August 27, 2025 • 19 mins
Every Wednesday, we share our thoughts on a newer entertainment property, and currently, that's The Gilded Age. In this episode, Bertha crosses an ocean to help her daughter. She wisely does so by coaching Gladys to taste victory, knowing that's all her girl needs. Peggy should take notes, because she's going to need these techniques soon.
Next Wednesday, we'll watch season 3, episode 7, "Ex-Communicated." We'll be back tomorrow with our weekly roundup.
Next Wednesday, we'll watch season 3, episode 7, "Ex-Communicated." We'll be back tomorrow with our weekly roundup.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to the Parenting Roundabout podcast. I'm Terry Morrow and
I'm Catherine Jileco. As parents and parenting writers, we can't
help but see everything through a parenting lens. But as
our kids have become adults, we find ourselves more interested
in getting caught up on movies and streaming than I'm
going over the same parenting topics over and over.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
So since we're pretty sure we can find parenting wisdom anywhere,
we're going to talk about what we're watching, what we
thought about it, and maybe what we can learn from it,
if only what not to do. Watch and listen along,
and let's all make like we're doing something important for
our families. Each Wednesday we bring you our thoughts on
a newer entertainment property, and for this week of August
(00:45):
twenty fifth, we're continuing with the Guild of Age. It
was season three, episode six, If you Want to Cook
an omelet, in which Bertha has arrived in England to
save the day and give Gladys exactly one brief pep
talk and.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Around. Yeah she's all good. Now, Okay, see, I'm gonna
go back to New York?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Because of Bertha's stage advice or is it because Gladys
is I got to do something to make her lead, right,
I'll just stand up for myself and then she'll go.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah, one of those. One of those.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
So we have poor Marion like piecing together that piecing
together that Larry told a little fib and he did
not go to Delmonico's. He went to a place that
was described as a house of ill repute and several
(01:47):
other things which I now can't remember, but it just
it was like, Oscar, you ding dong, like just just
say Larry saw her on the street or something like,
you know, like I saw her walking out of there,
or you didn't have to.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Oscar realized as the words were coming out of his mouth,
like yeah, like the last you cannot take the bat No,
he just watches her face fall into horror, right, and
it's like but yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's
unfortunate that Larry is out of town and can't speak
(02:29):
for himself, right, and so she gets to go through
this entire process of you know, setting her opinion in
stone without any input because it just it was a
bachelor party, right, he was going out with his friend
who was getting married.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, and he didn't seem to do anything, and.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I don't think he was doing anything. I think he
was just out with the guys.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
And I think even Jack could confirm that if they're Yes,
if they had realized and had been able to ask him,
I think he could have vouched for old Larry.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
But yeah, yeah, he was busy being shoveled out the
door by Armstrong. Who's totally gonna live to regret that.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yeah, I have to eat.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
All the help wants him gone. Yeah, no, no, honey, no,
just you, that is not the case. Oh man, But
just how could they just turn that little puppy dog
out into the world like he knows what to do?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Hmm?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
You have to leave the only home place that's felt
like home to you. Here's a hotel.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
By yeah, I mean it is true that if the
man is a multi millionaire, he does not need to
be serving coffee anymore.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Like true, Why didn't they just like invite him up
to the upstairs and pitch charg him rant get some
money off.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Of the ball. Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
You can stay here, but we want you to invest
in uh Agnes van Rhine industry, right, and to keep
Ada from throwing her money away.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
At shysters, yes, which she did figure out sadly, I
mean sadly, like it's good she figured it out, but
it was so sad when she was like, oh, this
is all a complete scam.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Andrea Martin, how could you?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Yeah? Well, I mean the money was just right there
to take. How would she not take it?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I think you have no one to blame for this
but your cell sister.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yeah. Yeah, very sad, poor Ada.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yeah, but there was there was a sweet scene of
Agnes comforting her after after Ada came to this realization.
