#Gold rush series 6 episode 1 movie#
#Gold rush series 6 episode 1 skin#

He gives her his copy of EmersonвЂ™s essays with his underlines already in there, Jess MarianoвЂ“style. He loves that he doesnвЂ™t understand her.Д«ut more importantly (to me): Ben throws rocks at her window (this is so cute, is it basic to think this is so cute?) and summons her outside for a midnight hang. Eventually, Austin makes a cameo, too, and Em determines that his love for Sue is the genuine article: She only wrote to him once, and itвЂ™s wrecking him.

Mama Dickinson admits that she never really wanted children and to have them is вЂњpure agony.вЂќ The opium bumblebee buzzes in to question EmвЂ™s strategy, but she persists. Papa Dickinson admits to a Dionysian night at Yale where he вЂњsuccumbedвЂќ to the temptation of an older maid, while he was already engaged to EmвЂ™s mom. One by one, everyone but Vinnie makes a pilgrimage to EmвЂ™s bedside to unload some deep, dark secrets. Ben slides a note under her door because they have an inside joke about dirges now, but everyone else, as you might expect, is losing it. The doctor concludes that she must be dying. Em sees death and comes up with a great idea for a poem: Tell all the truth, but tell it slant. The doctor comes by to do whatever doctors used to do at the time, like ask her questions about pooping and see if sheвЂ™s hallucinating.

#Gold rush series 6 episode 1 movie#

(I call this Bella Swan Syndrome: When a show or movie or whatever wants you to believe that everyone around an individual is obsessing and fighting over said individual, while giving that person in the middle of all the fuss barely any discernible personality traits worth the aforementioned obsessing and fighting.) All of which is to say: I am rooting for Ben and Em for now. Also, beyond her orphandom, we havenвЂ™t really gotten a whole lot of information about who Sue is and what makes her so special, besides everyone around her saying she is special. But Sue does not actually have chemistry with any of the people around her! I feel like this show does the thing of just putting hot people next to each other and assuming that will be enough. She tells him sheвЂ™s a poet and he wants to read her poems and !!! Look, I know that in real life, Sue and Em have a lifelong, very intense thing.

On the subject of fakery, Em fesses up that she is pretending to be sick because she wants to write. I write in my notes, maybe she is fake or dead? His answer about where his wife is: evasive. But then she catches sight of a wedding band and that kind of kills the mood. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, then I know that is poetry.вЂќ Oh OKAY, EM, GO OFF. They both love spooky poems more than love poems! Em defines poetry as вЂњif I read a book and it makes my body so cold no fire could warm me, then I know that is poetry. EmвЂ™s performative fake cough! Their chemistry! He is barely taller than she is so itвЂ™s not immediately clear why he can reach a book that she canвЂ™t but WHO CARES. These kids really do meet-cute, as in, it is ADORABLE. ItвЂ™s all very вЂњTimothГ©e, meet Armie Hammer, my research assistant heвЂ™ll be staying with us for the summer looking at old skulls and eye-fucking you across the dinner table.вЂќ If youвЂ™re thinking, вЂњWait, didnвЂ™t I already have a crush on this guy once?вЂќ that is because he is Luke from Friday Night Lights. In sneaking downstairs to get to Papa DickinsonвЂ™s study, Em runs into Ben from Worcester, her fatherвЂ™s new law clerk. She craves a specific book that is in her dadвЂ™s office. If she gets one solid poem out of the effort, she decides, it will be worth it. Em canвЂ™t think about the emotional hell sheвЂ™s putting her entire household through because she has created, through a dramatic effort that puts Shakespeare club to shame, a real room of her own in which to write undisturbed for days on end.

#Gold rush series 6 episode 1 skin#

LetвЂ™s make like Em trying on fake yellow fever for size and commit fully to this story.Д«ecause we are in the past and Em has been pretending to be vaguely ill - a headache like вЂњthunder,вЂќ clammy skin Г la Ferris Bueller, zero appetite - for a week, everyone in the house is genuinely concerned that sheвЂ™s going to die. Praise to the poetry gods: We have our first five-star episode! This episode has so many things I thoroughly enjoy and hope you do too: elaborate trickery, honest-to-goodness character and plot development, the arrival of a cute new potential love interest, sexual chemistry that I believe one is required to refer to as вЂњpalpable,вЂќ the introduction of an especially iconic Emily Dickinson verse, improbably cute hair whilst вЂњbedriddenвЂќ from a mystery non-illness, semi-spontaneous near-skinny dipping under the moonlight - I MEAN.