1 00:01:11,100 --> 00:01:13,685 I told you I don't have time to wait. What is this? 2 00:01:13,755 --> 00:01:16,821 Do you have any idea? What's going on? 3 00:01:22,811 --> 00:01:25,178 I know, honey, I'm on my way, okay? 4 00:01:28,571 --> 00:01:30,709 Hi. I need to check your bag. 5 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:06,935 Right this way. 6 00:02:12,728 --> 00:02:14,386 Come on, let's go. Get out of the way, now. 7 00:02:17,303 --> 00:02:18,612 Hold it! 8 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:22,702 Please take the ticket. 9 00:02:23,927 --> 00:02:26,032 Please take the ticket. 10 00:02:27,287 --> 00:02:29,142 Please take the ticket. 11 00:02:41,270 --> 00:02:43,758 Come on! Get in there! 12 00:02:53,429 --> 00:02:55,087 Please insert card. 13 00:02:57,269 --> 00:02:58,895 Please insert card. 14 00:03:01,333 --> 00:03:03,057 Please insert card. 15 00:03:05,173 --> 00:03:07,060 Please insert card. 16 00:03:07,828 --> 00:03:11,057 I can't follow you guys. You drive too slow. 17 00:03:11,732 --> 00:03:13,837 Bernie. Hey. 18 00:03:15,188 --> 00:03:17,489 - Sad, huh? - Tragic. 19 00:03:17,556 --> 00:03:19,629 - Poor Jocelyn. - It's ridiculous. 20 00:03:19,732 --> 00:03:21,325 - Daniel, he was her world. - Hold up. Cat hair. 21 00:03:21,396 --> 00:03:25,073 Oh, that's why I never wear black. Don't even look in the mirror anymore. 22 00:03:25,140 --> 00:03:27,693 Should've thought of it years ago. 23 00:03:27,764 --> 00:03:30,830 We celebrate a very special life 24 00:03:30,900 --> 00:03:36,169 as we lay to rest Jocelyn's cherished companion, Pridey Sahara Morgan. 25 00:03:53,714 --> 00:03:57,030 Honey, we have to stay. She raised him from a puppy. 26 00:03:57,106 --> 00:03:59,407 All I know is that if I'm not back in the office this afternoon, 27 00:03:59,474 --> 00:04:01,132 Monday is gonna be hell. 28 00:04:01,202 --> 00:04:03,209 She went to every one of Allegra's birthday parties. 29 00:04:03,282 --> 00:04:07,373 Oh, come on. Allegra is our actual child. Let's get some perspective here. 30 00:04:07,441 --> 00:04:09,295 Do you think if Jocelyn were married with kids 31 00:04:09,361 --> 00:04:12,360 she'd be giving her dog a state funeral? 32 00:04:12,432 --> 00:04:14,287 This whole thing is warped. 33 00:04:14,352 --> 00:04:16,807 - I find that personally offensive, Dad. - What? 34 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:19,301 I mean, I may never be married or be a mother. 35 00:04:19,376 --> 00:04:21,515 Yes, some gay women get some version of that, 36 00:04:21,584 --> 00:04:23,722 but we don't all need the same things. 37 00:04:23,792 --> 00:04:25,734 Can we at least agree that 38 00:04:26,352 --> 00:04:27,912 human beings need 39 00:04:28,848 --> 00:04:30,408 human connection? 40 00:04:30,479 --> 00:04:33,578 You know, companionship, conversation, sex. 41 00:04:33,648 --> 00:04:37,390 You get those things from Mom. Jocelyn gets them from her dogs. 42 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:43,529 Can I take your car? 43 00:04:49,486 --> 00:04:50,948 Dad had to go. 44 00:04:53,358 --> 00:04:55,267 We can't let Jocelyn sit home and brood. 45 00:04:55,342 --> 00:04:59,433 Maybe we could all take a class. Learn Portuguese. Go to Brazil. 46 00:04:59,502 --> 00:05:02,437 I don't think I could fit one more thing in my week, honestly. 47 00:05:02,509 --> 00:05:06,404 No, no, you're right. You're right. We should make an effort. 48 00:05:06,478 --> 00:05:08,867 She just lives so far away from everything. 49 00:05:14,317 --> 00:05:16,172 Give it back, Trey. 50 00:05:16,237 --> 00:05:18,758 Come on. Give it back. 51 00:05:22,732 --> 00:05:24,837 See ya. 52 00:05:33,324 --> 00:05:34,665 Thanks. Take care. 53 00:05:38,283 --> 00:05:39,265 Hi. 54 00:05:40,043 --> 00:05:41,636 - Trey. Yeah. - Trey. 55 00:05:42,156 --> 00:05:43,978 Lovers' Guide to Paris. 56 00:05:46,411 --> 00:05:47,393 Food Lovers' Guide. 57 00:05:47,467 --> 00:05:50,565 We're gonna go to Paris. My husband and I. 58 00:05:51,115 --> 00:05:54,944 It's his first time in Paris. Mine, too. 59 00:05:55,019 --> 00:05:56,873 - It's a business trip for him. - Really? 60 00:05:56,938 --> 00:05:58,826 They fly him business class. 61 00:05:58,890 --> 00:06:03,559 So we're just gonna do an exchange so that I can tag along. 62 00:06:03,626 --> 00:06:05,350 - That's pretty thrifty. - Yeah. 63 00:06:05,418 --> 00:06:08,320 I've never been to France. I mean... 64 00:06:10,057 --> 00:06:12,479 I've been to Qu�bec. But that's... 65 00:06:13,449 --> 00:06:15,783 - It's not in... It's in... Okay. - No. 66 00:06:15,850 --> 00:06:18,981 Do you want me to help you carry these to your car? 67 00:06:20,202 --> 00:06:22,722 - No. - Okay. 68 00:06:22,793 --> 00:06:24,069 - Well, have fun. - Okay. 69 00:06:24,137 --> 00:06:25,828 Send me a postcard. 70 00:06:29,064 --> 00:06:30,471 - Hi. - Hey. 71 00:06:30,536 --> 00:06:33,668 Honey, I'm sorry I'm late. I stopped to buy us a present. 72 00:06:33,737 --> 00:06:35,809 Oh, yeah. What do you got? 73 00:06:37,832 --> 00:06:40,450 - What? - Oh, baby. I'm sorry. 74 00:06:40,519 --> 00:06:42,342 I thought I said something. 75 00:06:42,408 --> 00:06:43,837 - Yo, jeez, these guys are terrible. - What? 76 00:06:43,911 --> 00:06:46,529 Been like this all game. This one guy... 77 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:48,349 Paris is off. 78 00:06:49,255 --> 00:06:52,004 - We're not going to Paris? - Dale's going. 79 00:06:52,071 --> 00:06:56,893 My boss-boss asked me to take the CEO of Consolidated to the NBA playoffs. 80 00:06:56,967 --> 00:06:59,749 I guess the guys at Consolidated are like basketball freaks. 81 00:06:59,814 --> 00:07:02,181 But if it's San Antonio, it'll be over in four. 82 00:07:02,246 --> 00:07:05,661 Unless Tim Duncan gets hit with an asteroid or something. 83 00:07:07,558 --> 00:07:11,486 Anyway, figure I'll be on the road for like a week, maybe eight days. 84 00:07:11,558 --> 00:07:13,794 Maybe 10, just depending on... 85 00:07:17,157 --> 00:07:19,492 Oh, what if your mom came and stayed? 86 00:07:20,870 --> 00:07:22,779 Ten days with my mother? 87 00:07:24,101 --> 00:07:25,279 Prudie. 88 00:07:27,237 --> 00:07:30,085 What, did you want me to say no to my boss? 89 00:07:35,844 --> 00:07:38,430 Always doing something wrong, you know? 90 00:07:40,740 --> 00:07:44,536 I have no idea what I did. I genuinely have no idea. 91 00:07:54,403 --> 00:07:57,087 I was just thinking about something Allegra said 92 00:07:57,156 --> 00:07:58,912 at Jocelyn's the other day. 93 00:07:58,979 --> 00:08:01,084 I don't know if it was just the sadness of the occasion, or... 94 00:08:01,155 --> 00:08:02,464 - Oh, don't make fun, Daniel. - No, I'm not, I'm not. 95 00:08:02,531 --> 00:08:03,960 - That was her dog. - No. 96 00:08:04,034 --> 00:08:06,587 I'm saying it affected me. 97 00:08:06,658 --> 00:08:09,113 - Come on. - Okay, honey. Whatever you say. 98 00:08:09,186 --> 00:08:11,128 Anyway, so Allegra and I are talking about 99 00:08:11,203 --> 00:08:13,145 how we all need to have 100 00:08:14,883 --> 00:08:16,606 connection, you know? 101 00:08:17,602 --> 00:08:19,457 Conversation. Sex. 102 00:08:20,898 --> 00:08:22,272 Companionship. 103 00:08:23,745 --> 00:08:27,041 And Allegra says, "Well, you get all that from Mommy." 104 00:08:27,810 --> 00:08:29,632 I gotta tell you, it really made me sad. 105 00:08:29,697 --> 00:08:31,901 Oh, baby, she'll find somebody. 106 00:08:32,481 --> 00:08:34,335 No, it made me sad for us. 107 00:08:34,401 --> 00:08:36,637 See, 'cause I've been struggling 108 00:08:36,801 --> 00:08:41,470 with whether a marriage can sustain all of that 109 00:08:45,153 --> 00:08:46,233 over 20-plus years, 110 00:08:46,305 --> 00:08:50,079 or whether it's just inevitable that after a certain amount of time... 111 00:08:50,144 --> 00:08:51,126 What are you... 112 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:53,720 Maybe being with someone else can have 113 00:08:55,775 --> 00:08:58,230 a renewing effect, because for me... 114 00:09:02,943 --> 00:09:05,244 I've been seeing a woman at work. 115 00:09:08,383 --> 00:09:09,725 We've been together six months now. 116 00:09:09,791 --> 00:09:11,733 We can't think of this as a failure. 117 00:09:11,807 --> 00:09:14,141 We have had a very successful marriage. 118 00:09:14,206 --> 00:09:17,719 We've had a long marriage, by any standard. We've got three wonderful kids. 119 00:09:17,791 --> 00:09:18,969 They're grown, they're working, they're... 120 00:09:19,039 --> 00:09:22,387 Just open the car door, Daniel, I need a tissue. 121 00:09:31,710 --> 00:09:34,131 The kids, that's... That's all you. You know, you... 122 00:09:35,805 --> 00:09:38,740 You made all the sacrifices with that. I know. 123 00:09:38,813 --> 00:09:41,496 But there's a logic to us quitting while we're ahead. 124 00:09:41,565 --> 00:09:44,434 And I think that they'll be able to see that. 125 00:09:45,532 --> 00:09:48,347 I don't understand a single word of what you're saying, Daniel. 126 00:09:48,412 --> 00:09:49,841 Who is this woman? 127 00:09:52,189 --> 00:09:54,392 Look, I'm tired of lying to you. 128 00:09:54,460 --> 00:09:57,559 I'm tired of making promises to Pam that I can't keep. 129 00:09:57,628 --> 00:10:00,017 She deserves better. And so do you. 130 00:10:01,468 --> 00:10:04,402 And I won't give her up. That's non-negotiable. 131 00:10:15,483 --> 00:10:16,531 Syl. 132 00:10:21,499 --> 00:10:24,695 I really like Edmund in this movie. Have you seen it? 133 00:10:24,762 --> 00:10:25,940 I love this movie. 134 00:10:26,010 --> 00:10:29,523 Oh, I like it, but it's not Mansfield Park. 135 00:10:29,594 --> 00:10:31,252 It's more of an interpretation. 136 00:10:31,322 --> 00:10:33,110 - Do you know the book? - Yes. 137 00:10:33,178 --> 00:10:35,828 And I happen to teach film. 138 00:10:35,898 --> 00:10:38,003 - Do you like this movie? - No. 139 00:10:38,074 --> 00:10:41,107 Do you know it mixes up Fanny Price with the author of the book? 140 00:10:41,177 --> 00:10:43,992 Makes Sir Bertram some kind of slave owner. 141 00:10:44,057 --> 00:10:45,519 Well, it means well. 142 00:10:45,593 --> 00:10:47,154 And a little Jane Austen's better than none at all. 143 00:10:47,225 --> 00:10:50,520 No. No. No. That is how I talk myself into everything. 144 00:10:51,353 --> 00:10:52,760 I'm married to a man 145 00:10:52,825 --> 00:10:57,015 who would cancel our trip to Paris for a basketball game, 146 00:10:57,080 --> 00:11:00,658 which is making me a fraud in front of my students. 147 00:11:00,728 --> 00:11:03,575 A French teacher who's never been to France? 148 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:05,233 The screenplay is outstanding. 149 00:11:05,304 --> 00:11:09,101 Excuse me. I'd like to talk to you. Come with me. 150 00:11:09,176 --> 00:11:10,899 You seem to know a lot about Jane Austen. 151 00:11:10,967 --> 00:11:11,982 I do. 152 00:11:12,056 --> 00:11:14,925 You know, Prudie, I've been married six times. 153 00:11:15,704 --> 00:11:18,551 You're always happy at first. It's how you feel at the end that counts. 154 00:11:18,615 --> 00:11:22,838 I've been thinking, I'd like to get married again, maybe just once more. 155 00:11:23,446 --> 00:11:27,374 My favorite was Ben Weinberg. And this is Ben. 156 00:11:28,471 --> 00:11:31,787 He produced Fred Astaire movies. Don't underestimate older men. 157 00:11:31,863 --> 00:11:34,229 We lived in a house in Beverly Hills that had a little pond 158 00:11:34,295 --> 00:11:36,050 and a bridge and goldfish. 159 00:11:36,119 --> 00:11:37,973 That's how I met my friend Jocelyn. 160 00:11:38,038 --> 00:11:40,373 - Carlos. - My pleasure. 161 00:11:40,438 --> 00:11:42,642 Ben was her godfather. Her family's loaded. 162 00:11:42,710 --> 00:11:44,400 Who's Jocelyn again? 163 00:11:44,854 --> 00:11:47,821 The one I wanna start the book club for. Lost her dog? 164 00:11:47,894 --> 00:11:50,927 Eat. So, book club. 165 00:11:50,997 --> 00:11:53,615 I can get Jocelyn and maybe Sylvia. 166 00:11:53,685 --> 00:11:55,441 Jocelyn put Sylvia and Daniel together in high school. 167 00:11:55,509 --> 00:11:56,556 They've been together ever since. 168 00:11:56,629 --> 00:11:59,858 Though Sylvia's gonna want Daniel in the book club, 169 00:11:59,924 --> 00:12:01,517 but I think it should be all women. Don't you? 170 00:12:01,589 --> 00:12:03,978 I mean, men, they pontificate and no one can get a word in edgewise. 171 00:12:04,053 --> 00:12:05,711 - Well, I think if you... - And women won't butt in, 172 00:12:05,781 --> 00:12:08,399 but men, they keep monologuing. Yammer, yammer, yammer. 173 00:12:08,468 --> 00:12:10,835 And we keep listening, protecting their feelings. 174 00:12:10,900 --> 00:12:12,907 - But if... - And men don't do book clubs. 175 00:12:12,980 --> 00:12:15,663 Women want to share, but men, they hoard what they read, 176 00:12:15,732 --> 00:12:17,739 if they crack open a book. 177 00:12:17,811 --> 00:12:19,633 Does your husband read? 178 00:12:19,700 --> 00:12:21,838 He reads stuff online. 179 00:12:24,531 --> 00:12:26,832 You know, it's gonna be like extracting teeth to get Sylvia, 180 00:12:26,900 --> 00:12:29,420 because she has to read so much already. 181 00:12:29,491 --> 00:12:31,912 She works at the state library. But, oh! Hey, no. Okay. 182 00:12:31,987 --> 00:12:33,612 Now, this is brilliant. 183 00:12:33,682 --> 00:12:36,049 We'll only do books we've already read. Is that inspired? 184 00:12:36,114 --> 00:12:38,219 How do we know what books all of us have read? 185 00:12:38,290 --> 00:12:39,403 Isn't it obvious? 186 00:12:39,475 --> 00:12:44,941 Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion. 187 00:12:45,010 --> 00:12:46,122 - I'm leaving some... - Sense and Sensibility. 188 00:12:46,194 --> 00:12:47,307 And Sense and Sensibility. It's been three years 189 00:12:47,378 --> 00:12:50,127 since I've read Sense and Sensibility. I have to pee. 190 00:12:50,193 --> 00:12:51,622 When I get back, hot water and lemon. 191 00:12:51,698 --> 00:12:53,040 And we still have to think of two more people. 192 00:12:53,106 --> 00:12:54,054 Six novels, six people. 