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American Classic - Season 1 - Episode 08: Our Town
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00:16Previously on American Classic
00:19I got a terrible review from a third-rate critic
00:22I'm producing and directing the greatest production
00:25of Thornton Wilder's Our Town
00:28We lost the rain
00:29We lost the soda fountain
00:30We lost the horse
00:31Good luck with your show and I
00:33Or whatever's left of it
00:34Well, it's a moment of truth
00:36I'm in
00:36Me too
00:38Still need a Mrs. Webb?
00:39I lost Miranda's college fund at a casino
00:42It's our opening night
00:44You and Richard
00:44Kenny, stop
00:46You and Richard what?
00:47Do you mind telling me what is going on?
00:49God, you don't see
00:50There's a very good chance you are Miranda's father
01:04Maybe we cancel
01:05I can't do that to the cast
01:07I can't do that to me
01:08What do we say to John?
01:09There's probably a way you can tell him
01:12And say what?
01:13When his wife got drunk and slept with his brother?
01:15No, I wouldn't say that
01:17No, no, no
01:17I'll tell him
01:19How?
01:20Man to man
01:21Men understand these things
01:23No, they don't
01:24No one understands these things
01:27No one on the planet understands these things
01:30Oh, maybe neither of us has to tell them
01:33Maybe Miranda already has
01:35Oh, God, do you think?
01:36Oh, there you are
01:39We need to talk
01:41Okay, okay
01:42I don't know where to start
01:45It would be better if Miranda were here
01:46No, it might not be
01:48Well, I just was hoping not to go through it twice
01:50Well, that's understandable, yes
01:52But these things can leave lasting scars
01:56You think so?
01:58Oh, Jesus
01:59I guess I was trying not to see it as, you know, such a betrayal
02:02Oh, it's a massive betrayal
02:04It is, it's big
02:06I guess I was just trying not to look at it that way, you know
02:09It's late, you've been drinking a lot
02:12Drinking is no excuse
02:13No, it's no excuse, and I accept that
02:16But how many chances do you get in life to, you know, hit a home run?
02:21I just want to say that I never once thought of this as a home run
02:25Oh, God, no
02:25All right, just let me get this out
02:26No, no, no, let me go first
02:28No, I'll go, I'll do it, I'll do it
02:29No, he's my husband, let me say it first
02:30Wait, no, say what?
02:32Did, did you tell her what happened?
02:34What? I didn't have to, she was there
02:35Stop, you're confusing me
02:37The night I spent with Boyle in Atlantic City
02:40After I made the big meal
02:41We went into the casino
02:43We were playing craps
02:44I was on a roll
02:45I was up like $60,000
02:48I thought I could solve all of our problems
02:52And then it was gone
02:55And then it was more than gone
02:58I lost Miranda's college fund
03:01You did what?
03:03Kristen, Kristen
03:04We all make mistakes
03:06Don't we?
03:07I mean, we were just discussing that
03:10Yes, yes, yes
03:12Richard is right
03:13You're all the human
03:14And people make mistakes
03:17All the time
03:17And then
03:20People forgive them
03:23It was a whole college fund
03:25You heard that, right?
03:25Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep
03:27I got it, I got it
03:28It's okay, really
03:30Oh, my God
03:32Honey
03:33Thank you
03:35I started to think
03:37We weren't going to come back from this
03:38You're amazing
03:39She's amazing
03:41How lucky am I?
03:43You are so lucky
03:45Not a craps
03:46No, but
03:46Okay, no
03:48No, no, no
03:50Oh
03:52Now, I just
03:53I need to talk to Miranda
03:57How could they do that to my dad?
03:58It's just so selfish
04:00And disgusting
04:01And stupid
04:02Yes, my dear
04:03And I imagine they're feeling the same thing
04:06What do you think I should do?
04:08It's not for me to say
04:11But he's full of ideas
04:14Should I ask him?
04:16Sure
04:19William?
04:22What is that?
04:25Well, what did he say?
04:28He said
04:28To thine own self be true
04:31And then it must follow
04:33As the night, the day
04:35Thou canst not then be false
04:37To any man
04:42I just have to figure out
04:43How to do that
04:51Hey, honey
04:52Come here
04:53I want you to see some
04:55I've decided to add
04:56A little lemon zest
04:58To the pea and ham hock crustace
05:01What do you think?
