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I was excited about this episode from the jump based on the title alone.
And friends: I was not disappointed.
This is my favorite episode of the season and maybe even the series so far.
It is so good!
And my favorite part it is fully weird, taking big swings and making unconventional choices.
But more on that later.
It is the big day for Em: Her poem is coming out on the front page.
Em bolts downstairs to see her name in print and says to herself: Immortality!
Guess someone hadnt gotten around to reading Ozymandias?
Over in the dining room, Vinnie is reading the poem aloud as Mama Dickinson and Shipley listen on.
Or she is there, but shes invisible.
Or shes a ghost.
Nobody can see Em.
Not even Maggie the maid!
She breaks up with him before he gets the chance.
I mean, the guy does not know how many hours there are in a day!
You cant build a life with a himbo like that!
I wonder if her parents are still listening to this?
Gosh I hope not.
The only person who can see and hear Em is Nobody.
Shes pretty crushed by this turn of events.
Shes invisible on the one day she was anticipating being the center of attention.
Nobody suggests Em use this to her advantage: Now she can hear what peoplereallythink of her poem.
Im very concerned about what uncensored feedback will do to her delicate sense of self.
Em sulks as she walks a quiet path with Nobody.
I dont know what I expected, but this is worse, she laments.
Everybody just gets to talk about me regardless of whether what they say is true.
Nobody says fame is like death in that you cant know what its like until it happens.
(HOW DOES NOBODY KNOW WHAT DEATH IS LIKE?
Adding a check to the Nobody is a ghost column.)
Nobodys last memories sound very much like someone who died violently (young men screaming/smell of metal/blinding pain/etc.)
and we do know that a war is on the horizon, so maybe theres something there?
But instead of trying to suss this out Im just going to bask in the not-knowing.
And then: He vanishes.
Em, still invisible and now flying solo, slips into a Constellation meeting in the barn.
Henry has news: The money from the sales of the paper have reached John Brown!
steps in to say that they do not have the time for this kind of pettiness.
Even Hattie agrees not to fight anymore.
Shed really rather dance, while wearing THE GOLD DRESS THAT SUE WOULD NOT DEIGN TO WEAR TWICE!
Hattie stole it!!!
A dude in the corner busts out a fiddle and now its a party!
That said, Sue looks fantastic.
I love her sheer black fingerless gloves; I love that red on her.
Sam is here but he hasnt seen Em either.
He tells Austin that the painting on his wall is just a replica, which Austin did not realize.
He paid good money for it and is crushed to learn its a fake.
(Sensing a theme here!)
Austin bails to go find Em.
As Austin heads outside, the barn party is in full swing.
It is so raucous and fun and the choreography is a blast.
She keeps losing layers of her clothes.
Austin peers through a crack in the door and … he sees Em!
What do we think this means?
But I have ideas anyway so lets talk about them!
(Later, someConstellationpartiers see Austin and Em talking and think Austin is just talking to himself. )
Austin tells Em that she is the only thing in his life that hes proud of right now.
And at this moment: Deaths carriage pulls up.
Died in mysterious circumstances, he tells her.
Death (Wiz Khalfia, perfect as ever) corrects the record: Poe drank himself to death.
Which is notnoton brand.
Can you blame her?
Em announces that shes famous now because she has been in one newspaper one time.
Poe deflates that little fantasy, telling her he has no idea who she is.
He loses it laughing at how shes already addicted to fame.
He knows itll never be enough.
He sits back in his seat and muses, I miss my cousin-slash-child-bride Virginia, and now IM dead.
She calls out that Sue was right about everything: I want to be seen by people.
The only thing is: People still cant see her.
WHO ARE TOTALLY HOOKING UP!!
I KNEW IT!!!!
Whew, I feel vindicated even though Em probably feels a little traumatized.
How long do you think she watched for?
