Marco and Frankie are doing Italian Fascist Things, which basically means stealing vegetables and punching low-level security guards. Meanwhile, Gladys is sucking up to Mrs. Moretti and taking the Fascist Handbook as proof that Marco is bad. She does this while munching on phallic symbols and drinking espresso. Gladys, baby, I love you, but. But.
BISCOTTI GOOD SPY WORK BISCOTTI YUM
Over at Witham Palace of Beans, Gladys and family is hearing that a guard got beat up by some Italians, who promptly stole their butternut squashes! Probably to use in a quality sauce that they’ll serve over pasta, the bastards! Gladys thinks her mom is being a Grade A Bigot by referring to Italians as “those people” but then she remembers SPIES! And goes back to being a covert spy. SPIES!
is spy do racism is spy work spies good????
Over at Ye Olde Factory Floor, Kate and Betty are dealing with their tension. It’s sort of working but mostly not because their clothes are still on. They keep passing a giant dildo back and forth and fight for control of it while shoving it into a hole. So.
what could i possibly be mad about it’s not like you’re getting married to the only guy i’ve ever had sex with and my girlfriend is leaving to go fight the war and everything i have ever loved has left me
Gladys sees that Marco’s hand is all bruised. She confronts him about it and he says he was just boxing and stirring his spaghetti really hard so can she just back off already??? Gladys goes to the dark and wet cellar where Bad Accent Huh is waiting and tells him about her spy findings. Someone walks by so to be subtle she goes right ahead and kisses him. Gladys’ magical vaginas, ladies and gentlemen. SPIES!
HOW BE SUBTLE DO KISS??? GOOD SPY WORK!!!
Marco is having another Italian Party in his kitchen, this time with free produce, but his mom comes in and straight up slaps him silly. He’s like, mom, I’m a fascist now, you don’t get it and you’ll never get it! and then he goes upstairs to listen to Avril Lavigne’s version of O Sole Mio in his room.
fascism isn’t just a fad mom, it’s a real band with really good music and i’m gonna go to coachella whether you say yes or not
Gladys goes to talk to Marco about his life problems at the Only Bar in Toronto. Vera sees and is NOT DOWN because everyone knows that Gladys’ Magical Vagina has a tracking beam like no other. Lorna and Weirdly Erotic Milkman are dancing and flirting. It’s going there, guys. You don’t know if you want it to, but it is anyway.
oh no i don’t have a husband that was just a strange man in a wheelchair who sometimes lived in my home
Vera gives Gladys the 411 in the bathroom, just like at middle school dances where you would meet all your friends in the bathroom and tell each other who you should try to dance with and who you should not try to dance with because Stacy Cleaves already called Matt Banks which means you skanks need to stay the fuck away from Matt Banks. In this case, Gladys Witham and her Magical Vagina need to stay the fuck away from Marco Moretti because Vera is the queen and has had it hard and deserves nice things. Gladys sort of gets it.
gladys i don’t need to destroy you and everything you hold dear but it seems you are leaving me no choice
Marco shows up at Vera’s place for a little drunk nookie. It ends up being a very touching conversation in which Vera, who is the queen of the universe and someone whose self-confidence is stupidly inspiring and beautiful, opens up about her own insecurities and the trauma she still deals with after the factory accident. I’m so in love with this character, guys. I know y’all are ridin that Betty train pretty hard, but Vera is the kind of perfection I was convinced you’d have to die and get to heaven to see.
Reggie finds out that the milkman is coming over. Her reaction to the whole situation is pretty great.
keep it in your pants girl
Vera wakes up to Marco chattin’ it up in Italian on the phone. She asks him what’s up and he says it’s none of her business. Little does he know that Vera is queen of the universe and thus everything that even minor mortals do, such as himself, is her business.
do you dare to address me as such
Kate and Betty have a moment in the locker room. It’s intense for a number of reasons. Firstly, it’s maybe the first time this season they’ve acknowledge the deep connection they have and what they mean to each other. Secondly, it’s super important that Kate expresses some kind of verbal approval of Betty’s queerness, and she does, even if let’s face it, that is a situation that needs to be addressed in a much more complex way, maybe once Kate is ready. I don’t know, guys. I just really love them, okay? I love them a whole lot and I want them both to be happy so badly and I keep believing that some day eventually they will find that happiness in each other but in the meantime I am okay with these other things but oh, feelings.