193 00:12:54,130 --> 00:12:56,464 We'll each be responsible for one book. 194 00:12:56,529 --> 00:12:58,798 All Jane Austen, all the time! 195 00:12:58,865 --> 00:12:59,978 It's the perfect antidote. 196 00:13:00,049 --> 00:13:01,674 - To what? - To life. 197 00:13:03,185 --> 00:13:05,159 I get Pride and Prejudice. 198 00:13:08,848 --> 00:13:11,565 I called the library and said you had bronchitis. 199 00:13:11,632 --> 00:13:14,763 Anne Marie's moving your indigenous peoples meeting to next week. 200 00:13:14,832 --> 00:13:16,294 I should go in. 201 00:13:16,496 --> 00:13:21,646 Pam Gower did her law degree at Bolt, passed the bar in 2002. 202 00:13:21,775 --> 00:13:22,823 She's an infant. 203 00:13:22,896 --> 00:13:27,467 She joined the firm of Perry, Liebman, Avila in 2006. 204 00:13:27,535 --> 00:13:29,837 Says here she was divorced in 2005. 205 00:13:29,904 --> 00:13:31,497 Bitch. She went right for Daniel. 206 00:13:31,568 --> 00:13:32,811 She's 45. 207 00:13:34,063 --> 00:13:35,623 She's not even young. 208 00:13:35,695 --> 00:13:39,339 - Do you think he has a brain tumor? - I think he fell in love. 209 00:13:39,406 --> 00:13:41,097 Well, I'm rooting for the brain tumor. 210 00:13:41,167 --> 00:13:43,687 People our age don't fall in love. I mean, I've never even been in love. 211 00:13:43,758 --> 00:13:47,107 - You've never been in love? - I've had sexual partners. 212 00:13:47,183 --> 00:13:50,444 I mean, I don't know. I wouldn't mind falling in love, 213 00:13:50,510 --> 00:13:52,899 but it just all seems like fiction to me, anyway. 214 00:13:52,974 --> 00:13:56,651 Well, for a fiction, he just threw 20 years of marriage away 215 00:13:56,718 --> 00:13:58,147 on an impulse. 216 00:13:58,574 --> 00:14:00,777 Do you think he was thinking, the whole time, 217 00:14:00,845 --> 00:14:02,056 "I can't wait to get out of here?" 218 00:14:02,126 --> 00:14:04,678 - Am I really that uninteresting? - No. 219 00:14:04,749 --> 00:14:08,394 - I can't believe I'm alone at this age. - Mom, you're not alone. 220 00:14:08,461 --> 00:14:10,500 And listen to me. Alone's not the end of the world. 221 00:14:10,573 --> 00:14:13,988 For as many years as you've been married I've been quite happily unmarried. 222 00:14:14,061 --> 00:14:15,850 It's just so unfair. 223 00:14:15,917 --> 00:14:17,891 He can start his life over again. And at this age. 224 00:14:17,964 --> 00:14:21,412 You know, men can do that. Women... It's over. 225 00:14:21,485 --> 00:14:22,859 You're beautiful, Mommy. 226 00:14:22,924 --> 00:14:25,193 Yes, and accomplished and interesting. 227 00:14:25,260 --> 00:14:27,082 You're not without your options, Sylvia. 228 00:14:27,147 --> 00:14:30,181 Daniel's the one with options. He can sleep with anyone. 229 00:14:30,252 --> 00:14:33,600 Twenty-year-olds. People will say, "Way to go, Daniel." 230 00:14:33,867 --> 00:14:37,129 If I tried to sleep with someone that age, it'd be pathetic. 231 00:14:37,196 --> 00:14:40,327 Well, yeah, that's 'cause guys my age are lame. 232 00:14:40,395 --> 00:14:43,013 - My body will become a museum. - No, it won't. 233 00:14:43,115 --> 00:14:47,075 We'll get you a membership to my gym. You might even meet somebody. 234 00:14:50,923 --> 00:14:53,475 I don't wanna meet someone. 235 00:14:53,546 --> 00:14:57,124 I wanna pull the covers over my head and read novels. 236 00:14:58,314 --> 00:14:59,525 And eat. 237 00:15:01,290 --> 00:15:02,719 I'm starving. 238 00:15:03,978 --> 00:15:06,498 Allegra, mija, go get me a dozen eggs. 239 00:15:07,658 --> 00:15:09,862 - I'm gonna make a flan. - Okay. 240 00:15:11,177 --> 00:15:12,933 Can you stay with her this weekend? 241 00:15:13,001 --> 00:15:15,521 - Actually, I'm moving back in. - Really? 242 00:15:16,009 --> 00:15:20,580 My lease is almost up and, you know, I won't let her be here alone. 243 00:15:20,681 --> 00:15:23,364 Oh, sweetie, that's... Thank you. You're amazing. 244 00:15:23,432 --> 00:15:26,115 See, that's why people have children. 245 00:15:26,184 --> 00:15:30,691 My father left my mom when I was 10. Sylvia was the first person I told. 246 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:32,767 That's when I knew we were really best friends. 247 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:34,749 I'm gonna be at Stockton at the Breeders' Convention, 248 00:15:34,824 --> 00:15:35,839 if you need me, okay? 249 00:15:54,119 --> 00:15:57,086 - Are you here for the Buffy conference? - Oh, no. 250 00:16:05,254 --> 00:16:06,531 Excuse me. 251 00:16:10,469 --> 00:16:12,803 My dog has the same exact collar. 252 00:16:25,861 --> 00:16:28,065 - She was invisible. - What? 253 00:16:28,133 --> 00:16:29,791 It's a game. They're vampires. 254 00:16:29,861 --> 00:16:31,835 When you see one of them with their arms crossed like that, 255 00:16:31,908 --> 00:16:32,956 you should pretend you don't see her. 256 00:16:33,028 --> 00:16:35,417 That's why she didn't answer you. Nothing personal. 257 00:16:35,492 --> 00:16:36,670 Thanks. 258 00:16:39,556 --> 00:16:41,214 - My name's Grigg. - Greg? 259 00:16:41,284 --> 00:16:43,073 Grigg, G-R-I-G-G. 260 00:16:45,700 --> 00:16:47,936 Oh. I'm meeting some people, Grigg. 261 00:16:50,851 --> 00:16:51,931 Okay. 262 00:17:08,450 --> 00:17:10,752 Can I have a whiskey straight up? 263 00:17:38,721 --> 00:17:42,299 Excuse me. Could I apologize? I'm Jocelyn. 264 00:17:42,369 --> 00:17:44,191 Your friend isn't coming? 265 00:17:44,256 --> 00:17:46,492 I'm meeting him a little later. 266 00:17:47,712 --> 00:17:51,324 So how do you know so much about the "faux vampire" scene? 267 00:17:51,392 --> 00:17:54,621 That's funny. Well, it's... 268 00:17:54,688 --> 00:17:57,109 I'm here for a sci-fi conference. 269 00:17:57,183 --> 00:18:02,268 So the Buffy contingent is a kind of, you know, offshoot of that. 270 00:18:02,335 --> 00:18:04,407 Yeah. You read much science fiction? 271 00:18:04,479 --> 00:18:07,675 I'm more of a Jane Austen, Jane Eyre kind of girl. 272 00:18:07,775 --> 00:18:09,717 Oh, right, yeah. No, I never really... 273 00:18:09,791 --> 00:18:12,376 Read those books? Yeah. Yeah. 274 00:18:13,502 --> 00:18:16,120 So, where do you live? 275 00:18:16,190 --> 00:18:20,413 I just relocated to the Sacramento area. I do tech support at U. 276 00:18:21,598 --> 00:18:24,565 You know who you might like? Ursula Le Guin. 277 00:18:24,638 --> 00:18:27,321 Left Hand of Darkness. Lathe of Heaven. 278 00:18:27,422 --> 00:18:30,771 She's science fiction but she's just a terrific writer. 279 00:18:30,845 --> 00:18:32,187 - Have to check her out. - Yeah. 280 00:18:32,253 --> 00:18:36,028 My sisters love those books. I really think you might like them. 281 00:18:39,516 --> 00:18:41,938 And I'm willing to be directed as well. 282 00:18:42,013 --> 00:18:44,118 Seriously, you know, if you tell me who I should be reading, 283 00:18:44,189 --> 00:18:46,360 I promise to read it. 284 00:18:46,429 --> 00:18:48,534 I'll give you my email. 285 00:18:48,636 --> 00:18:51,833 That's the old one. I'll write those books, too. 286 00:18:51,932 --> 00:18:55,129 You know what I'm actually wondering before I go? 287 00:18:55,196 --> 00:18:57,530 How do you feel about older women? 288 00:19:00,220 --> 00:19:01,562 Great. Yeah. 289 00:19:02,748 --> 00:19:05,682 I have three older sisters, so... 290 00:19:07,099 --> 00:19:08,921 You know, I like all women. 291 00:19:08,987 --> 00:19:11,408 Good. That's great. 292 00:19:12,411 --> 00:19:15,094 - Well, thanks. I'll be in touch. - Oh, okay. 293 00:19:15,163 --> 00:19:16,111 Great. 294 00:19:16,187 --> 00:19:17,780 - Yeah, bye. - Bye. 295 00:19:21,691 --> 00:19:23,447 Oh, good, Prudie, you're here. 296 00:19:23,515 --> 00:19:25,751 Save these tables, okay? Oh, Jocelyn, Prudie. 297 00:19:25,818 --> 00:19:27,280 - Hi, how are you? - Hello. Good. 298 00:19:27,354 --> 00:19:30,388 - So what do you want, Prudie? - A soy cappuccino. 299 00:19:32,698 --> 00:19:34,553 I have to be allowed to miss one meeting out of the six. 300 00:19:34,618 --> 00:19:35,894 I can only do this if there's no pressure. 301 00:19:35,961 --> 00:19:38,416 - Hey. Mom's looking for parking. - Hi. 302 00:19:38,489 --> 00:19:40,311 That's Prudie. Say hi. 303 00:19:42,041 --> 00:19:44,463 We're still only five. Too bad about Daniel. 304 00:19:44,537 --> 00:19:48,814 He could've filled in, although clearly he's never read Jane Austen. 305 00:19:48,888 --> 00:19:51,758 For Prudie's sake, the last thing we need is an Austen virgin. 306 00:19:51,832 --> 00:19:53,523 We need real discussion. 307 00:19:53,592 --> 00:19:57,072 I sort of invited someone. Said he might come, maybe. 308 00:19:57,176 --> 00:19:59,150 - He? - No one I'm interested in. 309 00:19:59,928 --> 00:20:03,157 He's young, compliant, said he might enjoy being in a book club. 310 00:20:03,224 --> 00:20:05,134 I'm sure Daniel's read Jane Austen. 311 00:20:05,207 --> 00:20:07,062 No man who reads Austen would ever dump his wife 312 00:20:07,127 --> 00:20:09,266 because it's better for the other woman. 313 00:20:09,336 --> 00:20:10,645 Chai latte with a shot. 314 00:20:10,711 --> 00:20:13,329 I'm so sorry. I'm really behind. 315 00:20:13,399 --> 00:20:15,701 I got slammed with orders on my website. 316 00:20:15,767 --> 00:20:19,444 I've actually... I've started adding these little dangles at the top here. 317 00:20:19,511 --> 00:20:22,445 - What do you think? - I'm no judge. 318 00:20:22,519 --> 00:20:23,948 I mean, my idea of jewelry 319 00:20:24,023 --> 00:20:27,252 is Coco Chanel's Byzantine oeuvre from the 1920s. 320 00:20:27,894 --> 00:20:30,611 Oh! Definitely. Yeah, I get that. 321 00:20:32,534 --> 00:20:35,403 Being the only child of a woman who gave birth in a commune 322 00:20:35,478 --> 00:20:40,234 after changing her name to Sky Girl, I've come to loathe hippie handicrafts. 323 00:20:43,030 --> 00:20:44,437 There she is. 324 00:20:45,302 --> 00:20:48,684 Actually, I'm not so sure I wanna do this book club. 325 00:20:49,717 --> 00:20:53,295 So, quick, while Sylvia's still in line, how she's doing without Daniel? 326 00:20:53,365 --> 00:20:55,666 She's still stuck in the wounded stage. 327 00:20:55,732 --> 00:20:59,245 - When she's ready for anger, I am so there. - Me, too. 328 00:20:59,316 --> 00:21:00,363 My dad left my mom. 329 00:21:00,436 --> 00:21:03,218 Prudie is no stranger to marital disappointment. 330 00:21:03,316 --> 00:21:05,039 Actually, we're fine now. 331 00:21:05,108 --> 00:21:07,443 You're married? But no ring, huh? 332 00:21:08,372 --> 00:21:10,412 Yeah, it's this hand, and... I teach French. 333 00:21:10,484 --> 00:21:12,850 You teach French, so you wear your wedding ring on the right hand? 334 00:21:12,915 --> 00:21:15,566 - It's a European custom. - Are you European? 335 00:21:15,635 --> 00:21:18,930 So Prudie, you haven't said which book you wanna be responsible for. 336 00:21:18,995 --> 00:21:20,490 Maybe Persuasion. 337 00:21:20,563 --> 00:21:23,694 'Cause I'm increasingly drawn to its elegiac tone. 338 00:21:24,755 --> 00:21:26,610 - Don't think I'm doing the book club. - You're doing it. 339 00:21:26,675 --> 00:21:29,195 You lead one discussion. Pick a book. 340 00:21:30,003 --> 00:21:33,614 Well, I just saw Sense and Sensibility, 341 00:21:33,682 --> 00:21:37,162 and I think, since I'm back living with my mom, 342 00:21:37,234 --> 00:21:40,529 I really get that whole two-women, 343 00:21:40,594 --> 00:21:44,009 tight-relationship, living-together- but-really-opposites thing. 344 00:21:44,114 --> 00:21:45,870 Is it weird living back at home again? 345 00:21:45,938 --> 00:21:49,483 I think what Austen is actually writing about is two sisters, 346 00:21:49,553 --> 00:21:52,782 moving separately toward what they each believe to be a perfect love. 347 00:21:52,849 --> 00:21:56,559 Okay, but the point is Marianne and Elinor's relationship... 348 00:21:56,625 --> 00:21:59,014 Maybe if you'd read the book instead of watching the movie... 349 00:21:59,089 --> 00:22:01,772 - I thought I might do Emma. - Which leaves what for Sylvia? 350 00:22:01,841 --> 00:22:03,728 Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park. 351 00:22:05,904 --> 00:22:06,853 Which one's gonna make her feel better? 352 00:22:06,928 --> 00:22:08,935 Because we're only doing the book club to get her mind off Daniel. 353 00:22:09,008 --> 00:22:11,179 I thought the reason for the book club was for my not going to Paris. 354 00:22:11,249 --> 00:22:12,775 - Exactly. - Northanger Abbey. 355 00:22:12,848 --> 00:22:14,375 No, don't make her do Northanger. 356 00:22:14,448 --> 00:22:16,749 I mean, first you're going off to all these dances, 357 00:22:16,815 --> 00:22:20,906 and then suddenly it's sort of like Nightmare on Northanger Abbey Street. 358 00:22:20,976 --> 00:22:23,463 I'm afraid this isn't the book club that I had in mind. 359 00:22:23,535 --> 00:22:26,764 I mean, I find when someone in the group feels superior to the author, 360 00:22:26,831 --> 00:22:28,457 it just... It sets the wrong tone. 361 00:22:28,528 --> 00:22:29,640 Okay, I'm happy to leave. 362 00:22:29,711 --> 00:22:33,006 - No, Allegra. No. Allegra. No. - Allegra, you can't. You can't. 363 00:22:33,071 --> 00:22:35,460 After this day, I am so happy to be talking about Jane Austen. 364 00:22:35,535 --> 00:22:37,160 - Hi. - Hi. Did we choose the books yet? 365 00:22:37,230 --> 00:22:39,335 Sylvia, Prudie. 366 00:22:39,406 --> 00:22:41,316 Oh, I'm sorry. Sylvia Avila. 367 00:22:41,390 --> 00:22:44,205 - So, how do you feel about Mansfield Park? - My favorite. 368 00:22:44,270 --> 00:22:46,692 - I love Fanny Price. - Stop, Mom, why? 369 00:22:46,766 --> 00:22:47,944 She's such a goodie-goodie. 370 00:22:48,014 --> 00:22:50,185 Six books, five people. We skip Northanger Abbey. 371 00:22:50,254 --> 00:22:52,294 - Definitely. - And miss out on Mr. Tilney? 372 00:22:52,366 --> 00:22:54,667 - No, you're right. - He's such a flirt. 373 00:22:54,734 --> 00:22:56,260 We don't have to do all six books, do we? 374 00:22:56,333 --> 00:22:59,083 Doing all six novels is the raison d'�tre of the book club 375 00:22:59,150 --> 00:23:01,419 and it is the only reason I'm here. 376 00:23:01,485 --> 00:23:04,103 - Okay. - Do you wanna invite your husband? 