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I've said it before and I'll say it again: Ross needs to cut his losses and convert his mine into a a spot for hipsters to buy overpriced avocado toast and fresh-pressed juices. He'll never have to worry about money again!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at home, Demelza continues to yell at the illegal traders to get their crap from under the floorboards and:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/tumblr_n0bbjpmUtQ1s7hg3xo1_400.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45886\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/tumblr_n0bbjpmUtQ1s7hg3xo1_400.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_n0bbjpmutq1s7hg3xo1_400\" width=\"350\" height=\"279\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let's check back in with Ross. Has he returned home to handle his own illegal business dealings and to spend some quality time with his wife and infant? Ha ha, nope! He's at Pinky Ring's, of course, inching closer and closer to adultery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ross:\u003c/strong> \"I will always have reason to call, if you wish it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pinky Ring:\u003c/strong> \"I wish it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/alAx0zM.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-45888\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/alAx0zM.gif\" alt=\"alax0zm\" width=\"500\" height=\"202\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at chez Ross, Demelza is still giving grade-A death stare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-10.51.06-AM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-45889\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-10.51.06-AM-800x436.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-11-05-at-10-51-06-am\" width=\"800\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-10.51.06-AM-800x436.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-10.51.06-AM-160x87.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-10.51.06-AM-768x419.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-10.51.06-AM-1020x556.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-10.51.06-AM-1180x644.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-10.51.06-AM-960x524.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-10.51.06-AM-240x131.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-10.51.06-AM-375x205.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-10.51.06-AM-520x284.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-10.51.06-AM.png 1232w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It only increases in intensity when Ross shares his plan to not only store smuggled goods, but to personally go on one of the smuggling runs. But maybe this is a good thing. Ross can get his stupid ass caught and go to prison, paving the way for \u003cem>Poldark\u003c/em> to become all about Demelza and the three dogs. Now \u003cem>that\u003c/em> would be must-see TV!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across town, Doc and Blondie debate whether they should elope or try to convince Blondie's uncle to be chill and just let them get married the non-shady way. I don't care either way, as long as I get a shot of Horace the Pug serving as the ring-bearer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More details about the smuggling run: Ross is going all the way to France (I guess ticket prices dropped, thanks to all the social unrest and beheadings and such). His mission will be to find that dude from Season 1 who strangled his cheating wife to death and ask his advice on which part of the mine might actually have copper. This storyline is embarrassing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In town, Malfoy runs into Ross. Despite my immense desire for one of them to slap the other with a glove, they just mean mug each other and walk away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malfoy returns home and orders his Slytherin Crony to go to Pinky Ring's house at once. He's supposed to scare her with details of the French Revolution so that she comes running for Malfoy's help, but it doesn't quite work out that way. She instead writes to Ross because home-wreckers gonna home-wreck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agatha, on the other hand, doesn't need a man for protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Agatha:\u003c/strong> \"Fetch me a pistol. I can stop an intruder in his tracks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pinky Ring:\u003c/strong> \"I don't doubt it, aunt. With or without a firearm.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/tumblr_odagiuxFeT1smwl44o2_500.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45900\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/tumblr_odagiuxFeT1smwl44o2_500.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_odagiuxfet1smwl44o2_500\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at chez Ross, Doc stops by to tell Demelza he's skipping town to marry Blondie and won't be coming back. Demelza plays it cool, but this will be her at the going-away party, because a) she loves to sing and b) Doc is one of the only nice people in all of Cornwall:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/11c839f0-d25f-0132-45f5-0ebc4eccb42f.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45902\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/11c839f0-d25f-0132-45f5-0ebc4eccb42f.gif\" alt=\"11c839f0-d25f-0132-45f5-0ebc4eccb42f\" width=\"500\" height=\"244\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across town, Pinky Ring is livid at Ross for not responding to her letter. You can't see me, but I'm pointing and laughing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/tenor.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45910\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/tenor.gif\" alt=\"tenor\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, Blondie pays Demelza a visit. Her need for girl talk supersedes her hatred of poor people, just this once. Blondie is worried Doc has changed his mind about the elopement. Demelza is like, \u003cem>No way!\u003c/em> But Blondie hits her with a \u003cem>Girl, who are you kidding? \u003c/em>question:\u003cem> \u003c/em>\"Is that your experience of husbands, to be relied upon?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demelza's response:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/kid-crying-interview.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45913\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/kid-crying-interview.gif\" alt=\"kid-crying-interview\" width=\"360\" height=\"189\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In France, Ross meets up with Wife Strangler, who now looks like \u003ca href=\"https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/6c/f3/74/6cf374f1222add3feba608e8e4347650.jpg\">Tom Hanks in \u003cem>Castaway\u003c/em>\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://media.giphy.com/media/JjLylCKqqQs5q/giphy.gif\">Tom Hanks in \u003cem>Forrest Gump\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. You decide. He shares how much he wishes he could strangle Doc to death for sleeping with his wife. I'm guessing France doesn't offer anger-management classes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross and friends are all like, \u003cem>Dude, you've done enough strangling. Now, where's the copper?\u003c/em> Wife Strangler tries to show them on a map and they all look at each other like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/Kim-Kardashian-looking-at-Kanye-West-shaking-their-heads-GIF.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45914\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/Kim-Kardashian-looking-at-Kanye-West-shaking-their-heads-GIF.gif\" alt=\"kim-kardashian-looking-at-kanye-west-shaking-their-heads-gif\" width=\"460\" height=\"262\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He doesn't really know where the copper is, after all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Cornwall, Malfoy sends his Slytherin Crony to scare Pinky Ring some more by lying about poor people planning to storm her property. Agatha swoops in with some words of wisdom: \"Male of the species: inadequate at best. Better to rely on one's own resources.\" And then she PULLS OUT A HUGE GUN!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/tumblr_odagiuxFeT1smwl44o3_500.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45937\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/tumblr_odagiuxFeT1smwl44o3_500.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_odagiuxfet1smwl44o3_500\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News of this fake riot-in-the-making makes Pinky Ring even angrier with Ross. How dare he not reply to her letter?! She's his.... ex-girlfriend who ditched him for his richer cousin, while he was fighting for his life on the front lines. Yeah. You reap what you sow, girlfriend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alas, she doesn't have any common sense and trots on over to chez Ross to bug Demelza. \u003cem>Why hasn't your husband replied to my love note? Wahhhh!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demelza considers this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/giphy-25.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45938\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/giphy-25.gif\" alt=\"giphy-25\" width=\"500\" height=\"262\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But opts for this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/raw-10.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45939\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/raw-10.gif\" alt=\"shooting daggers eyes gif\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In town, Wonky Knee Girl, who Doc cured last episode using the knowledge he acquired by inappropriately cutting off a corpse's leg, is having trouble walking again. Doc gets word and wants to help, but he's supposed to meet Blondie in the woods for their elopement. Because he's a good person and doesn't want the other town doctor to chop off this girl's entire leg, he runs to help, which means he's essentially stranding Blondie at the altar because this was before texting. I guess we'll never get to see Horace the Pug serve as ring-bearer, after all.\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/dog-anim.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-45971 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/dog-anim.gif\" alt=\"dog-anim\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doc easily turns Wonky Knee Girl into Functional Knee Girl. Ok, great! Now he doesn't have to be late for his elopement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not so fast! Functional Knee Girl's fiancé, who also happens to be the dude who barged into Ross' house last episode and saw all the smugglers digging a hole in the living room floor, is revealed to have lied about a thing or two. Doc and Demelza look at each other, this song now stuck in their heads:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0yGvypBwyA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Horace the Pug is growing very impatient. Blondie, too, I suppose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/horace-pug-poldark.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-45947\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/horace-pug-poldark-800x402.jpg\" alt=\"horace-pug-poldark\" width=\"800\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/horace-pug-poldark-800x402.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/horace-pug-poldark-160x80.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/horace-pug-poldark-768x386.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/horace-pug-poldark-1020x512.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/horace-pug-poldark-1180x593.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/horace-pug-poldark-960x482.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/horace-pug-poldark-240x121.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/horace-pug-poldark-375x188.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/horace-pug-poldark-520x261.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/horace-pug-poldark.jpg 1226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doc runs over to Informer's house. Homeboy does not have a fever, but he does have fancy curtains and candlesticks. You, too, can have nice housewares, if you sell out your friends for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demelza hurries home, seeing tons of military men on the way. She informs Mrs. Pigpen that she's going to head down to the beach to warn Ross. Only trouble is Ross' War BFF busts in right then and orders a man with a gun to not let her leave for the rest of the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the Informer's house, Doc tries to leave to tell the others, but Informer breaks a chair on his back! When that doesn't kill him, Informer tries to bludgeon him with a fireplace poker. When that doesn't work, he tries to stab him to death. Thankfully, Doc lands a few blows and runs out. (Maybe he's been taking boxing lessons in heels like Malfoy?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Side-note: I watched that entire fight like Aly Raisman's parents:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/PlayfulBeneficialGander-size_restricted.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45972\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/PlayfulBeneficialGander-size_restricted.gif\" alt=\"playfulbeneficialgander-size_restricted\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From there, Doc goes to a hill overlooking the beach and makes a bonfire to warn foolhardy Ross and his stupid friends. Unfortunately, they're already on the beach, unloading, by the time they notice it. Ross yells for everyone to get back in the boat, but he wants to take his chances running around on the beach while soldiers shoot at him, proving that he got everything in the looks department and almost nothing in the brains department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross runs up the hill and knocks out some soldiers. This plan is really stupid. A single punch isn't strong enough to give them early-onset Alzheimer's. They will remember who knocked them out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of being knocked out, a soldier hits Doc on the head with his rifle. No good deed goes unpunished, which is something Blondie knows very well, as she and Horace are sitting in her coach in the rain and cold, waiting for someone who isn't coming. Horace is TREMBLING! All because of Ross and his constant shenanigans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demelza manages to sneak out of the house (because she's got it like that) and finds Ross in the woods. Guards are everywhere. The plan is to run home and have Ross hide in the library, where the secret cellar is. Pretty sure Informer told them about that secret spot, but okay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The very moment Demelza walks back into the house, one of the dudes that Ross knocked out barges in. Like I expected, he did not develop early-onset Alzheimer's. A bunch of soldiers storm the library, point their guns at the secret cellar and...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/giphy-26.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-45974\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/giphy-26.gif\" alt=\"giphy-26\" width=\"440\" height=\"330\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>...it's empty!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phew!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/giphy-27.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-45973\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/giphy-27.gif\" alt=\"giphy-27\" width=\"500\" height=\"395\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across town, Pinky Ring hears about the soldiers running around and once again loudly complains about Ross not writing her back. GET OVER YOUR FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS!!! Being the petty middle schooler that she is, she immediately writes Malfoy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, after some time in custody, Doc is released. He runs to Blondie's mansion, but all that's there for him is a letter from her saying goodbye forever. THANKS, ROSS!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a live feed of Blondie:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/JmW19.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45975\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/JmW19.gif\" alt=\"jmw19\" width=\"500\" height=\"256\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mr. Pigpen and some other smugglers are on the hunt for the Informer. They're out for blood. But they're not going to get any because -- plot twist! -- the Informer has already been murdered and dumped on the beach. That's what he gets for being the main reason Horace the Pug had to tremble in the cold all night long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Pinky Ring's house, Malfoy stops by to tattle on Ross. Agatha calls BS on everything he says, with punctuations of \"Stuff!\" and \"Piffle!\" I'm so glad she's immortal and will never die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over at chez Ross, Demelza is worried sick. The rug and table in the library moved, so Ross has definitely been there. Where in the world is Ross Poldark (and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ImLfvgPJd8\">Carmen Sandiego\u003c/a>)?