Agnes is not all ice, cold veins and witty cutbacks.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Did did Agnes actually know though, that Aida had given
money to a medium? Well?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
She she she was in the house. Andrea Martin was
the first time. Yeah, okay, remember and Agnes came in
and started, you know, angrily raising the blinds.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I just feel like I was unclear as to whether
she knew the source of AIDA's upset at that moment,
was about doubt that the medium was a h.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Yes, you're right that that was.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
In which case at least thrown in a couple of.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Singers, right, yes, if maybe she just felt.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Her being blue and thought she was just feeling blue. Right,
let's just think that she did, yeah, and that she
was being sweet even though it would be so unlike her.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Hm, what else happened? A lot happened.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Yeah, Peggy Jack gave everybody money a return on their investment,
and Armstrong just got a note.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
No, no, she got money too.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Did she get money too?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, even still sitting there.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Looking stricken, And I didn't know if there was just
a very sweet note or if there was Hue and
she was noticing that she was the only one who
didn't get money because she didn't invest.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I think that she was stricken with.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Like, Wow, I'm a bad person, because he is, you are,
he is a good person.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
He gave me money even though yeah, he had absolutely
no reason to.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Didn't look to me like there was cash with hers,
but I'm sure there was.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I think there was.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
And also that everyone else got like many times more
than right then, what than what they had originally skiven? Yeah,
But I also enjoyed the butler in that whole scene
where they were waiting to open their envelopes and he
(07:14):
made them like go upstairs first, and you know, he
distributed the envelopes upstairs and then he ran downstairs, but yes,
stopped himself.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
So he wouldn't look like anyway. It was very cute.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah, that's very fun.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
So I mean, hopefully this means we can stop worrying
about Jack's money being in some bank that's going belly up.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
But yeah, I hope so. But I mean, he's got
if he's paying for a hotel, he's got some in
his pocket. I hope he doesn't have it all like again,
tell me it's not in a volice that he's carrying
around with them, right, I don't. I think they are
not going to tell us. I think they're just gonna
say it's whatever they did. Then it's fine. Yeah he's liquid,
(08:04):
don't worry.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Don't worry about it.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
But it's hard to imagine how somebody goes from the
station he was at to the station where even your
employers are going, Oh I can't uh and not have
like some awkwardness as to how one conducts oneself.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
And just some bumps along the way.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, somebody needs to take the boy in hand and
help him out, and that somebody needs to not be
saying moud beaten or alike. You know, if there's a
vacuum of help for that young man will come in
the form of an untrustworthy individual, right, I wouldn't even
put Oscar in chargement. Yeah, but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Well, let's so there's getting back to mothers and fathers
and daughters and sons. Peggy's potential future mother in law
continues to delight and disturb us with her with her.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Thoughts, as Peggy's mother says, and is good wisdom to
pass down as a paradig tip. When you marry, you
take on the whole family. Oh my goodness, yes you do.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Yeah, it is true. And do you want to.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Flee for the better hopefully yay, a whole new, fun
family and.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Not oh yeah, which is the way it's looking right
now for our Peggy. And also very foreboding that Peggy
was talking to William the doctor and said, you know,
I have to explain about T. Thomas Fortune, her former employer,
(09:49):
and she has to explain what happened. And then she's like,
and there's more, and he's like, no, worries, we don't
need to talk about anything else.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
In we don't need to talk about it. My mother
will dig it up and let me know. Be fine.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Oh no, oh no, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yeah, the course of love, true love never did run smooth, right.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Oh, sure didn't.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Parenting tip. Yeah, and Oscar was very decent with Maud,
went and talked to her, got her sad story, which
we hope was not a con right. We're supposed to
think that that was accurate.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Right, I think so?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Okay, So he winds up giving her money in a
train ticket to go back to her sister and send
usky where I'm sure she will be warmly welcomed and
you know, allowed to set up a new life. But
what the conversation she has with the guy she finds
there be interesting? Oh, by the way, I can tell
(10:47):
you a few things about my but he'll be fine. Fine,
hopefully she's set up and in churn. I'm parenting tip here.
Sometimes when you do a good deed, you get rewarded,
as the staff at the Van Rhyns did for helping
out Jack. Sometimes you do a good deed and your
(11:08):
boyfriend gets hit by a carriage you know, you never know,
and we look around, is Richard Alberty or something crossover
with lost? Because last time we last time we saw
somebody get hit by a conveyance in that manner, he
was involved. Yeah, I'm just saying, yep, holy cow, is
that not expected in this in this show?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yeah, that came out of nowhere. I was completely surprised.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I knew it was coming because I completely spoiled myself
for all these upcoming episodes but the recaps. But even so,
that was whoa. Yeah, I definitely parenting tip, teach your
children look both ways before you into this fake There
could be a two examples. Now, what happens if you don't.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Yeah, there could be There could be a worse courage.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
It could be a bus, it could be all sorts
of different things. But but don't be looking at somebody
else when you're just kind of sauntering into the thoroughfare.