05:02It's gorgeous
05:03Yeah?
05:04I mean, are you okay?
05:05This is a lot
05:06Oh, no, no
05:06This is all I got
05:07We're doing potluck
05:09You know, like the old days
05:13Can I just say
05:14I still cannot believe
05:16How amazing you were
05:18About everything that happened
05:19I mean, I had been carrying around
05:21That shame
05:22For days
05:23Days
05:26We all make mistakes, right?
05:36I hope Miranda feels the same way
05:39This is a big night for her
05:40And, you know, you and Richard were right
05:42She doesn't need any distractions
05:43I can talk to her after this show
05:46This might excite some of you
05:49It doesn't excite me
05:51In the least
05:54My agent just called me
05:56The New York Times
05:57Chief drama critic is coming
05:59Are you crazy?
06:02Sorry, I'm late, guys
06:03I just
06:04A lot of party prep
06:09Where's Miranda?
06:10She's, uh
06:12She needs some space
06:13Space?
06:14Is she upset about something?
06:16That's it
06:17Yes, I think that's it
06:18That's possibly correct
06:20Yes, she's upset about something
06:22Something which nobody
06:23Uh, in this company
06:25Uh, has any idea about
06:26Uh, she'll be here
06:28Sooner or later
06:29And, um
06:30On the off chance
06:31That she's not
06:32Uh
06:36Jesus
06:36Um
06:37Hi
06:41Sorry I'm late
06:42Hey, sweetie
06:44I was worried
06:49What'd I miss?
06:50You okay?
06:59Are you all right?
07:01Will you please talk to me?
07:02You know what, Mom?
07:04I'm gonna forget about what happened
07:05I'm gonna forget it for the show
07:06So I can give Emily
07:07What she deserves
07:08And the second it is over
07:10I'll remember it all again
07:12And I'll tell Dad the truth
07:14I'll never speak to you
07:17Or Uncle Richard
07:18Again
07:21Break a leg
07:27Fresh for the wedding
07:28Fresh for the wedding
07:33That's amazing
07:34MFG, it's glory days
07:36Yeah, it sure is
07:40Kristen?
07:41Huh?
07:42Kristen?
07:43Mm-hmm
07:48You're in your old spot
07:49Right here
07:49Opening night
07:50Having a
07:51Meltdown
07:53Miranda's gonna tell John everything
07:55After the show
07:56And she's never gonna talk
07:58To either of us ever again
07:59I have made such a shit show
08:01No
08:01No, I did my bit
08:05It's not gonna get me better
08:06If the show's not good
08:07So let's, uh
08:11Cling to the work
08:12Cling to the work
08:13Places, please
08:14Ooh
08:15All right
08:16You're gonna be great
08:17Mm-hmm
08:17Trust that
08:20Mm-hmm
08:21Oh, my
08:24Do you remember this?
08:27Our old hideaway
08:29Something
08:30Oh, yeah
08:34I already had a walkout
08:36They hate me
08:37Richard
08:38Mm-hmm
08:40They're on your side
08:43You've always said that
08:44Mm-hmm
08:48Before we go
08:50Can I just say
08:53What a pleasure it's been
08:54What a joy
08:56To be on stage with you again
08:57No, just
08:58Just
08:58Watching you
09:01You were
09:02Always
09:03The best of us
09:06Not better than you
09:08Best
09:10Of us
09:11All
09:13Oh
09:17Here we go
09:27Out for blood
09:33Whoa, whoa, boy
09:36How's she doing, Dad?
09:38Well, a little skittish
09:39She'll settle down
09:42How about you?
09:44Oh, uh
09:46About the same
09:49Happy to be here
09:50Me, too
09:53I'm happy to be anywhere
09:55Richard, your earpiece
09:56Should we do a quick check?
09:58What?
09:59Earpiece
10:10Go along, son
10:27Go along, son
10:28This play
10:29Is called
10:31Our Town
10:31It was written by
10:33Thornton Wilder
10:35The name of the town
10:36Is Grover's Corners, New Hampshire
10:39Just across the Massachusetts line
10:43The date
10:44Is May 7th, 1901
10:47The time
10:49Is just before dawn
10:52The sky is beginning
10:53To show some streaks of light
10:54Over in the east
10:56Behind our mountain
10:58The morning star
10:59Gets wonderful bright
11:02Just before it has to go
11:04Doesn't it?
