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# Fug the Show: Astronaut Wives Club Recap, "The Dark Side"
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/astronaut-wives-club-recap-the-dark-side/
- Published: 2015-08-20T16:00:50.000Z
- Updated: 2015-08-22T00:05:02.000Z
- Author: Jessica  
- Tags: #wp, #wp-gallery, #slideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 07:44

## Dinner Wives Club

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bf/b9/bfb99790-924d-4e41-a7e6-5e3c6e04fe57/content/images/static-gofugyourself-com/uploads/2015/08/img_0744_2.png)

I LOVE this top on Louise. (I have a weakness for a neck ruffle.)

## RFK Wives Club

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/08/IMG_0748.png)

I guess I should have realized this was in California thanks to the sign back there that reads, "HEY THIS IS CALIFORNIA" or whatever, but I was distracted by how AWKWARD the RFK's accent was. Also, this is the dialogue: "California is all yours!" "We're on our way now!" Which I interpreted as meaning, "this went so well, CA is going to be awesome," and "we're leaving to head there now!" So...this was confusing, I guess.

## WHO Wives Club

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/08/IMG_0751.png)

Who's this dude, you ask? WHO EVEN KNOWS! (It's Frank Boreman, whose wife is MAAAAAAYBE an alcoholic because of stress now.)

## Drinking Wives Club

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/08/IMG_0752.png)

See? She's stressed. Loosen your neck bow. You might feel better.

## Pucci Wives Club

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/08/IMG_0758.png)

Bereaved Betty Grissom tells everyone that she's hanging in there, AND she's definitely looking awesome.

## Bows Wives Club

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/08/IMG_0759.png)

I'd suggest drinking every time we see a neck bow in this episode, but then we'd ALL be drunk.

## Trudy Wives Club

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/08/IMG_0763.png)

Predictably, however, Trudy looks great and that dress is amazing on her.

## More Neck Bows Wives Club

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/08/IMG_0768.png)

I AM glad Marilyn is back, even if the only thing she has to do is be concerned that Susan is drinking vodka straight from the bottle and locking herself into the bedroom to write her husband's obit. She DOES suggest Susan see the AstroTherapist, but Susan doesn't wanna.

## NECK BOWS

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/08/IMG_0774_2.png)

FYI, the vintage stores of Los Angeles are now completely out of neck bow blouses. Utterly. There isn't one to be had for love or money. Also: this divorce lawyer maybe needs to turn on some lights.

## Three Bows In a Row Wives Club

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/08/IMG_0781.png)

A dark time for women's wear.

## Hippies Wives Club

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/08/IMG_0783.png)

I feel like hair and makeup and costume and props had a VERY good time getting to switch over to Hippie Town for a little bit this week. This was a kind of funny bit, though, where Louise ends up next to the most uptight of the hippies and they clearly kind of bond.

## Festive Wives Club

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/08/IMG_0795.png)

These festive holiday pantsuits are HILARIOUS and I love them. I think I own the pants that Susan is wearing (Lands End Signature, you guys. Your go-to for loud plaid holiday pants.)

## Broadcasting Wives Club

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/08/IMG_0800.png)

"I'm Rene Carpenter for Neck Bow Broadcasting Corp, wishing you all good night and a pleasant tomorrow."

## SINGLE IN JAPAN Wives Club

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/08/IMG_0803_2.png)

I just liked this sweater.

## Coven of Neck Bows Wives Club

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/08/IMG_0805_2.png)

WHAT IS BETTY EVEN WEARING????

## IMG\_0810\_2

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/08/IMG_0810_2.png)

## Food Wives Club

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/08/IMG_0812_2.png)

BEHOLD THE PYREX. Let's also give a shout-out to the show's food stylists, shall we?

## WHO ARE YOU?? Wives Club

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/08/IMG_0814.png)

This poor actress. She gets all kinds of reaction shots and people gripping at her, so I presume she is supposed to be married to one of the Dudes In Space with Frank Borman (so, she's married to William Anders, because Marilyn Lovell's husband Tom Hanks is the other one in space). She gets no lines and I had to look her name up on Wikipedia (it's Valerie) and we've LITERALLY NEVER SEEN HER BEFORE so...I don't know why we even bothered. Your audience should not yell, "who is THAT?" every time you cut to a reaction shot.