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apparently, in a side compartment of the secret cellar! He emerges and walks in on Demelza singing her first single. She runs to him and they embrace. All is well... until he has to deal with the fact that he punched a bunch of soldiers and has been exposed as an illegal smuggler. But other than that, and the fact that he's in love with another woman, it's all good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>End scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>After every episode, it’s only right to reward characters who’ve impressed and diss the ones that haven’t, so here goes:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>PIECE OF COAL:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> Pinky Ring.\u003c/strong> Sometimes, people don't reply to letters, emails or texts because they are busy and their lives don't revolve around you. GET OVER YOURSELF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>HONORABLE MENTION:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> \u003cstrong>Demelza\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>Let her life be a lesson: think twice before marrying a dude just because he's easy on the eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>BRONZE:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> \u003cstrong>Blondie.\u003c/strong>\u003cem> \u003c/em>Being stood up in the cold like that is terrible, but there's a silver lining. Now, she can release really powerful breakup anthems and become the 18th-century Taylor Swift!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>SILVER: \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Agatha. \u003c/strong>That gun reveal. Pure gold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>GOLD:\u003c/em> Doc. \u003c/strong>I'm glad he survived being assaulted by a chair, a poker, a knife, a rifle butt, \u003cem>and\u003c/em> a breakup letter. He's earned a lengthy vacation. Wonky Knee Girl will just have to fend for herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until next week! If you miss my thoughts on \u003cem>Poldark\u003c/em>, follow me on Twitter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/xcusemybeauty\">@xcusemybeauty\u003c/a> or read all the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/tag/recaps/\">other recaps\u003c/a> below!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>More recaps:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/10/30/poldark-season-2-episode-5-recap-before-he-cheats/\">'Poldark' Season 2, Episode 5 Recap: Before He Cheats\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/10/24/poldark-season-2-episode-4-recap-sink-or-swim/\">'Poldark' Season 2, Episode 4 Recap: Sink or Swim\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/10/17/poldark-season-2-episode-3-recap-miss-independent/\">'Poldark' Season 2, Episode 3 Recap: Miss Independent\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/10/02/poldark-season-2-episode-2-recap-you-dont-bring-me-flowers/\">'Poldark' Season 2, Episode 2 Recap: You Don't Bring Me Flowers\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/09/27/poldark-season-2-premiere-recap-court-and-spark/\">'Poldark' Season 2, Episode 1 Recap: Court and Spark\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/09/23/poldark-season-1-episode-4-recap-send-my-love-to-your-new-lover/\"> 'Poldark' Season 1, Episode 4 Recap: Send My Love to Your New Lover\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/09/21/poldark-season-1-episode-3-recap-oops-there-goes-my-shirt/\">‘Poldark’ Season 1, Episode 3 Recap: Oops, There Goes My Shirt\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/09/20/poldark-season-1-episode-2-recap-guns-and-ships-bang-bang/\">‘Poldark’ Season 1, Episode 2 Recap: Bang Bang\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/09/19/poldark-season-1-premiere-recap-stayin-alive/\">‘Poldark’ Season 1 Premiere Recap: Stayin’ Alive\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/10/30/poldark-season-2-episode-5-recap-before-he-cheats/\">previous episode of \u003cem>Poldark\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Ross tried really hard not to cheat on Demelza, Demelza tried really hard not to kill Ross, and Blondie and Doc made out next to a horse butt again. Will Ross and Pinky Ring just get the adultery over with already? Will Demelza respond by pulling a Lorena Bobbitt? Will Agatha loudly proclaim her undying devotion to alcohol again? Will Horace the Pug get lost and embark on a \u003cem>Homeward Bound\u003c/em>-esque journey with Demelza's pup and Malfoy's uncle's pooch? Only one way to find out! On with the show!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breaking news alert! The French chopped off Marie Antoinette's husband's head! Everyone in Cornwall is freaking out over the overseas drama, but Ross' War BFF (the dude who is constantly in uniform) will not let some pesky revolution distract him from jailing all the illegal traders -- with the help of the secret informer. Is it just me, or do you also hear this song every time someone on this show says that word?\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/B0yGvypBwyA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/B0yGvypBwyA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Oh. Just me? Cool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At chez Ross, Demelza is sawing wood and imagining that she's sawing into Ross and Pinky Ring's faces. Her voodoo wood-mutilation is cut short by two approaching men. Demelza orders Garrick the Dog (OMG, he's alive!) to attack them. The men are like, \u003cem>Woah, woah! It's us! Ross' illegal trading buddies!\u003c/em> Demelza is like, \u003cem>I know. That's why I'm trying to give you rabies.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of Garrick, did you know that the real-life dog that plays him was abandoned, rescued, and now, in addition to starring in \u003cem>Poldark\u003c/em>, has been cast in the upcoming \u003cem>Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them\u003c/em> \u003cem>and\u003c/em> Emma Watson's live-action version of \u003cem>Beauty and the Beast\u003c/em>? \u003ca href=\"https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/tv/1123229/the-dog-thats-having-its-day-rescue-animal-becomes-tvs-most-in-demand-mutt-after-starring-in-poldark/\">It's true\u003c/a>! Now I need to know the real-life details of Horace the Pug and Malfoy's uncle's dog. These three are quickly becoming my favorite part of this show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyway, let's move beyond canines (for now) and see what Ross is up to. Oh, the same thing as every other episode: sucking at mining. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Ross needs to cut his losses and convert his mine into a a spot for hipsters to buy overpriced avocado toast and fresh-pressed juices. He'll never have to worry about money again!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at home, Demelza continues to yell at the illegal traders to get their crap from under the floorboards and:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/tumblr_n0bbjpmUtQ1s7hg3xo1_400.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45886\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/tumblr_n0bbjpmUtQ1s7hg3xo1_400.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_n0bbjpmutq1s7hg3xo1_400\" width=\"350\" height=\"279\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let's check back in with Ross. Has he returned home to handle his own illegal business dealings and to spend some quality time with his wife and infant? Ha ha, nope! He's at Pinky Ring's, of course, inching closer and closer to adultery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ross:\u003c/strong> \"I will always have reason to call, if you wish it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pinky Ring:\u003c/strong> \"I wish it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/alAx0zM.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-45888\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/alAx0zM.gif\" alt=\"alax0zm\" width=\"500\" height=\"202\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at chez Ross, Demelza is still giving grade-A death stare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-10.51.06-AM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-45889\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-10.51.06-AM-800x436.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-11-05-at-10-51-06-am\" width=\"800\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-10.51.06-AM-800x436.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-10.51.06-AM-160x87.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-10.51.06-AM-768x419.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-10.51.06-AM-1020x556.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-10.51.06-AM-1180x644.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-10.51.06-AM-960x524.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-10.51.06-AM-240x131.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-10.51.06-AM-375x205.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-10.51.06-AM-520x284.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-10.51.06-AM.png 1232w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It only increases in intensity when Ross shares his plan to not only store smuggled goods, but to personally go on one of the smuggling runs. But maybe this is a good thing. Ross can get his stupid ass caught and go to prison, paving the way for \u003cem>Poldark\u003c/em> to become all about Demelza and the three dogs. Now \u003cem>that\u003c/em> would be must-see TV!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across town, Doc and Blondie debate whether they should elope or try to convince Blondie's uncle to be chill and just let them get married the non-shady way. I don't care either way, as long as I get a shot of Horace the Pug serving as the ring-bearer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More details about the smuggling run: Ross is going all the way to France (I guess ticket prices dropped, thanks to all the social unrest and beheadings and such). His mission will be to find that dude from Season 1 who strangled his cheating wife to death and ask his advice on which part of the mine might actually have copper. This storyline is embarrassing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In town, Malfoy runs into Ross. Despite my immense desire for one of them to slap the other with a glove, they just mean mug each other and walk away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malfoy returns home and orders his Slytherin Crony to go to Pinky Ring's house at once. He's supposed to scare her with details of the French Revolution so that she comes running for Malfoy's help, but it doesn't quite work out that way. She instead writes to Ross because home-wreckers gonna home-wreck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agatha, on the other hand, doesn't need a man for protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Agatha:\u003c/strong> \"Fetch me a pistol. I can stop an intruder in his tracks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pinky Ring:\u003c/strong> \"I don't doubt it, aunt. With or without a firearm.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/tumblr_odagiuxFeT1smwl44o2_500.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45900\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/tumblr_odagiuxFeT1smwl44o2_500.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_odagiuxfet1smwl44o2_500\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at chez Ross, Doc stops by to tell Demelza he's skipping town to marry Blondie and won't be coming back. Demelza plays it cool, but this will be her at the going-away party, because a) she loves to sing and b) Doc is one of the only nice people in all of Cornwall:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/11c839f0-d25f-0132-45f5-0ebc4eccb42f.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45902\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/11c839f0-d25f-0132-45f5-0ebc4eccb42f.gif\" alt=\"11c839f0-d25f-0132-45f5-0ebc4eccb42f\" width=\"500\" height=\"244\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across town, Pinky Ring is livid at Ross for not responding to her letter. You can't see me, but I'm pointing and laughing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/tenor.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45910\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/tenor.gif\" alt=\"tenor\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, Blondie pays Demelza a visit. Her need for girl talk supersedes her hatred of poor people, just this once. Blondie is worried Doc has changed his mind about the elopement. Demelza is like, \u003cem>No way!\u003c/em> But Blondie hits her with a \u003cem>Girl, who are you kidding? \u003c/em>question:\u003cem> \u003c/em>\"Is that your experience of husbands, to be relied upon?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demelza's response:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/kid-crying-interview.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45913\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/kid-crying-interview.gif\" alt=\"kid-crying-interview\" width=\"360\" height=\"189\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In France, Ross meets up with Wife Strangler, who now looks like \u003ca href=\"https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/6c/f3/74/6cf374f1222add3feba608e8e4347650.jpg\">Tom Hanks in \u003cem>Castaway\u003c/em>\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://media.giphy.com/media/JjLylCKqqQs5q/giphy.gif\">Tom Hanks in \u003cem>Forrest Gump\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. You decide. He shares how much he wishes he could strangle Doc to death for sleeping with his wife. I'm guessing France doesn't offer anger-management classes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross and friends are all like, \u003cem>Dude, you've done enough strangling. Now, where's the copper?\u003c/em> Wife Strangler tries to show them on a map and they all look at each other like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/Kim-Kardashian-looking-at-Kanye-West-shaking-their-heads-GIF.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45914\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/Kim-Kardashian-looking-at-Kanye-West-shaking-their-heads-GIF.gif\" alt=\"kim-kardashian-looking-at-kanye-west-shaking-their-heads-gif\" width=\"460\" height=\"262\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He doesn't really know where the copper is, after all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Cornwall, Malfoy sends his Slytherin Crony to scare Pinky Ring some more by lying about poor people planning to storm her property. Agatha swoops in with some words of wisdom: \"Male of the species: inadequate at best. Better to rely on one's own resources.\" And then she PULLS OUT A HUGE GUN!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/tumblr_odagiuxFeT1smwl44o3_500.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45937\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/tumblr_odagiuxFeT1smwl44o3_500.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_odagiuxfet1smwl44o3_500\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News of this fake riot-in-the-making makes Pinky Ring even angrier with Ross. How dare he not reply to her letter?! She's his.... ex-girlfriend who ditched him for his richer cousin, while he was fighting for his life on the front lines. Yeah. You reap what you sow, girlfriend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alas, she doesn't have any common sense and trots on over to chez Ross to bug Demelza. \u003cem>Why hasn't your husband replied to my love note? Wahhhh!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demelza considers this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/giphy-25.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45938\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/giphy-25.gif\" alt=\"giphy-25\" width=\"500\" height=\"262\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But opts for this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/raw-10.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45939\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/raw-10.gif\" alt=\"shooting daggers eyes gif\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In town, Wonky Knee Girl, who Doc cured last episode using the knowledge he acquired by inappropriately cutting off a corpse's leg, is having trouble walking again. Doc gets word and wants to help, but he's supposed to meet Blondie in the woods for their elopement. Because he's a good person and doesn't want the other town doctor to chop off this girl's entire leg, he runs to help, which means he's essentially stranding Blondie at the altar because this was before texting. I guess we'll never get to see Horace the Pug serve as ring-bearer, after all.\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/dog-anim.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-45971 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/dog-anim.gif\" alt=\"dog-anim\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doc easily turns Wonky Knee Girl into Functional Knee Girl. Ok, great! Now he doesn't have to be late for his elopement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not so fast! Functional Knee Girl's fiancé, who also happens to be the dude who barged into Ross' house last episode and saw all the smugglers digging a hole in the living room floor, is revealed to have lied about a thing or two. Doc and Demelza look at each other, this song now stuck in their heads:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/B0yGvypBwyA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/B0yGvypBwyA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Meanwhile, Horace the Pug is growing very impatient. Blondie, too, I suppose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/horace-pug-poldark.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-45947\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/horace-pug-poldark-800x402.jpg\" alt=\"horace-pug-poldark\" width=\"800\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/horace-pug-poldark-800x402.