.
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And it's a lot of, you know, what, this series.
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I kind of get that feeling from Bram Stoker's Dracula, where
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it's like, the costumes are the sets.
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Yes. Cuz it's like, yes, the sets on
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this are fantastic, but you're constantly looking at the
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clothes like, oh yeah, always the clothes for sure, especially
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since 90% of the show. Both season one and season two,
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take place inside. The same Palace it like rarely
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leaves and when it does it goes to like the woods or that same
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like dumpy Battleground where they're just feeding people
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macaroons. So yeah it's like they're either
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at the palace are trying to fight and or end a war.
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But with that, we're going to take a little break e-brake
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before jumping into our first episode huzzah.
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this. Elizabeth has the ha.
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Now, we are in episode 1 heads, it's me after months of fighting
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in the palace, a pregnant. Kathryn, finally wins the
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Russian Throne from Peter when he Finally agrees to abdicate,
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these first couple seasons were wild.
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The kids with the head. I was like, oh my gosh, like
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this is insanity, Insanity. I love it.
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And it's just hilarious to me that this entire War like took
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place, like within the palace grounds, that's insane to me,
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that historically accurate, not really, cuz I, if I remember
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correctly, he had he was kind of warned that she might do
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something like this but the real Peter he was extremely arrogant
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and like hated her just didn't think she could actually do it.
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So he was at some other Palace because he was going to have a
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party and she like she basically like could the government and
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everything and then went after him nice.
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But right away, I mean, this show has so many costumes.
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It's like, yes, it's almost intimidating.
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Episode. We're about to do with them out
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in costumes. Everyone looks great.
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Like it's so funny that like all the Nobles around, Peter are
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still like living a Luxe life and it shows in their costumes
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while like Catherine's forces are looking a little bit more
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beaten down. Because they're very serious
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about this campaign. They are like, even like the
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children it's like they're still dressed.
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Like you can tell their clothes used to be really nice but
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they're like so dirty. Yeah, I'm like they're playing
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with the The head as a football instead of, you know, fighting
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raccoons with which the, the raccoon looks so Savage to poor
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guy, right? I was like those poor animals
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one part especially of this first episode that I thought was
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hilarious, was Peters doubles. Yeah.
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Like each one, like they're clearly dressing him up and just
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like his wardrobe. And it's like, The one that's
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also played by Nicholas Hoult like none of them actually look
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like him. They just like, with his clothes
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on. They kind of a little bit look
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like him. Yeah, they have that like, Peter
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style, but we're not actually Peter, except the one that is
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played by Nicholas Hoult, which, like, always catches me off
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guard. I'm like, is that actually him?
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He like they make him look like so gross.
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And with just like that, like that terrible British changes
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his voice a little Little. Yeah, he does not sound like
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himself but yeah, we still see Catherine and like this very
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pale blue. I like how she's still.
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It's very like a still very fancy but it's like a little
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like militant almost one. Cool thing.
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About Catherine the Great when she like when I was like okay
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time for the coup she changed into a Russian military uniform
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and was like let's That's dope and then Peter the whole time,
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he's just like laid back in his like comfy, Furs still like in
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party mode. He's listening to Shots by Lil
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Jon, right? He's just kind of wait for all
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this to blow over, he really is a special event.
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Even like when they run away he's got that like great like
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brocade with like fur-trimmed coat and his like gold Lemay
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pants and I'm like, dude, you do not understand what's Going on,
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do you? It's very serious.
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The first episode is so funny. It's so funny and I just love
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how the rest of the season. He's like if I hadn't gotten so
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hungry she would have lost like do that was not your problem.
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So relatable though. I'm like yeah sometimes my
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Hunger gets a better me. I love when Peter like is like
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trying to test the situation and he sends one of his doubles
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outside to see like what would happen and got.
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It's hot instantly and Catherine's just Shaking your
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head like don't like what do you think you're doing so funny but
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even funnier, we have the return of Aunt, Elizabeth so good.
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I loved her even more in season two.
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We talked about this in their Patron episode, our Elizabeth
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and Aunt Elizabeth are kind of the same person, but she becomes
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a little bit more wild and a little bit more.
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I don't know what it is. It is about her, but sees it
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too. She just becomes greater.
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I agree. I think it's because like,
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Catherine does keep her as such a close advisor.
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Like she feels a little Freer to just like kind of do what she
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wants. Because it's like, the whole
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reason she's supporting Catherine is because she knows
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Catherine is like Progressive and like and actually, like
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sensible ruler, and it's like, she's like, I love my nephew,
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but if he's gotta go, he's gotta go.
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Yeah. My nephew's kind.
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The piece of shit. So, yeah, Elizabeth looked
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stunning, all the time her fits are just so interesting.
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We talked about this on patreon but like, yes, sometimes they're
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very like, masculine feminine feminine and non-binary wearing
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some pants one day or wearing like, very Exquisite gown.
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Next Yankee patterns, she's just, she's your cool.
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Aunt, Elizabeth she definitely is and I felt like this season
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they like up to the D or inspiration.
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A little bit especially with her one standout costume from this
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is when she chases Peter on Horseback in her nightgown and
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just that gigantic yellow robe. I was like, you look so good
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girl, like you are just chasing after and getting him.
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Yes. He's pregnant through this whole
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ordeal. Yes to top it off though.
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When he finally agrees to He she wears this amazing silver blue,
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fur trimmed coat, then I was like oh you you are making
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yourself out the angel of the situation.
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Yeah that that dress lays a little too hard.
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Yeah it's so nice to I mean the fabric is just so beautiful,
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it's a museum piece right away. Most of Katherine's wardrobe
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pieces are like Museum where they yeah even though she's
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handed. The head of her lover, which
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honestly, I have to say, it didn't really bother me that
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much, honestly, for Leo, is it bother you that she was handed
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to Leo's head? It was her reaction was sad and
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heartbreaking, but I don't miss Leo.
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Has that weird? I mean true, I kind of sit the
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chaotic relationship between Catherine and Peter.
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I personally don't. But you doing the real
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Catherine. The Great.
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Don't sip them but I never read her in textbooks, ship them.
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Okay. I can see that I can see that.
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But then we're quickly brought to episode 2 where Catherine's
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are really starting her Reign episode 2 dickhead on the day of
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her coronation Katherine finds that ruling the nation.
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As she wishes will not be easy. And Peter begins to realize how
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Crushed his place in court is oh man.
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That's a rough transition. I mean I had a feeling it would
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but it's pretty rough. It is Roth and I love how she's
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just keeping this like this. Like, silver blue color palette.
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She's just like, yes, I am going to be the Empress of Russia.
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This is who I am. I love all her Cape to looks
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because she just kind of like Glides through the palace Glides
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through the forest. And she has her little Hood
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moments. You also have to remember that
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it's like probably freezing cold outside even though they don't
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really do that great of a job to tell you what the weather's like
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you could just tell because yeah, the costumes are always
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super heavy. I feel like they keep it in this
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like ambiguous like fall time like the entire time.