Oh golly, that was unnecessary.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Poor Oscar.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Just just like what just happened.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Yes, Oh my gosh, it's.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
A good thing. John Q.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Adams, you know, fulfilled his promise to Oscar of a
few episodes back of like I'm going to get you
back on your feet by telling everybody to invest with you.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
He did, but he was going to do more for him. Yeah,
that's not gonna happen now though, Oh my gosh, that
was just so unnecessary. Guilded age people really come on.
By the way, I have to say a delightful Gilded
Age casting tidbit. The actor who plays Oscar is in
real life married to the actress who plays the duke's
(13:02):
horrible sister. Oh that's funny, Lake Ritson and Hattie Morahan.
I saw that someplace and I looked it up. IMDb
does not have it, but Wikipedia does, so I'm going
to say it's probably true Wikipedia regardless, because she, yeah,
(13:23):
the sister continues to just be the worst. See see again,
when you marry someone, you marry their whole family.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
And in this case, you married the one who you
know just was running the place, and yes, had no
expectation that she would have to stop.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I mean, you can feel a little sympathy for her
for that, but you know she doesn't have to be
quite so unpleasant about it, right, Or maybe she does.
But this is a good parenting tip, is that you know,
we might have expected Bertha to come there and just
start knocking heads and taken names and fix things. But
(14:08):
it's really not about doing things for your adult children.
It's about inspiring them to do it for themselves. Yes,
which is harder. Yes, it's easier to go in there
and just fix things. But that doesn't work anymore. You
can't their mom can't be doing that. They have to
be doing that. So fortunately Gladys got a little twinkle
(14:29):
in her eye and started doing it and having some success,
and you could sort of see her thinking this is
gonna be fun.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
And unfortunately Bertha didn't, as we were talking about yesterday,
come in guns blazing quite as much as she could have.
I mean, she backly, she held back enough to let
Gladys actually take the lead.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Well, she came in, she assessed the situation right, and
she told Gladys what to do. Unfortunately, Gladys did it.
And you know, Bertha, Bertha knows how things work. So
but it would have been nice if she had maybe
uh tutored Gladys a little bit before the wedding.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Before the Yeah, her timing is not great.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
You know. Well, all that time Gladys was in her
room sulking, she could have been reading books about the
culture of England and you know, learning how to uh
what is expected of a duchess and you know, one
hundred putdowns for bushy English.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Women, for mean sisters.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Yeah, but that was that was nice the way she
she sort of inspired Gladys to pick herself up and
do what needed to be done. And once you do
that once and it works, it's kind of intoxicating. Absolutely,
(16:03):
people are rooting for her clearly. So I don't think
your sister has made any has made any friends? Yes, Yes,
sitting next her at dinner was like way to go.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Yeah he was. He was quite pleased with her with
her efforts. Good job.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Yeah, I just got to get the duke to uh,
you know, locate his manly bits and yes, be the
head of the household. Right, So good luck to him
in that. She's probably not going to go down without
a fight. I think she's a little stunned right now
because she didn't expect it.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
She probably has has a little fight left in her right.
But a lot going on in this episode, going in
and out of a lot of rooms and a lot
of places in right. No, we were in the wild
West for five minutes learning mine and then Larry succeeding
in business when way off somewhere else where he doesn't
(17:02):
know his marriage plans are being dashed.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Yeah, and we also didn't even mention there was George
business as well with Yeah, he Morgan summoned everybody somewhere
and basically said, I've locked you in here until you
fix you know, until you all agree to do something.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
And then they did, but then it all got negated
when they got back to town.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
So yeah, yeah, because.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
With that copper, yeah, or with some of his clock money,
you know, just yeah, throw that your dad's way, please.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Asked Jack for an investment. Yeah, probably find a room
for him in the house.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Jack has too bad.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
They married off Gladys. He could have married she could
have married Jack.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Oh boy, darn.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Oh well, it's hard. Just yeah. I mean you've you've
found out how much that is in present day. But
it's like when Agnes was impressed by how much it was,
then you realize it really is a lot, because she's like,
you know, we should be serving him.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Yeah, So.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
In which case he needs to be throwing his way
around so cute, so cute, and he's so helpless and
he's just ripe for a con. So I hope somebody's
protecting him.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Yeah, because he's already he's already busy inventing the electric
yes hand mixer, So we need to we need to.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Protect him, protect him.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
I mean, there's lots of reasons to protect him.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Rosy glow of goodness will Ward off evil?