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/horace-pug-poldark-160x80.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/horace-pug-poldark-768x386.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/horace-pug-poldark-1020x512.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/horace-pug-poldark-1180x593.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/horace-pug-poldark-960x482.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/horace-pug-poldark-240x121.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/horace-pug-poldark-375x188.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/horace-pug-poldark-520x261.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/horace-pug-poldark.jpg 1226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doc runs over to Informer's house. Homeboy does not have a fever, but he does have fancy curtains and candlesticks. You, too, can have nice housewares, if you sell out your friends for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demelza hurries home, seeing tons of military men on the way. She informs Mrs. Pigpen that she's going to head down to the beach to warn Ross. Only trouble is Ross' War BFF busts in right then and orders a man with a gun to not let her leave for the rest of the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the Informer's house, Doc tries to leave to tell the others, but Informer breaks a chair on his back! When that doesn't kill him, Informer tries to bludgeon him with a fireplace poker. When that doesn't work, he tries to stab him to death. Thankfully, Doc lands a few blows and runs out. (Maybe he's been taking boxing lessons in heels like Malfoy?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Side-note: I watched that entire fight like Aly Raisman's parents:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/PlayfulBeneficialGander-size_restricted.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45972\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/PlayfulBeneficialGander-size_restricted.gif\" alt=\"playfulbeneficialgander-size_restricted\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From there, Doc goes to a hill overlooking the beach and makes a bonfire to warn foolhardy Ross and his stupid friends. Unfortunately, they're already on the beach, unloading, by the time they notice it. Ross yells for everyone to get back in the boat, but he wants to take his chances running around on the beach while soldiers shoot at him, proving that he got everything in the looks department and almost nothing in the brains department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross runs up the hill and knocks out some soldiers. This plan is really stupid. A single punch isn't strong enough to give them early-onset Alzheimer's. They will remember who knocked them out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of being knocked out, a soldier hits Doc on the head with his rifle. No good deed goes unpunished, which is something Blondie knows very well, as she and Horace are sitting in her coach in the rain and cold, waiting for someone who isn't coming. Horace is TREMBLING! All because of Ross and his constant shenanigans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demelza manages to sneak out of the house (because she's got it like that) and finds Ross in the woods. Guards are everywhere. The plan is to run home and have Ross hide in the library, where the secret cellar is. Pretty sure Informer told them about that secret spot, but okay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The very moment Demelza walks back into the house, one of the dudes that Ross knocked out barges in. Like I expected, he did not develop early-onset Alzheimer's. A bunch of soldiers storm the library, point their guns at the secret cellar and...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/giphy-26.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-45974\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/giphy-26.gif\" alt=\"giphy-26\" width=\"440\" height=\"330\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>...it's empty!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phew!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/giphy-27.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-45973\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/giphy-27.gif\" alt=\"giphy-27\" width=\"500\" height=\"395\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across town, Pinky Ring hears about the soldiers running around and once again loudly complains about Ross not writing her back. GET OVER YOUR FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS!!! Being the petty middle schooler that she is, she immediately writes Malfoy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, after some time in custody, Doc is released. He runs to Blondie's mansion, but all that's there for him is a letter from her saying goodbye forever. THANKS, ROSS!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a live feed of Blondie:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/JmW19.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45975\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/JmW19.gif\" alt=\"jmw19\" width=\"500\" height=\"256\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mr. Pigpen and some other smugglers are on the hunt for the Informer. They're out for blood. But they're not going to get any because -- plot twist! -- the Informer has already been murdered and dumped on the beach. That's what he gets for being the main reason Horace the Pug had to tremble in the cold all night long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Pinky Ring's house, Malfoy stops by to tattle on Ross. Agatha calls BS on everything he says, with punctuations of \"Stuff!\" and \"Piffle!\" I'm so glad she's immortal and will never die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over at chez Ross, Demelza is worried sick. The rug and table in the library moved, so Ross has definitely been there. Where in the world is Ross Poldark (and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ImLfvgPJd8\">Carmen Sandiego\u003c/a>)?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apparently, in a side compartment of the secret cellar! He emerges and walks in on Demelza singing her first single. She runs to him and they embrace. All is well... until he has to deal with the fact that he punched a bunch of soldiers and has been exposed as an illegal smuggler. But other than that, and the fact that he's in love with another woman, it's all good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>End scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>After every episode, it’s only right to reward characters who’ve impressed and diss the ones that haven’t, so here goes:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>PIECE OF COAL:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> Pinky Ring.\u003c/strong> Sometimes, people don't reply to letters, emails or texts because they are busy and their lives don't revolve around you. GET OVER YOURSELF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>HONORABLE MENTION:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> \u003cstrong>Demelza\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>Let her life be a lesson: think twice before marrying a dude just because he's easy on the eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>BRONZE:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> \u003cstrong>Blondie.\u003c/strong>\u003cem> \u003c/em>Being stood up in the cold like that is terrible, but there's a silver lining. Now, she can release really powerful breakup anthems and become the 18th-century Taylor Swift!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>SILVER: \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Agatha. \u003c/strong>That gun reveal. Pure gold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>GOLD:\u003c/em> Doc. \u003c/strong>I'm glad he survived being assaulted by a chair, a poker, a knife, a rifle butt, \u003cem>and\u003c/em> a breakup letter. He's earned a lengthy vacation. Wonky Knee Girl will just have to fend for herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until next week! If you miss my thoughts on \u003cem>Poldark\u003c/em>, follow me on Twitter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/xcusemybeauty\">@xcusemybeauty\u003c/a> or read all the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/tag/recaps/\">other recaps\u003c/a> below!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>More recaps:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/10/30/poldark-season-2-episode-5-recap-before-he-cheats/\">'Poldark' Season 2, Episode 5 Recap: Before He Cheats\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/10/24/poldark-season-2-episode-4-recap-sink-or-swim/\">'Poldark' Season 2, Episode 4 Recap: Sink or Swim\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/10/17/poldark-season-2-episode-3-recap-miss-independent/\">'Poldark' Season 2, Episode 3 Recap: Miss Independent\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/10/02/poldark-season-2-episode-2-recap-you-dont-bring-me-flowers/\">'Poldark' Season 2, Episode 2 Recap: You Don't Bring Me Flowers\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/09/27/poldark-season-2-premiere-recap-court-and-spark/\">'Poldark' Season 2, Episode 1 Recap: Court and Spark\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/09/23/poldark-season-1-episode-4-recap-send-my-love-to-your-new-lover/\"> 'Poldark' Season 1, Episode 4 Recap: Send My Love to Your New Lover\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/09/21/poldark-season-1-episode-3-recap-oops-there-goes-my-shirt/\">‘Poldark’ Season 1, Episode 3 Recap: Oops, There Goes My Shirt\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/09/20/poldark-season-1-episode-2-recap-guns-and-ships-bang-bang/\">‘Poldark’ Season 1, Episode 2 Recap: Bang Bang\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In honor of the 50th anniversary of the CMA Awards, show producers worked a truly impressive number of performers into the Nov. 2 telecast, utilizing everything from moving medleys to photo montages and mentions of legends seated in the audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But no other appearance received half the attention of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/19230778/beyonce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyoncé\u003c/a>‘s “Daddy Lessons” collaboration with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/artists/15399450/dixie-chicks\">Dixie Chicks\u003c/a>. As with just about anything Bey-related, the announcement that she would take the stage at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena during what’s billed as “Country’s Biggest Night” generated a flurry of social media responses voicing a wide array of opinions. At opposing extremes were those exultant about the superstar \u003ca href=\"http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/02/beyonce-slays-the-country-music-awards-a-political-statement-unto-itself.html?via=twitter_page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">extending her dominance\u003c/a> into an additional corner of the musical landscape and those who declared themselves country fans — but likely represented only a small but vocal minority of the genre’s listenership — and insisted that \u003ca href=\"http://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/11/02/beyonce-sparks-cma-awards-backlash/93205328/?hootPostID=133a2e1ff28d14a178caca4dc90ac724\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she didn’t belong there\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after the show, a number of blogs joined Beyhive diehards in accusing the Country Music Association of bowing to the more vitriolic, racially charged commenters by erasing all online promotion of the Bey/Chicks segment, a conversation which ultimately amplified the perception that such viewpoints represented the country audience en masse. (The \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/04/arts/music/beyonce-cma-awards-backlash.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plausible explanation\u003c/a> offered by the CMA was that Beyoncé’s representatives were simply selective about what photos and video clips they would approve.) Some of the complaints plucked from Twitter feeds and comment threads on the CMA’s Facebook page had a territorial tone that echoed the “Is it or isn’t it country?” debate \u003ca href=\"http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/7378225/beyonce-daddy-issues-country-music?utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that sprang up\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://www.cmt.com/news/1765408/whats-so-country-about-beyonce/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in some corners\u003c/a> after “Daddy Lessons” was released on \u003cem>Lemonade\u003c/em> in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/291254039″ params=”color=ff5500″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, the feeling in the room when Beyoncé took the stage was that we were watching a precision entertainer consciously recalibrate her delivery for the setting. It was one of the few segments in the show through which the entire arena remained on its feet. The song kicked off with harmonica, rather than the album version’s New Orleans-style horn intro, a down-home touch that hearkened back to country music’s early, and incidentally African-American, harmonica hero \u003ca href=\"http://countrymusichalloffame.org/Inductees/InducteeDetail/deford-bailey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deford Bailey\u003c/a>. Beyoncé struck up a “Texas” chant, then passed it off to Natalie Maines, Emily Robison and Martie Maguire, in acknowledgement of their shared geographical origins in a state rich in countrified storytelling. Between the tweaking of Beyoncé’s usual live instrumentation — less low-end thump, more strumming and light-footed percussion — and the Chicks’ bluegrass underpinnings, they leaned into a string band sound, even briefly veering into a stuttering, second line-ish adaptation of the Chicks’ fiddle romp “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c5b8ZtjwwY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Long Time Gone\u003c/a>,” a No. 2 country hit in 2002. And it was no small gesture for an artist whose performances of physicality have become iconic in R&B and pop realms — from her leotards to her magnetic dance choreography — to don a sheer, floor-length gown whose puffy sleeves Loretta Lynn might appreciate and, in a visual display of solidarity, stand next to the Chicks, who were anchored to instruments and mic stands. Beyoncé certainly didn’t squander her official country slot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From a historical angle, her country excursion represents something more like reclamation than invasion, since the genre’s roots entwine with African-American folk, blues, string band and pop contributions. In more recent times, a precedent’s been set for artists from other genres signaling their affinity for country music by \u003ca href=\"http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/7534100/lady-gaga-joanne-nashville-dive-bar-tour-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">making pilgrimages\u003c/a> to Nashville \u003ca href=\"http://nashvillepublicradio.org/post/bob-dylan-was-catalyst-nashville-cats-were-ones-who-changed-music-row#stream/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">writing rooms and studios\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/01/beyonce-daddy-lessons-country-music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">enlisting the talents\u003c/a> of recognized Music Row pros or teaming up with country’s resident stars. It’s nothing new either for the CMA Awards to present crossover pairings that, in a sense, position major country acts to vouch for the country-friendliness of pop heavyweights. (See: last year’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/see-chris-stapleton-and-justin-timberlakes-stunning-cma-awards-duet-20151104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">much-discussed collab\u003c/a> between Chris Stapleton and Justin Timberlake, or 2013’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-615/5800832/zac-brown-band-teams-up-with-dave-grohl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">between\u003c/a> the Zac Brown Band and Dave Grohl.) But Beyonce’s “Daddy Lessons” was written and recorded entirely independently of the country scene, and her performing partners, the Chicks — who’d been regularly covering her song — no longer have the ambassadorial heft of the format insiders they once were. They’ve kept a safe distance from the Nashville establishment ever since the radio rejection that followed lead singer Natalie Maines’ 2003 on-stage comments about President Bush. \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2016/08/18/490497693/dixie-chicks-host-a-joyously-defiant-girls-night-out-in-nashville\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Until a few months ago\u003c/a>, they hadn’t headlined Nashville in a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Beyonce, the Chicks and their combined band took the stage deep in the awards show, some may have experienced it as an interruption in the honoring of country stars past and present, especially given that it came immediately before a lifetime achievement nod to Beyonce’s fellow stadium-filler Kenny Chesney, comprised of a speech from Peyton Manning and an admiring tribute video; without a performing component, it couldn’t help but seem subdued in comparison to the high-energy musical interlude that had come just before. But Beyonce’s turn also brought a certain symmetry to the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interaction with other forms of popular music — as opposed to isolation from them — is a source of pride, not to mention one among many drivers of stylistic evolution, in the mainstream country world. Crossover impact has been one of the great achievements of the award show’s penultimate honoree, Dolly Parton, who was feted with a medley of hits, like “Here You Come Again” and “9 to 5,” that landed her on the pop charts and a standard, “I Will Always Love You,” that’s had a second life in reinterpretations by pop superstars of color, Beyoncé \u003ca href=\"http://rare.us/story/beyonce-attempts-to-slay-a-dolly-parton-country-classic/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">included\u003c/a>. It’s worth noting too that two of the five singers paying tribute to Parton, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjWCZB08UW0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reba McEntire\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XTXHvae10o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jennifer Nettles\u003c/a>, have also dipped into Beyoncé’s catalog on occasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “Daddy Lessons” performance was preceded earlier in the night by Maren Morris’s explicit incorporation of African-American gospel stylings into her breezy country-pop gem “My Church” and Keith Urban’s smolderingly stark rendition of his throwback soul single “Blue Ain’t Your Color.” And shortly after Beyonce sang with the Chicks, Dwight Yoakam and Chris Stapleton revisited a successful country-soul collaboration with a cover of “Seven Spanish Angels,” a Willie Nelson and Ray Charles duet that became a country hit in the mid-’80s. That wasn’t Charles’s first foray into country music, of course, but it was his highest charting one. (The complexities of Charles’s track record with the genre, and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dukeupress.edu/segregating-sound\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">impact\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/12833.