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Yeah, but one thing I really love about this episode is the
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opening scene. Where the maids are cleaning the
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floor and they're wearing like, very traditional costume.
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I was like this was beautiful and so well coordinated.
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Yeah, very beautiful. And like even like the Fabrics
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have like a very Russian inspiration to them.
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I could kind of see like the textiles, very interesting, very
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beautiful, the poor maids and servants.
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Really have a rough go in this season though.
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The serfs do not fare. Well, in this season.
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No, they do not who does farewell in this season.
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Muriel is back as a lady. Oh my gosh.
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Her like one of her first dress has is so beautiful.
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Like that red sash over it. Oh my gosh.
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That's so starting Hank. Yeah, she's back and she's ready
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for vengeance. She is ready for Ventura.
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And she's like, I'm here. She's like, I made a mistake.
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II didn't support my girl and she needed it but now I'm back
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and I'm going to support my girl Until the End.
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Yes, I supported my girl 85% of the time, which is better than
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some of you better than most of the ladies in the court.
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Um, but Katherine has to deal with a lot of the men of the
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Court. Who pretty much hate her.
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Yeah, they're all terrible to them but they also bring what I
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love about them even though I hate all of them.
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You could tell that they really the costume designer.
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Sharon, she really Drew like a lot of Inspirations from the
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different, like regions of Russia.
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You could tell within the costumes.
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You could tell that all these different nobles were all from
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like different parts which was really interesting.
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Yeah. Especially the one that gets
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murdered at the end. I was just like stunned by like
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how tall his hat was. Yeah, why?
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But okay, I like it. I don't know.
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A lot about traditional Russian. Like clothing, but I could I
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recognize these Silhouettes which is very interesting.
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Yeah, it is it's also very interesting because like with
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the exception of like a few characters like this this guy in
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the right on the top, it's all very like french-inspired with
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like a little bit of like traditional like mixed in there.
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Yeah, so it's kind of like hmm. Like we're like what are you
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doing more of right? It's the rush of thing really
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has to do with The hat and the facial hair and then like the
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length of their like tunic. That's yeah, like, that's where
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the Russian inspiration really, like shows through.
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I agree. Well, ladies, they are as put
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together as ever. But we also have, we get to see
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the little girls of the Court, a lot more in this season, which
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is really great. And they all like, look
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beautiful, but they also kind of like I don't like their parents
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to a little bit, but it's nice to see some children around here
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that aren't evil, right? And I love, we have the addition
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of the school teacher Katya velcro who I love her because
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she's just like cath like the mirror of Catherine in Russia.
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Like it was almost a large ring. Like how kind and normal the
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school teacher was like you have expect everyone in this
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courtroom. To be either insane or mean or
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both. So the school teacher like
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really caught me off guard. And I still don't trust her
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which I mean, but it makes sense though because to like in a
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country like that at the time to receive and just that I'm in
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general as a woman to receive that kind of education to the
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level where you can, then, educate others.
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Like you probably have to be very like Pleasant and like, you
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know, give people what they want to get to get that for yourself.
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Yeah, but her costume is very beautiful.
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I love like, the floral applique is to it.
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Hmm. Very graceful.
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It, she's very graceful. She's always dressed to the
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nines to which I love talk about dressing to the nines everybody
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at Catherines coronation. My favorite look was on
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Elizabeth's that. Yeah.
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Thrilled like collar things he has going on stunning, she's
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giving me like Queen Elizabeth Vibes a little bit.
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Yes, I agree. I agree.
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She's stunning. Archie's, like full priest mode.
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Yeah, he looks great, Peter. Even I'm a Peter fan.
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Peter looks good. Tune is like traditional
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ceremonial a Garb, which we never really saw where a lot in
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season 1. No he didn't.
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He does look good. But who looks incredible is
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Katherine. Yes, Sharon long talk to To
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popsugar about this, she said the coronation costume is
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scripted. It's a traditional Russian
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sarafan that we started developing two months before L
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ever put it on. We reckon that in total it took
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three people two weeks to complete it.
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It's quite complicated to make something that could look frumpy
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appear. Beautiful.
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This shape of it is a bit like a farthingale and the member Is of
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our workroom shaped the skirt first.
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So we could try that on L as soon as possible and established
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the shape over her pregnancy. The bump almost disappearing
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into this kind of cone shape but it wasn't a maternity dress,
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which was great because I think that helped L feel beautiful.
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It was stunning. It's like this has such an
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impact on. Like I like how they were like,
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Hired by the sarafan but it's definitely like its own thing.
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Yeah, it was just beautiful, seen her like Glide across that
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room as usual. And like this really beautiful
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golden color like this. She needed this moment to really
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like cement herself as empress and let ever know that she's
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like the real deal. Which I think she did with this
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costume. Oh man, it was so good.
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Absolutely. And like, I love cuz Muriel's
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like you're going to wear that. Are you crazy?
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Crazy. Like that's so old-fashioned.
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Sharon continue. Talking about the construction
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of it. She said, underneath the dress,
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there is this cage made of steel rings.
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So it's sort of buoyant, then at the bottom of that, they applied
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a very stiff, fibrous crinoline so that the skirt didn't
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collapse in. On top of that, we had
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petticoats full plus frilled hip pad.
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Adds to soften the overall look from underneath her rib cage.
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There were probably three days worth of applique work, which
28:20
involved cutting off the Golden embroidery and repurposing it
28:25
onto the bodice layered, with beadwork, and Lace.
28:30
There's lots. And lots of hand sewing
28:32
involved. People, I think people probably
28:36
assume it's done by machine. But it can't be well, I'm
28:41
exhausted just reading this, that's so much work, right?
28:46
I I was like her popsugar interview is incredible but she
28:52
was even talking about like that lace overlay which they were
28:55
calling like an apron is it's like is encrusted with like
28:58
pearls and stuff. And I'm like, oh my gosh, like
29:01
she wears it for 5 minutes in the show.
29:05
I know it's very very short but it's so Awful, such an impact.
29:10
But what I love most of all was like, the headpieces.
29:13
She was wearing. The headpiece was incredible and
29:18
Sharon talked about it. She said, the headdress was one
29:21
of the hardest parts due to covid.
29:24
There was the Jeweler and then the technician, who was making
29:27
it, they met in a garden somewhere and I was unable to
29:31
meet them because I was being tested.
29:33
Oh man, it ended up being quite a drawn out thing without Trying
29:39
on all different paper shapes on her head.
29:43
That's taking pictures, drawing on them and sending them to the
29:48
jeweler who then come back with something.
29:50
Well, I'm like that sounds terrifying.
29:54
Like to be like a. Let's put some paper on your
29:56
head. Hope it comes out correctly.
30:00
Yeah. This is a major gamble right
30:03
here. Like I would be terrified.
30:08
But she talked about trying it on it.
30:11
L2 popsugar. He said, when she put it on, she
30:15
went. Oh my God.
