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Oh, friends, I have been anxiously awaiting this episode ever sinceThe Baby-Sitters Clubintroduced us to Mimi.
This gorgeous little episode does the same and feels just as poignant.
Sometimes you just need things put in simple terms to help you understand them better, you know?
Our dear Claudia is really going through it.
In Claudia and Mean Janine, both of those truths are questioned.
This little girl goes off.
It gets so heated that Mimi gets upset and leaves.
And thats when they hear their grandmother collapse.
At the hospital, they learn that Mimi has suffered a stroke.
Janine, of course, is very matter-of-fact about the whole thing.
She doesnt want Claudia to delude herself into thinking that Mimi will magically get better.
Its the first time we see Janine have an emotional reaction to something.
After the BSC (and Liz and Richard!)
shows up as dinner reinforcements, the call comes in: Mimi woke up.
Shes going to have some speech issues, but she is recovering.
There is a momentary feeling of relief.
Its completely obliterated, however, when Claudia goes to visit Mimi.
It feels like shes lost her connection to the one person in her life who understood her.
The art show is disastrous as well.
The judges love Claudias technical ability, but think that her art lacks a purpose and point of view.
I would like to take this moment to remind those judges that Claudia IS 12 YEARS OLD.
So Claudia is feeling lost everywhere she turns.
I know, it sounds ridiculous.
When that doesnt work, Janine speaks to Mimi in Japanese, and Mimi is able to respond.
Out in the waiting room, Claudia asks Janine what they were talking about.
Claudia knows about the camps, but she had no idea Mimi was in one.
Now Claudia has to come to terms with the fact that Mimi is trapped in her worst memories.
Its a tough truth for anyone to stomach.
I dont understand why they still do, replies Janine.
Janine gives Claudia a squeeze and it is the first genuine moment of connection between the Kishi sisters.
I mean, they arent like best friends or anything (could you imagine?
), but its nice to see that they dont have to be at odds all the time.
By the end of the episode, Mimi is back home.
Shes not her old self, but shes better than when we saw her in the hospital.
Regardless, Claudias happy to have Mimi back.
She decides to draw a portrait of that girl.
The past, the good and the bad, will always be with us, she says.
We have to understand where weve been to know where were going.
It seems like Claudia has found her point of view.
Consider them the Terrific Two.
Richard is into it!
Hes also very intoQueer Eye.
(We get it, Netflix!)
Claudia tackles Mary Annes room, and Stacey gives Richard some tips on his look.
I mean, hes practically perfect in every way, but sure.
At first she assumes the Humpty Dumpty painting is haunting her.
A natural conclusion wed all come to, because that thing is objectively terrifying.
This painting has a lot of meaning behind it.
Mary Anne and Richard look on with smiles.
Now that new bedroom feels like home.
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I could not love the depiction of a 14-year-old boy through Sam Thomas any more.
Now hes drawing blenders because thats his thing, and Stacey is 100 percent eating it up.
Anyway, very pro-Sam over here.
Of course Richard Spier knows how to wash a cast-iron pan.
Yes, he is uptight, but he is also a dreamboat!!!!
Thats a Logan Bruno sighting, folks!
She will never be able to play it cool, but that is part of her charm.
Mary Anne and Logan forever!
Never change, Dawn Schafer!