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">race\u003c/a> on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674416598\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">categorization\u003c/a> of American \u003ca href=\"https://www.dukeupress.edu/Hidden-in-the-Mix/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">music\u003c/a> in general is too much to wade into here, but there’s plenty of important work on the subject.) To have Beyonce, a contemporary, southern-born, black R&B artist in the mix helped ensure the circle remained unbroken. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Beyonc%C3%A9+And+The+Dixie+Chicks+Offer+Up+Lessons+On+Country+Music%27s+Past+%28And+Future%29&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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I was completely taken off guard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though that discrimination was happening right in front of her, it only became somewhat visible to the tester when she could step back far enough to see it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was reminded of that conclusion this week after the release of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.nber.org/papers/w22776\">much-discussed working paper\u003c/a> on discrimination among ride-sharing services like \u003ca href=\"https://www.uber.com/?exp=home_signup_form\">Uber\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.lyft.com/\">Lyft\u003c/a>. The study was conducted in Seattle and Boston by researchers at MIT and the University of Washington. (For those who might be unfamiliar with how they work, ride-sharing smartphone apps like Uber and Lyft let users virtually \"hail\" a ride from a nearby driver, the way you might hail a cabbie on the street.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this new study, as with the housing study, the results were disheartening. Black passengers in Seattle had to wait longer for drivers to pick them up. In both cities, women were taken on longer trips than men, driving the price of their fares up. People with \"black-sounding\" names were significantly more likely to have drivers cancel their trips before they arrived to pick them up. Black men were twice as likely to have their trips canceled. If those black men lived in less densely populated places like the suburbs — places where alternative transportation options are harder to come by — they were \u003cem>three\u003c/em> times as likely to have their rides canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers even noticed a kind of de facto cancellation. Because Uber penalizes drivers who cancel too many ride requests, some drivers would instead idle a distance away from the designated pickup spot — or drive in a completely different direction from it — increasing the wait time and forcing the waiting riders to cancel the request and maybe even incur a cancellation fee. It was discrimination by attrition. And as was the case in the rental study, the people on the receiving end of that discrimination would have no way of knowin it was happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don Mackenzie, one of the lead researchers on the study, told me that because there are plenty of valid reasons a driver might cancel a trip, it's virtually impossible to determine whether any \u003cem>individual\u003c/em> trip was canceled because of a driver's bias. You could only see a pattern of bias against people in the aggregate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doesn't mean individual folks don't feel its consequences. Mackenzie, who is white, said that he could expect about 5 percent of his Boston trips on the ride-sharing apps to be canceled. Were he a black man coming from a suburban neighborhood near the city, he said, the rate would be about 15 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's the difference between pretty convenient and really kind of a pain,\" Mackenzie told me. \"If your ride cancels on you 5 percent of the time, that's one of your morning commutes each month and maybe your boss can handle that. But if it's like once a week or a couple times every few weeks, that's something you're going to start building into your schedule. That's basically another form of the black tax, but it's not money, it's time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is probably a useful way to think about discrimination generally: like a kind of drag that has to be constantly adjusted and calculated for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The irony here is that one of the major selling points of services like Uber and Lyft was that they allowed black folks to work around the frustration and low-level humiliation of being passed over by traditional cab drivers, a discriminatory practice that\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lax-taxis-race-20160120-story.html\"> very much remains a thing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of this study, testers tried hailing cabs in Seattle from the curbside the old-fashioned way. 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(Our friends at \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/04/26/475623339/-airbnbwhileblack-how-hidden-bias-shapes-the-sharing-economy\">Hidden Brain dedicated an entire episode\u003c/a> to this, which you should check out.) Companies like Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb have maintained that they aren't transportation or hotel companies, really, but instead tech companies whose products help connect people to rides and housing. They don't employ their drivers or hosts, and so they don't oversee their activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That set-up might make Uber, Lyft or Airbnb fleeter companies with lower overhead, but it's \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/how-airbnb-makes-it-hard-to-sue-for-discrimination\">a big hurdle to policing discrimination\u003c/a> among their users. After all, the discrimination users experience on Uber doesn't come from the company, but is the result of choices made by thousands of people using their own discretion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the ride-sharing companies, there are other ways that the discrimination could hide in plain sight. It might show up in the five-star rating system that both Uber drivers and riders use. \u003ca href=\"http://www.nancyleong.com/race-2/uber-privacy-discrimination/\">Some folks have worried\u003c/a> that the users and drivers might regularly give black people lower ratings. (Uber does not make rating information public.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And though Lyft passengers with \"black-sounding\" names were picked up at the same rate as those with \"white-sounding\" names in the Boston tests, that probably had less to do with the relative open-mindedness of drivers and more to do with the app interfaces, the researchers said. It's only after Uber drivers accept a trip that they can see a rider's name. 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Because Uber penalizes drivers who cancel too many ride requests, some drivers would instead idle a distance away from the designated pickup spot — or drive in a completely different direction from it — increasing the wait time and forcing the waiting riders to cancel the request and maybe even incur a cancellation fee. It was discrimination by attrition. And as was the case in the rental study, the people on the receiving end of that discrimination would have no way of knowin it was happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don Mackenzie, one of the lead researchers on the study, told me that because there are plenty of valid reasons a driver might cancel a trip, it's virtually impossible to determine whether any \u003cem>individual\u003c/em> trip was canceled because of a driver's bias. You could only see a pattern of bias against people in the aggregate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doesn't mean individual folks don't feel its consequences. 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"content": "\u003cp>Does anyone remember how public feuds worked before the internet? I guess people just had to say shady things about each other in interviews that ran in print newspapers, and then hope that the target of their shade read that particular newspaper? Seems, well, unsatisfying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thankfully, we have Twitter, the social media site whose instant gratification factor makes it not only a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kanyewest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">great platform for narcissism as performance art\u003c/a> and a really \u003ca href=\"http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/29/anthony-weiner-loses-huma-abedin-and-two-jobs-on-the-same-day.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">splashy way to b\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/29/anthony-weiner-loses-huma-abedin-and-two-jobs-on-the-same-day.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">low up your life\u003c/a>, but also the ideal method for exchanging snarky insults with public figures. And when you’ve got \u003cem>two\u003c/em> public figures involved? You, my friend, have an entertaining Twitter feud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most hilarious recent case in point: San Jose’s own Smash Mouth — the band famous for the inescapable 1999 single “All Star,” some painful covers on the \u003cem>Shrek\u003c/em> soundtrack and a lead singer who’s somehow achieved the feat of being \u003ca href=\"https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/smash-mouth-singer-is-not-an-all-star\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">even more disliked than his food-world doppelganger Guy Fieri\u003c/a> — decided to weigh in on a tweet by \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em> sports writer John Shea about Coco Crisp, the former A’s outfielder who was traded to the Cleveland Indians earlier this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/smashmouth/status/792201639612461056\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worth noting, maybe, that this is not the first occasion on which the person behind Smash Mouth’s Twitter account has seemed like he might have too much time on his hands. \u003ca href=\"http://gawker.com/smash-mouths-desperate-endless-twitter-battle-1781910819\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This hilarious report by Ashley Feinberg at Gawker\u003c/a> (RIP) details the impressive amount of time and energy this account spends sounding incredibly defensive, refuting even mild criticism from random people online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What took this interaction to the next level, however, was whomever was running the A’s Twitter account close to midnight on Oct. 28, when the (rather lame) original diss took place. This person went “You know what? You’ll never know if you don’t go.” And they \u003cem>went\u003c/em>. The organization has since deleted its tweets, so we’re going off text captured by \u003ca href=\"http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/10/smash-mouth-got-into-a-twitter-fight-with-the-oakland-as-at-230-am/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Consequence of Sound\u003c/a>, but the sparring included hits such as:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-31-at-11.22.14-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12284177 aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-31-at-11.22.14-PM.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-10-31-at-11-22-14-pm\" width=\"642\" height=\"116\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-31-at-11.22.14-PM.png 642w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-31-at-11.22.14-PM-160x29.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-31-at-11.22.14-PM-240x43.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-31-at-11.22.14-PM-375x68.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-31-at-11.22.14-PM-520x94.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/smashmouth/status/792249505697533952\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-31-at-11.24.30-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12284178 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-31-at-11.24.30-PM.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-10-31-at-11-24-30-pm\" width=\"750\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-31-at-11.24.30-PM.png 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-31-at-11.24.30-PM-160x31.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-31-at-11.24.30-PM-240x46.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-31-at-11.24.30-PM-375x72.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-31-at-11.24.30-PM-520x100.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your mileage may vary, but my personal favorite part is when Smash Mouth continues to try to make salient points about the team’s strategy, and A’s pitcher Sean Doolittle (who was also up at this hour with nothing better to do than make jokes) decides to chime in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/whatwouldDOOdo/status/792255261905825792\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did you know Sean Doolittle was great at Twitter?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/whatwouldDOOdo/status/792266522206965760\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I did not know Sean Doolittle was great at Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/whatwouldDOOdo/status/792272784931946496\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In any event: it appears someone on the Athletics’ PR team thought said online shenanigans were, as they say, “not a good look,” because the team’s tweets were gone the next morning. In their place, there was a peace offering:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Athletics/status/792421934390587392\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, I’m going to overlook my obvious bias to note that truly, no one here comes out looking like the sharpest tool in the shed. While I agree the A’s social media person might have run his or her tone by a colleague before engaging in an all-out Twitter war with a notoriously and publicly sad aging retro band, the real social media crime here is that the A’s deleted their tweets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why? Because if we learned anything from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/when-beyonce-mentions-your-brand-dont-repeat-red-lobsters-social-failure/635888\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Great Red Lobster/Beyoncé Social Media Fail of March 2016\u003c/a>, it’s that people want nothing so much as authenticity from their favorite brands, sports and celebrities. That means sometimes looking flawed — immature, silly, or over-the-top. You know, like people are. \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/us/bart-talks-back-agencys-twitter-account-responds-to-user-complaints.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The social media team at BART earned accolades\u003c/a> earlier this year for doing just that: being candid, communicating like actual human beings might.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And how do actual humans feel about Smash Mouth?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/FullSizeRender-33.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12284184 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/FullSizeRender-33.jpg\" alt=\"fullsizerender-33\" width=\"399\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/FullSizeRender-33.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/FullSizeRender-33-160x159.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/FullSizeRender-33-240x239.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/FullSizeRender-33-375x374.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/FullSizeRender-33-520x518.