377 00:23:14,668 --> 00:23:18,465 My husband has never read Austen and he never will. 378 00:23:18,540 --> 00:23:19,489 Okay, how should we do this? 379 00:23:19,564 --> 00:23:21,386 Just meet once a month at each of our houses, potluck... 380 00:23:21,452 --> 00:23:22,826 Or, you know, pick some central location. 381 00:23:22,892 --> 00:23:24,453 No, I don't think a coffee shop's conducive. 382 00:23:24,524 --> 00:23:26,465 I'll host the first one, we'll start with Emma, at my place. 383 00:23:26,539 --> 00:23:27,914 But let's not get into this competitive cooking thing. 384 00:23:27,980 --> 00:23:29,157 Bakeoffs! 385 00:23:29,227 --> 00:23:30,983 - No, we'll do finger foods. - We're gonna do takeout. 386 00:23:31,051 --> 00:23:33,768 And we have to create the Jane Austen mood. 387 00:23:34,283 --> 00:23:36,170 - Oh, my God. - Hey. 388 00:23:36,235 --> 00:23:37,412 - He came. - Yeah. 389 00:23:37,483 --> 00:23:40,680 Sorry, I sat in the wrong Starbucks for half an hour. 390 00:23:45,290 --> 00:23:48,007 Golly, there are a lot of these places, huh? 391 00:23:48,074 --> 00:23:52,449 But they've got interesting coffee from all over the world, so... 392 00:23:54,890 --> 00:23:57,923 - This is Grigg, everyone. - I'm Bernadette. 393 00:23:58,825 --> 00:24:00,069 - Prudie. - Prudie, and Allegra. 394 00:24:00,137 --> 00:24:01,730 - Sylvia. - Grigg Harris. 395 00:24:03,914 --> 00:24:04,928 Hi. 396 00:24:06,698 --> 00:24:08,291 Well, I'm excited. 397 00:24:08,393 --> 00:24:11,655 Never read anything by Jane Austen before. 398 00:24:14,313 --> 00:24:15,295 What is it? 399 00:24:15,369 --> 00:24:18,183 Well, I went to the bookstore to buy a copy of each one of the novels, 400 00:24:18,249 --> 00:24:19,197 and I saw this. 401 00:24:19,273 --> 00:24:21,160 And I thought, "Well, maybe they're all sequels." 402 00:24:21,224 --> 00:24:24,191 So, I figured it might be a good idea to keep them all together in one book, 403 00:24:24,264 --> 00:24:26,785 in case I needed to refer back. 404 00:24:26,856 --> 00:24:28,831 Is this the order that we read them in? 405 00:24:28,904 --> 00:24:31,751 Do you wanna grab a coffee, Grigg? 406 00:24:31,815 --> 00:24:35,164 No, no. No, I'm fine. I had plenty at the other place. 407 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:39,233 And... I bought this and they filled it up for me, so I'm a little... 408 00:24:40,648 --> 00:24:41,596 Yeah. 409 00:24:41,671 --> 00:24:45,249 Oh, you said in your email there was someone you wanted me to meet? 410 00:24:45,319 --> 00:24:49,181 Yeah. Yeah, all of us, actually. 411 00:24:49,287 --> 00:24:51,970 I thought we might benefit from the perspective of a male in the group. 412 00:24:52,038 --> 00:24:54,340 - A little testosterone. - Right. 413 00:24:54,406 --> 00:24:58,116 - Okay. So, none of you ladies are married? - Prudie. 414 00:25:04,453 --> 00:25:07,802 Right, so we just... What? We just read them chronologically, and... 415 00:25:07,878 --> 00:25:10,693 - We're doing Emma first. - Emma? 416 00:25:10,758 --> 00:25:12,580 Oh. Starting in the middle, huh? 417 00:25:12,645 --> 00:25:15,328 - They're not sequels. - They're not? 418 00:25:15,397 --> 00:25:18,081 Well, great. We just start anywhere. 419 00:25:20,357 --> 00:25:23,706 - What were you smoking? - He's cute. 420 00:25:23,781 --> 00:25:26,366 I thought he'd be a distraction for Sylvia. 421 00:25:26,436 --> 00:25:29,087 She needs an adventure. If he becomes a problem I'll get rid of him. 422 00:25:29,156 --> 00:25:32,189 - What happened, you pull a DUl? - No, no, I pretty much bike everywhere. 423 00:25:32,260 --> 00:25:33,634 Where do you live? 424 00:25:34,596 --> 00:25:37,629 About 20 miles north. Vista Mar. 425 00:25:37,699 --> 00:25:40,896 - You live in what, that development? - Yeah. Yeah. 426 00:25:40,964 --> 00:25:44,313 I had this software company and my accountant says to me, 427 00:25:44,387 --> 00:25:45,565 "You gotta buy a house." 428 00:25:45,635 --> 00:25:47,610 So, we were right by that exit. 429 00:25:47,683 --> 00:25:50,979 And I said, "Pull over." 430 00:25:51,043 --> 00:25:53,410 Got out, went in, pointed, bought a house. 431 00:25:53,475 --> 00:25:55,547 - Like that. - I should sell it, I guess. 432 00:25:55,619 --> 00:25:58,368 Or at least buy some furniture. 433 00:25:58,435 --> 00:26:00,573 Well, I guess I'll have to, if you guys are coming over, right? 434 00:26:01,698 --> 00:26:02,908 Allegra. 435 00:26:03,555 --> 00:26:05,311 - Bye. - Yeah. Sayonara. 436 00:26:07,778 --> 00:26:09,600 You know, I never picked a book. 437 00:26:09,666 --> 00:26:12,513 Could I do that abbey one? 438 00:26:12,578 --> 00:26:14,912 - Perfect. Yeah, it's yours. - Oh, Northanger Abbey. 439 00:26:14,978 --> 00:26:16,887 Great. All right. 440 00:26:16,961 --> 00:26:19,416 - Emma. Starting in the middle. - Yeah. 441 00:26:25,249 --> 00:26:28,063 Well, you gotta hand it to him for taking the dud book. 442 00:26:28,129 --> 00:26:29,438 It's the shortest, that's why. 443 00:26:29,505 --> 00:26:32,090 - He's eager to please. - Prudie, see you next time. 444 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:34,397 He is eager to please. He likes women. 445 00:26:34,465 --> 00:26:37,312 - A welcome quality in a man. - Yes. Yes. 446 00:26:37,376 --> 00:26:41,849 - Do you think Sylvia responded to him? - We let him in. It's done. 447 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:44,025 - Bye. - Bye. Bye. 448 00:27:01,471 --> 00:27:02,747 You're up. 449 00:27:13,694 --> 00:27:14,938 Go big! 450 00:28:01,563 --> 00:28:02,774 You okay? 451 00:28:05,627 --> 00:28:08,082 Hey. Hey, you. Listen. 452 00:28:08,154 --> 00:28:10,740 Can you make sure they don't call my mother? Please. 453 00:28:10,811 --> 00:28:13,494 Just make sure they don't call my mother. 454 00:28:14,715 --> 00:28:17,365 Mrs. Avila? This is Corinne. 455 00:28:17,435 --> 00:28:21,264 - I'm a friend of Allegra's. - Allegra's. 456 00:28:21,338 --> 00:28:23,923 And she's asked me to call you. 457 00:28:23,994 --> 00:28:26,383 We're up here in Vacaville at a... 458 00:28:26,458 --> 00:28:27,864 - Jewelry show. ... jewelry show. 459 00:28:27,930 --> 00:28:32,566 I was showing her how to use my scooter and she took a little spill. 460 00:28:32,633 --> 00:28:34,935 It's minor. She banged up her wrist. 461 00:28:35,001 --> 00:28:38,579 She doesn't need you to come. It's nothing. We're at the doctor's. 462 00:28:38,649 --> 00:28:41,016 He says she could be a bit sore. 463 00:28:42,585 --> 00:28:46,130 Allegra didn't want you to worry if she's not home tonight. 464 00:28:46,968 --> 00:28:49,619 I'll remind her. Book club Monday night. 465 00:30:07,795 --> 00:30:09,072 I'm sorry. 466 00:30:10,964 --> 00:30:13,811 We don't shop on this side of town, ever. 467 00:30:17,363 --> 00:30:18,541 Sorry. 468 00:30:19,955 --> 00:30:23,784 You can have this Whole Foods. We won't ever use it again. Okay? 469 00:30:34,034 --> 00:30:38,289 So I was getting the wine for book club and I bumped into Daniel. 470 00:30:38,354 --> 00:30:39,336 He was with her. 471 00:30:39,410 --> 00:30:40,839 - Oh, sweetie. - Yeah. 472 00:30:40,914 --> 00:30:43,335 They were going home to make dinner. 473 00:30:43,858 --> 00:30:46,313 He was wearing a jacket with a zipper. 474 00:30:46,386 --> 00:30:48,841 - No. - That's so not Daniel. 475 00:30:49,809 --> 00:30:54,566 I just... I walk around this house, and it's not my home anymore. 476 00:30:54,641 --> 00:30:57,640 I feel like Fanny Price banished from Mansfield Park. 477 00:30:57,712 --> 00:31:01,803 - That woman is living my life. - Honey, she can't live your life. 478 00:31:01,872 --> 00:31:03,628 Are you all right? 479 00:31:03,696 --> 00:31:07,973 I know you like being alone, but don't you ever get lonely? 480 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:15,757 So what'd you think about Grigg? 481 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:18,698 The book club guy. 482 00:31:19,407 --> 00:31:20,716 If you like him, I like him. 483 00:31:20,784 --> 00:31:24,296 - How about those dreamy eyes? - I didn't really notice. 484 00:31:24,367 --> 00:31:25,512 Well, notice. 485 00:31:25,583 --> 00:31:28,453 Can you come early tomorrow since you're bringing the wine? 486 00:31:28,526 --> 00:31:31,843 That's my girls. That's my girls. That's my girls. 487 00:31:31,951 --> 00:31:34,318 It's a smallish world, pedigreed Ridgebacks. 488 00:31:34,383 --> 00:31:37,830 - "Pedigreed" is... - Well, it's breeding. 489 00:31:37,902 --> 00:31:40,357 Certain bloodlines are naturally more valuable. 490 00:31:40,430 --> 00:31:44,521 Mine are out of Queenie of the Serengeti. Gorgeous hound. Gone now. 491 00:31:45,453 --> 00:31:48,934 I bred her to my first really important sire, Pridey. 492 00:31:49,005 --> 00:31:53,031 Sire's the boy dog. Great disposition. Passed away last month. 493 00:31:53,101 --> 00:31:55,011 - I'm sorry. - Thank you. 494 00:31:55,085 --> 00:31:58,380 Miss him. But Queenie was the real star. 495 00:31:58,445 --> 00:32:02,471 Ridgebacks are matriarchal. That's one of their attractive features. 496 00:32:02,541 --> 00:32:05,093 Hey, hey, hey! Sahara, off! 497 00:32:05,164 --> 00:32:07,074 Sorry. Sorry about that. 498 00:32:08,556 --> 00:32:11,523 Sahara I had to have spayed. Thyroid issues. 499 00:32:11,596 --> 00:32:16,036 I still show her, though. She's very competitive in her category. 500 00:32:16,108 --> 00:32:18,955 - Yeah? - Sexually altered bitch. 501 00:32:23,340 --> 00:32:24,682 Well, I got you those books. 502 00:32:24,748 --> 00:32:27,617 You know the ones I suggested? Ursula Le Guin. 503 00:32:27,723 --> 00:32:31,106 Oh, yeah. Thanks, that was thoughtful. 504 00:32:32,331 --> 00:32:35,113 You don't have to bring a hostess gift to these meetings, FYI. 505 00:32:35,179 --> 00:32:36,967 It's just a book club. 506 00:32:39,562 --> 00:32:41,733 Where's the heat between Emma and Mr. Knightley? 507 00:32:41,802 --> 00:32:43,460 There's no animal passion. 508 00:32:43,530 --> 00:32:45,897 Look at Frank Churchill and Miss Fairfax. 509 00:32:45,962 --> 00:32:48,515 You can tell they're really in love because they behave so badly. 510 00:32:48,586 --> 00:32:49,535 And that's good? 511 00:32:49,610 --> 00:32:54,661 Emma and Mr. Knightley, you just never feel the sex. 512 00:32:55,306 --> 00:32:58,175 Still, I think Mr. Knightley's very yummy. Don't you? 513 00:32:58,250 --> 00:33:01,032 He may be my favorite of all the Austen men. 514 00:33:01,097 --> 00:33:03,333 Sans passion I'amour n'est rien. 515 00:33:03,977 --> 00:33:06,628 - That's not Jane's theme, is it? - Jane? 516 00:33:06,697 --> 00:33:08,103 That's cozy. 517 00:33:09,832 --> 00:33:13,410 What we're meant to see is not the lack of passion 518 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,579 so much as the control of it, and the not giving in. 519 00:33:16,648 --> 00:33:18,404 Apr�s moi, le deluge. 520 00:33:19,721 --> 00:33:22,535 But Prudie's right, it is in all the novels. 521 00:33:22,632 --> 00:33:24,672 Sense and Sensibility, obviously. 522 00:33:24,744 --> 00:33:27,394 Oh, and then there's Maria's infidelity in Mansfield Park. 523 00:33:27,463 --> 00:33:29,602 I forgot there's infidelity in Mansfield Park. 524 00:33:29,672 --> 00:33:31,133 Austen's all about keeping it zipped. 525 00:33:31,207 --> 00:33:35,647 Yeah, but isn't physical attraction one of the ungovernable forces? 526 00:33:35,719 --> 00:33:38,469 You know, like gravity. That's what we like about it. 527 00:33:38,535 --> 00:33:43,390 You know, downhill, release the brakes, loosen your grip, and... 528 00:33:43,463 --> 00:33:45,602 Yeah. Love makes people crazy. 529 00:33:45,702 --> 00:33:48,702 - It does not excuse bad behavior. - I agree. 530 00:33:48,775 --> 00:33:52,571 And Mr. Knightley is violently in love. "Violently!" His word. 531 00:33:52,646 --> 00:33:54,621 And yet, he's never anything but a gentleman. 532 00:33:54,694 --> 00:33:57,279 - Yeah, a gentleman who scolds people. - Not everyone. 533 00:33:57,350 --> 00:33:59,870 You know, just Emma, just the woman that he loves. 534 00:33:59,942 --> 00:34:02,081 C'est vrai. C'est typique. 535 00:34:02,150 --> 00:34:04,354 A man can do whatever he likes to the woman he loves. 536 00:34:04,422 --> 00:34:06,210 I don't think that's what Austen's saying. 537 00:34:06,277 --> 00:34:09,311 Actually, Emma stops being crazy when she falls for Mr. Knightley. 538 00:34:09,381 --> 00:34:12,000 It's the event of the book. Love is an act of sanity. 539 00:34:12,070 --> 00:34:15,386 One thing that I noticed about Emma is the sense of menace. 540 00:34:15,460 --> 00:34:19,170 The gypsies, Jane Fairfax's boating accident, 541 00:34:19,237 --> 00:34:20,284 Mr. Woodhouse's worries. 542 00:34:20,356 --> 00:34:23,869 Austen's entire thesis is that none of these things are real, Grigg. 543 00:34:23,941 --> 00:34:28,218 I mean, Emma, she acts on the basis of her fantasies. 544 00:34:28,292 --> 00:34:30,747 Yes, Grigg, I'm afraid you've just entirely missed the point. 545 00:34:30,820 --> 00:34:32,478 You know, I've read that the Emma plot, 546 00:34:32,548 --> 00:34:36,028 the humbling of the pretty, know-it-all girl is the most popular plot of all time. 547 00:34:36,100 --> 00:34:38,139 Yes, universally satisfying. 548 00:34:39,811 --> 00:34:41,883 Okay. Well, what bothered me 549 00:34:41,955 --> 00:34:45,021 was how Emma kept forcing her friend Harriet on Mr. Elton. 550 00:34:45,091 --> 00:34:46,684 And then she finds out who Harriet's father is, 551 00:34:46,755 --> 00:34:48,730 and suddenly, "Ew!" She's lucky to get the farmer. 552 00:34:48,802 --> 00:34:52,031 I think Jane was being ironic there. I think some readers might miss that. 553 00:34:52,098 --> 00:34:53,854 - Emma's a snob. - Please. 554 00:34:53,922 --> 00:34:57,217 People are instinctively drawn to partners who are their near equal in looks. 555 00:34:57,283 --> 00:35:00,000 The pretty marry the pretty, the ugly the ugly. 556 00:35:00,067 --> 00:35:02,336 To the detriment of the breed, in my opinion. 557 00:35:02,402 --> 00:35:05,304 God, you're such an Emma. Isn't she? 558 00:35:05,410 --> 00:35:08,312 You'd love to pair up the whole world, from dogs to people. 