30:17
It did look fantastic. The idea was that she walks into
30:22
the throne room and she just looks spectacular which is not
30:26
what everybody expected. Sometimes, L sent me images and
30:30
sometimes I sent her images so we could make sure she felt
30:34
fabulous in it. It didn't just need to be a
30:37
costume. She had to inhabit it properly.
30:41
It's like she does. She does this costume.
30:46
It's incredible. So, beautiful one of our, one of
30:50
my favorite costumes, who talked about on this podcast.
30:52
I just love if, if a costume needs several slides of notes
30:57
for Elizabeth to go through, you know, this costumes are real
31:00
deal, you know, it took time and effort and thoughts.
31:07
It's just like, Oh my gosh. But that it's all hand sewn and
31:11
applique. I'm like the fact that that
31:14
headpiece looks so spectacular. It's like oh my gosh.
31:18
Like someone give this woman and Emmy just for this dress.
31:22
Please seriously. I wonder if she's eligible this.
31:26
I mean season, right? Or was she eligible last every
31:29
season? I think it's this one.
31:31
I think it's this one too because I feel like it didn't
31:33
end all that long ago, right? I don't know.
31:37
We'll figure it out later. Right?
31:39
If it is eligible it's for sure gain nominated that's just like
31:43
without a doubt. Absolutely but this brings us on
31:47
to season 3 alone. At last as Catherine's rain
31:52
begins in Earnest. She finds herself and needing to
31:55
put Peter in his place on his favorite day of the year.
31:59
Meanwhile, Georgina finds a way to get the life, she can't have
32:04
in Catherine's Court. This episode is Is when
32:10
Catherine's pregnancy belly really starts to show through.
32:13
Yeah. And it starts altering her
32:16
costumes, she can't wear everything she wanted to wear
32:19
but still she still makes it look so fabulous all the time
32:23
she really does and they talked about this and the popsugar
32:27
interview as well about the course at she said it has
32:31
openings on the side that laced. So you can expand the corset as
32:35
the tummy gets bigger and bigger.
32:37
But since the Worth it is rigid and the bump is silicone.
32:42
It was moving from side to side so we ended up putting the
32:46
corset under the bump which helped retain the proper lines
32:50
of the dress and kept her frame more closed which felt more on
32:57
par with the period nice. So they were like, we tried it
33:01
over, it didn't work, we just put it under the trials of a
33:05
costume designer like how do we make this?
33:08
Girl, look pregnant and with the period.
33:11
Exactly. And trying to figure out what
33:15
her maternity wear should look like.
33:17
In this period was actually difficult.
33:20
She said, there's not a massive amount of reference you lose the
33:25
18th century shape, which is tiny waist with structure and
33:30
you get a raising belly that you have to accommodate while still
33:35
making her look Regal and light. With a sense of Purity and
33:39
optimism. It's incredibly complicated.
33:43
I can't even imagine. I'm just I feel exhausted
33:45
already like Sharon. You, you killed it?
33:49
Yeah, yeah. Like I can't imagine.
33:53
I do love in this episode though.
33:54
When she whatever it is she takes to say up and she's just
33:58
like in her corset. I'm like, you mean cocaine?
34:02
I'm pretty sure that's great. I could not remember what it
34:06
was. She was wired and I I was
34:09
stressed out. I was like, girl, you need to
34:10
take a nap. This is not good at, right,
34:14
right? She's just like, no, I need to
34:16
fix everything and it's like you can do that later even when she
34:20
was like, we should free all the serfs.
34:21
I was like how you talk about this tomorrow.
34:24
Like I'm with you but I don't like the way you go to belt is
34:28
right now. Yeah.
34:30
Right. She just has no chill neither.
34:34
Does anybody else in this court though?
34:37
So Is besties are really having a tough time.
34:41
I mean my favorite part is when Gregor is outside doing like
34:46
charades for Peter, it's ridiculous.
34:48
There's nothing, I'm like, regular.
34:50
What are you doing there? If there's snow on the ground,
34:53
put on a coat. Finally for like the first time
34:56
in 13 episodes, just like snow happening outside.
34:59
I'm like it's finally time to where the winter clothes, right?
35:03
I am like Tatiana and her husband.
35:06
They're appropriately dressed when they're seeing.
35:08
Seeing off Gregor and Georgina, the Tatiana looks ridiculous
35:13
that I love her. I love Todd, she's a horrible
35:17
character. She's just so stupid, but she
35:21
always looks fantastic and over the top.
35:23
And I love this scene with like the fur and like the freely go.
35:27
And she's like, oh my my dear friend.
35:30
I'll take over as mistress, right?
35:33
And well, now that I think about it.
35:34
Did she ever get her chance to be the mistress?
35:37
I want to say? No, because I think she did
35:39
because of Peters love for Katherine.
35:41
It's so beautiful. George looks beautiful and
35:47
purple. She wears a lot of purple in
35:48
this show and she's just one of my favorite characters, but she
35:52
really liked. I left her born season 1, season
35:56
2. She really started to take a
35:57
dive. I'm glad that she was doing what
35:59
was right for her, but then she came back and I was like, no,
36:03
girl, this isn't for you. Hmm, one character I really
36:08
Identified within this. Season was the doctor though, I
36:14
was just like when he has that bowl of wine.
36:17
I'm like, yes, sir, I'm sure, you know what you're doing.
36:21
He's a very questionable doctor, there's one scene where I think
36:24
he gives pills to Catherine's mother and she's like, what are
36:28
these? And he straight says, I don't
36:30
know, but they seem to work and she's like, okay.
36:34
And I was like, yeah, it's definitely Crush.
36:38
Of all, but also Catherine's like well this is the most
36:43
reliable doctor I can find and I'm like oh yeah and he's
36:46
dressed like a doctor though. Like even though his costume
36:50
isn't it doesn't vary too differently from all the men of
36:53
the Court. You could tell he is a little
36:54
bit more sophisticated and probably the only doctor
36:58
available at this moment. Yes.
37:01
We also have this great lady of the court.
37:04
I don't remember her name, but she wears this sick black alpha.
37:08
Fit with like green and red floral embroidery and I'm like,
37:14
oh, you look good. I know exactly who you're
37:17
talking about. Couldn't tell you her name.
37:20
I think she's only in this one episode and if you're in more
37:23
episodes, I'm sorry. But she's probably not
37:26
listening. Yeah.
37:30
Also looking incredible and making moves and Elizabeth and
37:34
Mary all standing by their girl looking fabulous.
37:38
S and Elizabeth D being dragged away from Peter's Room, probably
37:44
my favorite scene so funny. But then also there's a theme in
37:51
this episode where Elizabeth Muriel and Catherine the woods
37:56
and their costumes complement each other.
37:58
So well, it's sickening like Mario's ring like this blue,
38:03
very textured coat which I love it.
38:06
Catherine is wearing one of her big drapey.
38:08
P. It's like has no shape
38:11
whatsoever which makes it so iconic and then to Elizabeth
38:15
just looks like herself just which is just stunning, always
38:18
impeccable. Yes, one of my favorite costume
38:21
scenes from the whole show. Yes.
38:23
They all look like Regal and beautiful and they're like, we
38:27
are here to support you and like, be a united front, right?
