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“That was a beautiful service… Gus would’ve hated it,” says Betty after burying her husband. In honor of Gus, who wouldn’t want us to stand on decorum, let’s take a moment to admire her beautiful car coat of grief.
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“That was a beautiful service… Gus would’ve hated it,” says Betty after burying her husband. In honor of Gus, who wouldn’t want us to stand on decorum, let’s take a moment to admire her beautiful car coat of grief.
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Betty is besieged by flashbacks and visions of Gus throughout the episode, and when she’s not she’s getting mysterious notes from a contractor who tells her Gus’s death was preventable and caused by using a flammable agent in the module.
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Betty is besieged by flashbacks and visions of Gus throughout the episode, and when she’s not she’s getting mysterious notes from a contractor who tells her Gus’s death was preventable and caused by using a flammable agent in the module.
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Betty attends a hearing on Gus’s death in DC, only to hear the audio of her husband dying and listen to an exec attempt cravenly to blame him for starting the fire. In bowler spirit form, Gus gives her permission to move on and let someone else finish this fight.
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Betty attends a hearing on Gus’s death in DC, only to hear the audio of her husband dying and listen to an exec attempt cravenly to blame him for starting the fire. In bowler spirit form, Gus gives her permission to move on and let someone else finish this fight.
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Betty takes fellow space widow Marilyn’s advice and embarks on that trip to Paris that she and Gus never got to take, but not before getting a bon voyage party from the OG astronaut wives. The only thing worse than Jo’s outfit is that earlier in this episode Jo discovered skorts. “It’s shorts, but it’s also a skirt!” Oh, honey, no.
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Betty takes fellow space widow Marilyn’s advice and embarks on that trip to Paris that she and Gus never got to take, but not before getting a bon voyage party from the OG astronaut wives. The only thing worse than Jo’s outfit is that earlier in this episode Jo discovered skorts. “It’s shorts, but it’s also a skirt!” Oh, honey, no.
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More good news: After Alan and Deke hijack NASA’s sixth anniversary party celebrating Alan’s inaugural space flight—”Who’s ever heard of a sixth anniversary party?” says everyone—the agency finally listens and slows down the launch schedule until issues with the craft can be fixed. That’s good news for Jo, whose husband Wally is next in line to go up.
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More good news: After Alan and Deke hijack NASA’s sixth anniversary party celebrating Alan’s inaugural space flight—”Who’s ever heard of a sixth anniversary party?” says everyone—the agency finally listens and slows down the launch schedule until issues with the craft can be fixed. That’s good news for Jo, whose husband Wally is next in line to go up.
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Louise spends half the episode trying to help fellow widow Pat through her grief. Her efforts don’t prevent Pat from swallowing a bottle of pills (she’s ok, for now). The experience also prompts a surprising blowup from Louise’s daughter Alice, who is actually her niece Judy that was adopted when Louise’s sister died.
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Louise spends half the episode trying to help fellow widow Pat through her grief. Her efforts don’t prevent Pat from swallowing a bottle of pills (she’s ok, for now). The experience also prompts a surprising blowup from Louise’s daughter Alice, who is actually her niece Judy that was adopted when Louise’s sister died.
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Louise hires Trudy to fly her and Alice/Judy to her sister’s grave, having learned that moving on and remembering to mourn are not mutually exclusive.
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The last time we saw Rene was also the last time she saw husband Scott, we learn. He’s been under the ocean in Bermuda, while she’s been writing a newspaper column in Waco. On their reunion, Scott slept on the couch, but he also read all her columns, and says he finally understands why she had to do it. “If having a career was easy, we wouldn’t be the only ones trying to have one,” Rene tells Trudy, and while I support her choices (especially the choice of this sweater), surely there is a newspaper in Bermuda that would take her as well?
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The last time we saw Rene was also the last time she saw husband Scott, we learn. He’s been under the ocean in Bermuda, while she’s been writing a newspaper column in Waco. On their reunion, Scott slept on the couch, but he also read all her columns, and says he finally understands why she had to do it. “If having a career was easy, we wouldn’t be the only ones trying to have one,” Rene tells Trudy, and while I support her choices (especially the choice of this sweater), surely there is a newspaper in Bermuda that would take her as well?
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Louise hires Trudy to fly her and Alice/Judy to her sister’s grave, having learned that moving on and remembering to mourn are not mutually exclusive.
The death of Gus Grissom and two other astronauts brings the original Gemini seven back together and effects everyone differently. What does it mean to honor the memory of Gus? Does it mean moving forward on schedule as planned, as NASA wants to do? Does it mean speaking up about the obvious flaws that led to his death in a fire, even if it means possibly dismantling the dream of going to the moon? Ghosts are everywhere in Houston for the club, whether they acknowledge them or not.
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