Of course, this scene is followed up by some more heart stomping as Teresa comes to see Betty for one last goodbye. And they can’t even kiss! Give this lady a break, people. Gives this lady a goddamned break before my eyeballs are ripped from their sockets in protest of all this crying.
oh jesus i can’t the tears stop no i can’t
Betty goes to Lorna’s house to apologize and gets a meal out of it. Oh, Lorna, and your mothering ways. Meltin’ my queer heart.
baby
In conclusion, Betty is perfect, Kate is perfect, Vera is perfect, Lorna is perfect, Gladys is working on it, and look at these perfect faces having a perfect moment.
PERFECT DISNEY PRINCESS FACE I CAN’T
don’t make that face i’m gonna cry i’m already crying there are tears everywhere
Bomb Girls: the little show that can and will destroy your heart, and you will be happy to have your heart decimated.
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The cup caption made me spit water on my laptop. I lost it. That was so great. Now I’ll have to say that to someone.
More Reggie character development! She seems bad-ass but I would like to see more from her point of view.
Kade, thank you so much for being nice about Kate. I am really fed up with all the people who are hating on Kate (mainly just this one friend of mine, but also a ton of people on the internet).
i think the “kate hate “comes entirely from the betty hardcore stanning in the fandom tbh. the fact that kate did not sleep with everyone’s favorite character means that no one wants to acknowledge her agency but instead scream at kate for not giving their idol what she wanted
go figure, i am still way into mcandrews. this is if only because i think the relationship between the two women is more complex and intense than ever, and i’d love to see that come to fruition. not in the way i think a lot of the fandom has idealized it – kate admitting she’s in love with betty, she’s so sorry for ever doing her wrong, lesbians happiness rainbows etc – but in the super complicated and human way it will probably eventually come to a head. here are two people who have shared their deepest and darkest secrets with each other – one of those secrets is fucking MURDER for christ’s sake, along with secrets concerning abuse, sexuality, all kinds of dark shit – while dealing with underlying unspoken desires that only ever come to the surface through really heated semi-violent moments, like betty’s kiss, the scene with kate’s father in the hallway, etc. that is a recipe for a super intense and complex narrative of sexuality and desire that NEEDS to be told, partly because i think that love is complicated and weird and we don’t give it enough credit, and partly because i think a lot of queer narratives in media are under a lot of pressure to be these happy normal things, and here is a story that is ripe with tension and darkness and goddamn it i hope this show can do it some justice
yeah i have a lot of feelings about this show beyond my snarky recaps, can you tell?
I love your breakdown about the McAndrews complexity and I second all the things.
YES
Pretty sure Betty’s reaction about putting an announcement in the paper was because she knew it would be dangerous for Kate’s cover – note that right after she cautions against it, Kate tries to get Ivan to back off the idea. And I totally don’t think Lorna was missing anything when Teresa said she was shipping out; in this episode I became sure that Lorna is onto both Betty and McBond… for reasons I already explained over at the AE recap and don’t feel like typing out again. :P
Oh but Kate, you made me snort out food a few times and get a bit misty-eyed. I love your recaps. The bit about the wedding planning scene was awesome. <3
Haha! The “fuckin heteros” pic made me chortle.
I want to teach a WWII history class now and have the final assignment be on representations of women’s work just because of this show (and, a little bit, A League of Their Own).
I may or may not have googled “avril lavigne + o sole mio” hoping it was a thing
At least you did it so I don’t have to, because I was considering it. I totally bought that it was real.
She’s marrying the Nickleback guy. Avril is capable of so many dark things.
Oh Lorna, I love how she’s like the den mother of all the girls on blue shift.