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Right, let's hope, let's hope so well, we only have
two more episodes of season three. Yeah, so next Wednesday
will continue with episode seven. It is called X Communicated.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Oh what could that mean? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
And we'll see you tomorrow for our weekly Roundabout roundup.
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Welcome to the Parenting Roundabout podcast. I'm Terry Morrow and
I'm Catherine Jileco. As parents and parenting writers, we can't
help but see everything through a parenting lens. But as
our kids have become adults, we find ourselves more interested
in getting caught up on movies and streaming than I'm
going over the same parenting topics over and over.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
So since we're pretty sure we can find parenting wisdom anywhere,
we're going to talk about what we're watching, what we
thought about it, and maybe what we can learn from it,
if only what not to do. Watch and listen along,
and let's all make like we're doing something important for
our families. Each Wednesday we bring you our thoughts on
a newer entertainment property, and for this week of August
(00:45):
twenty fifth, we're continuing with the Guild of Age. It
was season three, episode six, If you Want to Cook
an omelet, in which Bertha has arrived in England to
save the day and give Gladys exactly one brief pep
talk and.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Around. Yeah she's all good. Now, Okay, see, I'm gonna
go back to New York?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Because of Bertha's stage advice or is it because Gladys
is I got to do something to make her lead, right,
I'll just stand up for myself and then she'll go.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah, one of those. One of those.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
So we have poor Marion like piecing together that piecing
together that Larry told a little fib and he did
not go to Delmonico's. He went to a place that
was described as a house of ill repute and several
(01:47):
other things which I now can't remember, but it just
it was like, Oscar, you ding dong, like just just
say Larry saw her on the street or something like,
you know, like I saw her walking out of there,
or you didn't have to.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Oscar realized as the words were coming out of his mouth,
like yeah, like the last you cannot take the bat No,
he just watches her face fall into horror, right, and
it's like but yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's
unfortunate that Larry is out of town and can't speak
(02:29):
for himself, right, and so she gets to go through
this entire process of you know, setting her opinion in
stone without any input because it just it was a
bachelor party, right, he was going out with his friend
who was getting married.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, and he didn't seem to do anything, and.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I don't think he was doing anything. I think he
was just out with the guys.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
And I think even Jack could confirm that if they're Yes,
if they had realized and had been able to ask him,
I think he could have vouched for old Larry.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
But yeah, yeah, he was busy being shoveled out the
door by Armstrong. Who's totally gonna live to regret that.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yeah, I have to eat.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
All the help wants him gone. Yeah, no, no, honey, no,
just you, that is not the case. Oh man, But
just how could they just turn that little puppy dog
out into the world like he knows what to do?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Hmm?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
You have to leave the only home place that's felt
like home to you. Here's a hotel.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
By yeah, I mean it is true that if the
man is a multi millionaire, he does not need to
be serving coffee anymore.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Like true, Why didn't they just like invite him up
to the upstairs and pitch charg him rant get some
money off.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Of the ball. Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
You can stay here, but we want you to invest
in uh Agnes van Rhine industry, right, and to keep
Ada from throwing her money away.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
At shysters, yes, which she did figure out sadly, I
mean sadly, like it's good she figured it out, but
it was so sad when she was like, oh, this
is all a complete scam.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Andrea Martin, how could you?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Yeah? Well, I mean the money was just right there
to take. How would she not take it?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I think you have no one to blame for this
but your cell sister.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yeah. Yeah, very sad, poor Ada.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yeah, but there was there was a sweet scene of
Agnes comforting her after after Ada came to this realization.
