Episode Report Card Al Lowe: A | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT The UnRelenting
By Al Lowe | Season 6 | Episode 3 | Aired on 2005.09.27
At The Grandparents', Rory and Emily are also sitting down to breakfast. There's about one-third the pastry we normally see. Emily is pissed. A member of her DAR chapter left a note at the HQ to the effect that the foliage around the office was looking a little peaked. Emily's taking it as a personal attack, seeing as how she's the president and the foliage is her responsibility. "Again," Rory says, trying to talk her off the ledge, "it's not exactly Martin Luther nailing the ninety-five theses to the door." Nice try, Rory, but can't you see that this note is implying that Emily has no control over the office? "Constance Bedderton," Emily says with disdain. Ever since a Christmas party last year at which Emily commented that Constance's husband sells used cars -- "which he does; he calls them pre-owned, but they're used" -- Constance has had it in for her. Hilarious. Kelly Bishop looks fantastic in this scene, by the way, like she's somehow lost fifteen pounds between episodes. Hair: perfect. Looks like she's about to run in the Miss Texas pageant. (All the hair in this episode is excellent.) She's also toned down the harpy a few notches, and I am really glad. Emily was originally a character I hated to love, but for a while now, she's been one I loved to hate. I enjoy her still bitchy, but tamer, shrew. Rory comes up with a plan to be Emily's eyes and ears at the DAR office and keep a lookout for any sinister plots by Constance Bedderton to overthrow Emily's reign as prez.