Rizzoli & Isles: Where Rizzisles is gayer than the Gay Nightclub - Thoughts...
So saw the Rizzoli and Isles special Lesbian episode the other day "I kissed a Girl" starring Sasha Alexander and Angie Harmon.
It is my new favourite show. Except for the jaunty Irish jig theme song where I waited for small leprechauns to start nancing across the bottom of the screen. Scratch that. There ain't enough Irish in Ireland to begin with that theme song, let alone Boston.
A note on Subtext: It is the greatest. Especially when it is unstated maintext. To liken it to a straight couple - it is like the first six seasons of the X-files. It is like a magnet, and no matter how shite the storylines or lack of storylines are, you are stuck to it like superglue.
Ok so this episode has been fabulously recapped by Dorothy Snarker over at her blog and afterellen.com, and hilariously by livejournaler lysachan - who has also recapped all the other episodes with screencaps.
My thoughts:
# I would have kicked that dog in the face.
# Maura: My date is smooching on me, so I am going to LOOK DIRECTLY OVER AT RIZZOLI. (You are killing me Sasha Alexander. You are playing this shit into the ground. You are killing me ded.)
# Rizzoli: "Maura I will go on a date with you only if you tell me what killed the vic." I mean, it's not like that IS YOUR FREAKING JOB or anything, and it had nothing to do with you saying 'please' adorkably. Just to be clear, because I never ever do anything I don't want to do. Y'know, like yoga. What.
# Angie Harmon's voice is something else.
# i) Jane always opens the door for Isles.
ii) Jane acknowledges her butch/mannish attributes (I would be the man).
iii) Maura disputes Jane's butchness.
iv) Maura doesn't get why Jane would be the man.
Conclusion: Maura has been kept up late at night really coming to grips with exactly how entirely female Rizzoli is.
# M: "You're not my type." R: "What? That's so rude!" M: Big coy grin.
You fucking flirt Maura Isles. Get off my screen before I fall in love with you.
# M: "What type of women would we like if we liked women?"
TRANSLATION: 'We' = 'Jane'. 'Do you like women, Jane?' 'Do you like me, Jane.'
Yeah. Jane said three times she wanted to be a lesbian. Get a clue Isles.
# Dont act all surprised Rizzoli, Isles warn't going anywhere until she was forcibly kicked out of the house. Anyway, may as well cut out the middle man. You'd only call her back to investigate the mystery of the dripping tap.
# How is it that Maura is entitled to Jane's chocolate? Oh yeah! That's right! Because they are LOVAHS.
# Cover up pls, because my eyes are having difficulty leaving your perfect boobs. kthnxbi.
# Rizzoli playing a lesbian - noted by all and sundry to be strangely natural.
Dr Isles - noted by all and sundry to be taking complete advantage of the situation.
# M: "How is your date?"
R: "Hang on, I forget." *looks* "Oh yeah, sexy I guess."
M: "You need to get laid."
R: "Surely sure...Oh wait, you mean with that guy."
M: "Ha. Dont think I didn't catch that sultry look, ya big 'mo."
Sasha, I'm just gonna come right out and say it, but you are killing me ded with the eyesex Maura Isles throws Jane Rizzoli's way. Angie Harmon is channeling Idgie Threadgood.
Big Love R&I. and esp Sasha cos she is so in on the joke.
It is my new favourite show. Except for the jaunty Irish jig theme song where I waited for small leprechauns to start nancing across the bottom of the screen. Scratch that. There ain't enough Irish in Ireland to begin with that theme song, let alone Boston.
A note on Subtext: It is the greatest. Especially when it is unstated maintext. To liken it to a straight couple - it is like the first six seasons of the X-files. It is like a magnet, and no matter how shite the storylines or lack of storylines are, you are stuck to it like superglue.
Ok so this episode has been fabulously recapped by Dorothy Snarker over at her blog and afterellen.com, and hilariously by livejournaler lysachan - who has also recapped all the other episodes with screencaps.
My thoughts:
# I would have kicked that dog in the face.
# Maura: My date is smooching on me, so I am going to LOOK DIRECTLY OVER AT RIZZOLI. (You are killing me Sasha Alexander. You are playing this shit into the ground. You are killing me ded.)
# Rizzoli: "Maura I will go on a date with you only if you tell me what killed the vic." I mean, it's not like that IS YOUR FREAKING JOB or anything, and it had nothing to do with you saying 'please' adorkably. Just to be clear, because I never ever do anything I don't want to do. Y'know, like yoga. What.
# Angie Harmon's voice is something else.
# i) Jane always opens the door for Isles.
ii) Jane acknowledges her butch/mannish attributes (I would be the man).
iii) Maura disputes Jane's butchness.
iv) Maura doesn't get why Jane would be the man.
Conclusion: Maura has been kept up late at night really coming to grips with exactly how entirely female Rizzoli is.
# M: "You're not my type." R: "What? That's so rude!" M: Big coy grin.
You fucking flirt Maura Isles. Get off my screen before I fall in love with you.
# M: "What type of women would we like if we liked women?"
TRANSLATION: 'We' = 'Jane'. 'Do you like women, Jane?' 'Do you like me, Jane.'
Yeah. Jane said three times she wanted to be a lesbian. Get a clue Isles.
# Dont act all surprised Rizzoli, Isles warn't going anywhere until she was forcibly kicked out of the house. Anyway, may as well cut out the middle man. You'd only call her back to investigate the mystery of the dripping tap.
# How is it that Maura is entitled to Jane's chocolate? Oh yeah! That's right! Because they are LOVAHS.
# Cover up pls, because my eyes are having difficulty leaving your perfect boobs. kthnxbi.
# Rizzoli playing a lesbian - noted by all and sundry to be strangely natural.
Dr Isles - noted by all and sundry to be taking complete advantage of the situation.
# M: "How is your date?"
R: "Hang on, I forget." *looks* "Oh yeah, sexy I guess."
M: "You need to get laid."
R: "Surely sure...Oh wait, you mean with that guy."
M: "Ha. Dont think I didn't catch that sultry look, ya big 'mo."
Sasha, I'm just gonna come right out and say it, but you are killing me ded with the eyesex Maura Isles throws Jane Rizzoli's way. Angie Harmon is channeling Idgie Threadgood.
Big Love R&I. and esp Sasha cos she is so in on the joke.