559 00:35:08,386 --> 00:35:10,491 Put me together with Daniel. 560 00:35:13,794 --> 00:35:15,997 And you had beautiful children. 561 00:35:18,849 --> 00:35:23,224 Oh, no, don't get up, Jocelyn. I'll get the tea. Sorry. 562 00:35:26,209 --> 00:35:27,386 Mom. 563 00:35:49,183 --> 00:35:50,776 I hope we didn't scare Grigg away. 564 00:35:50,847 --> 00:35:54,873 - Yeah, he sure got out of here fast. - Yeah, we'll toughen him up. 565 00:35:54,943 --> 00:35:56,349 Was the book club a bad idea? 566 00:35:56,415 --> 00:36:00,124 Austen has a way of making you forget that most marriages end in divorce. 567 00:36:00,190 --> 00:36:02,262 Well, she's all about the weddings, Jane. 568 00:36:02,334 --> 00:36:04,123 Yeah, "Jane." Did you catch that? 569 00:36:04,190 --> 00:36:07,354 Oh, Prudie? "Jane and I, we know our themes." 570 00:36:07,422 --> 00:36:09,658 And why did she have to speak in French? 571 00:36:09,726 --> 00:36:13,555 And if so, couldn't she do it in France, where it's less noticeable? 572 00:36:13,629 --> 00:36:17,207 I feel for Prudie. She's married to a complete Neanderthal. 573 00:36:19,261 --> 00:36:22,807 Okay, I will call you when I land in Dallas. You know what? 574 00:36:22,877 --> 00:36:25,266 Let me call you when I check in the hotel if there's time before the game, 575 00:36:25,341 --> 00:36:27,349 - 'cause we're gonna wanna get there early. - Whatever, okay. 576 00:36:27,421 --> 00:36:29,112 Have fun with your mom. 577 00:36:29,181 --> 00:36:30,807 - Hey, Sky. Hi. - Hi. 578 00:36:30,877 --> 00:36:33,113 Mom, you were supposed to sit with the car. 579 00:36:33,181 --> 00:36:34,457 I'm gonna get a ticket! 580 00:36:34,525 --> 00:36:36,313 - Yo! - Get some ass! 581 00:36:37,565 --> 00:36:39,507 So... Hey, what're we doing today? 582 00:36:39,580 --> 00:36:41,719 Well, I'm teaching. It's a school day, okay? 583 00:36:41,788 --> 00:36:42,770 So I'm gonna drop you at the house. 584 00:36:42,844 --> 00:36:45,113 Or you can take the car and you can go see a movie or something. 585 00:36:45,180 --> 00:36:47,449 - No, no, I'll hang with you. - No, no, you can't. 586 00:36:47,516 --> 00:36:49,272 They don't allow that. 587 00:36:49,340 --> 00:36:51,958 Mom, could you... Oh, my God, please. 588 00:36:53,084 --> 00:36:54,872 Okay, I can't. 589 00:36:56,347 --> 00:36:58,169 Mom, I'm late. Please. Come on. 590 00:36:58,235 --> 00:37:00,058 Oh, ditch them. Blow them off. 591 00:37:00,123 --> 00:37:04,181 Tell them your mother doesn't wanna hang around while you go to work. 592 00:37:07,002 --> 00:37:10,679 What's the story with the clothes? You dress like a flight attendant. 593 00:37:10,746 --> 00:37:14,259 No, I dress like a teacher. Or it gets confusing. 594 00:37:14,330 --> 00:37:17,177 Mom, mind your stupid... For everyone. 595 00:37:17,242 --> 00:37:19,347 Why would anyone wanna teach high school? 596 00:37:19,417 --> 00:37:20,824 I hated my teachers. 597 00:37:20,890 --> 00:37:23,028 Well, I'm just gonna settle you at the house. 598 00:37:23,098 --> 00:37:26,710 No, I'll drop you at school and then I'll take the car. 599 00:37:26,778 --> 00:37:28,850 - Should you be driving? - Huh? 600 00:37:30,585 --> 00:37:34,545 Okay, you know what? Just don't forget to come get me at 3:00. 601 00:37:34,617 --> 00:37:36,308 Okay? Don't forget. 602 00:37:46,585 --> 00:37:49,901 I'm in Brigadoon. Would you mind running lines with me? 603 00:37:51,352 --> 00:37:52,431 "Of course I'm all right." 604 00:37:52,503 --> 00:37:54,608 "I'd have died if anything had happened to you. 605 00:37:54,679 --> 00:37:56,589 "I love you so." 606 00:37:56,663 --> 00:37:58,551 "But how can you be sure in just one day?" 607 00:37:58,616 --> 00:37:59,826 "I dinna know, 'tis just 608 00:37:59,895 --> 00:38:03,572 "when a lass falls in and out of love, she knows it right away." 609 00:38:04,951 --> 00:38:07,602 - What? - It's a good accent. 610 00:38:07,671 --> 00:38:09,678 Well, languages are my speciality. I just thought that... 611 00:38:09,751 --> 00:38:11,441 French teacher. 612 00:38:14,519 --> 00:38:16,307 It's your line. 613 00:38:16,374 --> 00:38:18,382 "Do you think you're in love with me?" 614 00:38:18,454 --> 00:38:20,178 "Think? What good does thinking do? 615 00:38:20,246 --> 00:38:22,068 "But what I feel is something else." 616 00:38:22,134 --> 00:38:24,273 "What do ye feel then, Tommy?" 617 00:38:25,846 --> 00:38:27,472 And then we kiss. 618 00:38:29,558 --> 00:38:31,696 Who plays opposite you? 619 00:38:33,045 --> 00:38:34,452 Karen Bhave. 620 00:38:36,277 --> 00:38:40,750 I think she only tried out because she thought we'd hook up during the play. 621 00:38:46,932 --> 00:38:49,005 I saw you watching me in the library. 622 00:38:49,077 --> 00:38:52,011 - I wasn't watching. - You were watching. 623 00:38:52,084 --> 00:38:53,677 No, I was reading. 624 00:38:54,420 --> 00:38:57,006 - You were watching. - I was reading this... 625 00:38:58,676 --> 00:39:00,203 - I was reading this book... - Oh, yeah? 626 00:39:00,276 --> 00:39:02,926 ...about some people in this house called Mansfield Park. 627 00:39:02,995 --> 00:39:04,043 - Austen. - Yeah. 628 00:39:04,115 --> 00:39:07,628 We're doing Mansfield Park for senior seminar, so... 629 00:39:07,732 --> 00:39:11,922 I actually bought the book already. I'm trying to make myself wait, you know? 630 00:39:13,779 --> 00:39:17,259 Delay gratification. That sort of thing. 631 00:39:20,051 --> 00:39:23,312 - So what happens? - Right, well... 632 00:39:23,379 --> 00:39:25,866 Well, they decide to put on a play in the house. 633 00:39:25,938 --> 00:39:29,550 And rehearsing it, it sort of unleashes them. 634 00:39:29,650 --> 00:39:32,301 Two of them actually fall in love, and one... 635 00:39:32,370 --> 00:39:35,566 One of them, Maria Bertram, is set... Stop it. 636 00:39:35,633 --> 00:39:38,022 - Is set to marry someone else. - Or maybe not. 637 00:39:38,097 --> 00:39:40,006 Well, I think... I think... 638 00:39:40,081 --> 00:39:43,910 I think what Austen is trying to say is that play-acting is dangerous. 639 00:39:43,985 --> 00:39:48,109 All of that intimacy backstage, the waiting and the whispering, 640 00:39:48,177 --> 00:39:53,544 and onstage you're gazing at each other, and "I love you." 641 00:39:53,616 --> 00:39:54,893 I mean... 642 00:39:56,273 --> 00:39:57,866 Well, you can see how it happens. 643 00:39:57,937 --> 00:40:01,514 Yeah, I can see it happening, just not with Karen Bhave. 644 00:40:02,832 --> 00:40:05,166 So, do you wanna go over it again? 645 00:40:32,143 --> 00:40:33,288 Hello? 646 00:40:40,334 --> 00:40:42,221 - Yeah. - Hey, Grigg, it's Jocelyn. 647 00:40:42,286 --> 00:40:43,780 - Hi. Hey. - Hi. 648 00:40:44,686 --> 00:40:47,719 - So how's Mansfield Park coming? - Just great. 649 00:40:47,789 --> 00:40:49,098 Am I disturbing you? 650 00:40:49,165 --> 00:40:53,224 I'm just writing an email to my sisters about you, as a matter of fact. 651 00:40:53,293 --> 00:40:54,754 And Ursula Le Guin. 652 00:40:54,829 --> 00:40:57,611 - Did you ever read Left Hand of Darkness? - Not yet. 653 00:40:57,709 --> 00:40:59,138 Hey, listen, Bernadette and I were just saying 654 00:40:59,213 --> 00:41:02,147 we hope Allegra didn't scare you off the book club. 655 00:41:02,220 --> 00:41:04,456 - Which one is Allegra? - Sylvia's daughter. 656 00:41:04,525 --> 00:41:06,793 Really pretty, really passionate, wonderful girl. 657 00:41:06,861 --> 00:41:08,900 Ask him if he can make time today. 658 00:41:08,972 --> 00:41:10,696 You might take Sylvia to lunch today. 659 00:41:10,764 --> 00:41:13,830 Tell him that Sylvia and Daniel are in court this morning over their separation. 660 00:41:13,900 --> 00:41:15,492 She could use the ego boost. 661 00:41:15,563 --> 00:41:17,865 You have Sylvia's number, right? 662 00:41:20,140 --> 00:41:22,474 Would you wanna come, too? 663 00:41:22,539 --> 00:41:24,644 Listen, I know there's a difference in your ages, 664 00:41:24,715 --> 00:41:27,203 but I really think the two of you will hit it off. 665 00:41:27,275 --> 00:41:30,025 Sahara. I gotta go, okay? 666 00:41:37,483 --> 00:41:39,817 This woman I like definitely seems interested, but it's weird. 667 00:41:39,882 --> 00:41:44,454 She's sort of pushing me to date this girl, Allegra, who's way younger than me. 668 00:41:48,330 --> 00:41:51,461 She said I should take this girl's mother to lunch. 669 00:41:57,193 --> 00:41:59,614 Bank assets will be divided equally. 670 00:42:00,457 --> 00:42:02,879 Each individual will keep his or her own car, 671 00:42:02,953 --> 00:42:07,327 and each will be wholly responsible for the attendant payments and insurance. 672 00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:11,044 The house owned by Daniel and Sylvia will be jointly held, 673 00:42:11,112 --> 00:42:15,934 with both parties paying an equal share of property taxes, upkeep and repairs. 674 00:42:16,008 --> 00:42:19,008 Sylvia may live in the house. Daniel will not. 675 00:42:35,207 --> 00:42:38,076 As soon as Daniel hit 50, his wheels fell off. 676 00:42:38,151 --> 00:42:39,613 Here's what I get from Mansfield Park. 677 00:42:39,686 --> 00:42:42,720 That a marriage is only as strong as its weakest partner. 678 00:42:42,791 --> 00:42:45,725 Daniel has always wanted to find his center by wobbling. 679 00:42:45,798 --> 00:42:47,292 This is a pretty big wobble. 680 00:42:47,366 --> 00:42:48,926 Mansfield Park is full of wobblers. 681 00:42:48,998 --> 00:42:53,275 Lady Bertram lying around, letting a houseful of adolescents run riot. 682 00:42:53,350 --> 00:42:54,910 Fanny Price is the rock of that family. 683 00:42:54,982 --> 00:42:57,600 Fanny's cousin Maria, married six months, dumps her husband... 684 00:42:57,669 --> 00:43:00,157 And don't forget Fanny's father, the unemployed alcoholic. 685 00:43:00,230 --> 00:43:02,499 Marry the weak link and you're screwed. That's what she's saying. 686 00:43:02,565 --> 00:43:05,532 No wonder why Austen never married. It's terrifying. 687 00:43:06,437 --> 00:43:09,252 - I think I finally hate him. - Good. 688 00:43:11,269 --> 00:43:15,294 I'm home. I'm going out again. I have book club. 689 00:43:30,372 --> 00:43:33,121 You just missed this guy 690 00:43:33,187 --> 00:43:39,417 who got buried up to his neck in a tank filled with cockroaches. 691 00:43:39,491 --> 00:43:41,280 And they were real. 692 00:43:42,915 --> 00:43:45,632 You'd think it'd be illegal to show stuff like that. 693 00:43:45,699 --> 00:43:47,390 Here, grab a spoon. 694 00:43:50,178 --> 00:43:51,836 You have to leave. 695 00:43:54,178 --> 00:43:58,172 You put your things in your suitcase 'cause I'm booking your flight. 696 00:44:10,721 --> 00:44:12,477 - Want me to... - Yeah. 697 00:44:13,761 --> 00:44:15,670 - How did you break it? - I fell. 698 00:44:15,745 --> 00:44:16,955 Which was kind of lucky, actually. 699 00:44:17,025 --> 00:44:21,018 'Cause I met this girl, Corinne, who I've been seeing. She's a writer. 700 00:44:21,088 --> 00:44:22,037 Which, um, 701 00:44:23,393 --> 00:44:24,887 isn't so great, really, 702 00:44:24,961 --> 00:44:27,382 'cause if she had to choose between me and writing, 703 00:44:27,456 --> 00:44:30,074 she'd probably choose writing. 704 00:44:30,144 --> 00:44:33,046 But she doesn't ever have to choose. So you never have to know. 705 00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:36,381 So you're a lesbian. Full-time? 706 00:44:37,792 --> 00:44:40,890 You mean, do I ever slip and accidentally sleep with a man? 707 00:44:40,959 --> 00:44:44,604 No, no, my sister Cat, she goes out with guys and girls. 708 00:44:44,672 --> 00:44:45,915 She lives in Idaho. 709 00:44:45,984 --> 00:44:48,372 Your sister isn't Cat Harris. 710 00:44:48,447 --> 00:44:50,334 - You know her? - Bernadette knows everyone. 711 00:44:50,399 --> 00:44:54,871 I met her through my doctor friend in Laguna Niguel, Bianca Sillman. 712 00:44:54,942 --> 00:44:56,764 You know my sister, Bianca? 713 00:44:56,831 --> 00:44:58,870 I forgot that Bianca and Cat are sisters. 714 00:44:58,942 --> 00:45:01,692 Those are your sisters! 715 00:45:01,758 --> 00:45:04,027 Our world is an English village. 716 00:45:06,397 --> 00:45:09,496 My topic is the long-suffering daughter. 717 00:45:09,566 --> 00:45:12,021 One can't help but see the parallels 718 00:45:12,094 --> 00:45:14,996 between the long-suffering Fanny Price in Mansfield Park 719 00:45:15,070 --> 00:45:17,338 and the long-suffering Anne Eliot in Persuasion. 720 00:45:17,406 --> 00:45:18,812 I hate Fanny Price. 721 00:45:18,877 --> 00:45:22,324 Excuse me, we're not electing the homecoming queen, okay? 722 00:45:22,397 --> 00:45:24,950 I mean, yes, if this were high school, yes, 723 00:45:25,021 --> 00:45:27,606 we all know Elizabeth Bennet would be most popular 724 00:45:27,676 --> 00:45:29,203 and that Fanny would be least. 725 00:45:29,277 --> 00:45:32,211 - Who's Elizabeth Bennet? - Of Pride and Prejudice. 726 00:45:33,564 --> 00:45:35,833 Don't give away too much, 'cause I haven't read that one yet. 727 00:45:35,901 --> 00:45:38,551 - You don't know Pride and Prejudice? - No. 728 00:45:38,620 --> 00:45:41,402 I think I read somewhere that Fanny Price was Austen's favorite. 729 00:45:41,467 --> 00:45:43,639 - Fanny's boring. - She's faithful. 730 00:45:43,708 --> 00:45:46,391 She's Horton Hatches the Egg. 731 00:45:46,460 --> 00:45:48,948 She sits on that nest and she never, ever wavers. 732 00:45:49,019 --> 00:45:51,191 Well, she'd probably be easier to like 733 00:45:51,260 --> 00:45:53,332 if she would just allow some weakness in others. 734 00:45:53,403 --> 00:45:55,345 - She doesn't allow it in herself. - True. 735 00:45:55,419 --> 00:45:58,550 I didn't see what was so bad about Henry Crawford. 736 00:45:58,619 --> 00:46:01,270 Yes. Thank you, Grigg. Why does it have to be Edmund? 737 00:46:01,339 --> 00:46:04,470 Well, Austen, she's always suspicious of people who are too charming. 738 00:46:04,539 --> 00:46:07,124 Just once I'd like to pick up Mansfield Park 739 00:46:07,194 --> 00:46:10,358 and see Fanny end up in the sack with Henry Crawford. 