Agnes is not all ice, cold veins and witty cutbacks.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Did did Agnes actually know though, that Aida had given
money to a medium? Well?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
She she she was in the house. Andrea Martin was
the first time. Yeah, okay, remember and Agnes came in
and started, you know, angrily raising the blinds.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I just feel like I was unclear as to whether
she knew the source of AIDA's upset at that moment,
was about doubt that the medium was a h.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Yes, you're right that that was.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
In which case at least thrown in a couple of.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Singers, right, yes, if maybe she just felt.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Her being blue and thought she was just feeling blue. Right,
let's just think that she did, yeah, and that she
was being sweet even though it would be so unlike her.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Hm, what else happened? A lot happened.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Yeah, Peggy Jack gave everybody money a return on their investment,
and Armstrong just got a note.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
No, no, she got money too.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Did she get money too?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, even still sitting there.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Looking stricken, And I didn't know if there was just
a very sweet note or if there was Hue and
she was noticing that she was the only one who
didn't get money because she didn't invest.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I think that she was stricken with.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Like, Wow, I'm a bad person, because he is, you are,
he is a good person.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
He gave me money even though yeah, he had absolutely
no reason to.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Didn't look to me like there was cash with hers,
but I'm sure there was.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I think there was.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
And also that everyone else got like many times more
than right then, what than what they had originally skiven? Yeah,
But I also enjoyed the butler in that whole scene
where they were waiting to open their envelopes and he
(07:14):
made them like go upstairs first, and you know, he
distributed the envelopes upstairs and then he ran downstairs, but yes,
stopped himself.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
So he wouldn't look like anyway. It was very cute.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah, that's very fun.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
So I mean, hopefully this means we can stop worrying
about Jack's money being in some bank that's going belly up.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
But yeah, I hope so. But I mean, he's got
if he's paying for a hotel, he's got some in
his pocket. I hope he doesn't have it all like again,
tell me it's not in a volice that he's carrying
around with them, right, I don't. I think they are
not going to tell us. I think they're just gonna
say it's whatever they did. Then it's fine. Yeah he's liquid,
(08:04):
don't worry.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Don't worry about it.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
But it's hard to imagine how somebody goes from the
station he was at to the station where even your
employers are going, Oh I can't uh and not have
like some awkwardness as to how one conducts oneself.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
And just some bumps along the way.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, somebody needs to take the boy in hand and
help him out, and that somebody needs to not be
saying moud beaten or alike. You know, if there's a
vacuum of help for that young man will come in
the form of an untrustworthy individual, right, I wouldn't even
put Oscar in chargement. Yeah, but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Well, let's so there's getting back to mothers and fathers
and daughters and sons. Peggy's potential future mother in law
continues to delight and disturb us with her with her.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Thoughts, as Peggy's mother says, and is good wisdom to
pass down as a paradig tip. When you marry, you
take on the whole family. Oh my goodness, yes you do.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Yeah, it is true. And do you want to.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Flee for the better hopefully yay, a whole new, fun
family and.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Not oh yeah, which is the way it's looking right
now for our Peggy. And also very foreboding that Peggy
was talking to William the doctor and said, you know,
I have to explain about T. Thomas Fortune, her former employer,
(09:49):
and she has to explain what happened. And then she's like,
and there's more, and he's like, no, worries, we don't
need to talk about anything else.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
In we don't need to talk about it. My mother
will dig it up and let me know. Be fine.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Oh no, oh no, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yeah, the course of love, true love never did run smooth, right.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Oh, sure didn't.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Parenting tip. Yeah, and Oscar was very decent with Maud,
went and talked to her, got her sad story, which
we hope was not a con right. We're supposed to
think that that was accurate.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Right, I think so?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Okay, So he winds up giving her money in a
train ticket to go back to her sister and send
usky where I'm sure she will be warmly welcomed and
you know, allowed to set up a new life. But
what the conversation she has with the guy she finds
there be interesting? Oh, by the way, I can tell
(10:47):
you a few things about my but he'll be fine. Fine,
hopefully she's set up and in churn. I'm parenting tip here.
Sometimes when you do a good deed, you get rewarded,
as the staff at the Van Rhyns did for helping
out Jack. Sometimes you do a good deed and your
(11:08):
boyfriend gets hit by a carriage you know, you never know,
and we look around, is Richard Alberty or something crossover
with lost? Because last time we last time we saw
somebody get hit by a conveyance in that manner, he
was involved. Yeah, I'm just saying, yep, holy cow, is
that not expected in this in this show?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yeah, that came out of nowhere. I was completely surprised.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I knew it was coming because I completely spoiled myself
for all these upcoming episodes but the recaps. But even so,
that was whoa. Yeah, I definitely parenting tip, teach your
children look both ways before you into this fake There
could be a two examples. Now, what happens if you don't.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Yeah, there could be There could be a worse courage.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
It could be a bus, it could be all sorts
of different things. But but don't be looking at somebody
else when you're just kind of sauntering into the thoroughfare.
Oh golly, that was unnecessary.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Poor Oscar.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Just just like what just happened.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Yes, Oh my gosh, it's.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
A good thing. John Q.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Adams, you know, fulfilled his promise to Oscar of a
few episodes back of like I'm going to get you
back on your feet by telling everybody to invest with you.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
He did, but he was going to do more for him. Yeah,
that's not gonna happen now though, Oh my gosh, that
was just so unnecessary. Guilded age people really come on.
