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shallowness) wrote2025-05-11 03:14 pm
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Étoile 1.2 The Bull
Has maybe settled into a twin track for New York and Paris (hello, filming on location), with some interaction over dealing with the exchangees and publicity. Jack seems to have a better relationship with the dancers, although Genevieve was right to call him out for claiming ownership of her idea. ‘Crispy’ brought them together in mutual loathing of him, though.
Charlotte Gainsbourg isn’t perhaps as entirely comfortable in her role as others. I rolled my eyes at learning that Genevieve’s role means she’s also in charge of the opera, because of my anti-opera bias. Oh well, the show clearly favours ballet, because the problematic bull was opera’s fault. Said bull was a bit too ridiculous for me, and I have a high tolerance for this show’s ridiculousness.
In New York, Jack ought to have stopped his mayoral campaign in its tracks by his ramble about the attractiveness of all ballet dancers (but then what I know of actual US politics came into mind, and my brain flinched.)
Cheyenne needed a partner for the upcoming gala and decided to emasculate anyone they tried her out with. I love the ridiculousness of her picking out Gael based on a clip of him watching (her?) dancing, and deciding he was the one. He seemed to be in a loop where he wasn’t committing to ballet because he wasn’t getting very high up the hierarchy because he wasn’t committed. Ah well, La Force of Nature has decided and made it public, so we saw him returning to New York and dance class.
We also had a further sign that Cheyenne’s love for dance is pure at the end in that she left ballet shoes for the cleaner’s kid.
In Paris, it became clearer that the idea for the swop had actually come about because Mishi was the Minister for Culture’s daughter, and she’d been dropped from the company in Paris but become a solo dancer in NYC. So they wanted her back as well as the ticket boost. (They hadn’t meant to lost Cheyenne in the exchange!) Mishi (cuddling a stuffed bagel as if she were several years younger than she is) was very easy to pity, as she was battled over for at the airport for PR, then pretty much ignored by her parents on the way back home and at home. (She reminded me of Lorelai, although I don’t think Richard and Emily were ever this negligent as parents.) At the ballet company, nearly everyone was snotty about the nepotism, so the relatively restrained guy who corrected her New York barre habits felt like a kindness.
Also, of course, we had the Quirkiest in an ensemble of quirks, Tobias, wandering about lost in Paris, being quite amusing. Genevieve learned that you had to employ stalking and bribery to get him where you wanted, and he had an encounter with a strutting dancer (was he the guy who was whining about not being given a challenging enough role in the previous episode?) where he read him like a genius choreographer. So now the dancer boy wants him or something, and I’ll just add Top Gun to the Emily in Paris as a reference that I’m not fully parsing. I don’t know what they make of this in France, and I don’t know what proper balletomanes make of it. I’m in the camp where I wanted to watch the end credit because they’re over dance rehearsal footage.
Charlotte Gainsbourg isn’t perhaps as entirely comfortable in her role as others. I rolled my eyes at learning that Genevieve’s role means she’s also in charge of the opera, because of my anti-opera bias. Oh well, the show clearly favours ballet, because the problematic bull was opera’s fault. Said bull was a bit too ridiculous for me, and I have a high tolerance for this show’s ridiculousness.
In New York, Jack ought to have stopped his mayoral campaign in its tracks by his ramble about the attractiveness of all ballet dancers (but then what I know of actual US politics came into mind, and my brain flinched.)
Cheyenne needed a partner for the upcoming gala and decided to emasculate anyone they tried her out with. I love the ridiculousness of her picking out Gael based on a clip of him watching (her?) dancing, and deciding he was the one. He seemed to be in a loop where he wasn’t committing to ballet because he wasn’t getting very high up the hierarchy because he wasn’t committed. Ah well, La Force of Nature has decided and made it public, so we saw him returning to New York and dance class.
We also had a further sign that Cheyenne’s love for dance is pure at the end in that she left ballet shoes for the cleaner’s kid.
In Paris, it became clearer that the idea for the swop had actually come about because Mishi was the Minister for Culture’s daughter, and she’d been dropped from the company in Paris but become a solo dancer in NYC. So they wanted her back as well as the ticket boost. (They hadn’t meant to lost Cheyenne in the exchange!) Mishi (cuddling a stuffed bagel as if she were several years younger than she is) was very easy to pity, as she was battled over for at the airport for PR, then pretty much ignored by her parents on the way back home and at home. (She reminded me of Lorelai, although I don’t think Richard and Emily were ever this negligent as parents.) At the ballet company, nearly everyone was snotty about the nepotism, so the relatively restrained guy who corrected her New York barre habits felt like a kindness.
Also, of course, we had the Quirkiest in an ensemble of quirks, Tobias, wandering about lost in Paris, being quite amusing. Genevieve learned that you had to employ stalking and bribery to get him where you wanted, and he had an encounter with a strutting dancer (was he the guy who was whining about not being given a challenging enough role in the previous episode?) where he read him like a genius choreographer. So now the dancer boy wants him or something, and I’ll just add Top Gun to the Emily in Paris as a reference that I’m not fully parsing. I don’t know what they make of this in France, and I don’t know what proper balletomanes make of it. I’m in the camp where I wanted to watch the end credit because they’re over dance rehearsal footage.