740 00:46:10,426 --> 00:46:11,374 Yes! Yes! 741 00:46:11,482 --> 00:46:13,140 You can't read these novels without wondering 742 00:46:13,210 --> 00:46:14,998 if she doesn't have a little thing for the naughty boys. 743 00:46:15,065 --> 00:46:16,309 Well, who doesn't? 744 00:46:16,377 --> 00:46:18,265 Except for Fanny Price. 745 00:46:18,330 --> 00:46:22,323 Okay, look. I love Fanny. She works hard. 746 00:46:22,393 --> 00:46:24,881 - She puts her family's needs above her own. - Mom, it's okay. 747 00:46:24,954 --> 00:46:27,703 And she never, ever stops loving Edmund, ever. 748 00:46:27,769 --> 00:46:30,136 Even when he's stupid enough to do something like 749 00:46:30,201 --> 00:46:32,306 take up with Mary Crawford. 750 00:46:39,384 --> 00:46:40,791 Oh, dear. 751 00:46:41,464 --> 00:46:44,214 I thought Mansfield Park would be safe, didn't you? 752 00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:46,418 I don't think we're gonna get through all six books. 753 00:46:46,488 --> 00:46:49,902 Reading Jane Austen is a freaking minefield. 754 00:46:50,712 --> 00:46:53,461 You're awfully quiet, Grigg. Any thoughts? 755 00:46:54,583 --> 00:46:55,630 Yeah. 756 00:47:08,918 --> 00:47:09,998 Yeah. Yes! 757 00:47:10,071 --> 00:47:12,940 The relationship between Edmund and Fanny. 758 00:47:13,014 --> 00:47:15,348 They seemed like brother and sister. 759 00:47:15,414 --> 00:47:18,894 But then in the end, it's like The Empire Strikes Back, 760 00:47:18,966 --> 00:47:24,433 but it's in reverse. You know? 'Cause in Jedi, Luke Skywalker, 761 00:47:24,502 --> 00:47:27,535 he gets over Princess Leia when she turns out to be his sister. 762 00:47:27,606 --> 00:47:32,592 Edmund gets over Miss Crawford and gets it on with Fanny, who's his first cousin, so... 763 00:47:40,117 --> 00:47:42,124 Did that bother anybody else? 764 00:47:42,197 --> 00:47:45,131 - Weren't you gonna call Sylvia for lunch? - Oh, yeah. 765 00:47:45,204 --> 00:47:47,986 - You know Allegra's gay, right? - Of course. 766 00:47:49,333 --> 00:47:51,667 Oh. I love your furniture, in your house. 767 00:47:51,732 --> 00:47:54,383 And before we do Northanger Abbey, I gotta buy a couch, so... 768 00:47:54,452 --> 00:47:57,135 - Is something going on between these two? - Grigg, you have to... 769 00:47:57,204 --> 00:47:59,473 Would you come with me, help me pick it out? 770 00:47:59,540 --> 00:48:01,776 If you take Sylvia to lunch. 771 00:48:05,811 --> 00:48:06,923 Great. 772 00:48:07,571 --> 00:48:09,230 Good, that's great. 773 00:48:09,683 --> 00:48:11,276 - Okay, see you. - All right, yup, here. 774 00:48:11,347 --> 00:48:13,354 - Take care. - Oh, God. Sorry. 775 00:48:13,875 --> 00:48:16,264 I caught him staring at my titties. 776 00:48:18,546 --> 00:48:19,888 I like that. 777 00:48:24,978 --> 00:48:28,590 - I like this. - That color's difficult. 778 00:48:30,354 --> 00:48:33,289 I like things that are difficult. I'll take it. 779 00:48:35,090 --> 00:48:37,293 Wait, you just don't buy the first one you like. 780 00:48:37,361 --> 00:48:40,012 - You don't even know if it'll fit. - What? It's fine. 781 00:48:40,081 --> 00:48:41,804 You getting hungry? 782 00:48:44,017 --> 00:48:47,365 Grigg, I don't mean to be rude, but may I ask, 783 00:48:47,729 --> 00:48:49,736 do you have a lot of money? 784 00:48:50,257 --> 00:48:52,461 Never know how to answer that. 785 00:48:53,328 --> 00:48:55,117 Yeah, I have enough money. 786 00:48:55,184 --> 00:48:58,053 But, you know, I like working in tech support. 787 00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:00,527 - May I? - Sure. 788 00:49:01,583 --> 00:49:03,372 You should bring Sylvia here. It's so romantic. 789 00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:05,447 You know, she's planning this library fundraiser. 790 00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:07,308 - She's busy. - Call her. 791 00:49:07,919 --> 00:49:09,708 It's hard to be alone. 792 00:49:13,551 --> 00:49:15,275 - Well, maybe her husband will come back. - Maybe. 793 00:49:15,343 --> 00:49:17,415 Jane Austen should write that. 794 00:49:17,487 --> 00:49:19,592 She did. In Persuasion. 795 00:49:19,663 --> 00:49:23,176 Anne Eliot is in love with this guy Wentworth who's in the navy, right? 796 00:49:23,247 --> 00:49:25,134 But her family thinks that he's not good enough. 797 00:49:25,198 --> 00:49:26,475 - Right. - So he leaves. 798 00:49:26,542 --> 00:49:28,298 And when he comes back he's become this wealthy man. 799 00:49:28,366 --> 00:49:32,195 - But he's no longer in love with her. - Okay. Don't tell me any more. 800 00:49:32,270 --> 00:49:37,420 - Oh, so you're enjoying the Austen, I see. - Yeah. And how's the Ursula Le Guin? 801 00:49:39,726 --> 00:49:42,595 - You didn't like Le Guin? - I didn't read them. 802 00:49:43,021 --> 00:49:44,930 How are you gonna know what you like unless you try? 803 00:49:45,005 --> 00:49:46,282 I think at my age I should know what I like. 804 00:49:46,349 --> 00:49:47,429 Age? Come on, age. 805 00:49:47,501 --> 00:49:48,778 Age has nothing to do with anything. 806 00:49:48,845 --> 00:49:51,911 I was willing to read girly books like Jane Austen... 807 00:49:51,981 --> 00:49:52,963 She is not girly. 808 00:49:53,037 --> 00:49:54,563 Which I found out. 809 00:49:54,636 --> 00:49:57,386 So maybe you would find out that science fiction's not just... 810 00:49:57,453 --> 00:49:59,689 - Aliens on rocket ships. - Right. 811 00:50:02,380 --> 00:50:04,965 All right, hurry up and finish. I'm gonna show you something really cool. 812 00:50:05,036 --> 00:50:07,403 What you have to understand is that when I was a kid, 813 00:50:07,467 --> 00:50:11,264 my dad and I were basically surrounded by girls 24l7. 814 00:50:11,340 --> 00:50:14,089 You know, there was my mom, my sisters, and their friends. 815 00:50:14,187 --> 00:50:17,034 So there'd be like 15 girls in the house. It was insane. 816 00:50:17,099 --> 00:50:20,612 My dad would hide out in the shed and no one was allowed back there. 817 00:50:20,683 --> 00:50:24,742 And he'd listen to ballgame, you know, smoke his pipe. 818 00:50:24,875 --> 00:50:27,941 He actually died a couple years ago of mouth cancer. 819 00:50:28,011 --> 00:50:31,393 - I'm so sorry. - Anyway, one day... 820 00:50:31,530 --> 00:50:33,864 I'm like 10 years old, my dad takes me back to the shed 821 00:50:33,931 --> 00:50:38,240 and he shows me some magazines that he keeps back there. 822 00:50:38,346 --> 00:50:42,469 He says, "This is strictly guy stuff. It's top secret. Very private. 823 00:50:42,537 --> 00:50:44,064 "Tell no one." 824 00:50:49,802 --> 00:50:51,558 Yeah, so from then on, it's like... 825 00:50:51,625 --> 00:50:55,203 I don't know... It's like me and my dad and science fiction. 826 00:50:55,849 --> 00:50:58,532 These were like the first books that I fell in love with, 827 00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:00,488 and I never got over it. 828 00:51:01,736 --> 00:51:04,453 Arthur C. Clarke. He's a visionary writer. 829 00:51:05,001 --> 00:51:07,237 Theodore Sturgeon. Amazing. 830 00:51:09,032 --> 00:51:13,222 Philip K. Dick. This was my top-secret all-guy world. 831 00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:17,665 - Andre Norton. - Very manly. 832 00:51:18,184 --> 00:51:21,599 Except, as it turns out, Andrew Norton, a. k. a. Andre Norton, 833 00:51:21,672 --> 00:51:25,217 - a. k. a. Alice Mary Norton. - No way. 834 00:51:25,287 --> 00:51:26,945 - James Tiptree, Jr. - I heard of him. 835 00:51:27,495 --> 00:51:30,790 Real name, Alice Sheldon. Pat Murphy. 836 00:51:30,855 --> 00:51:33,637 - Patrice Anne... - You were still surrounded. 837 00:51:35,334 --> 00:51:37,538 But by that time I liked girls. 838 00:51:47,462 --> 00:51:50,047 You win. I'll read the Le Guin. 839 00:51:52,357 --> 00:51:53,535 Great. 840 00:52:07,364 --> 00:52:09,469 - Tell me a secret. - Your turn. 841 00:52:10,469 --> 00:52:13,884 No. You have better secrets. You can trust me. 842 00:52:17,509 --> 00:52:19,297 Tell me. 843 00:52:22,052 --> 00:52:24,735 Okay, but this is not something I would tell anyone else. 844 00:52:26,659 --> 00:52:29,921 There was this special needs kid in the grade above me, Benny. 845 00:52:30,340 --> 00:52:34,268 He wore his hat squashed down really low, and his ears stuck out. 846 00:52:34,339 --> 00:52:36,794 And he was always carrying around this basketball and going... 847 00:52:39,650 --> 00:52:43,033 And, one day, I was in fourth grade, 848 00:52:43,619 --> 00:52:47,645 I saw that he was holding his penis. 849 00:52:47,746 --> 00:52:50,135 So, I just went back to my friends. 850 00:52:50,946 --> 00:52:53,150 Well, later my dad picked me up. 851 00:52:53,218 --> 00:52:56,065 And he was distracted, just not really listening, and... 852 00:52:56,130 --> 00:52:57,820 And I don't know why, but... 853 00:52:57,889 --> 00:53:02,264 I said, "Dad, this boy at school made me look at his penis." 854 00:53:02,370 --> 00:53:04,704 - Wait. What was his name? - Benny. 855 00:53:04,833 --> 00:53:07,419 We actually got their address and drove to their house. 856 00:53:07,489 --> 00:53:13,631 And Benny's mom answers the door. I mean, she was old. 857 00:53:14,497 --> 00:53:18,109 She has these two long, skinny gray braids. And my dad's yelling. 858 00:53:19,072 --> 00:53:23,066 And she starts crying. "I'm sorry, what do you expect me to do?" 859 00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:28,698 And he says, "I expect you to speak to your son." 860 00:53:29,248 --> 00:53:33,404 And then right behind her is Benny with his stupid basketball, going... 861 00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:40,029 And my dad just stops. 862 00:53:42,591 --> 00:53:45,940 'Cause he had a little brother like that who died. 863 00:53:47,231 --> 00:53:48,605 Oh, my God. 864 00:53:48,670 --> 00:53:53,143 So we get back in the car and my dad is just silent. 865 00:53:56,318 --> 00:54:00,825 And then he says, "I think you knew 866 00:54:01,822 --> 00:54:04,855 "you were leaving out the most important part." 867 00:54:07,038 --> 00:54:09,110 And I just felt horrible. 868 00:54:10,014 --> 00:54:13,843 You know, I didn't really know any of that was gonna happen. 869 00:54:15,197 --> 00:54:18,426 I just wanted his attention. 870 00:54:35,516 --> 00:54:36,890 Have you lost your mind? 871 00:54:36,956 --> 00:54:40,633 I thought about... I thought about calling. 872 00:54:40,699 --> 00:54:45,205 - I... But I didn't wanna wake you. - You can't just show up here, Daniel. 873 00:54:45,275 --> 00:54:46,682 Somebody's gotta mow the lawn. I don't mind. 874 00:54:46,747 --> 00:54:48,503 Well, I'll pay somebody. 875 00:54:48,571 --> 00:54:54,168 You know? I mean, this is my home. You cannot just arrive here without asking. 876 00:54:54,363 --> 00:54:56,752 What if I had somebody staying over? 877 00:54:56,826 --> 00:55:00,438 - Are you seeing someone? - Put the mower away. 878 00:55:00,506 --> 00:55:03,157 I didn't mean that in a weird kind of way. 879 00:55:05,178 --> 00:55:07,993 I just missed hearing what's going on here. 880 00:55:08,281 --> 00:55:13,202 Allegra, she acts like she hates me, and the boys... I mean, Diego and Andy, 881 00:55:13,274 --> 00:55:15,445 they call from school, but they don't say much. 882 00:55:15,513 --> 00:55:17,749 They're ashamed of their father. 883 00:55:20,761 --> 00:55:24,437 So Diego says you told him the handle on the shower's loose? 884 00:55:26,297 --> 00:55:28,598 - Thirty seconds. - I'll deal with it. 885 00:55:29,433 --> 00:55:30,993 Is there something in the house you don't want me to see? 886 00:55:31,065 --> 00:55:32,210 Do you think I'm not taking care of the house? 887 00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:34,865 - No, no... - You wanna do what a husband does? 888 00:55:34,936 --> 00:55:36,660 You wanna fix things? 889 00:55:37,368 --> 00:55:39,059 You can't fix this. 890 00:55:39,928 --> 00:55:41,750 You're not my husband. 891 00:55:42,872 --> 00:55:46,549 - All that's gone now. - Can I call you next weekend? 892 00:55:46,616 --> 00:55:49,430 - No, you cannot call me next weekend. - Okay. 893 00:55:49,783 --> 00:55:51,539 I'll check in with you, okay? 894 00:56:20,150 --> 00:56:22,670 My mom said I could buy a motorcycle if I paid for it myself. 895 00:56:22,742 --> 00:56:25,459 It's her one stipulation, right? 896 00:56:26,997 --> 00:56:28,011 So I work at the mall. 897 00:56:28,085 --> 00:56:29,808 And I have that whole Kerouac thing planned for this summer, 898 00:56:29,877 --> 00:56:31,786 and now it's, "No." 899 00:56:32,404 --> 00:56:35,721 I'm 18 years old. I have the right to buy a motorcycle. 900 00:56:36,437 --> 00:56:38,706 But you had a motorcycle once. 901 00:56:38,772 --> 00:56:40,627 And you ended up hating it. 902 00:56:40,692 --> 00:56:42,099 Remember, Trey? 903 00:56:42,516 --> 00:56:45,363 Remember? You used to park it on the other side of the gym. 904 00:56:45,428 --> 00:56:47,250 It was red and black. And... 905 00:56:47,924 --> 00:56:50,379 You got really tired of taking care of it. 906 00:56:50,452 --> 00:56:51,880 What're you talking about? 907 00:56:51,955 --> 00:56:55,916 That was my mom's technique when I wanted something. 908 00:56:55,988 --> 00:56:59,697 She'd say, "But you had a birthday party last year. 909 00:57:00,659 --> 00:57:02,797 "Remember? We had a big cake 910 00:57:03,603 --> 00:57:07,083 "with pink icing and roses all over it. 911 00:57:07,251 --> 00:57:08,712 "And you hated it." 912 00:57:10,227 --> 00:57:12,496 And she was totally messing with you? 913 00:57:12,563 --> 00:57:13,839 - It got her out of giving me a birthday party. - Wow. 914 00:57:13,938 --> 00:57:17,964 I mean, I have wonderful memories of 915 00:57:18,034 --> 00:57:23,980 balloons and ballerinas and rollercoasters. 916 00:57:27,506 --> 00:57:31,368 And it never happened. That's pretty messed up. 917 00:57:33,233 --> 00:57:38,186 "We certainly can't have a big party like that every year, can we?" 918 00:57:40,497 --> 00:57:43,344 So, when did you finally figure it out? 919 00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:48,556 Well, by then she had this other trick. 