38:31
Install these stupid men, couldn't tell you what was
38:34
actually happening in this scene because I was very distracted by
38:37
how amazing it cost. Is where she was missing, Leo.
38:42
Oh sorry. Yeah bring that's okay.
38:45
It's okay. Well, wasn't okay.
38:47
Was Peter in this episode had a full-on meltdown.
38:51
Yeah. Have a full meltdown and is like
38:53
typical like jerky Peter costume to when he's like very undone is
38:59
shirts all just wide open but you always have to be wearing
39:02
his necklaces though. That's very Peter.
39:05
And then he always throws on like a crazy hat at the The same
39:08
time. I know he has this giant hat.
39:11
That like looks like a moose, a moose huff, and I'm like, what's
39:16
going on here? And then the floral robe.
39:20
Yeah, I am like that. You look insane.
39:23
What is happening? Peter has a meltdown outfit.
39:26
Like this is like rich person meltdown outfit like right.
39:30
It's very different than mine. I just got a side view of your
39:33
wig. It looks looks incredible.
39:36
I'll give you more detail shot. Very okay.
39:39
Okay, that was my one of my favorite looks of that episode
39:44
but um, he's not done, having wild breakdown outfits, we are
39:50
in episode 4, the devil's lunch, as Catherine continues to, try
39:54
to win over the ottoman Ambassador, and avoid war, Peter
40:00
continues to undermine her and prepare for Paul's Arrival.
40:05
All right? The ottoman Ambassador.
40:07
He Was a cool guy. I actually loved his costumes.
40:11
Very, very cool. The colors were awesome.
40:16
Allah is like very different compared to like the Everyday
40:20
People. The Russian court is writing
40:21
like lots of Reds and oranges and yellows.
40:25
You could tell he comes from a different region.
40:27
Absolutely much more like traditional like Silhouettes but
40:31
I love how just the whole time like Catherine's trying to
40:34
convince him like yes a female leader is a good idea and he's
40:37
just like, but Your husband just like is it though is it a good
40:42
idea? Catherine.
40:43
Like that's the entire episode it really is.
40:46
But like I love the hunting scene when he finally is like oh
40:50
you are an intelligent capable leader and she's wearing that
40:55
fabulous. Blue hunting outfit.
40:57
Yeah. And that hat that is just
41:03
curling around. I'm like, you look incredible.
41:05
You're right Elizabeth. We gotta bring hats.
41:08
Back you, you're you're very really have to bring hats back.
41:11
Yeah, I'm bringing the 2000s back.
41:15
Forget Y2K core, let's bring back at 9:00 period costume
41:21
only. Um, speaking of period costume,
41:25
I love this scene, something that was very unpopular, it was
41:29
the baby shower, it's hilarious. I love it.
41:33
I love the use of like the baby blues and I like very baby pink.
41:38
To it's it's very cute and very fun.
41:42
But at the same time, like Peter is still incorporating his
41:46
animal prints. He loves like a clash of animal
41:49
prints that makes him so happy and it makes me happy he really
41:53
does. And Sharon talk to Cosmopolitan
41:56
about this she said, because it's a baby shower and there
42:00
weren't baby showers back then. We were at license to do
42:04
whatever. We like we chose baby colors.
42:08
Sure. Sherbert color is even though
42:11
the traditionally Russian colors are red and green at the time, a
42:15
lot of the silks were imported from Europe because the court
42:19
was still trying to be French which is much lighter and
42:23
frothier and frillier. It was just really, it was just
42:28
a really fun thing to do to make a lovely looking piece of
42:31
television, and they made a lovely looking piece of
42:34
television from just like the painted cloud.
42:38
Oh yeah, you everyone in these just like crazy, like, baby
42:45
shower outfits. I was like what?
42:47
Where did you all get this on such short notice.
42:50
It's so hilarious that everyone essentially hates each other,
42:53
but they will, for sure, participate in a costume party.
42:56
Like, even if I plan on killing you next week, you know, I'll be
43:00
up at the costume party. We're gonna party it up and
43:03
sleep with whoever, and then I'll come murder, you after the
43:07
party. He I would not be surprised.
43:10
Like I said, I need to check on this.
43:12
She might have already been nominated for an Emmy for this.
43:14
I don't remember want to season came out, but if not this, for
43:17
sure, might be one episode. So I would be like, submitted to
43:20
the television Academy for costume.
43:22
Design Cosgrove and the hair, the hair stylist deserves.
43:27
Oh yeah, all the Emmys as well. But I do love Vellum antov and
43:34
Aunt Elizabeth at this party. They're the only two like In
43:38
dress code, Bella meant have never changes not if anything,
43:43
he just washes his outfit for a nice occasion, which is very
43:47
kind of him. Exactly.
43:48
He like strips off parts of it but like never is fully out of
43:53
uniform. Another great look for Katherine
43:56
do in this episode is the white blouse and blue skirt moment
44:03
when Archie is trying to make amends with her.
44:08
It's a Hilarious. And I love Catherine's look
44:10
because it's very like she goes back to like her teacher Vibe
44:14
sometimes Catherine really like settles into like this very
44:17
kind, Middle School teacher that you feel comfortable with and
44:21
that's like what makes her like so presentable and approachable
44:24
to the court which I really appreciate exactly.
44:29
We also get like a close-up of Aunt Elizabeth in this scene and
44:34
I love it because you get to see all the different patterns and
44:37
textures. Really wears on how it's just
44:39
like beautifully orchestrated and not Clash.
44:43
I know it's expert. Work is let's talk about episode
44:50
5. Episode 5 is called animal
44:53
instincts because this is one of my favorite episodes.
44:55
It's hilarious. This is when it says as Peter
44:59
and Catherine begin to grow closer.
45:01
The court is thrown into chaos by an escaped crocodile.
45:05
I'm obsessive this episode it's genius.
45:08
It is so brilliant. And it starts off with like
45:12
Peter and his crew hunting and then Catherine is like attending
45:17
a like lecture by Voltaire. And being like, look at all the
45:22
lovely scientists. I learned back to the court and
45:26
like, look at all this like, great Improvement and nobody
45:29
cares. No one cares.
45:33
There's a demon winged animal on the loose.
45:36
There is, there is On, I love how Tatiana now that George is
45:42
gone. I feel like she's up to the
45:44
crazy factor to like get his attention.
45:50
So like this lime green hunting. Outfit is insane.
45:54
Yeah. She looks like a full-on pirate
45:56
right now and I love it. It is incredible.
46:01
Also, incredible. Muriel keeps coming out with her
46:06
disease D or inspire. Tired outfits.
46:10
This riding outfit was adorable, very beautiful.
46:14
I love the colors of Muriel at all times.
46:16
I also love Shakey shake. It was so cute.
46:20
He was adorable until ladies hrvatska killed her, which I was
46:25
very upset about, right? Right?
46:29
But before we get to that, we have the crocodile hilarious,
46:34
it's so good. I, I was like, how did the I'll
46:38
get about the palace, it's insanity and I loved every
46:42
second of it. I just how did this happen?
