Speaker 1: I Am All in again.
Speaker 2: Oh it's you.
Speaker 3: I Am All in Town meeting with Suzanne French and
Speaker 3: Tara suit An iHeartRadio podcast. Hey guys, welcome back to
Speaker 3: another episode of I'm All in Town Meeting with myself,
Speaker 3: Tara and Suzanne, and today we're going to be talking
Speaker 3: about Season two, episode eight, The Inns and Outs of Inns,
Speaker 3: which aired November twentieth, two thousand and one.
Speaker 2: There are a lot of different storylines in this episode.
Speaker 3: You know, I right before we started this, I told Suzanne,
Speaker 3: I think I forgot this episode, Like not that I forgot,
Speaker 3: Like I watched it last night and I don't remember anything.
Speaker 4: But it's not that I forgot.
Speaker 3: It's just that there was so much happening and there
Speaker 3: was no inconsistency.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was trying to find like some clever little
Speaker 2: mistake or something, and they're just there was nothing, really anything,
Speaker 2: which is surprising because there was so much going on.
Speaker 2: We had we had the Mia situation, we had the
Speaker 2: Luke or the lore Lions Suki situation, we had the
Speaker 2: the fake death in front of Dosi's, the portrait at
Speaker 2: Richard and Emily's house, like there just was so there
Speaker 2: were so many stories and sub stories going on, and
Speaker 2: but they it was they pulled it off like there
Speaker 2: wasn't anything that I could nitpick with this one.
Speaker 3: You know, there was one thing that I noticed, which
Speaker 3: is like, it's so stupid, but I just noticed it.
Speaker 3: Remember how last episode they when they went to Friday
Speaker 3: night dinner, they had corn on the cob. Yes, did
Speaker 3: you notice how much corn on the cob was in
Speaker 3: this episode?
Speaker 2: I did notice that they had it again at Friday
Speaker 2: night dinner and it looked like it had been barbecued.
Speaker 3: I'm like, and then not only that, Suki is like boiling,
Speaker 3: Oh that's right, she's boiling a bunch of corn a cob,
Speaker 3: corn like corns corn.
Speaker 4: What's the plural of corn?
Speaker 2: Corn on the cobs? I guess it's more than one cob.
Speaker 3: But there was one inconsistent inconsistent, oh my god, inconsistency
Speaker 3: in that scene she puts salt on like one of
Speaker 3: the pots and then stirs a different pot.
Speaker 4: She just let the salt sit there. I didn't notice
Speaker 4: because I was so I was.
Speaker 3: I was half paying attention to that scene because I
Speaker 3: was like, why is there so much corn? It's like
Speaker 3: they had leftover corn props, yeah, prior, but that was
Speaker 3: really all I did notice.
Speaker 2: There was a guy in the background in multiple different
Speaker 2: scenes that kept picking up like little tiny eggplants. They
Speaker 2: were really small. But there were multiple scenes from the kitchen,
Speaker 2: just like, yeah, at the inn. I started to say
Speaker 2: the diner at the inn, and he's like picking him up.
Speaker 2: And then in a different scene like later in the episode,
Speaker 2: he's in the background and picking up the eggplants. But
Speaker 2: they were small eggplants.
Speaker 4: I don't know. So funny. Suki had a lot going on.
Speaker 4: There were a lot of a lot of foods, a
Speaker 4: lot of fruit.
Speaker 2: Yeah. One thing that made me laugh, not it's not
Speaker 2: an inconsistency, and it was. It was probably it was
Speaker 2: meant to be there because it was. It was funny.
Speaker 2: But in the I think it was the very opening scene.
Speaker 2: They're in the diner and there's jess Is walking around
Speaker 2: with the coffee pot and there's a woman that holds
Speaker 2: her coffee cup up to him like she wants a refill,
Speaker 2: and he looks in her empty cup and just keeps walking.
Speaker 2: Really yeah, it was. It was at the very very beginning.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: It just made me laugh because it was a very
Speaker 2: just thing.
Speaker 1: To do.
Speaker 3: Speaking of Jess, this was the first time that he
Speaker 3: met Dean. I guess it was because I literally I
Speaker 3: paused at the end of the episode and I was like,
Speaker 3: there's no away, he's been there for a hot second.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: That caught my attention too, because he's he said, is
Speaker 2: this your boyfriend? And she's like, of course, and he says, oh,
Speaker 2: well you didn't say like did I don't know, Like,
Speaker 2: wouldn't he have seen them around town or something? I
Speaker 2: don't know. I was surprised by that too, that this
Speaker 2: was the first time they had crossed paths.
