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Meetings Wives Club

This is ostensibly a meeting to keep the wives up to date on all the stuff NASA has in the hopper, but it's really a way for the show to make the point that there are a LOT of Wives right now. THEY KNOW, OKAY? Also, My Tinder Friend Evan Handler tells all the wives to make sure not to pester their husbands for sex if they're not into it, but definitely bang them if they're looking to bang. MANY eyes are rolled at this.

Mugs Wives Club

Poor Nora Zehetner. I would care more about her pain if we'd spent more time with Marilyn See. That said, this 60s look REALLY suits her and also those coffee cups are fabulous.

Bangs Wives Club

And that hair is SO MUCH CUTER on Lavinia Swire than her previous wig was.

NOOOO Wives Club

This is Marilyn Lovell (Marilyn L.) and...the wife of the dude who might be a bigamist. I fear both of them did something TERRIBLE to the wardrobe department to led to the horrors that are currently happening on their bodies.

Yellow Wives Club

Betty wears yellow throughout this episode, and JGS looks lovely in it.

Sunglasses Wives Club

In which Jo Looks Hotter In Sunglasses. (I'd like to note that Zoe Boyle was also very good in this episode, and is good in this show as a whole.)

Agitators Wives Club

"LOOK AT ALL THIS VINTAGE CLOTHING WE SCORED."

I actually DO want to know where the costume department for this show scored all this sweet vintage. They are killing it. Ditto props.

You Tell Em Wives Club

It's telling that the one time Louise wears color is when she's headed somewhere to tell off someone's shitty husband. Maybe her calling is telling dudes that they're falling down on the job. (The irony, of course, being that her own husband is a total pill.)

Vintage Nightgown Wives CLub

You should know that this episode is full of Gus promising to take Betty to Paris, and her telling him that he's all she ever wanted. SOB. Even I am not immune to the emotion in this plotline, less-than-ideal pacing aside. This is also where I'd put my usual railing about how this show SHOULD be more emotionally-affecting on the whole except you already have it memorized.

Fence Wives Club

This was a pretty good scene, where Marilyns S and L come to the base to get Elliot See's personal items from his desk, and the kid at the desk can't let them onto the base without a note from the husband in question. Who is DEAD. And Marilyn L is kind of like, "ARE YOU KIDDING ME," and Deke has to come out and be all, "well, it's protocol," and all these actors seemed very happy to have something to do with themselves.

Wives Wives Club

And, in fact, it is this shitty behavior from NASA that leads Marilyn L to join the other wives in Agitating For Change...

Wives Wives Club

...and gets everyone else to do it, too.

GO BRUINS Wives Club

Finally, they let Marilyn in to get her husband's personal belongings and I just wanted to include this shout-out to my university. Go Bruins!

Time Passes Wives Club

Time passes. We know, because there's tons of stock footage, and newsreel chatter, and Marilyn gets more pregnant, and then has a baby. I wish we'd also seen pages of a calendar fly past and leaves falling from a tree.

Bad News Wives Club

Good lipstick on Jo, too, for the scene where It Finally Happens. And I have to say that this scene, where Jo gets a call about the accident in which Gus died, and runs over to Betty's and they stare at the phone, and then a knock comes at the door, was VERY good. Well done, you guys. See? I can be nice.

Fug the Show: Astronaut Wives Club recap, "Rendezvous"
This was kind of a decent episode, with the exception of the fact that this show keeps insisting on including all kinds of stuff That Really Happened that they could cut out in the name of telling a more streamlined story, and also this one episode spanned THREE YEARS. Whatever: I'm just yelling into the void here. Finally, poor Gus dies -- JoAnna Garcia Swisher is very good this episode; someone get that woman a successful show -- and we also meet a new Astro-Wife about whom I would not care at all, except Holley Fain, who plays Marilyn Lovell (the part Kathleen Quinlan plays in Apollo 13), is actually very good with little to do. (She was also on Gossip Girl with Desmond Harrington; they're both unrecognizable right now, her because of this terrible wig and him because he looks so awful for some reason.) Let's recap what happened to everyone: Betty and Gus: SOB. (Enjoy the angst while it lasts; I am sure next week's episode will be much later, so we can get to the Moon Landing within the next three episodes, at which point I expect someone [Marge] will say something along the lines of, "they couldn't have done it without us," as she slings her arm around Jo's shoulders and they all look up at the moon. God, I really want to get all of the scripts for this show and re-imagine the entire thing. Let me in there with my red pen and a time machine.) Anyway, poor Betty; she spends this entire episode agitating for NASA to institute protocol to keep The Wives informed about what's going on with their husbands, and so that they're properly informed in case the worst happens (after seeing them bungle telling Marilyn See about her husband's crash) and then the worst does happen to her. PS: There was an amusing scene early on wherein the Mercury Wives agree there are too many wives now to tell all the Marilyns apart. I, in fact, thought they were calling Marilyn See "Marilyn C," like there was also a Marilyn L and a Marilyn J. And then I realized there was a Marilyn L. Louise and Alan: Alan HATES having an inner ear disease; Louise and Trudy fly down to Florida to give the husband of one of the Gemini Wives what-for, because he's screwing around in Florida while his son is dying of cancer. He cries that he feels too helpless to be there at the hospital and Trudy and Louise are basically like, "well, you SUCK" and storm off, and that's all true, but what I really want to know is: CAN WE FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE FACT THAT THIS DUDE MIGHT HAVE BEEN A BIGAMIST? Thanks. Trudy and Gordo: Trudy is flying the ladies all hither and yon and Gordon doesn't like doing laundry. Annie and John: We're all just treading water until the show gets to Glenn's triumphant 1998 return to space, I assume? (Snarkiness aside, I think it's SUPER AWESOME that John Glenn got to go back to space at 77. Per Wiki: "According to The New York Times, Glenn 'won his seat on the Shuttle flight by lobbying NASA for two years to fly as a human guinea pig for geriatric studies', which were named as the main reasons for his participation in the mission." You go, John Glenn Coco. Sigh. Sometimes, I feel like this show is leaching my love of space from me and then reading that gives it back to me a little bit.) Marge and Deke/Jo and Wally: Are all still alive. Jo got a flattering haircut. Deke got some lines. Wally is a ghost we never see. Other Wives: Poor Marilyn See is widowed and it would be so much more affecting if we ever spent any time with her or ever saw her husband AT ALL. For example, I thought Matt Lanter played her husband, but then I looked it up and realized that he played Ed White, who died with Gus, so he IS dead, but just not in the manner than I thought he died. This show is confusing, and also a little upsetting, because Wikipedia is very good at reminding me that these are real people who did actually die. I wish this show was doing more justice to the space program, you guys. Should we just all stream From The Earth to the Moon instead?

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