"She simply must, for what would the implications be if she stopped? Is the professional drawing of curtains unnecessary? Are housemaids unnecessary? "You have to let her fulfill her function," Henry pleads with Yasmin, like he's insisting Molly be allowed food to eat or air to breathe. Yasmin believes a house is a thing to be lived in, but an estate like Henry's is already alive."
"It's a hilarious line, delivered with earnest exasperation by Kit Harington. If you've mostly watched Harington brood on Game of Thrones, burdened by blankets of fur, then you'll be astonished at how good he is when you lift the animal carcasses. He is pitiful in "The Commander and the Grey Lady," but also, by turns, sharp and charismatic. It's a not-quite-stand-alone episode."
Yasmin asks Molly, the housemaid, to stop drawing Henry's curtains so the newlyweds can have a private morning on Sir Muck's 40th birthday, but Molly persists because her role must be fulfilled. Henry insists that Molly be allowed to fulfill her function, portraying servants as vital components that keep an estate alive rather than unnecessary labor. The episode showcases Kit Harington delivering a hilarious, earnest line and revealing unexpected comic and charismatic range beyond his brooding roles. The episode follows a consequential day for Henry Muck as he becomes older than his father, who died by suicide at forty, and opens during an understated, peculiarly English election result scene.
Read at Vulture
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]