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The Forsytes<\/a><\/p>\n Episode 4<\/p>\n \n Season 1<\/p>\n Episode 4\n <\/p>\n \n Editor\u2019s Rating<\/p>\n 4 stars<\/p>\n ****\n <\/p>\n \n Photo: Sean Gleason\/Mammoth Screen\/Masterpiece\n <\/p>\n Okay, well, here we have it. All you \u201calready familiar with The Forsyte Saga\u201d people knew it was coming, and yet I maintained my love of Soames. And now who has egg on my face? \u2018Tis I. I am the egg face.<\/p>\n Jol, looking slightly more period-appropriate than usual, goes riding with Frances and June. Maybe I\u2019m just getting used to his twenty-first-century hair and beard. But he does have a tie on, thank God. I\u2019m done with this man and his hatred of ties. You run a stock brokerage, for God\u2019s sake! Or he will soon. I\u2019m still unclear on who\u2019s running what and when, as my main focus is drama. We learn that Jol has provided a settlement for his children when they reach maturity, but has otherwise cut ties with them. Yeah, we all believe that, Jol. Stop breathlessly showing up at your ex\u2019s house; she doesn\u2019t want to see you.<\/p>\n At work, Jol\u2019s tie is now gone?? What\u2019s your game, Jol! You can wear a tie to impress your horse, but not to be appropriate at work? Okay, wait, I might respect that. But only the horse part. Bill from True Blood wants to guide Jol in his chairmanship, which will be easier while Soames is away on his honeymoon. A man shows up and wants to throw money at the morally bankrupt goldmine venture. Jol tries to dissuade him, but James is like, Jol, this is in fact our business. I do hate to side with James \/ evil in general, but once again, running a brokerage seems like a bad fit for Jol. If he doesn\u2019t want to help people profit from the misery of others, he should not work in finance. Jol takes down all the drawings of Venice in his office because I guess he\u2019s deciding to try to make being a businessman work. It will not. His soul yearns for the manbun life.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Soames is making out with Irene on a balcony in Paris. The Eiffel Tower is being built! It\u2019s the 1880s! French artists will hate it<\/a>, but they are wrong because it\u2019s cool as fuck. Irene tells Soames she saw the sunrise that morning, and Soames is like, \u201cYou did something without me? Oh nooooooooo.\u201d He tells Irene that they\u2019re married, so they should want to do everything together. She tells Soames she\u2019ll wake him next time. Noooooooo, it\u2019s so bad. People who are married, please do some things not together! I like seeing your husband on our friend dates sometimes, but I definitely do not want to see him every time.<\/p>\n Guess who\u2019s back? Yes, correct, it\u2019s Mrs. Ellen Parker Barrington, who previously spoke at the Fabian Society. Now she\u2019s at Louisa\u2019s shop, and we discover she was Louisa\u2019s financial backer. Later, on a walk with Frances, Mrs Barrington mentions her fundraiser for the reclamation of fallen women. I\u2019m gonna say that\u2019s a brutal name for a charity<\/a>. Mrs. Barrington asked Louisa to speak at this fundraising event as an example of What a Fallen Woman Can Do. Damnit, rich people.<\/p>\n Louisa shares her story at the fundraiser and admits she was an unwed mother, and everyone still loves her.\u00a0 So now Frances sees Louisa again and is upset. Someone give Frances something to do other than be upset! She\u2019s upset about Jol, June, and Louisa. Remember when she was promising vengeance or something last week? That was nice. More vengeance!<\/p>\n The time has come to talk about Poor Boy and his stupid hat. Do you know how<\/a> many<\/a> websites<\/a> I<\/a> visited<\/a> trying to find out if coonskin hats were a \u201cthing\u201d in 1880s England? Or if they were ever truly a thing outside America in the 1950s? You might say, well, what about Benjamin Franklin? Marten! Franklin\u2019s hat was made of marten<\/a>! If you wrote this episode, please contact me and tell me why Poor Boy (known as \u201cScruffy\u201d in my notes) has donned a raccoon hat and is promenading around London in it. And the answer better not be something like \u201cnon-conformity\u201d because he looks extremely stupid in it, and I hope that the real answer is he crossed a witch and she put a curse on him to have to wear a dumb-looking hat outside for one hour a day.<\/p>\n