Speaker 4: But m well, it really sets up the set's up
Speaker 4: the scene. Yeah, that's the future.
Speaker 2: Yes, the beginning of the drama.
Speaker 4: I did find.
Speaker 3: The one scene I found a little weird is explaining
Speaker 3: to oh, what's her name?
Speaker 4: Not Mia? Fran explaining to Fran about death?
Speaker 2: Yes, how was he not picking that up?
Speaker 3: It went on for too long in my opinion, I
Speaker 3: was just like, okay, like, yeah, she's not that dumb,
Speaker 3: you know, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Speaking of things that went on too long, that
Speaker 2: hug between Luke.
Speaker 4: And Mia, Oh my god, it was so awkward.
Speaker 2: That was weird.
Speaker 3: It was also too close, like when they like pulled
Speaker 3: back to like talk to each other. They were like
Speaker 3: this is my cut. They were like this close. Yeah,
Speaker 3: like saying it was weird. It was a weird hug.
Speaker 3: And I understand like the oh my god, we've known
Speaker 3: each other, like she's known Luke since he was a kid,
Speaker 3: but like, no, it's too weird.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like the familiarity was was cute, like she's part
Speaker 2: of the town, like they're establishing that Mia is part
Speaker 2: of Star Hollow, even though she's not physically there all
Speaker 2: the time. But like the physical familiarity was weird.
Speaker 3: I mean, Susanne, have you ever have you ever even
Speaker 3: hugged your husband like that and like talk like it's
Speaker 3: just it was just weird.
Speaker 2: It was weird, Like we don't stand there and have
Speaker 2: a conversation with our arms wrapped around.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's yeah, it was too weird.
Speaker 2: Especially like they're not family or anything like that.
Speaker 3: I mean no, And also like I understand that he's
Speaker 3: known Mia for a very long time, but Mia hasn't
Speaker 3: really been around for the last like ten years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's oh, it was weird.
Speaker 4: Mia. Do you like Mia? I voted question.
Speaker 2: I I don't know. I like this Mia better than
Speaker 2: the next Mia. So the season seven Mia was a
Speaker 2: miss for me. But I don't I don't know. I
Speaker 2: I mean, lorlyon Rory clearly think of her as a
Speaker 2: mother figure because she's kind of the one that took
Speaker 2: them in off the street. But I didn't really get
Speaker 2: like a warm, fuzzy feeling from her.
Speaker 4: No, especially just in general.
Speaker 3: I don't know she She bugs me, to be honest,
Speaker 3: and I understand. Maybe it's the actress plant, the how
Speaker 3: she plays her.
Speaker 4: Maybe that's it.
Speaker 3: But I actually was at the end totally on Emily's
Speaker 3: side because I understand where Mia was coming from, Like, oh,
Speaker 3: like I wish I it's not like it's not like
Speaker 3: Emily and.
Speaker 4: Richard kicked Lareli out of the house. Yeah, she decided
Speaker 4: to run away from home, and.
Speaker 3: Mia played it off as like, oh, she had no home,
Speaker 3: and like, I'm totally team Emily, when it's like she
Speaker 3: had a home she chose to leave. I wish there
Speaker 3: was another adult who told her you should go home.
Speaker 2: Right, I agree, I think because Laurelay was only seventeen,
Speaker 2: she wasn't a legal adult when she arrived at the end,
Speaker 2: so I probably would have made more of an effort
Speaker 2: to try to find out what the family situation was,
Speaker 2: because we also don't know what Laurlai told me.
Speaker 4: At right, But at the same time, like you would
Speaker 4: try to find out at least, you know what I mean,
Speaker 4: Like you don't want.
Speaker 2: To send her back into some abusive situation.
Speaker 4: You want to talk it out, you.
Speaker 2: Know, Can we talk about this with your parents and
Speaker 2: try to figure something out.
Speaker 3: Well, so it's been sixteen seventeen years, sixteen years since
Speaker 3: then Emily met Emily met Mia, so like Mia never
Speaker 3: thought in sixteen years to try to like.
Speaker 4: Reach out. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when Laura I met her, I mean well.