46:46
It was so crazy. And I love how like the first
46:50
people to encounter it or of it's a, of course, the girls
46:53
school, I had my love how the schoolmistress is just like shoo
46:58
shoo. It's like it's a crocodile.
46:59
You can't shoo away and a crocodile.
47:02
I know it's like a dog or something is in the palace.
47:05
Like this is just a crocodile rocking around.
47:08
Its It's incredible to imagine and writers were when they wrote
47:10
this to like and enter crocodile was walking around the house.
47:14
Floor genius, genius, absolutely genius there is more genius.
47:21
Looks to come though. After our break
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48:06
Poor. Elizabeth.
48:26
I just came back from the powder room and I had to fix my wig.
48:30
You had a fix your wig. Yeah.
48:33
These things are really itchy. Actually I'm like, let's get
48:35
this over with so I can rip this bad boy off.
48:38
Oh, I can only imagine as can the girl Walls of her new school
48:44
can only imagine the new world Catherine is trying to bring
48:48
them in episode 6, a simple jape.
48:52
Catherine tries to show the girls of her school that she is
48:55
creating change through a simple jape and some Extreme Action.
49:01
So beautiful, I love Catherine and yellow.
49:04
She just like Radiance positivity, she has that
49:08
pregnancy glow. I mean, she always has a glow to
49:10
her and she just when she appears to To the students.
49:13
She just you could tell like, oh, that's our leader.
49:16
She's very inspiring. And I think the costumes really
49:19
serve that absolutely what ha. So the costumes are surveying,
49:25
are the merchants that are being made and so Lords.
49:30
And Ladies, I was like, these people are insane.
49:36
Like, what are they? I think they're like all on
49:38
drugs. I love it and I love like the
49:42
merchant like Very dramatic makeup that actually was my
49:45
inspiration for today's look whatever and it find the makeup
49:50
but that would have been what I was looking for.
49:53
I I can see it. I can see it just like their
49:59
colors are like all over the place.
50:02
They're over there patterns are like this.
50:05
This like military-type jacket but it has this crazy striped
50:10
pattern on it. I'm just Like who dressed you?
50:14
There's Stripes. There's Reds, just Pink's.
50:18
There's white, there's blush. There's blue if it's all over
50:22
the place and I love it. It's chaotic Perfection.
50:26
It is it is what is also chaotic Perfection is shaky all made up
50:33
to be a noble woman. So, beautiful.
50:37
I love it. She looks great.
50:40
And I love that her costume really like, Makes her look so
50:43
established but also like very like AIDS appropriate and
50:46
fitting to her. They that it was a great job.
50:49
It was a wonderful job. I also love lady Svenska in this
50:54
scene in the green cuz it's like once she finds out who shaky
51:00
like actually is, she's like so jealous.
51:03
I'm like disgusted. And it's like, you're just like
51:06
a little snake like no ladies, Svenska is the snake, the snake
51:10
Svenska Elizabeth and I I talked about this in the patron
51:14
episode. So you have to listen for a Holo
51:16
conversation, but ladies, fence, gives one of my favorite
51:20
character. She has beautiful.
51:23
I love all her costumes. However, I will not stand behind
51:26
her, in her actions. No, it's white forward.
51:30
No. She, as she gets what she
51:32
deserves, she does. I that's one of the only times
51:36
you ever see me walk away from a favorite character like that.
51:39
Yeah. Yeah.
51:42
But what is it? Rate though, is when Catherine
51:47
freeze, the serfs and we just have Tatiana, like running
51:51
around her home in her undergarments because she does
51:54
not know how to dress herself. It's so good.
51:58
I mean, you and I talk about this all the time, we love
52:00
seeing like the process of how people get dressed as like a
52:03
part of this podcast. So she's just like, running
52:06
around with her cage. Feel like, that's some good
52:09
stuff right there. Right, right.
52:12
I, uh, Also, love Muriel's dress in this episode, because Mario's
52:17
very, like, very bright, very colorful, like, Dior inspired
52:21
gowns. And she has another one.
52:24
When she finds poor shaky dead in her apartment and it's like,
52:29
she's like this bright ray of sunshine, but then they changed
52:33
the lighting and same dress, same everything she looks.
52:37
So scary, it becomes very Gothic, Crimson Peak, like it,
52:42
like, it's Just immediately, you're so right, the lighting is
52:45
everything. She just walks up.
52:46
She's like, can I borrow this the guards?
52:48
Like sure. Just grabs her Garden is like, I
52:50
have some stuff to do. Yeah.
52:52
She's like I have revenge and after that episode 7 stapler.
53:01
Well, Catherine tries to put together a science.
53:05
Fair interference. From Peter, puts the fair in
53:09
Jeopardy and an unexpected visit from her mother puts Catherine's
53:13
and nerves on end. Oh, I love this episode of so
53:17
good. It's so good.
53:19
She starts so simple. She's so sad after everything
53:23
went horribly wrong with freeing the serfs but Mario's are just
53:27
be like, don't worry about it. We have all your science people
53:31
here. Yeah.
53:33
All you nerds are here. I'm obsessive to idea that and I
53:37
kind of Googled it a little bit, but looks like, Catherine.
53:39
The Great did actually have something to do with the roller
53:42
coaster. Way, which is actually pretty
53:44
dull. I have not heard of that but
53:46
that's cool. I'm not willing to go all the
53:49
way. Say like she invented the roller
53:50
coaster but like I saw some Google articles about like how
53:54
they don't know dabbled in roller coasters.
53:58
She was a great patron of the Sciences so I wouldn't be
54:01
surprised but I love her going around to see all the different
54:05
entries and the school teachers it like not velcro but velcro
54:11
basically dress. Is there answers like, hmm?
54:16
I don't know. That seems a little too easy
54:19
access. They're like, they're like this
54:21
is brilliant. Unforeseen.
54:23
Drapes. Like, yeah, they're like, this
54:26
is not the time or place for this at.
54:30
Then I also love the guy who invented half of the roller
54:34
coaster. That's right.
54:37
He's just like brown, fur, just like boring outfit and like, of
54:42
course, I didn't think this all through.
54:44
Yeah. All the scientists are dressed
54:46
like scientist. Absolutely absolutely but then
54:51
my gosh oh my gosh. Answers favorite character was
54:53
steps on the screen how did you know you're talking about it
54:59
yesterday? Yeah Gillian Anderson plays
55:02
Catherine's mother Perfection and her costume when she emerges
55:07
out of that Carriage. So good, this super large.
55:12
Penny has just it's everything, it is everything, it is
55:18
everything. And she's like clearly she
55:21
raised Katherine with a lot of like joy and love but she's like
55:26
I am here on a mission because I don't like what you're doing
55:29
here but I still don't understand her deal but I loved
55:33
her the entire time. Well because Katherine
55:36
overthrowing, Peter put one of her other is putting one of her
55:41
other daughters marriage. Potential marriage in Jeopardy?