## Sofa Wives Club

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/08/IMG_0817_2.png)

Everything is fine except that HIDEOUS pant suit on Annie Glenn. (Note: I do appreciate that they didn't even try to age people up with makeup. We all know that would have gone badly.)

## Holiday Decor Wives Club

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/08/IMG_0820_2.png)

Shout-out to Marilyn Lovell (my favorite of the new wives by far) for her AWESOME pink Christmas tree.

## Thumbs up Wives Club

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/08/IMG_0824_2.png)

Is she still totally out of control drinking? WHO KNOWS????? Her husband's coming home and her dress is really cute.

[Fug the Show: Astronaut Wives Club Recap, "The Dark Side"I'm not sure if this episode was actually bad, or if it seemed worse in comparison because last week's was quite good? That being said, it did include: a lot of anguished facial expressions from a wife WE'VE NEVER MET and who we NEVER DO MEET; the worst Kennedy impersonation I've ever heard; a line of dialogue that implied RFK was on en route to California after which he promptly was shot, thereby correcting itself that he actually already WAS in California; the sentence, "I do get tired. SO TIRED"; a whole plotline wherein one of the Wives is an alcoholic but then maybe her husband returning to earth safely cured her of it, we don't know????; Dirty Hippies Whose Lifestyle Teaches Louise A Lesson And Who Are Also Conveniently Metaphorical In Other Ways; someone pronouncing the word "capsule" as "caps-SUE-elle"; the line, "That's the difference between an average life...AND AN EXTRAORDINARY ONE"; and Betty telling Jo, in times of sadness, to look to her "fence hole." So, I am pretty sure it was actually just bad. (Although Betty giving Jo the wood from the hole they cut in the fence between their respective yards was kind of great.) That said, we're also at a point where the 60s clothing is turned SUPER HIDEOUS on us, and that's always fun. The wives: Louise and Alan: Blah blah blah, after learning To Live Freely and Have Adventures thanks to some hippies who saved them after their car had a blow out, and a literal roll in the hay, Louise decides she's fine with Alan having his Inner Ear Disorder Surgery, because he wants to go to the moon (which eventually he does, of course). FYI, this upcoming episode is the finale, which is the moon landing, and I find it super weird that we've never met Mrs Buzz Aldrin nor Mrs Neil Armstrong, and there are no actors credited for them on IMDb, so....THAT'S a weird choice, dramatically. Jo and Wally: Wally retires after successfully launching Gus's CAPSUELLE and then they move to Denver. There's also a subplot about their son wanting to join the military and go to Vietnam, but he changes his mind for reasons that are never explained, other perhaps than that his mother was against the idea. Trudy and Gordo: Are alive. Ditto Annie and John. Scott and Rene: Scott's still stuck at the bottom of the ocean or whatever, and Rene is depressed and at loose ends when RFK is assassinated and she (obviously) is no longer working on his presidential campaign. Annie finagles a way for Rene to get to be the newscaster covering the CAPSUELLE launch in this episode, which seems like a big deal and I can't fact-check whether or not this actually happened for some reason but my guess is it didn't? Marge and Deke: Remember how Louise and Trudy found out that Harriet(??)'s husband had the secret family in Florida and might be a bigamist? Well, two hundred years later and Harriet wants to divorce him and Deke asks Marge to try to put a stop to this because it's bad PR for NASA, and she is all, "BUT I'M DIVORCED" and he's all, "oh, right, what is the deal with that suitcase full of stuff from when you were SINGLE IN JAPAN???" and she's all "\[some weird something about how it's a metaphor for not letting herself be bossed around\]" and he's all "\[something nice and supportive about how Marge is awesome in his eyes, because Deke rocks\]" and then she THROWS THE SUITCASE INTO THE OCEAN, like it's the necklace from Titanic and I can't wait until, come season three, someone fishes it out for Britney Spears. Everyone Else: Marilyn L is really worried that Susan Borman is an alcoholic, given that she keeps, you know, drinking and is also a total wreck otherwise. Is she? WHO EVEN KNOWS. Harriet does divorce The Dude With Another Family. And one Nameless Lady gets a lot of reaction shots. To the outfits! You've NEVER seen this many neckbows.  ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bf/b9/bfb99790-924d-4e41-a7e6-5e3c6e04fe57/content/images/static-gofugyourself-com/uploads/2015/08/img_0744_2.png)](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/astronaut-wives-club-recap-the-dark-side-08-2015/)