Speaker 3: When Laura I met her, because it also I understand
Speaker 3: Laura I probably didn't tell Mia like that first day
Speaker 3: why she was there, but over the years, like you wouldn't,
Speaker 3: Laura is not keeping rory A's secret or the fact
Speaker 3: that she got pregnant, and she's also not hiding her past.
Speaker 4: Yeah she doesn't.
Speaker 3: She doesn't talk about it a lot, but maybe two
Speaker 3: stars hollow at the time, but she's not like lying
Speaker 3: and make up a story like everyone for the most part,
Speaker 3: new from the very early on that Lorelei's family lives
Speaker 3: in Hartford.
Speaker 4: Her parents are you know, somewhat decent.
Speaker 3: People, and that's it, right, So yeah, I just I
Speaker 3: think at the end, I was like, oh, I'm team
Speaker 3: Emily on that, But then like as I was thinking back,
Speaker 3: I'm like, I just don't think I like Mia, which
Speaker 3: is like a hot which could be a hot take,
Speaker 3: it could be I think.
Speaker 2: We they didn't. You know, they mentioned her in several
Speaker 2: different episodes, but we only actually see her in the
Speaker 2: two episodes, and we don't really get a lot of backstory,
Speaker 2: Like we know she's living in Santa Barbara, but we
Speaker 2: don't know why, and she doesn't like it out there,
Speaker 2: so why doesn't she come back to Connecticut, like you know,
Speaker 2: what's keeping her? I don't know. I guess I just
Speaker 2: feel like if we had had if we had understood
Speaker 2: her better or had more details, maybe maybe it would
Speaker 2: be different.
Speaker 4: But like what sent her to Santa Barbara and she
Speaker 4: stayed there.
Speaker 2: Right exactly, and you know, but she still owns the end,
Speaker 2: so it was I don't know. I just feel like
Speaker 2: we didn't. They kind of left her as more of
Speaker 2: like a two dimensional character, like they didn't really give
Speaker 2: us anything about her to hold on to. So so, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, and you tend to forget, like because Lorelai
Speaker 2: is basically she's doing everything at the end, like she's
Speaker 2: running the place. You forget. Yeah, someone else owns it,
Speaker 2: like you forget that it's not Laura, like.
Speaker 4: It's not hers.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So yeah.
Speaker 3: The one thing that I also didn't like, and it's
Speaker 3: also could be of the times, and it didn't land well,
Speaker 3: you know, thirty years, twenty years later or whatever it
Speaker 3: was twenty how many years are you?
Speaker 4: Twenty five years? Thank you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, is when Mia says to Michelle, you've been in
Speaker 3: this country for so long. I don't understand however she
Speaker 3: said about his accent. I thought that. I thought that
Speaker 3: was a really inappropriate dig I.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was another thing. The whole Michelle thing between
Speaker 2: me and Michelle didn't ring true to me either, Like
Speaker 2: how he How could she not? First of all, she's
Speaker 2: also clearly known Michelle for a long time. Also, how
Speaker 2: does she not understand him? And he's not hard to understand,
Speaker 2: like the rest of us can understand him, Why can't
Speaker 2: she understand him? I thought that was weird too.
Speaker 3: I thought it was weird, but specifically the line of
Speaker 3: saying like you've been in this country for so long,
Speaker 3: like you're I was just like, I don't think that
Speaker 3: was needed at all.
Speaker 2: Right, that was Yeah, that was not an appropriate call
Speaker 2: out because yeah, people are.
Speaker 3: Also even back even back then, even in two thousand
Speaker 3: and one. I don't think it was appropriate. But anyway,
Speaker 3: it is what it is, not all not everything is
Speaker 3: gonna land yeah every time.
Speaker 4: But no, yeah, you're right.
Speaker 3: She did know Michelle for a very very long time,
Speaker 3: so it gives made no sense in the end, she
Speaker 3: understood him rash for day two with him, like okay,
Speaker 3: and also like being in Santa Barbara. There's so many
Speaker 3: people in California anyway, it's the whole thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot of accents in California.
Speaker 3: Yes, anyway, other than that, I don't I don't really
Speaker 3: know if I had anything else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I didn't. I kind of liked the story.
Speaker 2: I liked the Lorelai and Suki had an argument. I mean,
Speaker 2: I didn't like that they argued, but I liked it
Speaker 2: because that was realistic to me, like best friends have
Speaker 2: stupid arguments about stupid stuff. Yeah, so I kind of
Speaker 2: liked that they threw that in there. Talking about people
Speaker 2: being inappropriate, like Laurla was not very nice to see.