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/FullSizeRender-33-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/FullSizeRender-33-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/FullSizeRender-33-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/FullSizeRender-33-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/FullSizeRender-33-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/10/FullSizeRender-33-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>…okay, so that one was maybe a little harsh. 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"content": "\u003cp>In the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/10/24/poldark-season-2-episode-4-recap-sink-or-swim/\">previous episode of \u003cem>Poldark\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Demelza gave Ross a sensual sponge bath, Blondie and Doc made out next to a horse's butt, and, oh yeah, Francis DIED. Will Ross make newly-widowed Pinky Ring his second wife, found a religion that permits polygamy, and move to Utah? Will Francis' ghost not realize he's dead and spend a lot of time trying to help a kid who sees dead people? Only one way to find out! On with the show!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's been a few weeks since Francis drowned in a puddle and everyone is still really bummed about it. But they can surely take heart in the fact that he died discovering copper, right? Yeah, not so much. Turns out it was \"fool's copper.\" Francis' short life in a nutshell:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/2682207462_1.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44480\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/2682207462_1.gif\" alt=\"2682207462_1\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bright and early, Ross informs Demelza that he's heading off to see Pinky Ring. Demelza is unamused: \"Is Verity's company not enough for her?\" Translation: \u003cem>Can we just skip this whole you-cheat-on-me-in-a-moment-of-weakness-and-lie-about-it-for-months thing? I'm tired.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In anticipation of Ross' visit, Pinky Ring makes sure her hair is on point and pinches her cheeks so that her coloring is as enticing as possible. Verity delivers an express package of \u003cem>Girl, really?\u003c/em> side-eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/verity-poldark-side-eye.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-44489\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/verity-poldark-side-eye-800x441.jpg\" alt=\"verity-poldark-side-eye\" width=\"800\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/verity-poldark-side-eye-800x441.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/verity-poldark-side-eye-160x88.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/verity-poldark-side-eye-768x423.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/verity-poldark-side-eye-1020x562.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/verity-poldark-side-eye-1180x650.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/verity-poldark-side-eye-960x529.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/verity-poldark-side-eye-240x132.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/verity-poldark-side-eye-375x207.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/verity-poldark-side-eye-520x287.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/verity-poldark-side-eye.jpg 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross and Pinky Ring have apparently been galloping around Cornwall twice a week. Pinky Ring says it's to keep her four-year-old son abreast of the state of the mine. Verity, Agatha, Demelza and anyone else with eyes knows these field trips are actually about Ross keeping himself abreast of Pinky Ring's breasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across town, Malfoy and his uncle are really jazzed about sending Ross to debtor's prison for failing to pay his debts. Would modern day people spend this much time being evil, if we didn't have Netflix to distract us?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the mine, Ross and Pinky Ring flirt and pretend that they're not going to ruin Demelza's life really soon. Francis Jr. is an awkward plus-one on this date:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-kid.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-44490\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-kid-800x412.jpg\" alt=\"poldark-elizabeth-kid\" width=\"800\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-kid-800x412.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-kid-160x82.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-kid-768x396.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-kid-1020x525.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-kid-1180x608.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-kid-960x494.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-kid-240x124.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-kid-375x193.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-kid-520x268.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-kid.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a beach, Doc finds a dead body (maybe from a shipwreck?). Before we can get any answers, Doc takes out a saw and starts cutting off the corpse's leg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/publizity-wait-whet-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44499\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/publizity-wait-whet-gif.gif\" alt=\"publizity-wait-whet-gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At chez Ross, Demelza advises Ross to just ask one of his rich friends to help him stay out of debtor's prison. For the umpteenth time, Ross lets her know he doesn't value her opinion and hates when she talks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over at Doc's bachelor pad, he's putting his fingers all in the corpse's severed leg. Then he has an Oprah A-ha! Moment™. He uses what he learned from this exercise in anatomy to fix some random villager's wonky knee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/britney-spears-huh.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44500\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/britney-spears-huh.gif\" alt=\"britney-spears-huh\" width=\"500\" height=\"377\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In prison, Ross visits some random dude and says, \u003cem>I'm probably also going to be in jail pretty soon! LOL! \u003c/em>The prisoner tries to reason with him. Surely Ross can just sell his mine shares and avoid ruining his wife's life? Ross responds with,\u003cem> Nah, I prefer living in a constant state of chaos. And I haven't given a damn about my wife in months! LOL!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On his way home, he runs into Horace the Pug!!! Blondie's there too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-the-pug-poldark.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-44501\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-the-pug-poldark-800x414.jpg\" alt=\"horace-the-pug-poldark\" width=\"800\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-the-pug-poldark-800x414.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-the-pug-poldark-160x83.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-the-pug-poldark-768x398.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-the-pug-poldark-1020x528.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-the-pug-poldark-1180x611.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-the-pug-poldark-960x497.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-the-pug-poldark-240x124.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-the-pug-poldark-375x194.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-the-pug-poldark-520x269.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-the-pug-poldark.jpg 1226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at home, Doc tells Ross and Demelza about his huge crush on Blondie. (WE GET IT! GEEZ!) Then, Ross pretends Demelza doesn't exist and talks about how pointless life is, in light of how quickly you can drown in a puddle. Demelza looks at him like this for a really long time:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-9.38.43-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-44502\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-9.38.43-PM-800x447.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-10-28-at-9-38-43-pm\" width=\"800\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-9.38.43-PM-800x447.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-9.38.43-PM-160x89.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-9.38.43-PM-768x429.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-9.38.43-PM-1020x569.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-9.38.43-PM-1180x659.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-9.38.43-PM-960x536.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-9.38.43-PM-240x134.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-9.38.43-PM-375x209.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-9.38.43-PM-520x290.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-9.38.43-PM.png 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I hate him, too, girl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over at Pinky Ring's house, Malfoy has returned to say evil things to Tarot Card Agatha's face. \"I think it's high time the coffin-maker started taking measurements, old hag.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/how-dare-you-dance-moms-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44503\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/how-dare-you-dance-moms-gif.gif\" alt=\"how-dare-you-dance-moms-gif\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if she was deaf, which she's not, she would probably be able to read lips pretty well. I cannot wait for whatever witchcraft she will use to murder this twerp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason for his visit: to give Pinky Ring some weird candy and remind her that she can pay off what Francis owed him via Visa, MasterCard, or preferably sexual favors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At chez Ross, Demelza tells Verity that the main pillar of a happy marriage is pretending to believe your husband isn't a cheating bastard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across town, Pinky Ring explains to her son that she plans to smile less around the house so that she doesn't get wrinkles. Her son is just old enough to realize she's lost it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-tripping.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-44504\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-tripping-800x413.jpg\" alt=\"poldark-elizabeth-tripping\" width=\"800\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-tripping-800x413.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-tripping-160x83.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-tripping-768x396.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-tripping-1020x527.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-tripping-1180x609.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-tripping-960x496.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-tripping-240x124.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-tripping-375x194.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-tripping-520x268.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-tripping.jpg 1232w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a forest, Doc and Blondie make out next to a horse's butt. Again. This has become their thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-10.10.14-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-44506\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-10.10.14-PM-800x444.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-10-28-at-10-10-14-pm\" width=\"800\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-10.10.14-PM-800x444.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-10.10.14-PM-160x89.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-10.10.14-PM-768x426.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-10.10.14-PM-1020x566.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-10.10.14-PM-1180x655.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-10.10.14-PM-960x533.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-10.10.14-PM-672x372.png 672w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-10.10.14-PM-1038x576.png 1038w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-10.10.14-PM-240x133.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-10.10.14-PM-375x208.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-10.10.14-PM-520x289.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-10.10.14-PM.png 1230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They eventually unlock their lips long enough for Blondie to speak some truth about Demelza and the futility of marrying men: \"She seems to be universally adored. She's the sort of woman that all men desire, except her husband. So often happens; no great incentive for marriage.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as I'm starting to like her, she goes back to her rich-people-rule-poor-people-drool routine. She thinks Doc's desire to help the needy is cute and all, but that he should move somewhere fancy and help \"his own kind\" instead. Making out next to horse butts seems fun, but surely they both realize their values are in such opposition that this could never work, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out they're still in the you're-so-hot-that-I-can't-recognize-any-of-your-obvious-flaws stage of their relationship. They celebrate their blissful ignorance by randomly racing each other on horseback (Blondie on side-saddle, of course, because she's not a harlot).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Always full of terrible ideas, Ross comes up with a plan. More illegal trading + storing stolen goods at home = lots of money and zero jail time. Demelza is like, \u003cem>Um, I'm barely literate and terrible at math, but that equation makes no goddamn sense! Just ask your rich friends for help, you proud idiot!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then this amazing exchange, which I've been anticipating for so long, takes place:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ross:\u003c/strong> \"Do I have your consent?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Demelza:\u003c/strong> \"YOU DARE TO ASK ME THAT, KNOWING VERY WELL YOU DO EXACTLY AS YOU PLEASE WITH OR WITHOUT MY SAY?!?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then she throws a rake at his face!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/applause-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44516\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/applause-gif.gif\" alt=\"applause-gif\" width=\"615\" height=\"295\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm so very proud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/proud-whitney-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44517\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/proud-whitney-gif.gif\" alt=\"proud-whitney-gif\" width=\"400\" height=\"224\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And things just get better with this close-up of Horace's face!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-44838\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-800x446.jpg\" alt=\"horace\" width=\"800\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-800x446.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-160x89.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-768x428.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-1020x568.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-1180x657.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-960x535.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-240x134.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-375x209.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-520x290.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace.jpg 1230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's that, you say? I'm too obsessed with this magical pug? Tell it to my new socks:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/xcusemybeauty/status/792901832372686848\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyway, Blondie tells her uncle about wanting to hang out with Doc the following day. Her uncle freaks out: \u003cem>But everyone will think you're a whore! Next, you'll tell me you've stopped riding side-saddle.\u003c/em> *male tears* They agree to disagree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Pinky Ring's house, Verity lets everyone know she is going home tomorrow. Agatha's responds with my new favorite saying: \"FIDDLESTICKS!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/xcusemybeauty/status/792875375730630657\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Verity isn't backing down and shares her plans to make up for lost time with her husband by having lots and lots of sex. Agatha chokes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/xcusemybeauty/status/792897497395961856\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across town, Malfoy is annoyed at his uncle for inviting a bunch of 17-year-old girls to their Christmas party. Never one to miss an opportunity to be disgusting, his uncle says: \"Prime breeding stock. You may examine their teeth, if you choose.\" Can we speed up the advent of feminism, pretty please? Absolutely not? Oh. Okay then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After another flirty hang with Pinky Ring, during which she complains about how her son isn't going to have as fat a trust fund as previously thought (#WhitePeopleProblems), Ross runs to his banker and tells him to sell a bunch of his mine shares and give all the money to Pinky Ring. The banker speaks for the audience at home:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Banker:\u003c/strong> \"You have your own wife and child to care for. Would it not seem that you value your cousin-in-law's comfort over hers?