920 00:57:52,112 --> 00:57:56,585 So suggest something to me. Something you'd like to do. 921 00:57:56,656 --> 00:57:58,281 Okay. Um... 922 00:58:01,616 --> 00:58:03,209 Let's get a room. 923 00:58:04,431 --> 00:58:07,115 Let's not get a room and just say we did. 924 00:58:08,271 --> 00:58:09,798 Then we give up? 925 00:58:14,383 --> 00:58:16,750 You weren't a very persistent kid, were you? 926 00:58:16,815 --> 00:58:19,204 - Trey, you really shouldn't come on to me. - Why? 927 00:58:19,278 --> 00:58:21,188 Because you're a teacher? 928 00:58:31,085 --> 00:58:32,907 I... We can't do this. 929 00:58:41,901 --> 00:58:43,689 Let's get out of here. 930 00:58:45,261 --> 00:58:47,083 We'll go back to my place. We'll just talk. 931 00:58:47,148 --> 00:58:49,352 Let's not and just wish we did. 932 00:58:52,077 --> 00:58:53,865 I don't wanna pretend. 933 00:59:01,356 --> 00:59:02,817 Um, we're late. 934 00:59:06,188 --> 00:59:07,976 Just give me a second. 935 00:59:10,124 --> 00:59:11,171 God. 936 00:59:43,497 --> 00:59:46,180 - Does this place seem creepy? - It's quiet. 937 00:59:48,745 --> 00:59:50,949 - Wow, Sylvia, you look great! - Hottie! 938 00:59:51,017 --> 00:59:53,024 It's the new me. 939 00:59:53,097 --> 00:59:55,366 - Hey, how's Corinne doing? - Great. 940 00:59:55,433 --> 00:59:58,400 So, are we up for Grigg's amazing insights on Northanger Abbey? 941 00:59:58,473 --> 00:59:59,847 Stop it. He might surprise you. 942 00:59:59,912 --> 01:00:02,781 - I hope his couch has arrived. - Oh, I don't mind sitting on the floor. 943 01:00:02,856 --> 01:00:05,955 - Passing around cans of aerosol cheese? - Stop it. Fine. 944 01:00:06,024 --> 01:00:09,187 Grigg is a grownup. I'm sure he's made it very nice. 945 01:00:09,736 --> 01:00:11,143 All right. 946 01:00:12,231 --> 01:00:14,598 Welcome. Please come in. 947 01:00:14,663 --> 01:00:18,143 - Whoa. - Grigg? Whoa! 948 01:00:18,280 --> 01:00:20,865 Apparently, he thinks it's Hallowe'en. 949 01:00:24,871 --> 01:00:29,060 - No, it's Northanger Abbey! It's Gothic! - Right! 950 01:00:34,278 --> 01:00:36,799 No one gets out alive! 951 01:00:37,895 --> 01:00:40,480 - I don't like this. I don't like this. - Sylvia, Sylvia! 952 01:00:40,550 --> 01:00:43,233 - Grigg? Grigg? Grigg? - Sylvia, it's a joke. 953 01:00:45,381 --> 01:00:47,203 - He's just having fun... - Oh, Sylvia, Sylvia, Sylvia! 954 01:00:47,270 --> 01:00:49,604 It's okay. It's all right. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 955 01:00:49,669 --> 01:00:53,346 - Look. - It's a send-up of Northanger. 956 01:00:55,429 --> 01:00:57,185 - It's a program. - Bernadette, that's your phone. 957 01:00:57,253 --> 01:01:00,319 This is my remote. And everything's on sensors. 958 01:01:00,389 --> 01:01:04,098 Prudie? Oh, hi, Dean. Is Prudie running late? 959 01:01:04,165 --> 01:01:06,532 - What do you do on Hallowe'en? - Oh, Hallowe'en is big. 960 01:01:06,596 --> 01:01:09,279 Hallowe'en is much, much bigger. You should come over for Hallowe'en. 961 01:01:09,348 --> 01:01:10,941 - Wait. - Oh, that's terrible. 962 01:01:11,012 --> 01:01:13,216 I got inspired reading The Mysteries of Udolpho. 963 01:01:13,284 --> 01:01:16,797 You know, the book in Northanger Abbey that Catherine's obsessed with reading? 964 01:01:16,868 --> 01:01:18,690 - You read The Mysteries of Udolpho? - Food! 965 01:01:18,756 --> 01:01:21,822 - Hey, Grigg, that color almost works. - When did you... 966 01:01:21,892 --> 01:01:23,964 - He read The Mysteries of Udolpho. - Wow. 967 01:01:24,035 --> 01:01:26,718 Wait, that book they were reading in the book? That's a real book? 968 01:01:26,787 --> 01:01:29,275 Yeah, with the black veils and Laurentina's skeleton. 969 01:01:29,347 --> 01:01:33,056 - Didn't you think that sounded great? - Yeah, it sounded awesome. 970 01:01:33,122 --> 01:01:35,992 Dean, I'm so sorry. Prudie must be devastated. 971 01:01:36,195 --> 01:01:37,307 Prudie said to ask you. 972 01:01:37,378 --> 01:01:39,899 She's supposed to talk or something, about some book? 973 01:01:39,971 --> 01:01:41,280 Persuasion. 974 01:01:41,826 --> 01:01:44,826 We don't know how long we're gonna be down in San Diego, so... 975 01:01:44,898 --> 01:01:46,010 She may have to cancel. 976 01:01:46,082 --> 01:01:47,937 Tell her we'll save Persuasion for the end. 977 01:01:48,002 --> 01:01:51,133 It's better to do it last, anyway. It was Austen's final book. 978 01:01:51,202 --> 01:01:53,209 I thought Northanger Abbey was the final book. 979 01:01:53,281 --> 01:01:55,932 - Written first. Published last. - That makes much more sense. 980 01:01:56,002 --> 01:01:57,790 - Why? - What happened with her? 981 01:01:57,858 --> 01:01:59,418 'Cause it's a novel about novels. 982 01:01:59,490 --> 01:02:03,483 You know? You see Austen as the young writer, questioning herself. 983 01:02:03,553 --> 01:02:06,520 "Who's a heroine? What makes a good story? 984 01:02:06,593 --> 01:02:09,659 "Are novels a waste of time? Am I gonna write? What should I write about?" 985 01:02:09,729 --> 01:02:12,990 - I like that. - That's actually very perceptive, Grigg. 986 01:02:13,536 --> 01:02:14,681 Thanks. 987 01:02:15,649 --> 01:02:16,925 Prudie's mother died. 988 01:02:16,992 --> 01:02:18,399 - What? - Jesus. 989 01:02:20,672 --> 01:02:23,639 She got into her car yesterday, this was in San Diego. 990 01:02:24,480 --> 01:02:28,473 She made a left coming out of a parking lot into oncoming traffic. 991 01:02:28,543 --> 01:02:30,136 - Jesus. - Terrible. 992 01:02:30,271 --> 01:02:33,587 - Were Prudie and her mom close? - Well, there was tension. 993 01:02:38,559 --> 01:02:41,592 What do we think? Is Persuasion too depressing to take on right now, 994 01:02:41,663 --> 01:02:43,321 with the dead mother and everything? 995 01:02:43,391 --> 01:02:45,246 She doesn't die on the page. 996 01:02:45,311 --> 01:02:47,994 Even Sense and Sensibility, the dad dies. 997 01:02:48,254 --> 01:02:49,563 What about Pride and Prejudice? 998 01:02:49,630 --> 01:02:54,038 I could use a little encounter in the woods with Mr. Darcy right now. 999 01:02:54,142 --> 01:02:56,531 - Are we all up for a little romance? - Ready. 1000 01:02:56,606 --> 01:03:00,119 I think we're all overdue. And it'll be better for Prudie. 1001 01:03:01,470 --> 01:03:04,983 I still can't believe you read The Mysteries of Udolpho, Grigg. 1002 01:03:05,054 --> 01:03:08,566 - Bravo, Grigg. Bravo. - Yay for the grilled artichokes. 1003 01:03:08,637 --> 01:03:12,761 - You can move in with us any time, Grigg. - Please, don't bring skeletons. 1004 01:03:13,853 --> 01:03:15,413 She loves these. 1005 01:03:16,796 --> 01:03:19,218 Are you and Grigg seeing each other? 1006 01:03:19,293 --> 01:03:23,635 No. He's interested in Sylvia, obviously. That was the plan, right? 1007 01:03:52,058 --> 01:03:53,040 I don't wanna fight, okay? 1008 01:03:53,115 --> 01:03:55,286 I don't know why you didn't just take her back to the car 1009 01:03:55,354 --> 01:03:58,583 and have sex with her. I mean, clearly you wanted to. 1010 01:03:59,546 --> 01:04:02,196 I talked to her... I talked to her for like five minutes. 1011 01:04:02,266 --> 01:04:03,956 Longer. Longer, Dean. 1012 01:04:04,026 --> 01:04:07,855 And with those ridiculous plastic boobs. Is that what you go for? 1013 01:04:10,265 --> 01:04:12,786 Prudie, you know, I was just trying to be nice to your friend. 1014 01:04:12,858 --> 01:04:15,825 Okay. Chloe Baher is not my friend, Dean. 1015 01:04:15,897 --> 01:04:20,632 Chloe Baher came to my mother's funeral to gloat."Ha-ha! Your mother's dead." 1016 01:04:20,697 --> 01:04:22,039 And you hit on her! 1017 01:04:22,105 --> 01:04:23,927 - I do... I do... - You hit on her! 1018 01:04:23,992 --> 01:04:26,097 I was not hitting on her. 1019 01:04:40,856 --> 01:04:43,344 You know, when I was in the 10th grade, 1020 01:04:43,416 --> 01:04:47,823 I wrote an entire paper on Julius Caesar in iambic pentameter. 1021 01:04:47,895 --> 01:04:54,037 And Chloe Baher removed it from my locker and she read it aloud to the whole class. 1022 01:04:54,806 --> 01:04:57,294 And everyone laughed at me. 1023 01:04:59,383 --> 01:05:01,292 Baby, high school's over. 1024 01:05:02,423 --> 01:05:04,332 High school's never over. 1025 01:05:14,165 --> 01:05:16,947 "And turning 'round, he looked for a moment at Elizabeth 1026 01:05:17,014 --> 01:05:20,526 "till catching her eye, he withdrew his own and coldly said, 1027 01:05:20,597 --> 01:05:24,209 "'She is tolerable but not handsome enough to tempt me. 1028 01:05:24,277 --> 01:05:27,659 "'I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies 1029 01:05:27,733 --> 01:05:29,489 "'who are slighted by other men. 1030 01:05:29,557 --> 01:05:32,404 "'You had better return to your partner and enjoy her smiles, 1031 01:05:32,468 --> 01:05:35,054 "'for you are wasting your time with me. '" 1032 01:05:38,484 --> 01:05:40,459 You know, I don't know if we can do Pride and Prejudice next week, 1033 01:05:40,532 --> 01:05:41,906 because it's the library dinner. 1034 01:05:41,972 --> 01:05:44,623 Well, we need to go for Sylvia. Daniel's bringing Pam. 1035 01:05:44,692 --> 01:05:47,113 - That's so unnecessary. - Tell me about it. 1036 01:05:47,188 --> 01:05:49,643 - His firm's buying a table. - Well, then we should buy one. 1037 01:05:49,716 --> 01:05:51,243 All of us, the book club. 1038 01:05:51,315 --> 01:05:53,039 - Show up in force. - Yes. 1039 01:05:53,108 --> 01:05:57,963 "The Central Valley River City All Jane Austen, All The Time Book Club," 1040 01:05:58,035 --> 01:05:59,344 is what Grigg calls it. 1041 01:05:59,411 --> 01:06:01,713 He's so funny. I'm so glad he finally made a date with Sylvia. 1042 01:06:01,779 --> 01:06:03,273 He's taking her to lunch. 1043 01:06:03,347 --> 01:06:06,216 I sure hope there's some dancing in this thing. 1044 01:06:06,291 --> 01:06:07,949 I'm trying to diet. 1045 01:06:09,042 --> 01:06:11,977 My husband is bringing a date to my fundraiser. 1046 01:06:13,042 --> 01:06:14,864 Yeah, re-reading Pride and Prejudice again, 1047 01:06:14,930 --> 01:06:16,840 I keep thinking, "You know, courtship is easy." 1048 01:06:16,914 --> 01:06:19,913 - Where's Austen's novel on divorce? - I wouldn't say it was easy. 1049 01:06:19,986 --> 01:06:22,474 Depends who you're courting, I guess. 1050 01:06:23,025 --> 01:06:28,207 - Does Jocelyn ever go out with anyone? - Occasionally. 1051 01:06:29,009 --> 01:06:30,765 She used to date my husband in high school. 1052 01:06:30,833 --> 01:06:33,680 Then she sort of gave him to me. 1053 01:06:34,193 --> 01:06:37,226 Daniel's the one that first bought Jocelyn a dog. 1054 01:06:37,617 --> 01:06:42,538 - She traded your husband for a dog? - Look, I adore Jocelyn, but... 1055 01:06:43,121 --> 01:06:45,390 If loving is letting go, 1056 01:06:45,456 --> 01:06:50,671 then whoever wants Jocelyn is going to have to pry her fingers loose, one by one. 1057 01:07:03,599 --> 01:07:06,020 - Hey. - Hi. 1058 01:07:06,095 --> 01:07:07,077 Hey. 1059 01:07:07,151 --> 01:07:08,361 Do you know Lynne from my writing group? 1060 01:07:08,431 --> 01:07:10,406 - I don't, actually. Allegra. - Hey. 1061 01:07:10,479 --> 01:07:13,228 Listen, I just have to say, you have been so good for Corinne. 1062 01:07:13,294 --> 01:07:15,880 Ever since you two have been together, she's been writing nonstop. 1063 01:07:15,950 --> 01:07:18,187 Didn't you just love that story that she wrote last week? 1064 01:07:18,254 --> 01:07:21,996 Well, Allegra and I don't discuss what I'm working on. 1065 01:07:23,822 --> 01:07:24,869 Okay. 1066 01:07:32,045 --> 01:07:33,987 "Dear Ms. Corinne Mahern, we regret 1067 01:07:35,470 --> 01:07:38,699 "that we must decline to publish the three short stories you sent us. 1068 01:07:38,765 --> 01:07:41,612 "Benny's Basketball" is strong narratively, 1069 01:07:41,677 --> 01:07:46,859 "but the depiction of your penis-waving retarded boy felt a little unkind. 1070 01:07:47,468 --> 01:07:51,625 "And isn't the title "Separating Eggs For Flan" a bit obvious 1071 01:07:51,692 --> 01:07:53,764 "as a metaphor for your parents' divorce? 1072 01:07:53,836 --> 01:07:56,803 "Yet we confess that "Skydiver" puzzled us most. 1073 01:07:57,548 --> 01:08:01,705 "Why would a beautiful, self-centered young lesbian jump out of a plane?" 1074 01:08:10,667 --> 01:08:13,001 I thought we could drive together. 1075 01:08:13,131 --> 01:08:15,684 We should hurry. I don't want Sylvia sitting there alone. 1076 01:08:15,755 --> 01:08:17,664 - Sahara, off. - Sylvia's already at the library. 1077 01:08:17,739 --> 01:08:20,935 - She said she had to get there early. - So you offered her a ride first. 1078 01:08:21,002 --> 01:08:23,620 No, she happened to mention it at lunch. 1079 01:08:25,131 --> 01:08:26,854 That's a great dress. 1080 01:08:29,450 --> 01:08:30,530 Stay. 1081 01:08:30,826 --> 01:08:34,982 I converted it to biodiesel. So it basically runs on donut grease. 1082 01:08:38,089 --> 01:08:40,806 This is so great. I never get to drive it. 1083 01:08:42,729 --> 01:08:44,638 Or vacuum it, apparently. 1084 01:08:49,161 --> 01:08:50,721 I like your hair. 1085 01:08:52,361 --> 01:08:54,914 You need to dance with Sylvia tonight. 1086 01:08:56,072 --> 01:08:58,723 - You do know how to dance, don't you? - Of course I do. 1087 01:08:58,792 --> 01:09:01,443 I have three older sisters. I can dance. 1088 01:09:01,640 --> 01:09:04,062 Wait, if we stay in this lane, we're gonna be late. 1089 01:09:04,168 --> 01:09:06,623 Given that I have to convert donut grease into biofuel 1090 01:09:06,696 --> 01:09:10,012 every time I fill up the tank, I just try not to drive very fast. 1091 01:09:10,088 --> 01:09:11,778 We're barely moving. 1092 01:09:13,736 --> 01:09:16,670 You ever read those Le Guin books I bought you? 1093 01:09:16,775 --> 01:09:19,076 I prefer books about real people. 1094 01:09:20,583 --> 01:09:25,339 Okay, so Elizabeth Bennet is real and people in science fiction aren't. 1095 01:09:25,414 --> 01:09:26,494 Is that it? 1096 01:09:26,567 --> 01:09:29,534 Science fiction books have people in them, but they're not about the people. 1097 01:09:29,606 --> 01:09:30,915 Real people are complicated. 1098 01:09:30,982 --> 01:09:32,542 Well, there's all kinds of science fiction. 1099 01:09:32,614 --> 01:09:36,192 When you've read some, I will be interested in your opinion. 1100 01:09:36,838 --> 01:09:40,253 - Why are you getting off here? - I enjoy seeing the river. 