The New Look
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A couture fashion house doesnt build itself overnight.
Its the penultimate episode (how did we get here?
The show does, however, maintain its boomer energy with a little edge.
Amid all this, Christian must head south for his fathers funeral, where he encounters family drama.
Who among us has not had work stress meet family matters?
Hes just a little meaner than the rest.
He also dismisses his younger brothers passion for fashion and beauty.
How many dresses will it take to erase what happened to Catherine?
He loved beauty, Christian says, before talking about how Maurice encouraged him to work hard.
Afterward, Raymond tells Christian he was too easy on him.
Catherine confronts Freidman and bluntly tells him the truth: Tania is dead, and its her fault.
Cocos rousing anger in Elsa builds as Andres suspicion of Spatz grows.
And Spatz isnt helping: At dinner, Spatz essentially tells Andre hes a Nazi without saying it.
Coco got into this whole Nazi messbecause ofAndre, and she cannot fathom losing him.
Elsa, meanwhile, clings to Coco because she is the only person she has left.
Her sister, Lottie, refuses to see her.
Andres working it all out, Elsa says.
Tell Andre what we did.
Note that here, unlike Coco, Elsa finally takes responsibility for her Nazi ties.
Coco dismisses her, tells her she hates her, and orders her to leave Switzerland immediately.
Spatz takes advantage of Elsas vulnerability in a harrowing (but somewhat sexy?
sorry) scene that proves Claes Bang should play Hannibal Lecter.
He seduces Elsa into taking more morphine.
He intentionally makes her feel even worse by telling her Coco does not need her.
Christian, in his party turtleneck (who is he, Tom Wambsgans?)
returns to Paris and walks slowly in his moonlit studio, a maze of dress forms.
That art gallery you started and failed.
Christian, who worked as an art dealer before his fashion endeavors began, has to make a choice.
He tells Zehnacker that hes willing to take seamstresses from his friends.
I cant allow it to fail, he says.
Do whatever you have to do.
We have to survive.
And just like that (sorry), Spatz is in the clear.
Lets all pour one out for Mortimers incredible performance in this role, which truly elevated the show.
Nevertheless, I resisted.