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ross:\u003c/strong> \"[Demelza] is a miner's daughter. She has learned to survive. Pinky Ring is a gentlewoman.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Banker:\u003c/strong> \"And you're a mad man.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Blondie's house, Doc arrives after being summoned by her uncle. The interaction goes a little something like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Uncle:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>You better not have sex with my niece!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Doc:\u003c/strong>\u003cem> Sorry, but I'm definitely going to. Probably next to a horse's butt.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Uncle:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Don't you dare!\u003c/em> \u003cem>I will cut off her inheritance!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Doc: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Her trust fund is the most annoying part about her, so knock yourself out. Later!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere, Malfoy butters up Pinky Ring's mom, but who cares about that when Horace's the Pug's life partner just made his/her debut?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-wife-poldark.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-44870\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-wife-poldark-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"horace-wife-poldark\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-wife-poldark-800x449.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-wife-poldark-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-wife-poldark-768x431.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-wife-poldark-1020x572.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-wife-poldark-1180x662.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-wife-poldark-960x539.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-wife-poldark-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-wife-poldark-375x210.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-wife-poldark-520x292.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-wife-poldark.jpg 1226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over at Pinky Ring's house, Verity is taking off. She gives Francis Jr. a kiss, gives Pinky Ring a look and says,\u003cem> Try not to be a homewrecker. Okay, bye! \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at chez Ross, Ross and his criminal buddies dig a huge hole in the living room to store illegal goods. Demelza knew he wouldn't listen to her, even after she screamed and threw a rake at his face. She watches him make yet another idiotic decision and shoots daggers into his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/demelza-poldark-daggers-mad.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-44871\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/demelza-poldark-daggers-mad-800x446.jpg\" alt=\"demelza-poldark-daggers-mad\" width=\"800\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/demelza-poldark-daggers-mad-800x446.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/demelza-poldark-daggers-mad-160x89.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/demelza-poldark-daggers-mad-768x428.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/demelza-poldark-daggers-mad-1020x569.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/demelza-poldark-daggers-mad-1180x658.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/demelza-poldark-daggers-mad-960x535.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/demelza-poldark-daggers-mad-240x134.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/demelza-poldark-daggers-mad-375x209.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/demelza-poldark-daggers-mad-520x290.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/demelza-poldark-daggers-mad.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bit later, some hot guy named Charlie shows up unannounced and sees the big hole in the living room. Judging by the sinister music, there's a 98% probability he's the Judas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That night, Ross takes off his shirt (I hate him so much these days, I don't even care to see his hairy chest anymore) and goes to bed in the brattiest way possible. His response to Demelza's touch:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/mlfw1817-92393_-_animated_grump_rainbow_dash.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-44872 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/mlfw1817-92393_-_animated_grump_rainbow_dash.gif\" alt=\"mlfw1817-92393_-_animated_grump_rainbow_dash\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever, dude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next morning, he runs off to see Pinky Ring because duh. She just got a bunch of money from an anonymous person. Ross pretends it isn't him and then reminds her that he really wishes Demelza didn't exist:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ross:\u003c/strong> \"I regret that the circumstances are such that I cannot take care of you as I might wish.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pinky Ring:\u003c/strong> \"We both regret that, Ross.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I regret that both of you haven't been murdered by a puddle yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross then makes out with her hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-30-at-6.59.26-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-44874\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-30-at-6.59.26-PM-800x446.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-10-30-at-6-59-26-pm\" width=\"800\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-30-at-6.59.26-PM-800x446.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-30-at-6.59.26-PM-160x89.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-30-at-6.59.26-PM-768x428.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-30-at-6.59.26-PM-1020x569.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-30-at-6.59.26-PM-1180x658.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-30-at-6.59.26-PM-960x535.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-30-at-6.59.26-PM-240x134.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-30-at-6.59.26-PM-375x209.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-30-at-6.59.26-PM-520x290.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-30-at-6.59.26-PM.png 1223w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/giphy-24.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44873\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/giphy-24.gif\" alt=\"giphy-24\" width=\"245\" height=\"160\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast forward a bit and it's Christmas! Maybe Ross will take a break from being the worst for one day? Yeah, no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ross:\u003c/strong> \"War now seems inevitable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Demelza:\u003c/strong> *rolls eyes and sighs* \"Merry Christmas, Ross.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ross:\u003c/strong> \"Now we know our last hope is gone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Demelza:\u003c/strong> \"Siri, remind me to draft up divorce papers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Okay, fine, she didn't actually say that last line, but a boy can dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over at Pinky Ring's house, Agatha continues being the MVP of this entire show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Agatha:\u003c/strong> \"Rose water?! Do I require a fumigant?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pinky Ring:\u003c/strong> \"No, aunt, but...\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Agatha: \"\u003c/strong>Francis always knew what I liked. Brandy wine, port and canary, preferably all three!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/karen-walker-drinking-from-the-bottle.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44883\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/karen-walker-drinking-from-the-bottle.gif\" alt=\"karen-walker-drinking-from-the-bottle\" width=\"500\" height=\"252\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Agatha has more bon mots where that came from. Malfoy comes in and Agatha grabs Francis Jr. and says, \"Sit by me, child. Beware that man's pitchfork and his tail.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MdaeCpIqmA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malfoy whisks Pinky Ring to a party so she can watch him examine 17-year-old girls' teeth. She gets jealous, just like he planned. Oy vey, Pinky Ring, Francis JUST died!!! Sure, he was boring, but come on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In town, Ross and Demelza head to the banker's office to get things in order before Ross is taken to debtor's prison. But -- curveball -- Blondie anonymously bought his debt! She has a soul! Hurrah! (Although Ross does kind of deserve a jail sentence for his attitude at this point.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross and Demelza skip on over to Malfoy's to revel in their sudden good fortune:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ross:\u003c/strong> \"I regret to say I am unable to give you the satisfaction...\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Malfoy:\u003c/strong> \"Most unfortunate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ross:\u003c/strong> \"...of visiting me in prison. You'll have to make due with this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Uncle:\u003c/strong> \"What is this foolery?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ross:\u003c/strong> \"Repayment. In full. With interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Malfoy & Uncle:\u003c/strong> \"....\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ross:\u003c/strong> \"We wish you both the compliments of the season.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/tumblr_n72a4kJ01L1smcbm7o1_400.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44884\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/tumblr_n72a4kJ01L1smcbm7o1_400.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_n72a4kj01l1smcbm7o1_400\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uncle freaks out in a major way, but Malfoy reassures him that he'll get revenge by marrying Ross' ex. You can have her, bro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cut to Pinky Ring's house, where she receives a care package from Malfoy. I'll let Agatha's eye roll speak on my behalf:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/xcusemybeauty/status/792923043731345408\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at chez Ross, he wants to make amends for being such a jerk this past year. He gives Demelza sexy stockings and seductively helps her put them on. Then they have kinky sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>End scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>After every episode, it’s only right to reward characters who’ve impressed and diss the ones that haven’t, so here goes:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>PIECE OF COAL:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> Ross.\u003c/strong> It's going to take more than a pair of stockings and a roll in the hay to make up for all the crap he's been pulling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>HONORABLE MENTION:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> Demelza's Forgotten Dog. \u003c/strong>What ever happened to him? We haven't seen him for several episodes. Did a puddle murder him? I hope he's okay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>BRONZE: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>Demelza\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>If her singing career doesn't pan out, she should be a yoga teacher, 'cause she has mastered the art of breathing through other people's BS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>SILVER: \u003c/em>Blondie.\u003c/strong>\u003cem> \u003c/em>She did good. Now, all she has to do is abstain from giving her opinion on the poor and there won't be any problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>GOLD:\u003c/em> Agatha. \u003c/strong>She coined a catchphrase (\"Fiddlesticks!\"), threw shade at Malfoy, served up a healthy dose of side-eye, and gave an impassioned speech about her favorite types of booze. No one else comes close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until next week! If you miss my thoughts on \u003cem>Poldark\u003c/em>, follow me on Twitter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/xcusemybeauty\">@xcusemybeauty\u003c/a> or read all the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/tag/recaps/\">other recaps\u003c/a> below!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>More recaps:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/10/24/poldark-season-2-episode-4-recap-sink-or-swim/\">'Poldark' Season 2, Episode 4 Recap: Sink or Swim\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/10/17/poldark-season-2-episode-3-recap-miss-independent/\">'Poldark' Season 2, Episode 3 Recap: Miss Independent\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/10/02/poldark-season-2-episode-2-recap-you-dont-bring-me-flowers/\">'Poldark' Season 2, Episode 2 Recap: You Don't Bring Me Flowers\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/09/27/poldark-season-2-premiere-recap-court-and-spark/\">'Poldark' Season 2, Episode 1 Recap: Court and Spark\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/09/23/poldark-season-1-episode-4-recap-send-my-love-to-your-new-lover/\"> 'Poldark' Season 1, Episode 4 Recap: Send My Love to Your New Lover\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/09/21/poldark-season-1-episode-3-recap-oops-there-goes-my-shirt/\">‘Poldark’ Season 1, Episode 3 Recap: Oops, There Goes My Shirt\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/09/20/poldark-season-1-episode-2-recap-guns-and-ships-bang-bang/\">‘Poldark’ Season 1, Episode 2 Recap: Bang Bang\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/09/19/poldark-season-1-premiere-recap-stayin-alive/\">‘Poldark’ Season 1 Premiere Recap: Stayin’ Alive\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/verity-poldark-side-eye.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-44489\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/verity-poldark-side-eye-800x441.jpg\" alt=\"verity-poldark-side-eye\" width=\"800\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/verity-poldark-side-eye-800x441.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/verity-poldark-side-eye-160x88.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/verity-poldark-side-eye-768x423.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/verity-poldark-side-eye-1020x562.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/verity-poldark-side-eye-1180x650.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/verity-poldark-side-eye-960x529.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/verity-poldark-side-eye-240x132.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/verity-poldark-side-eye-375x207.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/verity-poldark-side-eye-520x287.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/verity-poldark-side-eye.jpg 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross and Pinky Ring have apparently been galloping around Cornwall twice a week. Pinky Ring says it's to keep her four-year-old son abreast of the state of the mine. Verity, Agatha, Demelza and anyone else with eyes knows these field trips are actually about Ross keeping himself abreast of Pinky Ring's breasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across town, Malfoy and his uncle are really jazzed about sending Ross to debtor's prison for failing to pay his debts. Would modern day people spend this much time being evil, if we didn't have Netflix to distract us?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the mine, Ross and Pinky Ring flirt and pretend that they're not going to ruin Demelza's life really soon. Francis Jr. is an awkward plus-one on this date:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-kid.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-44490\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-kid-800x412.jpg\" alt=\"poldark-elizabeth-kid\" width=\"800\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-kid-800x412.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-kid-160x82.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-kid-768x396.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-kid-1020x525.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-kid-1180x608.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-kid-960x494.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-kid-240x124.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-kid-375x193.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-kid-520x268.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-kid.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a beach, Doc finds a dead body (maybe from a shipwreck?). Before we can get any answers, Doc takes out a saw and starts cutting off the corpse's leg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/publizity-wait-whet-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44499\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/publizity-wait-whet-gif.gif\" alt=\"publizity-wait-whet-gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At chez Ross, Demelza advises Ross to just ask one of his rich friends to help him stay out of debtor's prison. For the umpteenth time, Ross lets her know he doesn't value her opinion and hates when she talks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over at Doc's bachelor pad, he's putting his fingers all in the corpse's severed leg. Then he has an Oprah A-ha! Moment™. He uses what he learned from this exercise in anatomy to fix some random villager's wonky knee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/britney-spears-huh.