A Marriage Tested | Gentleman Jack S2 Ep 6 RECAP
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- Gentleman Jack Series Two Episode 6 Recap | SPOILER ALERT*** There is a LOT of business talk in this episode but thank heaven n providence there's also a lot of Anne and Ann 🎩 We're gonna go over the letters--ALL THE LETTERS! We're also going to discuss Anne being such a dominant business owner as a woman in the 1800s.
Let me know in the comments what your favorite part of the episode was!
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"That's what men say!" - I loved that, so right. Also love that she challenges the banker guy that if she were a man, he wouldn't question how much she's borrowing. And, that is not only in the 19th century that happened... it still does in one way or another, or certainly did in 1980+ when I wanted to get a loan from our local bank for a new car we were purchasing, I wanted it in my name rather than in my husband's name so as to build a credit rating... they just filed it under my husband's name anyway! I love your take on things, as well as your 'delivery,' Amanda Costner :-) p.s. we're a couple weeks behind where you watch GJ, we just got episode 6 this week on Monday 5/30
Ug eye roll at the banker refusing to put the car in your name! Some things take forever to change. Thanks for watching the recaps, I'm able to watch ahead of HBO viewers with a VPN--I watched all the eps live on the BBC. If we get a third season I seriously hope they put them all out at once!
Your reviews are great fun. I also feel that in the last scene, AL was scared AW would walk away. AL has a lot of trauma from past experiences with ex`s leaving for various reasons.
Thank you! And you make a good point---Anne Lister absolutely looked desperate in the last scene and her relationship trauma is definitely contributing to how she sees things.
Btw it wasn't the first time Marian broke the 4th wall, she also did that in season 1
I laughed so hard when she did!! Loved it!
The more you watch this show the more you feel for Ann Walker. She seems so pure and clearly knows something is going on which makes me want to scream every time AL just doesn't reveal the truth. The last scene where AL was berating her for wanting children was hard to watch just cos she was just being honest. Projection for sure!
PS Ann Walker with her hair down!! :P
Oh yeah LOVE all the AW hair down scenes 💯 I do feel for Ann Walker and it seems like she's being played by Anne which sucks
I especially thought it was pretty crummy that AL still went off the deep end about the kids thing when AW even said.. she does NOT want a man but still imagines herself having children somehow. I realize such a thing is much easier for us to fathom in our modern day because it happens all the time now but still... didn't appreciate AL's tantrum after all of the bs she's been putting AW through.
Exactly, like she was trying to sabotage the relationship. Saying "are you sure??" so many times, placing further doubt. Continued manipulation, making it seem that if they broke up it would be Walker's fault, and she won't have to take responsibility.
Oh yeah good point. If she shouts AW into leaving she gets out of having to fess up to the cheating.
Why can’t they adopt? That French maid will be pregnant again soon. Or a ward.
Any scene with Mariana is a highlight for me because she's that woman who you dislike but are still obsessed with.
So firstly, Mariana talking shit about "Either Freddy or the medicines" cured her (as if that wouldn't raise questions from Ann Walker), then adding some French in the letter (as if that wouldn't raise more questions about that choice in what is supposed to be a friendly letter), then writing that she only wants Anne's good opinion and in the very next sentence (as if she suddenly developed amnesia), taunting Anne with the marriage announcement most likely in the hopes that it caused Ann to leave Anne so that Anne can come crawling back to her.
Second highlight was the follow-up scene when right after Anne has stood trial over the Eliza Raines matter (a very heated trial at that which Anne most certainly thought would end their marriage from the way she started becoming tearful) and received a hard-won forgiveness from Ann, Ann picks up Mariana's letter next to read and Anne notices and freaks the f**k out, quickly reaching for Ann and asking her to dress up and go out instead of reading what the naysayers have to write.
Third highlight was Anne and her father when he apologised. I know it was mentioned that her dad knew she was a lesbian, but so far the show hasn't shown their interaction in that light as it does with Aunt Anne so it was lovely to see, especially with him admitting he hadn't always known how to handle her. That resonated with me because it's the same thing with my mum trying, but not always understanding how to handle me (though she doesn't know the full gist of what's up with me). It stood out also because I had heard a podcaster mention that when she was younger, Anne's father once gave her a "bad woman" (which in those days would mean a prostitute), but I am yet to investigate the context of it or what actually happened since the podcaster just said it in passing; if anyone has read about this, I am curious to know the story.
Oh wow VERY interesting about the possible prostitute...yes, I thought the scene with Anne's dad apologizing was also a highlight! Mariana has become quite the villain! And I love her in this role.
Hi Amanda. Love your reviews. You make me laugh. I’m curious about the dead uncle. Wonder if the murdering nephew will be found out.
Thank you! I suspect we will get that plotline resolved by the end of the season, they've had us invest a lot! My wild guess is that Thomas will be busted, possibly betrayed by his new wife...
I can't wait to see the 💩hit the fan when they all find out that Mariana placed the wedding announcement in the paper. I also suspect Mariana will find a way to let Ann Walker know that AL cheated on her. Such wonderful drama!
Oh I totally suspect you're right about Mariana finding a way to out Anne's cheating. Surprised it hasn't happened yet...
Im in the US and again youre my first stop after just watching ep 6!
3 points to make...
1. Mentioned in brackets on the side = not posting/tagging your lady on social media by today's standards.
2. Def gonna use "if I were a man would you..." argument when I'm haggling/dealing w a dude.
3. This episode was smooth sailing for me until eliza rain was mentioned (my mouth dropped) and finally in the last scene when I can understand how AL would need AW to be sure about what it is she wants when it comes to children. I can relate on many levels and this scene seeing the strong AL be consoled by the sweet AW made me tear up!