Speaker 3: It was just about to say that was also a
Speaker 3: terrible dig to say, like.
Speaker 4: You would never also even if you're just like having
Speaker 4: a bad day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I take it back. Sometimes as you say
Speaker 3: things you definitely don't mean. However, that was like so
Speaker 3: uncalled for. And then just all of uh laurale like
Speaker 3: the way she acted even towards her mom. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: which I do have to call out. Last episode in
Speaker 3: this episode were two very good episodes for Emily and Lorelei,
Speaker 3: Like we are on a good which makes me realize
Speaker 3: something's something bad is about to happen, because they can't
Speaker 3: be good for that long. But you know, like even
Speaker 3: when like Emily wanted to show like this portrait and
Speaker 3: she just gave like a random dig, I was like,
Speaker 3: you're just not being a jerk.
Speaker 2: Just she she's upset about the interaction with me, and
Speaker 2: now she's taking it out on Suki and then she
Speaker 2: takes it out on her mother. It's like just to
Speaker 2: deal with it and internalize, like dragging everyone down into
Speaker 2: your happiness. Yeah. Yeah, So I'm curious to hear like
Speaker 2: what the listeners think of this episode because there was
Speaker 2: a lot going on in this episode to kind of
Speaker 2: move the story forward. So I'm curious, like, did other
Speaker 2: people like it?
Speaker 3: Let us know in the in the comments on our
Speaker 3: Instagram post, Yeah, yeah, what did you think of me?
Speaker 3: Like what do you think of Mia? I really I'm
Speaker 3: really curious because I I feel like every time I
Speaker 3: watch it, I'm just like, okay, whatever. And then I
Speaker 3: really sat down after, like especially the scene with Emily,
Speaker 3: and I was like, if I were Emily, I would
Speaker 3: like Mia either. But that moment when she did say
Speaker 3: she would send photos and that, well, by the way,
Speaker 3: that's the other thing. You've held onto these photos for
Speaker 3: sixteen years and you never thought to send it to
Speaker 3: Emily Gilmore.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you never thought that even if Loral I didn't
Speaker 3: see her mom whatever whatever it is, you wouldn't want
Speaker 3: that person's mother to see photos of their daughter and grandchild.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good point. I didn't even think about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's what really Like now, I remember I
Speaker 3: was like trying to like, what was the part that.
Speaker 2: You must have had them there because she said I'll
Speaker 2: send them to send them to you. It must be there.
Speaker 2: They're not in Santa Barbara.
Speaker 4: I was sitting at the in somewhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's anyway. With all that said, I didn't hate
Speaker 4: the episode.
Speaker 2: There was a lot happening, Yes, there was a lot,
Speaker 2: and just fix the toaster at the end.
Speaker 4: He sure he sure did, He sure did.
Speaker 3: He made up for everyone going against him at the
Speaker 3: town meeting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he showed like a little bit of humanity when Laurel,
Speaker 2: when Rory was confronting him on the street and he
Speaker 2: made the comment that, oh, I didn't know they were
Speaker 2: coming down so hard on Luke. Yeah, It's like there
Speaker 2: was like a little a little flicker, just barely barely.
Speaker 4: But yeah, Milo looked good, so it's okay.
Speaker 1: He did.
Speaker 4: He looks He looked real good in this episode.
Speaker 2: Actually, chalk outlined was funny. I mean it was.
Speaker 3: Funny, But why was it taking like two days to
Speaker 3: remove chalk off the floor. I was like, chalk is
Speaker 3: just like put some water on it and it goes away.
Speaker 2: Washer it'll take you fifteen minutes, even a pressure washer,
Speaker 2: just as a straight up hose.
Speaker 4: That was the other thing that got me. I was
Speaker 4: like that chalk was like paint.
Speaker 2: Yeah, anyway, well that is all we have for this episode.
Speaker 4: Let us know in the comments on Instagram what you
Speaker 4: What do you guys think of Mia? Yeah, I'm curious.
Speaker 3: Next episode, We're gonna be watching the season two episode nine,
Speaker 3: run Away Little Boy.
Speaker 2: Lots of drama in that one. Looking forward to that.
Speaker 4: We'll see you next week.
Speaker 1: Meeting adjourned, Hey everybody and altoget.
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