1101 01:09:40,582 --> 01:09:41,792 What are you, Mark Twain? 1102 01:09:41,862 --> 01:09:44,545 Now we're gonna get stuck at every light. 1103 01:09:52,229 --> 01:09:54,466 Look at the talent in this room. 1104 01:09:54,949 --> 01:09:57,185 Half the Silicon Valley is here. 1105 01:09:59,205 --> 01:10:00,449 To romance. 1106 01:10:00,517 --> 01:10:01,826 - Hi. - Hello. 1107 01:10:04,036 --> 01:10:06,589 I'm planning on meeting a software baron and moving to Pemberley. 1108 01:10:06,660 --> 01:10:09,955 Well, everyone knows a rich man is eventually going to want a new wife. 1109 01:10:12,099 --> 01:10:13,594 - Hi. - Hi. 1110 01:10:14,692 --> 01:10:15,739 I'm Dean. 1111 01:10:15,812 --> 01:10:17,470 Yeah, he's not doing book club with us. 1112 01:10:17,540 --> 01:10:19,678 Uh, moral support. She's had a rough couple of weeks. 1113 01:10:19,747 --> 01:10:23,675 - Well, you're welcome to join in, Dean. - Nah, that's okay. 1114 01:10:23,747 --> 01:10:27,063 I think I'll just head to the bar. Let you ladies talk. 1115 01:10:27,139 --> 01:10:29,889 There is no bar. It's a library. 1116 01:10:29,955 --> 01:10:32,322 - Serving liquor. - Well, that'll work. 1117 01:10:32,387 --> 01:10:34,209 You guys need anything? 1118 01:10:35,683 --> 01:10:38,465 We had this big fight on the way over here. 1119 01:10:39,234 --> 01:10:41,143 - Have some champagne. - Mom? 1120 01:10:43,426 --> 01:10:45,335 I broke up with Corinne. 1121 01:10:46,242 --> 01:10:47,802 Oh, my God. Honey. 1122 01:10:49,858 --> 01:10:54,113 - Nice. - We have plenty of time. 1123 01:11:11,488 --> 01:11:14,390 Honey, whatever happened between you and Corinne, you don't just walk out. 1124 01:11:14,464 --> 01:11:17,628 - You don't even know what she did. - Did she hit you? 1125 01:11:18,720 --> 01:11:20,629 Did she say cruel things? 1126 01:11:21,536 --> 01:11:24,699 You are so quick to love. You're too quick. 1127 01:11:25,248 --> 01:11:28,990 You jump in, you jump out. That's Daniel in you. Quick to act. 1128 01:11:29,055 --> 01:11:32,284 "It's not working? Well... Fix it. Or break it. Who cares?" 1129 01:11:32,351 --> 01:11:37,206 We don't just dispose of people we love. You stay. You repair. 1130 01:11:37,278 --> 01:11:39,799 Okay, you know what? This is not you and Daddy. 1131 01:11:39,870 --> 01:11:42,685 This is Corinne. The difference being that Daddy actually loves you. 1132 01:11:42,750 --> 01:11:44,855 So you go repair. Power on. 1133 01:11:44,926 --> 01:11:47,446 Maybe Daddy'll give up this woman he's been fucking. 1134 01:11:47,550 --> 01:11:50,419 - Allegra. - But Corinne, I'm dumping the bitch. 1135 01:11:54,398 --> 01:11:57,562 - We're gonna be so late. - I'll call a cab. 1136 01:11:57,630 --> 01:12:00,925 I will not let Sylvia be alone when Daniel walks into that library with Pam. 1137 01:12:00,989 --> 01:12:02,647 You got your phone? 1138 01:12:06,653 --> 01:12:08,562 I'll find a payphone. 1139 01:12:08,637 --> 01:12:10,677 Are you attracted to Sylvia? 1140 01:12:12,188 --> 01:12:15,123 Yeah, she's, um... She's nice. 1141 01:12:15,484 --> 01:12:18,266 She's more than nice. She's smart and funny... 1142 01:12:18,332 --> 01:12:22,326 - And she's in love with her husband. - Well, she needs to get over that. 1143 01:12:24,572 --> 01:12:27,419 Why don't you stop interfering? Let Sylvia work out her own life. 1144 01:12:27,484 --> 01:12:29,011 It's interfering to want my best friend to be happy. 1145 01:12:29,084 --> 01:12:31,866 If that's interfering, I hope I never stop. 1146 01:12:32,188 --> 01:12:34,424 What about me? Am I your friend? 1147 01:12:34,587 --> 01:12:39,027 Or am I just some widget to help you make Sylvia feel better about herself? 1148 01:12:39,675 --> 01:12:41,584 Why did you invite me to be part of your book club? 1149 01:12:41,659 --> 01:12:43,698 What went through your mind the first time you saw me? 1150 01:12:43,770 --> 01:12:47,218 "There's a man who is dying to read every book Jane Austen ever wrote." 1151 01:12:47,291 --> 01:12:48,851 - Is that what you thought? - No. 1152 01:12:48,922 --> 01:12:52,719 But I thought, "What a beautiful woman. I hope she looks over at me." 1153 01:12:53,434 --> 01:12:55,736 I thought if I read your favorite books that you would read mine. 1154 01:12:55,802 --> 01:12:58,420 But, no, no, no. You just wanna be obeyed. 1155 01:13:00,953 --> 01:13:02,863 That's why you have dogs. 1156 01:13:05,465 --> 01:13:08,313 For such a famously romantic story, 1157 01:13:08,377 --> 01:13:11,890 Pride and Prejudice is a parade of bizarre marriages. 1158 01:13:11,961 --> 01:13:14,230 I've had every marriage in this book. 1159 01:13:15,225 --> 01:13:18,454 My first husband was a politician. He was embarrassed by every move I made. 1160 01:13:18,521 --> 01:13:20,910 He said I was rude and loud. 1161 01:13:20,985 --> 01:13:24,367 "Stop pointing your breasts everywhere," he'd say to me. 1162 01:13:25,720 --> 01:13:28,240 I was 17. I was Charlotte Lucas. 1163 01:13:28,312 --> 01:13:30,898 I married the first man who looked at me. 1164 01:13:30,968 --> 01:13:33,455 Tout le monde est sage apr�s le coup. 1165 01:13:35,576 --> 01:13:38,739 You don't see your own marriage until it's too late. 1166 01:13:39,640 --> 01:13:44,757 So, um... I actually thought that Charlotte Lucas was gay. 1167 01:13:45,559 --> 01:13:49,966 Really, I think that when she tells Lizzie she's not as romantic as she is, 1168 01:13:50,039 --> 01:13:51,217 I think that's what she means. 1169 01:13:51,287 --> 01:13:55,181 Charlotte Lucas is not gay. She's not. She just... She just has no options. 1170 01:13:55,254 --> 01:13:57,675 Wait. Austen meant Charlotte to be gay 1171 01:13:57,750 --> 01:14:00,084 or Charlotte is gay and Austen is not aware of it? 1172 01:14:00,151 --> 01:14:04,012 I just love the idea of a character having a secret life 1173 01:14:04,086 --> 01:14:05,493 that the author doesn't even know about. 1174 01:14:05,558 --> 01:14:08,373 You know, frankly, I kind of admire Charlotte 1175 01:14:08,438 --> 01:14:11,220 for looking at her situation and deciding to marry Mr. Collins. 1176 01:14:11,285 --> 01:14:14,634 I mean, yes, yes, she knows he'll never be the "love of her life," 1177 01:14:14,709 --> 01:14:16,138 but that's okay. 1178 01:14:16,214 --> 01:14:18,352 That is exactly the reason that Jocelyn would hate her. 1179 01:14:18,421 --> 01:14:19,763 Jocelyn has contempt for anyone 1180 01:14:19,829 --> 01:14:21,716 who settles for anything less than the perfect love. 1181 01:14:21,780 --> 01:14:24,846 You know, it's probably why Jocelyn has never married. 1182 01:14:24,916 --> 01:14:26,804 My apologies, everybody. 1183 01:14:28,660 --> 01:14:30,383 - Hello. - Hi. 1184 01:14:33,204 --> 01:14:35,211 We ran out of donut grease. 1185 01:14:38,036 --> 01:14:39,792 - Grigg Harris. - Dean Drummond. 1186 01:14:39,892 --> 01:14:42,193 - Wait, Grigg... Grigg from the book club? - Yeah. 1187 01:14:43,348 --> 01:14:47,177 No, it's just Prudie would say "Grigg," and I just didn't picture it as a guy. 1188 01:14:47,251 --> 01:14:49,487 So you thought Grigg was a girl? 1189 01:14:51,251 --> 01:14:54,764 Dean thinks "Austen" is the capital of Texas. 1190 01:14:56,883 --> 01:14:57,930 Wow. 1191 01:14:59,730 --> 01:15:01,934 You'll notice that Jane, 1192 01:15:02,450 --> 01:15:05,417 she never shows what happens after the wedding. 1193 01:15:06,131 --> 01:15:09,229 Maybe Elizabeth and Darcy start hating each other. 1194 01:15:10,066 --> 01:15:11,921 Maybe Lizzie went off to Pemberley, 1195 01:15:11,986 --> 01:15:15,182 and she turned into this crazy person, like her mom, 1196 01:15:15,250 --> 01:15:17,584 because our mothers are like time bombs. 1197 01:15:17,650 --> 01:15:20,716 They just... They tick away inside of us. 1198 01:15:20,786 --> 01:15:24,331 Let's not give Mrs. Bennet more importance than she deserves. 1199 01:15:26,417 --> 01:15:29,733 - You know, I mean, what about the father? - What father? 1200 01:15:30,417 --> 01:15:34,443 You know, my mom showed me a picture of a guy in uniform. 1201 01:15:35,217 --> 01:15:37,158 Well, maybe she made him up. 1202 01:15:37,713 --> 01:15:40,527 Or maybe she bought it at a garage sale. 1203 01:15:41,072 --> 01:15:44,236 And I kept it in my room, this... 1204 01:15:47,664 --> 01:15:49,769 I kept it in my room. 1205 01:15:51,952 --> 01:15:53,774 Let's not do this now, okay? 1206 01:16:06,799 --> 01:16:08,260 Dean, I got it. 1207 01:16:47,052 --> 01:16:48,328 Bernadette. 1208 01:16:48,524 --> 01:16:50,117 Daniel never came. 1209 01:16:51,692 --> 01:16:52,771 Good. 1210 01:17:10,634 --> 01:17:13,089 I'm in love with one of my students. 1211 01:17:16,746 --> 01:17:20,455 But I mean, nothing's happened. Much. 1212 01:17:21,418 --> 01:17:22,825 But it could. 1213 01:17:24,234 --> 01:17:26,022 It could, if I let it. 1214 01:17:28,521 --> 01:17:31,391 I fantasize about him constantly. 1215 01:17:31,882 --> 01:17:34,980 Sweetie, your mother died. This is grief. 1216 01:17:36,490 --> 01:17:43,112 He looks at me like he's the spoon, and I'm the dish of ice cream. 1217 01:17:47,337 --> 01:17:50,664 It's a good thing we're reading Sense and Sensibility next. 1218 01:18:06,440 --> 01:18:09,701 - I love you so. - But how can you be sure in just one day? 1219 01:18:09,767 --> 01:18:14,753 I do not know. 'Tis just when a lass falls in or out of love, she knows it right away. 1220 01:18:16,327 --> 01:18:20,320 - You think you're in love with me? - Think? 1221 01:18:20,391 --> 01:18:24,351 What good does thinking do but what I feel is something else? 1222 01:18:52,325 --> 01:18:53,699 - Hey, you got your cast off. - Yeah. 1223 01:18:53,764 --> 01:18:55,325 - How does it feel? - Great. 1224 01:18:55,397 --> 01:18:59,139 You can reach it. Just really stretch your arm out. 1225 01:19:00,261 --> 01:19:03,577 There you go. Just give the rope a little bit of a shake. 1226 01:19:04,772 --> 01:19:06,714 You can do it, there... Can you put your... 1227 01:19:06,787 --> 01:19:09,657 Can you put your right foot in that blue thing? 1228 01:19:09,732 --> 01:19:11,258 It's gonna be fine. 1229 01:19:11,331 --> 01:19:13,949 - Here, hang on. - You can reach it. 1230 01:19:14,019 --> 01:19:15,612 - Just reach up. - It's caught. 1231 01:19:15,683 --> 01:19:17,952 It's okay. You're doing good. 1232 01:19:28,483 --> 01:19:32,279 I'm totally okay. I'm not even hurt. It's nothing. 1233 01:19:32,354 --> 01:19:34,176 I'm sorry, I have to stop you here. 1234 01:19:34,242 --> 01:19:36,544 It's not likely to be anything more than a concussion. 1235 01:19:36,610 --> 01:19:39,871 I'd like to keep Allegra under observation for a few days, okay? 1236 01:19:39,938 --> 01:19:42,621 And if you need to reach me, I'm Dr. Yep. 1237 01:19:46,849 --> 01:19:49,882 How many times have we had to come here to get her stitched up? 1238 01:19:50,081 --> 01:19:51,935 - It's always Allegra, never the boys. - Well, she's the one 1239 01:19:52,001 --> 01:19:56,223 who goes mountain climbing and skateboarding and snowboarding. 1240 01:19:56,289 --> 01:19:59,104 It's a miracle she never tried parachuting. 1241 01:20:00,673 --> 01:20:02,266 She's so extreme. 1242 01:20:04,896 --> 01:20:07,416 One minute she's crazy in love with Corinne, 1243 01:20:07,488 --> 01:20:10,423 the next minute she's never hated anybody more. 1244 01:20:14,272 --> 01:20:16,606 - She's gonna be okay, right? - She's fine. 1245 01:20:16,671 --> 01:20:19,454 She just took a knock on the noodle. 1246 01:20:22,015 --> 01:20:25,113 This is gonna sound, probably, horrible, considering the fact that 1247 01:20:25,183 --> 01:20:28,980 she's got this lump on her head, but... It's just... 1248 01:20:29,471 --> 01:20:32,318 It's great to have us all in the same room again. 1249 01:20:33,438 --> 01:20:37,268 Just feels so normal. 1250 01:20:40,894 --> 01:20:42,301 Normal, yeah. 1251 01:20:51,325 --> 01:20:55,002 You know, I haven't been seeing Pam for a couple of months now. 1252 01:20:55,965 --> 01:20:58,354 So, that must be a big change. 1253 01:21:00,157 --> 01:21:01,979 You know, I was thinking just this morning 1254 01:21:02,045 --> 01:21:05,274 about this book club that we're in, Allegra and me. 1255 01:21:06,141 --> 01:21:08,115 The first meeting was... 1256 01:21:09,372 --> 01:21:13,300 Yeah, we had just been separated. 'Cause Allegra had just moved in. 1257 01:21:13,884 --> 01:21:18,521 And I was realizing how different I feel. 1258 01:21:20,764 --> 01:21:22,619 I don't think I'm the same woman that you left. 1259 01:21:22,684 --> 01:21:25,204 I can see that. I so see that. 1260 01:21:25,275 --> 01:21:27,763 Well, it's probably the same for you. 1261 01:21:28,028 --> 01:21:30,962 I guess that's what happens when you let go. 1262 01:21:33,691 --> 01:21:37,237 We did a good job taking things apart. 1263 01:21:39,514 --> 01:21:41,303 I'm kind of proud of us. 1264 01:21:43,962 --> 01:21:47,028 I'm warning you, if Grigg starts making little remarks, I'm gonna walk out. 1265 01:21:47,098 --> 01:21:49,880 You two just keep it together for one more book. 1266 01:21:49,946 --> 01:21:52,531 I wish he'd just drop out of the group. 1267 01:21:55,258 --> 01:21:59,032 Austen sets up this juicy triangle between Elinor, Edward and Lucy Steele. 1268 01:21:59,098 --> 01:22:02,327 And then at the end, she practically has to whip a rabbit out of a hat 1269 01:22:02,394 --> 01:22:04,663 to make Lucy Steele run off with Edward's brother? 1270 01:22:04,729 --> 01:22:07,412 - Yeah, that requires some hand-waving. - I think the ending's well-plotted. 1271 01:22:07,481 --> 01:22:12,369 To me, the part that seems forced is Marianne ending up with Colonel Brandon. 1272 01:22:12,441 --> 01:22:14,929 - Anyone else feel that? - Oh, I have no problem with that. 1273 01:22:15,000 --> 01:22:20,751 He rides up on a big stallion, sweeps her into his arms. I'm there. 1274 01:22:21,432 --> 01:22:23,669 From the time Colonel Brandon meets Marianne, 1275 01:22:23,736 --> 01:22:25,394 he just lavishes all this attention on her. 1276 01:22:25,464 --> 01:22:27,733 And meanwhile, she's throwing herself at Willoughby. 1277 01:22:27,800 --> 01:22:29,229 Willoughby is a player. 