55:45
Yeah, but I was like, it was conquering Russia, not enough,
55:49
mom. Like it's not like she
55:51
conquered, you know, like Pasadena like it's Russia.
55:57
Well, no, she's mad because Katherine was just supposed to,
56:00
like, stay put and have babies. Yeah, and now she's impeding one
56:05
of her other sisters from doing that parents these days right
56:09
everybody? Right.
56:10
I'm sure all the listeners are nodding their heads.
56:12
M-my. My parents would actually be
56:15
very proud if I conquered a country.
56:17
I'm just saying why? My parents would be like good
56:20
for you. Good for you.
56:23
Catherine's mother is not happy about it though and she
56:26
continues to show her displeasure when she refers to
56:29
Peter as the emperor wearing this.
56:32
Fantastic. Blue green, red gown.
56:38
Whoo, I loved this look so Good. You could tell she definitely
56:44
comes from Germany. A little bit of a different
56:47
influence in our costumes. I saw another costume that I
56:51
loved is Peter's like open chested moments like his
56:57
crocheted lace top. That was where, every time he
57:01
wore it, I was like, do I want a crocheted knit top?
57:07
That's black with like a giant pearl necklace?
57:11
I think I do. I really love this.
57:15
This look of her mother's though, because it's like a
57:17
little bit of asymmetry with the sleeves were like one has like
57:21
the beautiful lace overlay and one doesn't.
57:24
Yeah. And it just kind of like sets it
57:26
off and makes it like a little bit different and I'm like, ooh,
57:29
Catherine's mother change in it up.
57:33
But what I love most in this episode is Catherine's final.
57:37
Look with this adorable little jaunty hat and just like the
57:41
cutest little mature. Nidhi health is.
57:44
It's very cute. It's almost like she's trying to
57:46
like, age herself down a little bit because, like, mommy's
57:49
around, you know, yes, it's try to like, put on her best
57:52
behavior. If the cute little proper hat.
57:56
Meanwhile, her mom looks like a full-on like evil witch, which,
57:59
I love, right. I also love Mario.
58:03
She's just like this look sciency.
58:06
Right? Lad, burgundy, I feel like
58:09
that's she went into her wardrobe and was like, what
58:11
looks Art, but we have episode 85 days, both Kathryn and Peter
58:22
prepare for the imminent birth of their son.
58:26
While Catherine's Catherine's, mother creates Discord for her
58:31
before her untimely departure. This is another great episode.
58:37
I love it so much and I love that we got Jason Isaacs in this
58:40
episode. Yeah.
58:43
Lucius. Malfoy is in the house, just in
58:47
a hole. Just Chillin.
58:51
I was like, I've never seen Peter looks so dirty as he does
58:56
in these scenes, and then I'm like, this is our wild, right,
59:00
right. But then it's so sad when
59:03
development off is like, yeah, I felt the same way and then I had
59:07
to use them and it's like, ooh yikes.
59:11
Okay, Val meant off. No, wonder Do you want to be at
59:13
War all the time? But yeah.
59:17
Peters, dad makes a debut in one of his like I don't know.
59:23
Like a fever dream or something of him.
59:25
Yeah, he's been digging a hole forever and Jason Isaacs, Lucy
59:31
smoothly shows up in a fever dream and he's clearly like
59:35
decked out in his Royal attire. It's very sophisticated very
59:39
established. I loved it.
59:41
Very the Of Peter. This is why Peter has issues
59:46
because this is what Peter was supposed to be.
59:49
And this is also a Peter is not what?
59:51
Peter could never be. Yeah.
59:54
But I love how like taken aback. Her mother is why just this
59:58
entire court in general? I love when everybody showing up
1:00:03
in her room and she's like, what is happening?
1:00:05
I know when on Elizabeth is just sitting on her bed, like this is
1:00:09
a typical Aunt, Elizabeth move. She does this like every morning
1:00:12
too, Probably different people. Oh yeah, definitely, definitely
1:00:16
the cathodes. Bob is like, what are you doing
1:00:18
here? I don't know.
1:00:19
Yeah, I don't take visitors in my bed.
1:00:22
She's like, I'm in my PJs. Let me get changed, and then
1:00:25
Archie walks in because, like her Archie and Mary, all they're
1:00:31
all like her mother is not good for her, like her mother needs
1:00:35
to leave. Oh my gosh, Elizabeth has this
1:00:37
purple gown with this big white like tie thing going on.
1:00:42
Fall studying. I mean I feel like she wears
1:00:45
that whenever she needs to be responsible, and elegant, Aunt,
1:00:48
Elizabeth heard that we have a little game called one costume.
1:00:52
Rule them all. And she's really throwing her
1:00:53
entries in, in the season. She is, she definitely is.
1:00:58
As is Catherine's. Mom.
1:01:02
This little cigar seduction outfit of hers with the black
1:01:07
overlay over this amazing. Like, yeah, praying, I was like,
1:01:12
Oh, cat. Does it for me?
1:01:15
It does it for me. I'm I love it.
1:01:18
I love that her silhouette is so extreme that every time she
1:01:22
walks up to a door. It's like, it's very subtle
1:01:26
humor. But you see her, like, have to
1:01:28
turn aside Ike. I like push everyone and kind
1:01:30
of, like, inch away in the door. That's such subtle.
1:01:34
Excellent comedy. I love it so much.
1:01:37
Absolutely. And she just has like for the
1:01:40
shore of all time. She's on this show.
1:01:42
She Says all the costumes this green number ridiculous, it's
1:01:48
extreme and I love it. The fact that they used her to
1:01:52
promo this entire season when she only had two episodes was
1:01:56
extremely rude. But I see what the marketing
1:01:59
team did there because they brought me in.
1:02:02
They brought you in and then they brought you in even more
1:02:04
with her death. I was like did not see that
1:02:07
coming. I could not believe I was like
1:02:10
actually shook for a second just sitting on my Bed.
1:02:13
Like what just happened? I do not like that.
1:02:16
I was like, this is this is a lot.
1:02:18
This might be too much but Catherine is unaware of her
1:02:23
mother's demise and episode 9 Walnut season after the birth of
1:02:28
P of Paul Peter and Catherine struggled to be the parents.
1:02:32
They want to be while Mario tries to find a husband and the
1:02:37
king and queen of Sweden seek refuge in Catherine's Court.
1:02:43
I didn't understand what they were doing here house like
1:02:45
they're seeking Refuge sounds like something bad happened in
1:02:48
Sweden. Yeah they were overthrown but
1:02:51
they played no actual part in the story.
1:02:53
They were just there giving commentary.
1:02:55
Yeah, I feel like next season they're gonna they're gonna be a
1:02:59
bigger part. I think it was just like oh get
1:03:01
them. They're probably that's a good
1:03:02
point but I love Catherine's back to a very like traditional
1:03:08
French silhouette. This actually looks very like
1:03:12
Volution period to me. Yeah like it to anybody who read
1:03:19
American Girl dolls, it was given me really strong Felicity
1:03:23
Vibes. This is Yo, green and pink
1:03:26
dress, she wears, nice solid reference, that flew over my
1:03:31
head. And that's what I'm here for
1:03:33
Spencer. But everyone is bringing out
1:03:40
their wardrobe in this episode Have Georgina's back.