By the way, I have to say a delightful Gilded
Age casting tidbit. The actor who plays Oscar is in
real life married to the actress who plays the duke's
(13:02):
horrible sister. Oh that's funny, Lake Ritson and Hattie Morahan.
I saw that someplace and I looked it up. IMDb
does not have it, but Wikipedia does, so I'm going
to say it's probably true Wikipedia regardless, because she, yeah,
(13:23):
the sister continues to just be the worst. See see again,
when you marry someone, you marry their whole family.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
And in this case, you married the one who you
know just was running the place, and yes, had no
expectation that she would have to stop.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I mean, you can feel a little sympathy for her
for that, but you know she doesn't have to be
quite so unpleasant about it, right, Or maybe she does.
But this is a good parenting tip, is that you know,
we might have expected Bertha to come there and just
start knocking heads and taken names and fix things. But
(14:08):
it's really not about doing things for your adult children.
It's about inspiring them to do it for themselves. Yes,
which is harder. Yes, it's easier to go in there
and just fix things. But that doesn't work anymore. You
can't their mom can't be doing that. They have to
be doing that. So fortunately Gladys got a little twinkle
(14:29):
in her eye and started doing it and having some success,
and you could sort of see her thinking this is
gonna be fun.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
And unfortunately Bertha didn't, as we were talking about yesterday,
come in guns blazing quite as much as she could have.
I mean, she backly, she held back enough to let
Gladys actually take the lead.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Well, she came in, she assessed the situation right, and
she told Gladys what to do. Unfortunately, Gladys did it.
And you know, Bertha, Bertha knows how things work. So
but it would have been nice if she had maybe
uh tutored Gladys a little bit before the wedding.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Before the Yeah, her timing is not great.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
You know. Well, all that time Gladys was in her
room sulking, she could have been reading books about the
culture of England and you know, learning how to uh
what is expected of a duchess and you know, one
hundred putdowns for bushy English.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Women, for mean sisters.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Yeah, but that was that was nice the way she
she sort of inspired Gladys to pick herself up and
do what needed to be done. And once you do
that once and it works, it's kind of intoxicating. Absolutely,
(16:03):
people are rooting for her clearly. So I don't think
your sister has made any has made any friends? Yes, Yes,
sitting next her at dinner was like way to go.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Yeah he was. He was quite pleased with her with
her efforts. Good job.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Yeah, I just got to get the duke to uh,
you know, locate his manly bits and yes, be the
head of the household. Right, So good luck to him
in that. She's probably not going to go down without
a fight. I think she's a little stunned right now
because she didn't expect it.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
She probably has has a little fight left in her right.
But a lot going on in this episode, going in
and out of a lot of rooms and a lot
of places in right. No, we were in the wild
West for five minutes learning mine and then Larry succeeding
in business when way off somewhere else where he doesn't
(17:02):
know his marriage plans are being dashed.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Yeah, and we also didn't even mention there was George
business as well with Yeah, he Morgan summoned everybody somewhere
and basically said, I've locked you in here until you
fix you know, until you all agree to do something.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
And then they did, but then it all got negated
when they got back to town.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
So yeah, yeah, because.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
With that copper, yeah, or with some of his clock money,
you know, just yeah, throw that your dad's way, please.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Asked Jack for an investment. Yeah, probably find a room
for him in the house.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Jack has too bad.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
They married off Gladys. He could have married she could
have married Jack.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Oh boy, darn.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Oh well, it's hard. Just yeah. I mean you've you've
found out how much that is in present day. But
it's like when Agnes was impressed by how much it was,
then you realize it really is a lot, because she's like,
you know, we should be serving him.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Yeah, So.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
In which case he needs to be throwing his way
around so cute, so cute, and he's so helpless and
he's just ripe for a con. So I hope somebody's
protecting him.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Yeah, because he's already he's already busy inventing the electric
yes hand mixer, So we need to we need to.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Protect him, protect him.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
I mean, there's lots of reasons to protect him.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Rosy glow of goodness will Ward off evil?
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Right, let's hope, let's hope so well, we only have
two more episodes of season three. Yeah, so next Wednesday
will continue with episode seven. It is called X Communicated.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Oh what could that mean? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
And we'll see you tomorrow for our weekly Roundabout roundup.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
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Speaker 2 (19:21):
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