It did make sense for Suzie to decide not to deal with the money herself, it just struck such a weird note for me for her to go to Midge’s ex husband behind her back to ask him to take care of her money. I suppose that part of my issue there is that I don’t like Joel and Joel/Midge as much as it feels like the writing wants you too, and it felt kind of forced to me to have Suzie declare that he was the best person for the job because he still loves Midge. And plus it just felt like a weird choice to secretly go to Joel when Midge was trying to establish an independent new life for herself
Midge and Suzie’s friendship is one of my favourite parts of the show otherwise though, it was just that particular moment that felt jarring to me
And I could really see both sides when it came to the ending, I think that Midge did saw it harmless banter that the audience weren’t picking up on and so no harm done, but to Shy he would have just heard her making him the butt of the joke and riffing on him for her entire opening act. It did seem like Midge was possibly mislead when it came to Reggie telling her that everyone in that audience knew all about Shy and it was fine to be open with them, but even so surely she should have been more aware that Shy’s sexuality was completely off limits and that wasn’t what he meant? Reggie wasn’t even aware that Midge herself knew! Clearly everyone on tour with him had no idea except for Reggie, and Shy had told her that it was a huge secret that he was trusting her with. You don’t then go on stage and joke around and wink towards that
I did think that it was a low move to wait until they were at the airport with two paid for taxis though, but I assumed that was Shy lashing out and deliberately wanting to punish Midge after feeling that she had betrayed him and his trust in her? It would seem to be a risky move though as Midge could very easily choose to out him afterwards as payback, although I guess he knew her well enough to trust that she wouldn’t be that vindictive
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It did make sense for Suzie to decide not to deal with the money herself, it just struck such a weird note for me for her to go to Midge’s ex husband behind her back to ask him to take care of her money. I suppose that part of my issue there is that I don’t like Joel and Joel/Midge as much as it feels like the writing wants you too, and it felt kind of forced to me to have Suzie declare that he was the best person for the job because he still loves Midge. And plus it just felt like a weird choice to secretly go to Joel when Midge was trying to establish an independent new life for herself
Midge and Suzie’s friendship is one of my favourite parts of the show otherwise though, it was just that particular moment that felt jarring to me
And I could really see both sides when it came to the ending, I think that Midge did saw it harmless banter that the audience weren’t picking up on and so no harm done, but to Shy he would have just heard her making him the butt of the joke and riffing on him for her entire opening act. It did seem like Midge was possibly mislead when it came to Reggie telling her that everyone in that audience knew all about Shy and it was fine to be open with them, but even so surely she should have been more aware that Shy’s sexuality was completely off limits and that wasn’t what he meant? Reggie wasn’t even aware that Midge herself knew! Clearly everyone on tour with him had no idea except for Reggie, and Shy had told her that it was a huge secret that he was trusting her with. You don’t then go on stage and joke around and wink towards that
I did think that it was a low move to wait until they were at the airport with two paid for taxis though, but I assumed that was Shy lashing out and deliberately wanting to punish Midge after feeling that she had betrayed him and his trust in her? It would seem to be a risky move though as Midge could very easily choose to out him afterwards as payback, although I guess he knew her well enough to trust that she wouldn’t be that vindictive