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44500\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/britney-spears-huh.gif\" alt=\"britney-spears-huh\" width=\"500\" height=\"377\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In prison, Ross visits some random dude and says, \u003cem>I'm probably also going to be in jail pretty soon! LOL! \u003c/em>The prisoner tries to reason with him. Surely Ross can just sell his mine shares and avoid ruining his wife's life? Ross responds with,\u003cem> Nah, I prefer living in a constant state of chaos. And I haven't given a damn about my wife in months! LOL!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On his way home, he runs into Horace the Pug!!! Blondie's there too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-the-pug-poldark.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-44501\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-the-pug-poldark-800x414.jpg\" alt=\"horace-the-pug-poldark\" width=\"800\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-the-pug-poldark-800x414.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-the-pug-poldark-160x83.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-the-pug-poldark-768x398.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-the-pug-poldark-1020x528.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-the-pug-poldark-1180x611.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-the-pug-poldark-960x497.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-the-pug-poldark-240x124.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-the-pug-poldark-375x194.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-the-pug-poldark-520x269.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-the-pug-poldark.jpg 1226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at home, Doc tells Ross and Demelza about his huge crush on Blondie. (WE GET IT! GEEZ!) Then, Ross pretends Demelza doesn't exist and talks about how pointless life is, in light of how quickly you can drown in a puddle. Demelza looks at him like this for a really long time:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-9.38.43-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-44502\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-9.38.43-PM-800x447.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-10-28-at-9-38-43-pm\" width=\"800\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-9.38.43-PM-800x447.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-9.38.43-PM-160x89.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-9.38.43-PM-768x429.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-9.38.43-PM-1020x569.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-9.38.43-PM-1180x659.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-9.38.43-PM-960x536.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-9.38.43-PM-240x134.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-9.38.43-PM-375x209.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-9.38.43-PM-520x290.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-9.38.43-PM.png 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I hate him, too, girl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over at Pinky Ring's house, Malfoy has returned to say evil things to Tarot Card Agatha's face. \"I think it's high time the coffin-maker started taking measurements, old hag.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/how-dare-you-dance-moms-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44503\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/how-dare-you-dance-moms-gif.gif\" alt=\"how-dare-you-dance-moms-gif\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if she was deaf, which she's not, she would probably be able to read lips pretty well. I cannot wait for whatever witchcraft she will use to murder this twerp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason for his visit: to give Pinky Ring some weird candy and remind her that she can pay off what Francis owed him via Visa, MasterCard, or preferably sexual favors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At chez Ross, Demelza tells Verity that the main pillar of a happy marriage is pretending to believe your husband isn't a cheating bastard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across town, Pinky Ring explains to her son that she plans to smile less around the house so that she doesn't get wrinkles. Her son is just old enough to realize she's lost it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-tripping.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-44504\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-tripping-800x413.jpg\" alt=\"poldark-elizabeth-tripping\" width=\"800\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-tripping-800x413.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-tripping-160x83.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-tripping-768x396.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-tripping-1020x527.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-tripping-1180x609.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-tripping-960x496.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-tripping-240x124.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-tripping-375x194.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-tripping-520x268.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/poldark-elizabeth-tripping.jpg 1232w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a forest, Doc and Blondie make out next to a horse's butt. Again. This has become their thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-10.10.14-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-44506\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-10.10.14-PM-800x444.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-10-28-at-10-10-14-pm\" width=\"800\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-10.10.14-PM-800x444.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-10.10.14-PM-160x89.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-10.10.14-PM-768x426.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-10.10.14-PM-1020x566.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-10.10.14-PM-1180x655.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-10.10.14-PM-960x533.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-10.10.14-PM-672x372.png 672w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-10.10.14-PM-1038x576.png 1038w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-10.10.14-PM-240x133.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-10.10.14-PM-375x208.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-10.10.14-PM-520x289.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-28-at-10.10.14-PM.png 1230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They eventually unlock their lips long enough for Blondie to speak some truth about Demelza and the futility of marrying men: \"She seems to be universally adored. She's the sort of woman that all men desire, except her husband. So often happens; no great incentive for marriage.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as I'm starting to like her, she goes back to her rich-people-rule-poor-people-drool routine. She thinks Doc's desire to help the needy is cute and all, but that he should move somewhere fancy and help \"his own kind\" instead. Making out next to horse butts seems fun, but surely they both realize their values are in such opposition that this could never work, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out they're still in the you're-so-hot-that-I-can't-recognize-any-of-your-obvious-flaws stage of their relationship. They celebrate their blissful ignorance by randomly racing each other on horseback (Blondie on side-saddle, of course, because she's not a harlot).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Always full of terrible ideas, Ross comes up with a plan. More illegal trading + storing stolen goods at home = lots of money and zero jail time. Demelza is like, \u003cem>Um, I'm barely literate and terrible at math, but that equation makes no goddamn sense! Just ask your rich friends for help, you proud idiot!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then this amazing exchange, which I've been anticipating for so long, takes place:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ross:\u003c/strong> \"Do I have your consent?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Demelza:\u003c/strong> \"YOU DARE TO ASK ME THAT, KNOWING VERY WELL YOU DO EXACTLY AS YOU PLEASE WITH OR WITHOUT MY SAY?!?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then she throws a rake at his face!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/applause-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44516\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/applause-gif.gif\" alt=\"applause-gif\" width=\"615\" height=\"295\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm so very proud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/proud-whitney-gif.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44517\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/proud-whitney-gif.gif\" alt=\"proud-whitney-gif\" width=\"400\" height=\"224\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And things just get better with this close-up of Horace's face!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-44838\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-800x446.jpg\" alt=\"horace\" width=\"800\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-800x446.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-160x89.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-768x428.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-1020x568.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-1180x657.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-960x535.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-240x134.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-375x209.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-520x290.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace.jpg 1230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's that, you say? I'm too obsessed with this magical pug? Tell it to my new socks:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Across town, Malfoy is annoyed at his uncle for inviting a bunch of 17-year-old girls to their Christmas party. Never one to miss an opportunity to be disgusting, his uncle says: \"Prime breeding stock. You may examine their teeth, if you choose.\" Can we speed up the advent of feminism, pretty please? Absolutely not? Oh. Okay then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After another flirty hang with Pinky Ring, during which she complains about how her son isn't going to have as fat a trust fund as previously thought (#WhitePeopleProblems), Ross runs to his banker and tells him to sell a bunch of his mine shares and give all the money to Pinky Ring. The banker speaks for the audience at home:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Banker:\u003c/strong> \"You have your own wife and child to care for. Would it not seem that you value your cousin-in-law's comfort over hers?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ross:\u003c/strong> \"[Demelza] is a miner's daughter. She has learned to survive. Pinky Ring is a gentlewoman.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Banker:\u003c/strong> \"And you're a mad man.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Blondie's house, Doc arrives after being summoned by her uncle. The interaction goes a little something like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Uncle:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>You better not have sex with my niece!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Doc:\u003c/strong>\u003cem> Sorry, but I'm definitely going to. Probably next to a horse's butt.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Uncle:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Don't you dare!\u003c/em> \u003cem>I will cut off her inheritance!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Doc: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>Her trust fund is the most annoying part about her, so knock yourself out. Later!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere, Malfoy butters up Pinky Ring's mom, but who cares about that when Horace's the Pug's life partner just made his/her debut?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-wife-poldark.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-44870\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-wife-poldark-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"horace-wife-poldark\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-wife-poldark-800x449.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-wife-poldark-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-wife-poldark-768x431.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-wife-poldark-1020x572.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-wife-poldark-1180x662.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-wife-poldark-960x539.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-wife-poldark-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-wife-poldark-375x210.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-wife-poldark-520x292.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/horace-wife-poldark.jpg 1226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over at Pinky Ring's house, Verity is taking off. She gives Francis Jr. a kiss, gives Pinky Ring a look and says,\u003cem> Try not to be a homewrecker. Okay, bye! \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at chez Ross, Ross and his criminal buddies dig a huge hole in the living room to store illegal goods. Demelza knew he wouldn't listen to her, even after she screamed and threw a rake at his face. She watches him make yet another idiotic decision and shoots daggers into his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/demelza-poldark-daggers-mad.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-44871\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/demelza-poldark-daggers-mad-800x446.jpg\" alt=\"demelza-poldark-daggers-mad\" width=\"800\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/demelza-poldark-daggers-mad-800x446.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/demelza-poldark-daggers-mad-160x89.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/demelza-poldark-daggers-mad-768x428.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/demelza-poldark-daggers-mad-1020x569.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/demelza-poldark-daggers-mad-1180x658.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/demelza-poldark-daggers-mad-960x535.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/demelza-poldark-daggers-mad-240x134.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/demelza-poldark-daggers-mad-375x209.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/demelza-poldark-daggers-mad-520x290.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/demelza-poldark-daggers-mad.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bit later, some hot guy named Charlie shows up unannounced and sees the big hole in the living room. Judging by the sinister music, there's a 98% probability he's the Judas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That night, Ross takes off his shirt (I hate him so much these days, I don't even care to see his hairy chest anymore) and goes to bed in the brattiest way possible. His response to Demelza's touch:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/mlfw1817-92393_-_animated_grump_rainbow_dash.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-44872 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/mlfw1817-92393_-_animated_grump_rainbow_dash.gif\" alt=\"mlfw1817-92393_-_animated_grump_rainbow_dash\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever, dude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next morning, he runs off to see Pinky Ring because duh. She just got a bunch of money from an anonymous person. Ross pretends it isn't him and then reminds her that he really wishes Demelza didn't exist:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ross:\u003c/strong> \"I regret that the circumstances are such that I cannot take care of you as I might wish.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pinky Ring:\u003c/strong> \"We both regret that, Ross.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I regret that both of you haven't been murdered by a puddle yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross then makes out with her hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-30-at-6.59.26-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-44874\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-30-at-6.59.26-PM-800x446.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-10-30-at-6-59-26-pm\" width=\"800\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-30-at-6.59.26-PM-800x446.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-30-at-6.59.26-PM-160x89.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-30-at-6.59.26-PM-768x428.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-30-at-6.59.26-PM-1020x569.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-30-at-6.59.26-PM-1180x658.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-30-at-6.59.26-PM-960x535.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-30-at-6.59.26-PM-240x134.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-30-at-6.59.26-PM-375x209.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-30-at-6.59.26-PM-520x290.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-30-at-6.59.26-PM.png 1223w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/giphy-24.