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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I loved this season and the finale!  Some thoughts/reflections:

- This season seemed much more realistic about the trajectory of how a career is made.  The first few seasons were too fairy-tale. But this season seemed realistic about the ups and downs and big breaks and lost opportunities.

- One thought I had was that this show is a love letter to women working.  Every scene shows a woman doing her job seriously and competently and like a boss, even if its just the coat check. You see how all the "small" jobs make the world go around.  Every woman's work is taken seriously. It's like a walking Bechtel test.  The main relationship is about work! Even Midge in season one returning the burlesque dancer's pasty-tassel to her shows how women's work is work, taken seriously by other women no matter what it is.

- Somehow this season tied up all the stories in an emotionally satisfying way, without being treacly.  I loved the subplot of Esther being a genius.  The goodbye to Lenny was devastating but not overplayed at all. I wish we found out what happened to Mei.

- I wanted to know who else Midge married!  Does she marry Gordon Ford for a while? I think so!

- The finale was really emotionally satisfying too. I loved seeing how Susie makes it and brings everyone up with her (reference to Dinah becoming a powerful manager on her own).  Do we think Susie was in love with Midge? Or maybe it doesn't matter? At the end, you can tell that even if so, they are best friends.

- I really really loved the end credits of the finale with all the sets and locations!

- loved loved LOVED the scene with Abe and his friends in the steakhouse in episode 8.  This is a show, no doubt, about women and their friendships. But this whole scene was like a love letter to men, specifically the way men get sappy as they get older.  The ASP snappy dialogue/patter is really perfected here with the counterpoint of the waiter against the seriousness of the men.  Abe's monologue at the end had me bawling and thinking about my own dad.

- Finally ... one thing I love about ASP which she really perfected in this show is the diegetic dancing and music.  (Diegetic - fancy film studies word for music that is part of the action of the movie, not the soundtrack added over the action. I think it can apply to dancing as well.)  Loved it in Bunheads too.  The culmination was the little sitcom with the sitcom of the show that Susie pitched (made up on the fly) on the golf course - with Sutton Foster (LOVE her) and Hank Azaria starring as an odd couple. Hank's song at the end to his daughter was just *chefs kiss.*[/quote]

ASP this you?[/quote]

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