1278 01:22:29,304 --> 01:22:30,613 Women never go for the nice guy. 1279 01:22:30,712 --> 01:22:33,646 Please. Men say that, but you get to know some of these men who complain the most, 1280 01:22:33,720 --> 01:22:37,516 you find out they're not as nice as they like to think they are. 1281 01:22:37,591 --> 01:22:39,249 Okay. You know what struck me? 1282 01:22:39,319 --> 01:22:43,094 Is that Colonel Brandon is only a few years younger than Mrs. Dashwood. 1283 01:22:43,159 --> 01:22:45,166 Well, why does he take up with the daughter and not the mother? 1284 01:22:45,239 --> 01:22:46,865 Yeah, why not Mrs. Dashwood? 1285 01:22:46,935 --> 01:22:49,684 Maybe Mrs. Dashwood won't give him the time of day. 1286 01:22:49,750 --> 01:22:52,685 - The book is about the young people. - Yeah, because Jane Austen thinks 1287 01:22:52,759 --> 01:22:55,214 that nothing interesting can happen to a woman over 25. 1288 01:22:55,286 --> 01:23:00,556 When actually, a novel about a woman seducing a slightly younger man 1289 01:23:01,013 --> 01:23:02,923 just yields so much more. 1290 01:23:03,701 --> 01:23:06,549 Well, then maybe Mrs. Dashwood should go for Willoughby. 1291 01:23:06,614 --> 01:23:07,858 Why not? 1292 01:23:09,013 --> 01:23:10,574 It's a long, hot summer. 1293 01:23:10,645 --> 01:23:12,620 Maybe Mrs. Dashwood has more sense than that. 1294 01:23:12,693 --> 01:23:15,442 Okay, can I just point out, she's hardly in the story. 1295 01:23:15,509 --> 01:23:17,167 Sex is messy. 1296 01:23:17,237 --> 01:23:19,986 Maybe Mrs. Dashwood prefers a more well-ordered life. 1297 01:23:20,053 --> 01:23:23,402 Maybe that's why she's such a minor character. 1298 01:23:23,477 --> 01:23:25,778 - I think if you read Austen's novels... - Oh, I have. 1299 01:23:25,844 --> 01:23:26,924 You wanted me to, and I did. 1300 01:23:26,996 --> 01:23:31,273 I think you'll see she always writes in favor of order and self-control. 1301 01:23:31,348 --> 01:23:33,519 - Nothing unwise. - Nothing in haste. 1302 01:23:33,588 --> 01:23:36,435 Okay, so, this is... This is what, this is a rulebook? 1303 01:23:36,500 --> 01:23:37,547 We could do worse. 1304 01:23:37,620 --> 01:23:40,467 I think Jane Austen wrote about women falling in love because she was lonely. 1305 01:23:40,531 --> 01:23:42,636 Oh, you couldn't be more wrong. 1306 01:23:42,707 --> 01:23:45,806 Austen lived a very full life. She could've gotten married anytime. 1307 01:23:45,875 --> 01:23:47,435 - She almost did. - That's right. 1308 01:23:47,507 --> 01:23:51,304 - But she decided not to. - Why, too messy? Too out of control? 1309 01:23:54,803 --> 01:23:58,829 His name was Harris Bigg-Wither, and they were engaged for one night. 1310 01:23:58,899 --> 01:24:02,575 "Oh, Harris Bigg-Wither!" I can't believe you know that. 1311 01:24:03,474 --> 01:24:06,769 I understand why Colonel Brandon goes for Marianne. 1312 01:24:06,834 --> 01:24:08,492 And it's not 'cause she's young. 1313 01:24:08,561 --> 01:24:13,133 It's because she's generous with herself. 1314 01:24:14,770 --> 01:24:18,960 She's willing to risk her heart. No rules, no fear. 1315 01:24:20,817 --> 01:24:24,527 - And Willoughby tramples her. - She just picked the wrong guy. 1316 01:24:25,936 --> 01:24:27,529 No rules, no fear. 1317 01:24:29,648 --> 01:24:30,990 I like that. 1318 01:24:58,927 --> 01:25:01,742 - Hi. - You're wearing that to your book club? 1319 01:25:01,807 --> 01:25:05,931 It's Bernadette's idea to do this beach day, 1320 01:25:05,999 --> 01:25:08,454 'cause in the novel they all go to Lyme, 1321 01:25:08,527 --> 01:25:12,007 which is, you know, like, the beach in England. 1322 01:25:12,110 --> 01:25:13,899 This is your last one, right? 1323 01:25:13,966 --> 01:25:17,315 I think we're gonna do some more books after this one. 1324 01:25:41,740 --> 01:25:45,798 Prudie's gonna be hours late and Grigg called. He's bringing a woman. 1325 01:25:47,276 --> 01:25:48,705 Thank God it's the last meeting. 1326 01:25:48,780 --> 01:25:51,463 Yes, there's getting to be a little too much plot. 1327 01:25:51,531 --> 01:25:52,644 Not that I blame Grigg. 1328 01:25:52,716 --> 01:25:57,537 Something about reading Austen sort of makes you wanna get it on. 1329 01:25:57,611 --> 01:25:58,593 Hi. 1330 01:26:00,587 --> 01:26:03,816 Started reading it with Allegra at the hospital. This is a great book. 1331 01:26:03,947 --> 01:26:06,151 Are you joining our discussion? 1332 01:26:07,146 --> 01:26:09,601 - Am I? 'Cause I'd like to. - Hi. 1333 01:26:10,315 --> 01:26:12,933 - Daniel wants to join us. - Well he's not in the club, is he? 1334 01:26:13,002 --> 01:26:15,969 Oh, come on, this is my favorite Austen. So far. 1335 01:26:18,090 --> 01:26:20,872 It's all about mistakes and second chances. 1336 01:26:23,114 --> 01:26:24,772 Yeah, you can stay. 1337 01:26:26,953 --> 01:26:27,935 Glass of wine? 1338 01:27:37,637 --> 01:27:40,932 I can't believe he brought a date to our last meeting. 1339 01:27:42,181 --> 01:27:47,363 - I kinda had him in mind for you, as a fling. - For me? 1340 01:27:48,261 --> 01:27:50,464 Honey, I took your boyfriend away from you in high school. 1341 01:27:50,533 --> 01:27:52,736 Look how that turned out. 1342 01:27:54,085 --> 01:27:55,426 - Hi. - Hey. 1343 01:27:55,492 --> 01:27:57,500 - How ya doing? - Guys, this is Cat. 1344 01:27:57,572 --> 01:28:00,507 - Hello. - I'm Grigg's big sister. 1345 01:28:00,580 --> 01:28:05,849 Oh, God, that's wonderful. That's so... I'm... God, that's wonderful. 1346 01:28:05,923 --> 01:28:07,898 You're Grigg's sister. I'm Jocelyn. This is Sylvia. 1347 01:28:07,972 --> 01:28:09,051 - How are you? - Hi. 1348 01:28:09,123 --> 01:28:11,033 - Good, thank you. - Hi. Bernadette. 1349 01:28:12,995 --> 01:28:15,995 - I don't believe it. - Look at you! 1350 01:28:16,067 --> 01:28:17,856 - You look great. - Good to see you. 1351 01:28:17,923 --> 01:28:19,483 Thank you. 1352 01:28:19,555 --> 01:28:21,922 - Wow, are you visiting from Idaho? - Yeah, yeah. 1353 01:28:21,986 --> 01:28:25,848 We kept seeing these emails. And we said, "What kind of strange power 1354 01:28:25,922 --> 01:28:29,599 "do these women have that they got Grigg to read Jane Austen?" 1355 01:28:30,146 --> 01:28:34,008 Just thought I'd check it out. You wanna take a walk? 1356 01:28:34,978 --> 01:28:36,287 Well, sure. 1357 01:28:38,498 --> 01:28:39,774 Excuse me. 1358 01:28:46,401 --> 01:28:49,118 Bernie! Mom! Hey. Hey! 1359 01:28:49,761 --> 01:28:52,925 - Hi. - Dr. Yep? 1360 01:28:52,993 --> 01:28:55,327 Samantha. Thank you for inviting me. 1361 01:28:55,392 --> 01:28:59,865 - I'm sorry we're late. - Oh. Yeah. Well, Prudie's not even here yet. 1362 01:28:59,936 --> 01:29:01,278 Is that Dad? 1363 01:29:04,160 --> 01:29:05,851 - Let's say hi. - Okay. 1364 01:29:07,807 --> 01:29:09,018 A doctor. 1365 01:29:11,392 --> 01:29:12,985 Nothing in haste. 1366 01:29:13,183 --> 01:29:15,769 - Dad! Hi! - Hey. 1367 01:29:23,871 --> 01:29:25,759 Would you do me a favor? 1368 01:29:27,006 --> 01:29:28,697 Would you read this? 1369 01:29:29,631 --> 01:29:31,453 Please. Right now. 1370 01:29:32,703 --> 01:29:35,866 Isn't that what your special little book club's for? 1371 01:29:37,950 --> 01:29:40,055 I really want you to read it. 1372 01:29:41,661 --> 01:29:43,090 Please, Dean. 1373 01:29:48,318 --> 01:29:50,358 It doesn't... They don't... 1374 01:29:50,877 --> 01:29:53,877 Prudie, I feel like you want me to be something that I'm not. 1375 01:29:53,949 --> 01:29:57,527 I just walk around being me. I don't pretend to be anything else. 1376 01:29:57,597 --> 01:29:59,353 I'm the guy who thinks "Austen" is a city in Texas. 1377 01:29:59,421 --> 01:30:01,876 I shouldn't have said that. That was mean. 1378 01:30:01,949 --> 01:30:03,923 You just set me up for a test that you don't want me to pass. 1379 01:30:03,996 --> 01:30:07,608 No, no. This is not a test. 1380 01:30:07,676 --> 01:30:09,301 This is something to share. 1381 01:30:09,372 --> 01:30:12,154 Why don't you just tell me what it's about? 1382 01:30:13,692 --> 01:30:19,605 It's about these two people who used to love each other. 1383 01:30:20,508 --> 01:30:22,330 And they don't anymore. 1384 01:30:23,388 --> 01:30:27,032 And it's how they persuade themselves to give it another try. 1385 01:30:28,219 --> 01:30:31,994 Look, I can get you started off. Okay? 1386 01:30:32,059 --> 01:30:33,433 - "Sir Walter Eliot... - Prudie. 1387 01:30:33,498 --> 01:30:36,182 "... of Kellynch Hall in Somersetshire was a man who... 1388 01:30:36,251 --> 01:30:38,738 "for his own amusement, never took up any book but the..." 1389 01:30:38,810 --> 01:30:42,388 Come on, you're really not gonna read all of this out loud. 1390 01:30:48,505 --> 01:30:50,032 One page. 1391 01:30:51,481 --> 01:30:55,256 "There he found occupation for an idle hour 1392 01:30:55,354 --> 01:30:57,426 "and consolation in a distressed one." 1393 01:30:57,690 --> 01:30:59,031 - Come on. - So I've been trying to figure out 1394 01:30:59,097 --> 01:31:02,393 that moment in Persuasion when Wentworth and Anne 1395 01:31:02,489 --> 01:31:04,726 just began to stop hating each other. 1396 01:31:06,105 --> 01:31:08,243 Maybe it's when they went with everyone to Lyme. 1397 01:31:08,312 --> 01:31:10,167 After Louisa Musgrove fell. 1398 01:31:10,232 --> 01:31:12,785 After Wentworth used her to make Anne jealous. 1399 01:31:12,856 --> 01:31:14,383 You think he was using Louisa? 1400 01:31:14,457 --> 01:31:16,693 Yeah. That's one interpretation. 1401 01:31:18,105 --> 01:31:21,170 - I think the guy was just trying to feel... - Valued again. 1402 01:31:21,239 --> 01:31:22,930 It was a bonehead move. 1403 01:31:23,000 --> 01:31:24,789 I mean, he knows he's nothing without Anne. 1404 01:31:24,856 --> 01:31:27,277 He loved her then, he loves her now. 1405 01:31:27,927 --> 01:31:30,829 I like how Austen always lets the men explain themselves. 1406 01:31:30,903 --> 01:31:33,292 Darcy writes a letter to Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, 1407 01:31:33,367 --> 01:31:34,676 and Frank writes to Emma. 1408 01:31:34,743 --> 01:31:38,452 Yeah, in Persuasion, everything hangs on Wentworth leaving her that note 1409 01:31:38,518 --> 01:31:42,228 - when everybody's talking all around them. - Yeah. Yeah. Sneaky. 1410 01:31:43,863 --> 01:31:46,546 No, smart guy. Perfect timing. 1411 01:31:47,030 --> 01:31:48,078 Yeah. 1412 01:31:49,718 --> 01:31:53,428 Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter. 1413 01:31:54,582 --> 01:31:56,971 Grigg has always loved dogs. 1414 01:31:57,046 --> 01:31:59,467 You know, we were never allowed to have one when we were kids. 1415 01:31:59,541 --> 01:32:02,224 Dogs and books. That's our Grigg. 1416 01:32:02,933 --> 01:32:06,545 Okay, he'd kill me for saying this, but my brother likes you. 1417 01:32:06,613 --> 01:32:10,355 I'm figuring he'll never tell you. And this way it's up to you. 1418 01:32:10,965 --> 01:32:14,925 My sisters and me, I wouldn't say we ruined him, 1419 01:32:14,996 --> 01:32:18,793 but he's just way too considerate to make the first move. 1420 01:32:20,148 --> 01:32:21,806 - Hey. - Hey. 1421 01:32:21,876 --> 01:32:26,098 I was just wishing that Austen had written a bunch more books, you know? 1422 01:32:26,804 --> 01:32:28,495 I'm gonna miss this. 1423 01:32:28,691 --> 01:32:31,855 "All of the ladies were contented to pass quietly and carefully down the steep flight, 1424 01:32:31,923 --> 01:32:32,970 "excepting Louisa. 1425 01:32:33,076 --> 01:32:35,465 "She must be jumped down them by Captain Wentworth. 1426 01:32:35,540 --> 01:32:38,125 "She was safely down and instantly, to show her enjoyment, 1427 01:32:38,195 --> 01:32:40,050 "ran up the steps to be jumped down again. 1428 01:32:40,115 --> 01:32:42,668 "He advised her against it, but no..." 1429 01:34:11,149 --> 01:34:12,262 Shoot. 1430 01:35:07,627 --> 01:35:11,172 I'm so sorry. I should've called first. I read these books. 1431 01:35:12,138 --> 01:35:13,414 I love them. 1432 01:35:13,482 --> 01:35:14,529 I couldn't stop reading. 1433 01:35:14,602 --> 01:35:18,180 I went to the all-night newsstand on State Street to buy Searoad, the next one, 1434 01:35:18,249 --> 01:35:21,544 - but they didn't have it, and... - Do you wanna borrow Searoad? 1435 01:35:21,610 --> 01:35:24,065 I mean, I have... You know, there... 1436 01:35:25,289 --> 01:35:28,104 There are other writers that you might like. 1437 01:35:59,271 --> 01:36:00,285 Hey. 1438 01:36:01,735 --> 01:36:03,044 Hi, honey. 1439 01:36:03,687 --> 01:36:05,989 I didn't expect you back so soon. 1440 01:36:19,078 --> 01:36:20,638 Wait, wait, wait. 1441 01:36:55,396 --> 01:36:58,146 Hey, has anyone read those Patrick O'Brian novels? 1442 01:36:58,212 --> 01:37:00,961 - British Navy. - Yeah. Jane Austen's navy, 1805. 1443 01:37:01,027 --> 01:37:02,937 Yeah. But aren't there, like, 20 of them? 1444 01:37:03,012 --> 01:37:05,248 - There's more of us now. - I'm in. 1445 01:37:08,228 --> 01:37:11,708 - Oh, my God, is that Bernadette? - I thought she was in Costa Rica. 1446 01:37:11,779 --> 01:37:16,034 Buenas noches, everyone. This is Se�or Obando. 1447 01:37:16,099 --> 01:37:17,921 - Hola. - Hello. 1448 01:37:17,986 --> 01:37:21,117 - Hello. - He's working on his English. 1449 01:37:21,186 --> 01:37:23,488 - I'm working on my Spanish. - Hello. 1450 01:37:25,442 --> 01:37:28,028 And so far I have te amo. 1451 01:37:29,218 --> 01:37:30,265 And mi esposo. 1452 01:37:30,369 --> 01:37:31,995 - Oh, my God! - Congratulations! 1453 01:37:32,066 --> 01:37:35,743 - That's incredible! - That's incredible. Congratulations! 1454 01:37:35,810 --> 01:37:37,533 - Oh, it's gorgeous. - Thank you. 1455 01:37:37,601 --> 01:37:38,616 - I'm so happy for you. - Congratulations. 1456 01:37:38,690 --> 01:37:42,235 - Dad, check it out. - Well, let's get you a drink, Mr. Darcy. 1457 01:37:46,849 --> 01:37:49,150 - Don't be gone too long. - Yikes. That makes seven. 1458 01:37:49,216 --> 01:37:50,558 - What? - Yeah. 1459 01:37:54,368 --> 01:37:56,059 Hey, guys. Guys. 1460 01:37:56,128 --> 01:37:58,364 He hasn't read a word of Austen. 1461 01:38:00,672 --> 01:38:02,079 Oh, poor man. 1462 01:38:02,816 --> 01:38:05,663 Ah, yeah. We'll fix that. 1463 01:38:08,000 --> 01:38:09,560 - Cheers! - Cheers!