Thank you yet again for another hilarious review. This episode has made me want to flirt w an old gal or two to see what the fuss is about 🤣😎
Bahahahaha please let me know how the flirting with the old gal or two goes!
Do people do this bracketing of their S.O.'s ??? They don't want the official tag so it's like a half-assed tag? I only know a little about Eliza Rain, but she sounds like another fascinating person from the diaries!
Any chance you are going to review Vigil? It also stars Suranne Jones who falls in love with Rose Leslie (extremely hot). Vigil was released late last year on BBC but it's likely on other streaming devices now (I'm in Australia and it's on Binge). Love your work!
A second season of Vigil has been confirmed too. I'm not sure when it's due to be finished though.
Vigil is on peacock in the US. I have xfinity and comes free. Lots of other shows, like downtown Abby. I just love period dramas.
Suranne love of playing characters that begin with an A. Amy Ann n my favorite An olman in a touch of cloth which was brilliant. N she was gay in touch of cloth…..cloth fans where r u?
Yes, my plan is to recap season 1 before season 2 comes out and then do individual recaps of season 2!
Love your brilliant hilarious & astute recaps & agree Marians "what?" to camera shared our discombobulation over Annes dealings with the coal business!!🤔🙄😖😴
Haha thank you wow, what a compliment! Yes I'm working my way through the diaries and hope it helps ha
Anne was not the ruin of Eliza
Ann is such a complex character. Progressive about gender roles but conservative about class.
Why doesn’t she introduce Marianne or Ann W to her friends?
@@samanthab1923 According to the diaries AL plays a certain role when with her high class friends. Vere de Hobert for example used to think Anne was richer than she actually was. That is why she kept the option of one day settling with Anne open when being courted by her future husband. We may see Anne as a romantic (she was a romantic as much as one could be in the times when marriages were more of a social contracts and business arrangement than anything) .
From what I gathered from reading her words she really did love Marianna. You can say she was the love of her life. She wasn't faithful to her, of course, but wearing black for nearly twenty years as mourning because her lover got married to someone else (talk about grand gestures).
I love Anne lister. She is flawed even if she never sees herself as such. There was this even when Anne walked some significant distance to meet Marianna's carriage because she couldn't wait to meet her in Halifax. "The three step fiasco" Marianna's reaction was hurtful.
That was I think the beginning of deterioration of their relationship. Even when Anne forgives Mary she still sometimes rant about it in her diaries and those entries are more hurt than angry.
I'm in Texas I'm real behind but I really enjoy ur recaps so when I do finally watch the episode I watch out for all the things u said and ur spot on and I still enjoy the show I just get to understand what's happening before I watch it
Thank you! Yeah I wish they would just release them in America at the same time, but alas this is how we get em'! Glad you're enjoying thanks for watching!
Love the recaps and the ovwe qll general production put into them. Your my new favorite channel. 😍
Awe thank you so much!
I now think mariana lawton made the wedding announcement..
She definitely did it because why would she write that in the letter out of spite
That would be pretty low...but you could be right.
Very good keep them coming
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She’s looked at the camera before.
Ah, I must have missed it, thanks!
Anne is so selfish, all she think is herself. The more I learn about Anne lister the more I wonder why she died young
"Anne Lister’s diary records a nasty insect bite in early August 1840, and her last entry was written within a few days. She died of a prolonged fever six weeks later, aged 49, at the edge of the Russian empire (in what is now Kutaisi, Georgia) - the furthest her extensive travels had ever taken her from Shibden Hall." < from The Anne Lister Society english.northwestern.edu/about/anne-lister-society/story.html#:~:text=Anne%20Lister's%20diary%20records%20a,taken%20her%20from%20Shibden%20Hall.
There are only four episodes available on HBO so how are you able to review episode five and six I just got HBO and there’s only four episodes
She is watching them on the BBC iplayer. I know this because I am too :)
I'm using a VPN and as LwL said, watching on BBC iplayer!
@@life_with_laurie Same here
I’m watching clips from ep. 7 on YT but my HBO is only up to 5
Ann Walker calls her footman? James in season 1.
let’s go i’m finally early yeep
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Is it true that Eliza was Mariana's sister???
I don't think so.
She wasn't and was her first girlfriend. Anne wasn't the best friend to her. She kinda led her on.
You can hear more about Eliza raine. Through ALBW, ANNE LISTER BIRTHDAY WEEKEND. I think it was "telling a new tale of Eliza Raine". Long video but well worth it.
Anne was flawed and did things she regretted. I think we all make mistakes and I am flawed as well.
No Eliza had sister Jane
Eliza and her sister were left a lit of money by their father Jane married badly and he took everything. Jane went insane probably she had to become a prostitute on a ship in order to get back to England. Eliza became mentally ill and was a patient in the hospital run by STEPH. she died there
yeah i was also wondering what was going on with thomas, i hope he gets some screentime before the end of s2
I think he will (or I hope too ha)
I see a lot of people annoyed at Anne Lister because of her behaviour but people are looking at in 2022 eyes but it was different in 1800s and Anne Lister has done bad thing and is Tory but alot of people were this way men doing bad and questionable things and AL is working with men and is acting like a man plus she trying to figure out. what love is and keep business afloat luckily this was recorded so many men would be this way in thoses days. just my opinion alot of the time I got different opinions to most people lol
No your opinions are totally valid! Yes, we often are not fairly looking at the situation and the times. It's almost impossible for us to know what it was like for either of them. I do think it's fair to criticize Anne's lack of sympathy for Marian when she was doing the exact same thing as far as having an "unconventional" relationship.
@@AmandaCostner Exactly... it''s her hypocrisy and looking down her nose at people that I find unlikeable. Her being a political conservative doesn't necessarily mean she'd treat people like that.