I like that Kate is making this new life for herself, but that wedding announcement is going to be bad news when the cop sees it and recognizes her.
So many feelings about that scene in the locker room with Kate and Betty and then when Theresa says goodbye.
FINALLY Kate and Betty get some proper scenes together, but just to be clear: still not enough screentime. Instead we get the worst spy storyline ever that no body cares about. Oh, and Marco being a fascist? Just saying. If they want a season 3 this may not be the smartest move.
Anyway. What did Kate really mean when she said “I know you too” to Betty? She knew Teresa and Betty was a thing so why did she say that when she clearly knows she doesn’t know Betty like Teresa does?
Also, I love that she looks really troubled for a slight second when Betty tells her she doesn’t know her like that. Yeah I could analyze this scene for a week. I have no problem with that – it’s a very sweet scene.
I was reading along and when it got to
“which I guess is where you arm wrestle and roll around in tubs of marinara sauce”
I had a flashback to adventures in kiddie pool creamed corn wrestling, and so naturally I read the rest of the sentence as
“and encourage each other to join a fisting group.”
The Gladys captions were amazing. British Helo is sketch as fuck so I hope they reveal soon what the hell his deal is because I do not buy that he is a a British spy dude.
Also – Kate telling Betty that God didn’t put anyone on earth to be lonely made me cry, so the McBond goodbye just had me bawling. Jesus Christ, I’m tearing up thinking about it. This show.
i laughed so many times
also you guys, KATE IS TOTALLY U-HAULING IT. i mean, mcandrews aside, this is crazytown! unless this is like downton abbey where every scene takes place three months after the last scene, kate is getting married to a guy she has been dating for approximately ten minutes and it is driving me crazy that nobody has pointed it out yet. i mean it’s crazy for so many reasons but that’s a big one. i realize that on TV people don’t have to date for like four years before getting married, but seriously they’ve been dating for 15 minutes max. Also I don’t think you can be happy with somebody you’re lying to about things, but I think the idea that 100% honesty is necessary for a happy relationship is probs gay and also relatively modern.
She’s gonna lie for the rest of her life? I guess she was already planning on lying for the rest of her life about HER DEEP LOVE FOR BETTY MCRAE
I think that they have been dating for a couple months, actually, because time does move fast on this show. They started dating at the beginning of spring I think and now it is fall. Also, did people get married quicker in the 40s? Maybe this is a thing, idk. Nonetheless, I still think it is too soon for those two, and that they shouldn’t marry regardless of how long they’ve been dating.
This recap was hilarious :D
Also I’m really not sure I understand why Gladys is siding with Agent Ballard over her friends. I guess maybe it’s the idea that she’s doing what she thinks will help her friends best which will, once again, screw them over in the end. But I really don’t get it.
It’s because Gladys is THE MOST patriotic. I wouldn’t be surprised at this point if her vagina had morphed into the shape of a maple leaf.
The spy captions had me dying of laughter over here haha
Every time Betty makes one of those vulnerable, I’m-trying-to-be-tough-but-I-just-need-someone-to-love-me faces, I die a little bit inside. Also, just her facial expressions in general. She makes me swoon a million times each show.
Just watched all of season 1 on netflix and I’m in LOVE with this show. Can anyone help a girl out with methods of watching season 2 online in the US? It’s killing me that there are more episodes and I can’t watch them!
does movie2k work in US??
tv-links.eu is the most reliable.
My girlfriend and I watch it on this person’s youtube account: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=betty+and+kate+season+2&oq=betty+and+kate&gs_l=youtube.3.1.0l10.480.3044.0.5248.14.9.0.5.5.1.293.945.6j2j1.9.0…0.0…1ac.1.UTBEp7DIMus
http://www.1channel.ch/ also works great and has all the episodes.
Kate I LOVE your recaps. Actually as much as I love this show. Obviously they are inseparable.
“Bomb Girls: the little show that can and will destroy your heart, and you will be happy to have your heart decimated.”
Couldn’t have said it better myself. As usual, an awesome fantastic recap for a fantastic show!
the show is awesome. i love it.
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