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Christmas at the Dickinson household is as I believe the kids still say lit.
We have: sexual escapades at the dinner table!
Drunk Jane Krakowski singing Christmas carols!
Zosia Mamet as Louisa May Alcott!
Hair so tightly curled you could tug it at the bottom and it would BOING back into place!
Everybody binge-readingBleak Houselike its the streaming sensation of the day!
Itisthe most wonderful time of the year.
He and Em have not made up.
In a tender, patronizing voice, he replies, Where would you go?
Their relationship is one of the most intriguing of the show.
His love for her is inextricable from his total control over her life.
Mama Dickinson is so distraught at her husbands departure that she takes herself to bed.
Slim pickings in the mid-1800s!
This brings us the absolutely perfect line, Hawthorne can eat a dick, am I right?
Yes, you ARE right!
I shouldve been allowed to readThe Handmaids Taleinstead!
The syllabus was totally sexist.
So, Louisa tells Em to not be so precious and to write what sells.
Dont worry about the disapproval of your family who may never speak to you again.
Youll be out there making a living on your own.
Her number-one piece of advice: Never get married.
(Em points out that she is a poet, not a novelist.
LMAs reply: Ah, thats another problem.)
Mama Dickinson rallies in time for dinner.
Nah, thats fucking boring.
That is another book I did not finish.
See above, re: sexist syllabus.
Why didnt I have to read any books by women in my senior year of high school?
Thats RUDE is what it is.
Of course, she drunkenly slurs on, Getting married is no guarantee that you wont be lonely.
Yikes, but also, show me the lie.
Back in her room, she and Sue are sharing a bed again.
(Guess Austin got over that whole thing?)
I am impressed by this level of introspection.
Vinnie tears into all the gifts before anyone else comes downstairs.
She admits that she is afraid of having children because her mother died in childbirth.
Ben wakes up with this gross cough.
Em walks him home and kisses him anyway because she doesnt know about germ theory.