1:03:44
Also giving me Felicity Vibes in this adorable white red and blue
1:03:52
number. Everything's get real friends
1:03:54
around here. Everything's a real French
1:03:57
Voltaire is being real French. The ladies of the Court are
1:04:01
being real French. Because George is like, we gotta
1:04:04
read books now but she's just being sneaky.
1:04:08
I don't understand her deal. Yeah, I yeah.
1:04:12
I was very Confused by her motives after she came back.
1:04:14
I was like, okay. You want Peter, you didn't like
1:04:17
your life in France, like I don't understand.
1:04:20
Yeah, I'm confused here. But anyways, anyways even more
1:04:26
confusing is when this little kid is like I'm gonna take your
1:04:29
fortune was like excuse me. Mario Mary's this eight-year-old
1:04:37
kid, this kit though. It has a pretty stellar
1:04:41
wardrobe. I mean he Looks fresh to death
1:04:44
over here, right. Like so, whoever's dressing him
1:04:48
knows how to dress him. Yeah, but one of the funniest
1:04:51
parts of this episode was one Muriel is interviewing
1:04:56
candidates to be her husband and I love the one guy.
1:04:59
She was like, it says, you've had Six Wives before, what
1:05:03
happened to them. He's like, I love clumsy women.
1:05:06
He says they fell and she was like, they all fell.
1:05:11
I was like, Mmm, that's a good joke.
1:05:19
But I also love how the doctor just puts himself out as a
1:05:21
candidate, he's like yep. Um you know who also was shook
1:05:27
though in this episode by some unsuspected happenings.
1:05:33
Poor Aunt Elizabeth. Yeah.
1:05:35
They did not have to do a Elizabeth like this no but also
1:05:40
Peter really needs to work on his communication skills.
1:05:43
That's what we really need to get to if he knew this Entire
1:05:47
time. How long has he had to like talk
1:05:50
to her gently about this? Right, right.
1:05:54
He knows she's a little crazy like come on and I'm like, I'm
1:05:59
guessing that like his mother probably murdered him because he
1:06:04
was probably the son of Peter's. Father, probably.
1:06:08
That's what I'm going to guess, but I love Aunt.
1:06:11
Elizabeth at home. Look, yeah.
1:06:15
She's she looks like Has that almost like we talked about the
1:06:19
Middle School kind of like teacher Vibe a little bit.
1:06:21
Very sophisticated. Like, she's reading books are
1:06:25
enough, she actually knows how to read, but she has like her
1:06:27
book reading costume. Yes, absolutely.
1:06:32
But this then brings us to episode 10 wedding.
1:06:37
This episode's. Trust me the hell out.
1:06:40
Yes. Katherine finds out about the
1:06:42
death of her mother needs to try and make peace with the Ottoman
1:06:48
Empire. All while trying not to be crude
1:06:51
by her estranged, husband, Peter, so stressful.
1:06:57
And like one of the most wild things about this episode is
1:07:00
what Catherine's wearing for a majority of the time is like
1:07:03
this white gown with like red roses on it.
1:07:06
Beautiful, it's beautiful bike. I'm trying to still understand
1:07:10
what those costumes trying to say.
1:07:12
I think it was just kind of like at this point, she's in a very
1:07:15
good place in her life. Eve.
1:07:17
And it's just like, oh, like falling in love with Peter.
1:07:21
Everything's going great. And then it's just like a turn
1:07:26
for the worse. A turn for the worse.
1:07:28
When Muriel just blurts out. The fact that Peter murdered her
1:07:33
mother, right? And in she's buried in the
1:07:35
backyard, which I'll say Mario, looks fine into this last
1:07:40
episode. Oh my gosh, this wedding gown.
1:07:44
I was like, yes, please. I'm all about it.
1:07:51
She's like marrying, her like nine year old cousin.
1:07:54
So she doesn't lose her money, but she's like, no, we're having
1:07:57
a whole last wedding. Like this is gonna be a good
1:08:00
wedding. I'm gonna look good, she's
1:08:03
making real baller move. She's like, I'm getting paid.
1:08:06
I have my new man and I'm getting married.
1:08:09
So like, because and we might all get shot and killed during
1:08:12
this wedding, so at least we're going to make it nice.
1:08:14
Exactly, exactly gotta say. And Gregor is relationship
1:08:18
adorable. I'm into it.
1:08:21
I like it. Mario needs a have some
1:08:24
conversations with Gregor, though.
1:08:25
Like hey, I know you're planning a coup, maybe don't.
1:08:28
Yeah. Because we're a thing now and
1:08:30
I'd appreciate if you don't do that however, they don't really
1:08:33
seem to have that conversation but I love it.
1:08:35
I. Yeah, it's wonderful.
1:08:38
She looks incredible. Who also looks incredible is
1:08:42
Katherine in Peters nightmare. What she's eating the Heart Like
1:08:47
full-on Khaleesi. Yes.
1:08:51
And I was like, oh my gosh, I love this because a, she's
1:08:55
wearing this wonderful wild wig that has, like, pearls and
1:08:58
rhinestones just like encrusted with in it.
1:09:01
But then she's also wearing her wedding gown, right?
1:09:05
Which I'm like Peter, some psychological issues right there
1:09:10
but then also her like makeup and hair is done up where she's
1:09:14
giving me like real karela Vibes.
1:09:15
Like she has a cycle said, kind of Recycle badass chick Vibe
1:09:21
looked heard that Peter has a real issues.
1:09:25
He needs to work out. Yes, yeah, I love that.
1:09:30
It's definitely. It's like a badass.
1:09:31
Motorcycle, chick encrusted with diamonds.
1:09:35
Yeah. But she has like bigger issues.
1:09:41
She's meeting with the ottoman Emperor and is wearing this.
1:09:47
This very militant looking red and white jacket opposed to the
1:09:54
very dirty looking ottoman emperor in his like, Furs, and,
1:10:00
like brocade Fabrics. Yeah, you could tell, he doesn't
1:10:04
really change a lot. He just has his like, one Royal
1:10:07
look that he's probably wearing all day long everyday and
1:10:10
Catherine's showing up ready to fight.
1:10:13
She's wearing white, which makes her very graceful a She has the
1:10:18
contrast of red in it, where, you know, that she's really bent
1:10:22
on dealing some real Vengeance today, she is, and the ottoman
1:10:27
Emperor is the one who gets the brunt of it.
1:10:31
Yes, though. I will say, I did yelp when he
1:10:33
stabbed her hand. I was not emotionally prepared
1:10:35
for that, right? Right.
1:10:38
I was like, oh, oh, oh, this is serious.
1:10:41
Yeah, and like stabbing in the hand.
1:10:43
You know, how you don't like, people crawling on the walls.
1:10:47
Yeah, I don't like people getting stabbed in the hands.
1:10:50
I'm like, I can't, I can't do that.
