Want it inlaid with gold? Veda Pierce : Well, it seems to me, if you're buying anything, it should be the best. This is definitely not the best. Kay Pierce : Oh, quit. You're breakin' my heart. Mildred Pierce : You've been snooping around ever since I got this job, trying to find out what it is You know, don't you. Veda Pierce : [innocently] Know what?
Know what mother? Mildred Pierce : You knew when you gave that uniform to Lottie that it was mine didn't you. Veda Pierce : [feigns surprise] Your uniform! Mildred Pierce : Yes, I'm waiting tables in a downtown restaurant. Veda Pierce : [contemptuously] My mother - a waitress. Veda Pierce : That's what I like about you, Ida. You're so delightfully provincial. Ida Corwin : [sarcastically] And I like you, too.
Ida Corwin : [to Monte] Don't look now, Junior, but you're standing under a brick wall. Monte Beragon : I don't get it. Ida Corwin : You will Veda Pierce : It's just as well you know.
I'm glad you know. As he later pointed out, the whole point of sex friends is that neither of you thinks the other one is worthy of a relationship, so any relationship that does result from it will be one with some really unhealthy condescension at its core. Of course, his point may have been lost on Mildred, since he told her this after boning her daughter. Melissa Leo is capable of delivering each line the exact same way for nearly six hours.
Aliens just invaded Glendale, and one of them took Veda as its child bride? Vaginas were so popular in the thirties. Glendale is the pits, baby. The last two installments of Mildred Pierce were particularly filled with anti-Glendale hysteria, as Veda screeched for hours about the sleepy neighborhood and Monty insisted that he would never even think of marrying Mildred as long as she lived there. Mildred Pierce's daughter Veda has always been a brat. She was a brat in James M. Cain's original novel and in the film, and she's a brat in the new HBO miniseries , which aired its third episode last night.
But her sheer insufferability seems to be a make-or-break proposition with some of my friends, and with more than a few critics. I want the comments thread discussion in the second meeting of The Mildred Pierce Club to go wherever it feels like going, but I'm especially interested in your feelings about Veda.
Do not discuss plot events beyond the end of Episode 3, which aired last night. It's fine to compare the miniseries to the movie or the novel as long as you don't run afoul of rule No.
Back to Veda: As played by Morgan Turner and starting next week, Evan Rachel Wood she's a musically talented and beyond-precocious child, and very much the dark mirror of her mother's ambition -- a little monster of entitlement who takes without giving. I ascribe at least part of her awfulness to the gender politics of parents and children.
Little girls have been known to dote on and even idealize their dads while piling all sorts of negative feelings onto their mothers,. O'Byrne , as a flesh-and-blood saint and her mother as scum. These dynamics are made even more acute by a couple of traumas: Mildred and Bert's divorce which took Bert away from Veda, except on visitation days and the death of Veda's younger sister, Moire "Ray" , which occurred when Mildred was off doing the horizontal mambo with her new lover, the playboy mooch Monte Beragon Guy Pearce.
Last night's episode, which opened in the aftermath of the youngest child's death, contained an agonizing moment where Ray saw her parents in the kitchen and immediately embraced her father, ignoring her mother until she finally looked up at her and demanded, "Where were you? As more than one commenter pointed out in last week's recap, Ray died from sudden and catastrophic illness.
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