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44873\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/giphy-24.gif\" alt=\"giphy-24\" width=\"245\" height=\"160\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast forward a bit and it's Christmas! Maybe Ross will take a break from being the worst for one day? Yeah, no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ross:\u003c/strong> \"War now seems inevitable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Demelza:\u003c/strong> *rolls eyes and sighs* \"Merry Christmas, Ross.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ross:\u003c/strong> \"Now we know our last hope is gone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Demelza:\u003c/strong> \"Siri, remind me to draft up divorce papers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Okay, fine, she didn't actually say that last line, but a boy can dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over at Pinky Ring's house, Agatha continues being the MVP of this entire show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Agatha:\u003c/strong> \"Rose water?! Do I require a fumigant?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pinky Ring:\u003c/strong> \"No, aunt, but...\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Agatha: \"\u003c/strong>Francis always knew what I liked. Brandy wine, port and canary, preferably all three!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/karen-walker-drinking-from-the-bottle.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44883\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/karen-walker-drinking-from-the-bottle.gif\" alt=\"karen-walker-drinking-from-the-bottle\" width=\"500\" height=\"252\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Agatha has more bon mots where that came from. Malfoy comes in and Agatha grabs Francis Jr. and says, \"Sit by me, child. Beware that man's pitchfork and his tail.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/8MdaeCpIqmA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/8MdaeCpIqmA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Malfoy whisks Pinky Ring to a party so she can watch him examine 17-year-old girls' teeth. She gets jealous, just like he planned. Oy vey, Pinky Ring, Francis JUST died!!! Sure, he was boring, but come on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In town, Ross and Demelza head to the banker's office to get things in order before Ross is taken to debtor's prison. But -- curveball -- Blondie anonymously bought his debt! She has a soul! 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Back at chez Ross, he wants to make amends for being such a jerk this past year. He gives Demelza sexy stockings and seductively helps her put them on. Then they have kinky sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>End scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>After every episode, it’s only right to reward characters who’ve impressed and diss the ones that haven’t, so here goes:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>PIECE OF COAL:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> Ross.\u003c/strong> It's going to take more than a pair of stockings and a roll in the hay to make up for all the crap he's been pulling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>HONORABLE MENTION:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> Demelza's Forgotten Dog. \u003c/strong>What ever happened to him? We haven't seen him for several episodes. Did a puddle murder him? I hope he's okay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>BRONZE: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>Demelza\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>If her singing career doesn't pan out, she should be a yoga teacher, 'cause she has mastered the art of breathing through other people's BS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>SILVER: \u003c/em>Blondie.\u003c/strong>\u003cem> \u003c/em>She did good. Now, all she has to do is abstain from giving her opinion on the poor and there won't be any problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>GOLD:\u003c/em> Agatha. \u003c/strong>She coined a catchphrase (\"Fiddlesticks!\"), threw shade at Malfoy, served up a healthy dose of side-eye, and gave an impassioned speech about her favorite types of booze. No one else comes close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until next week! If you miss my thoughts on \u003cem>Poldark\u003c/em>, follow me on Twitter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/xcusemybeauty\">@xcusemybeauty\u003c/a> or read all the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/tag/recaps/\">other recaps\u003c/a> below!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>More recaps:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/10/24/poldark-season-2-episode-4-recap-sink-or-swim/\">'Poldark' Season 2, Episode 4 Recap: Sink or Swim\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/10/17/poldark-season-2-episode-3-recap-miss-independent/\">'Poldark' Season 2, Episode 3 Recap: Miss Independent\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/10/02/poldark-season-2-episode-2-recap-you-dont-bring-me-flowers/\">'Poldark' Season 2, Episode 2 Recap: You Don't Bring Me Flowers\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/09/27/poldark-season-2-premiere-recap-court-and-spark/\">'Poldark' Season 2, Episode 1 Recap: Court and Spark\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/09/23/poldark-season-1-episode-4-recap-send-my-love-to-your-new-lover/\"> 'Poldark' Season 1, Episode 4 Recap: Send My Love to Your New Lover\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/09/21/poldark-season-1-episode-3-recap-oops-there-goes-my-shirt/\">‘Poldark’ Season 1, Episode 3 Recap: Oops, There Goes My Shirt\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/09/20/poldark-season-1-episode-2-recap-guns-and-ships-bang-bang/\">‘Poldark’ Season 1, Episode 2 Recap: Bang Bang\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Broad City\u003c/em> premiered on Comedy Central in January 2014, making overnight stars out of BFFs Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer. Since then, the comedy duo has given us so much -- three hilarious seasons, a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2015/03/16/broad-city-keyboard-just-made-your-texts-way-more-exciting/\">texting keyboard app\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://i.makeagif.com/media/3-20-2015/Xdyxd-.gif\">perfect rebuttal\u003c/a> to \"You should smile more,\" a \u003ca href=\"https://bunkr-private-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/4/1/b/41bca5fc-c665-4191-a967-098470dbc6a0_low.gif\">foolproof exit strategy\u003c/a>, and a \u003ca href=\"https://67.media.tumblr.com/28cd2690fda94e2b03f22089f455c614/tumblr_nkrxv5Vouy1qb9pa3o1_500.gif\">motto to live by\u003c/a>, to name just a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Nutella and banana, Abbi and Ilana are great either together or apart. While on hiatus from \u003cem>Broad City\u003c/em>, they've kept busy working on separate projects. On Saturday night, Abbi passed through San Francisco for a City Arts & Lectures event, hosted by Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney and \u003cem>Portlandia\u003c/em> fame, to talk about hers: an illustrated book titled \u003cem>Carry This Book\u003c/em>, which imagines what an assortment of famous and fictional people have in their bags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_44840\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-44840\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/CarrieAbbi.jpg\" alt=\"Abbi Jacobsen and Carrie Brownstein at the Nourse Theater, Oct. 29, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/CarrieAbbi.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/CarrieAbbi-160x100.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/CarrieAbbi-768x480.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/CarrieAbbi-240x150.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/CarrieAbbi-375x234.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/CarrieAbbi-520x325.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abbi Jacobsen and Carrie Brownstein at the Nourse Theater, Oct. 29, 2016. \u003ccite>(Liz Seward)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here are all the new things I learned about Abbi Jacobson and her work:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>Carry This Book\u003c/em> was inspired by Tim O'Brien's \u003cem>The Things They Carried\u003c/em>, a collection of short stories about the Vietnam War. Abbi read it in middle school, and the way O'Brien defined each of his characters by their objects stuck with her.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The publishing company was too nervous about potential legal trouble to put Harry Potter in the book, but they took the risk with Donald Trump, which is a-OK with Abbi: \"I don't think there's anything in there that anyone would sue me for,\" she said, \"but Donald Trump just sues anyone for anything. That'd be awesome. That would be so crazy if he sued me for my illustrating book.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-44818\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/FullSizeRender-1020x798.jpg\" alt=\"fullsizerender\" width=\"426\" height=\"337\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>She insisted that mistakes she made while creating the book be kept in the final product, except for one: \"The one mistake that I had them fix because I was like, I can't, I'm a f-ing idiot; Hillary Rodham Clinton was spelled wrong. I left out the 'h' and they didn't catch it and I got the proofs back and I was like 'Rodam?!? You guys, pop me an 'h' from somewhere else in the book. We gotta drag it up in there.' They did, so now you know I'm a phony. 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Is it a men's toiletry bag?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Entire audience:\u003c/strong> \"YES!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Abbi:\u003c/strong> \"Woah!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The two shared another hilarious exchange about \u003cem>The Life‑Changing Magic of Tidying Up\u003c/em>, Marie Kondo's tutorial on how to get rid of junk you don't love:\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Abbi:\u003c/strong> \"I read that book and I didn't really do it. That's why she's so rich. Everyone is like 'I read it. 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Visual art came first, as a sort of inheritance; everyone in her immediate family is an artist.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>After receiving her degree in Fine Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art, Abbi was bitten by the acting bug. She moved to New York to take part in a two-year conservatory in an effort to become a dramatic actress. She lasted one week.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Her favorite \u003cem>Broad City\u003c/em> scene was improvised. Fans of the show might remember Ilana and Lincoln, played by Hannibal Buress, making out in a dentist's office. The plan was for Abbi to just awkwardly stand there. But Ilana flipped the script by trying to get Abbi in on the action. Abbi tapped into her improv training and responded with a \u003cem>Yes, and... 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While on hiatus from \u003cem>Broad City\u003c/em>, they've kept busy working on separate projects. 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"content": "\u003cp>At first glance, you probably wouldn’t guess that Adam Higgs is an exorcist. Of course, he claims other titles as well: clairvoyant, psychic, medium, healer, channeler of spirits from beyond the grave. And, according to his website, he’s a metaphysical master.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, sitting behind the desk at the SHED Health Center -- the small gym he runs in Meiners Oaks, a few miles from Ventura -- Higgs looks a lot more like the London bouncer that he once was. Muscular, cut, 6 feet tall and 208 pounds of pure power-lifting bloke, as it were. Oh yeah, he used to be a competitive power lifter, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All in all, seemingly a man more likely to deliver a swift head butt than to thoughtfully read your palm. Yet that’s exactly what I was to experience, despite the fact that I went to his gym only to get in a quick workout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/290478682\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We ended up talking about his occult work. And yes, performing exorcisms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh yeah, done that,” says Higgs, with the same bored nonchalance you might expect from someone talking about getting their car washed. “It's a very simple procedure,” he says of demon banishment. “If you've got the balls to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To whatever degree you subscribe to the trappings of the metaphysical world, Higgs pretty much radiates balls. Hard to argue that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I tell the blatant, hard-hitting truth,” he says in a blatant, hard-hitting manner. “Whether it’s the truth about the future, the truth about their bodies, the truth about their diets, it all comes down to the basic concept of most people are doing it wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I’m a last resort. So most people ... when they’ve been to everybody else, they usually come to me.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>So there. It’s that attitude that’s earned him steadfast clients, he says, around the globe. Particularly in Ireland and Hong Kong, where he travels regularly to provide readings and healing sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Higgs was raised just outside London. His father owned a garage, his mother raised Dobermans. His life was “pretty normal. I didn't have any interest in metaphysics,” he says. At age 30 (he’s 53 now), his life began a new course. “I'd just broken up with my girlfriend and my mother took me for a reading.” The medium suggested that Higgs take a class from her, and he discovered he had an aptitude for clairvoyance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I gave it a go,” he says. “I'm not really trying the first week, second week it’s quite interesting. The third week I was trying really hard and got the old gold arrow shot across, went straight into my third eye. And then it really opened up for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The instructor asked if he’d like to try trance mediumship, “where the spirit comes into you and your voice changes and your body changes and your face changes and everything,” Higgs says. “The first time I did that, I went straight in. That was great, that hooked me. 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After graduating he plied his trade in Ireland, moving to the States in 2005 (citizenship was no problem, his father was a Detroit native) and setting up shop in Meiners Oaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has a small farm nearby where he lives with his wife and daughter. He raises his own fruit, vegetables and meat. He has a goat. He drinks its milk. He hasn’t had a drop of booze since he was 22. “I was not a good drinker,” Higgs explains. These days he’s all about health and the spirit world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have any problem with people who go to church,” he says. “If it brings them comfort that’s great. People come to me who've lost their sons or daughters and want to know they’re fine. That’s great, too, and that’s a service I offer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What if those non-terra firma souls aren’t great?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Never had that experience,” Higgs states. “I'm a last resort. So most people — especially when I work in Ireland and Hong Kong — when they've been to everybody else, they usually come to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not looking for a last resort, but let’s be honest. I’ve been to church, I’ve spent time in bars, I’ve read \"The Power of Now.\" And still, dollars to doughnuts, I’m often a quivering mass of existential confusion. I ask him for a reading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so it is that I find myself in the patio of his gym, bright and early one morning. Higgs is energized. He’s just finished eating sprouted bread with raw cheese and homemade sauerkraut. The man doesn’t drink coffee — “the Tibetans say it carries disease.” We sit across from each other, knees almost touching. I extend my hands, palms up, as if awaiting the medium to slap me five.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But instead of that, he concentrates, exhales, and begins poking and prodding my palms. And the revelations begin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You've got soft hands. You're nice, you’re kind, you're soft, you’re gentle. Too nice, too kind, too soft, too gentle. You can get slaughtered sometimes. You got a nice fate line here,” he says. “You have the potential to live a long time, but you should also take some fish oil as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dry skin?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No. See how that line dissipates? Dissipation at the end. That’s always indicative of Alzheimer’s or senile dementia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Good to know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's an option to write a book here as well, but not necessarily a fiction book, maybe a manual or a treatise. Have a dog, do you?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You've just got to love your girlfriend like you love your dog.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, I love them both in their respective ways, I tell him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But you give your dog unconditional love. If you give your girlfriend exactly the same, she’ll be happy.” I make note of this. 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