1:10:52
I have a phobia of that. Oh my gosh, Kevin this is off
1:10:59
topic, but one of my best friend's Fanny.
1:11:03
Hmm, who listens to this podcast.
1:11:05
Sometimes she has a fear of having exposed ankles when she
1:11:10
gets into cars, because she's afraid of people like flashing
1:11:13
at her ankles from underneath her car.
1:11:15
But I think is, Hilarious. But I love this phobia so much.
1:11:20
Like, hands and feet and ankles must be protected at all times.
1:11:25
Oh, I don't know. Oh my gosh, that gave me a
1:11:28
flashback to, when I took, I took ice skating lessons for a
1:11:32
little bit. As a kid, one of the reasons I
1:11:36
didn't progressed very far is because I was afraid of like,
1:11:39
falling on the ice and someone going over my hand, my hand
1:11:46
phobia. Yeah.
1:11:48
And just like, cutting off my hand with their ice skate.
1:11:52
No. Like, that was a real fear of
1:11:55
mine. I get you.
1:11:57
It's a real phobia. Huzzah carry on with the
1:12:00
podcast? We end on Muriel's.
1:12:04
Wedding reception where everyone's dressed to the nines.
1:12:08
I love this like this, like off-white and like Rosy, gold
1:12:14
and Pink's. Like She's got going and I feel
1:12:18
like people followed it, which I appreciate about this court, you
1:12:22
give them a theme and they will run with it, right?
1:12:25
They it doesn't matter what the occasion is.
1:12:28
They all know that their game ready to kill all their friends.
1:12:30
However, we will still dress up for the theme because the theme
1:12:34
is law around here. And I, yes, I respect that about
1:12:37
these people. They're like we will follow your
1:12:40
dress code and then murder you. I'm down with it.
1:12:47
And the show ends with some heavy Cliffhangers.
1:12:50
I get why there's a lot of these people were arrested, but why
1:12:54
was her bestie arrested? I don't know.
1:12:59
Honestly, I have to watch this episode again because I too was
1:13:02
very confused about a lot that happened.
1:13:05
I feel like maybe because she kept her mother's death secret.
1:13:11
She kept it a secret for a little bit, but she did
1:13:14
eventually tell her which is different compared to Erin else,
1:13:17
who's arrested? However, George wasn't arrested.
1:13:21
So, I'm like, what were your decisions Behind these orders?
1:13:25
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
1:13:28
I'll so Katherine investigate, right?
1:13:31
I need season 3 immediately also watching Catherine, stabbed
1:13:36
Peters, double to death. Well, I should say to death,
1:13:39
because he gets up and walks away, which is so sad.
1:13:43
But can you imagine that like, oops moment where you turn
1:13:46
around, He's right there and I like him and he knows she was
1:13:50
100% for pair to stab him to death.
1:13:54
No, she thought she killed you. Yeah.
1:13:57
You weren't enough with it? That's crazy.
1:14:03
It's so crazy but that brings us to the end of season 2 and it's
1:14:08
time for our favorite game, the one costume to rule them all.
1:14:20
Oh my gosh, I love this. So so so much.
1:14:25
I'm so ready to play. There's so many costumes to
1:14:28
choose from right Spencer. What's your one costume to rule
1:14:32
them all? Okay, my pic was Catherine's
1:14:37
mom's first initial gown when she gets out that carry.
1:14:40
Yeah, it was just like comic. You instantly knew that this
1:14:44
woman is no joke. She is here for some serious
1:14:48
business. What?
1:14:49
She's not letting anyone In. Hi.
1:14:51
I'm Mike. Gillian Anderson.
1:14:54
Just kills the swirl. She kills every role.
1:14:56
I'm obsessed with her. She's so great.
1:14:59
And just I loved offer. Costumes are so Exquisite and
1:15:04
that pain yeshe is in the hips. It's extraordinary.
1:15:08
But I have to say Aunt, Elizabeth was really gunning for
1:15:11
my Top Choice multiple times. If I really had more time to
1:15:15
think on this Elizabeth had a really good chance, especially
1:15:18
with that one gown. She Where's I think at the
1:15:21
coordination with the blue frill?
1:15:23
Oh yeah man. That was 1.5.
1:15:29
Like honestly all the characters were really trying to have the
1:15:33
one costume to rule them. All Catherine's coronation gown
1:15:37
was trying like well what's yours her, my one costume to
1:15:41
rule them all was Muriel's, first rest back as a lady with a
1:15:47
pink Sash and the pink shoes and the The deep blue gown.
1:15:52
I was like, this is how you start to get your revenge,
1:15:56
right? She had all her clothes and the
1:15:58
U-Haul and she was ready to go. The second she got the green
1:16:02
light. She was like, I'm gonna be the
1:16:03
best-looking lady in this court. I am the Queen's right-hand
1:16:07
woman. Let's get revenge, I love it.
1:16:12
It's so good. Such a great.
1:16:13
Look, she looked great and I'm hoping that Catherine has like a
1:16:18
come to whatever moment. Let's Mario out of jail Justice
1:16:22
for Mariel. She did what she had to do?
1:16:25
Yeah, yeah. Pretty much.
1:16:28
Those are, if I can't wait for season 3.
1:16:30
I'm so glad that we decided to watch this neither.
1:16:34
Can I, I'm so excited. But Spencer, what are we
1:16:38
watching next week? Okay, next week.
1:16:41
I'm really excited about this film.
1:16:42
I don't know if you've ever seen it, but to me it's just that
1:16:45
costume design classic. And it is, we're coming up on
1:16:49
June, which Is pride month, of course.
1:16:52
So, I want to do a little something fun.
1:16:54
We are watching Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, which just fills
1:16:58
all my drag queen fantasies. It's such a good film, and I
1:17:01
know you're going to love it. I'm sure the audience already
1:17:04
loves this film, so we're going to have a good time.
1:17:07
I cannot wait to watch this. I looked it up and saw a couple
1:17:10
images and I'm like, okay, how have I not seen this?
1:17:14
And I need to see this. It's insane, and you're going to
1:17:17
love it. Well, everybody watch.
1:17:20
Priscilla Queen of the Desert and join us next week.
1:17:24
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1:17:27
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1:17:34
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1:17:36
If you heard what you like, it doesn't make sense.
1:17:38
But it does make sense that I love it.
1:17:40
If you heard what you like, did I really say that?
1:17:44
Yeah. But it was cool.
1:17:45
I like it. I heard what you liked and I
1:17:47
like it. Okay.
1:17:50
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But I also love how the doctor just puts himself out as a
1:19:01
candidate. He's like yep.
1:19:03
Whoa, shit. House cat.
1:19:06
Just walked by my window that was like, the biggest cat I've
1:19:10
ever seen. Was it big?
1:19:13
It was a big FCAT. You sure it wasn't a lion of
1:19:16
some sort. I'm sure had a very housecat
1:19:19
qualities but it was huge. Anyways, I've never been
1:19:23
interrupted by a cat on this podcast.
1:19:26
It's usually Elizabeth. I just saw a big ask.