11:06Morning, Doc Gibbs
11:09Morning, Joe
11:10Some people been sick?
11:12No, just some twins
11:13Born over in Polish town
11:15Yeah, right
11:15Yeah, all right
11:19Here's Howie Newsome
11:20Delivering the milk
11:21What's the matter
11:22With you today?
11:25You know how it is
11:27You're 21 or 22
11:29And you make
11:29Some decisions
11:31And then
11:32Whoosh
11:34You're 70
11:36You've been a lawyer
11:37For 50 years
11:38And that white-haired lady
11:40At your side
11:41Has had over
11:4250,000 meals with you
11:44How do such things begin?
11:47George and Emily
11:48Are going to show you
11:50Now
11:50The conversation they had
11:51When they first knew
11:53That
11:54That as the saying goes
11:57They were meant
11:58For one another
12:00I want you to try
12:02And remember
12:02What it was like
12:03To have been
12:04Very young
12:06And particularly
12:07The days
12:09When you were first in love
12:12That
12:13When you were like
12:14A person sleepwalking
12:15And you didn't quite see
12:17The street you were in
12:19And didn't quite hear
12:20Everything
12:21That was said to you
12:24Just a little bit crazy
12:28Will you remember that please?
12:31I always expected a man
12:33To be perfect
12:33And I think he should be
12:35I don't think it's possible
12:36For anyone to be perfect
12:37Emily
12:37Well my father is
12:39And as far as I can see
12:40Your father is
12:41There's no reason on earth
12:42Why you shouldn't be too
12:43I think it's the other way around
12:44That men aren't naturally good
12:45But girls are
12:46Well you should know right now
12:47That I'm not perfect
12:49It's not as easy
12:50For a girl to be perfect
12:51As a man
12:51Because girls are more
12:54More nervous
12:56Emily
12:59Would you
13:03Like to get an ice cream soda
13:05Or something
13:06Before you go home?
13:15Richard
13:18Christian
13:20Is your cue
13:29Hello
13:29Hello
13:29Hello
13:31Hello Emily
13:33What do you have?
13:38Why Emily
13:39What have you been crying about?
13:51I don't know why on earth
13:52I should be crying
13:53I mean I suppose
13:55There's nothing
13:55To cry about
13:57It came over me
13:59This morning at breakfast
14:00There was Emily
14:01Eating her breakfast
14:02As she has for
14:03Seventeen years
14:04And now she's going off
14:05To eat in someone else's house
14:08I suppose that's it
14:10And Emily
14:12She suddenly said
14:13I can't eat another mouthful
14:15And she put her head
14:16Down on the table
14:18And she cried
14:22Oh I've got to say it
14:23You know there's something
14:24Downright cruel
14:25About sending our girls
14:26Into marriage like this
14:30I hope some of her girlfriends
14:31Have told her a thing or two
14:33It's cruel
14:34I know
14:34But I couldn't bring myself
14:35To say anything
14:37I went into it
14:38Blind as a bat myself
14:43The whole world's wrong
14:46That's what's the matter
14:47I've never felt so alone
14:49In my whole life
14:50Why can't I stay for a while
14:51Just as I am
14:52Let's go away
14:52No no Emily
14:54Now stop
14:55And think a minute
14:57Don't you remember
14:58You used to say to me
14:59All the time
14:59You used to say
15:00All the time
15:01That I was your girl
15:03There are lots of places
15:04We could go to
15:05I'll work for you
15:06I could keep house
15:07Shh
15:08You mustn't think
15:09Of such things
15:13Do you George
15:14Take this woman Emily
15:17As your wedded wife
15:18I do
15:20Do you Emily
15:21Take this man George
15:23To be your wedded husband
15:25I do
15:43I've married over 200 couples
15:45In my day
15:46Do I believe in it
15:49I don't know
15:51M marries N
15:54Millions of them
15:56The cottage
15:57The go-cart
15:58Sunday afternoon drives
16:01In the ford
16:02The first rheumatism
16:04The grandchildren
16:05The second rheumatism
16:07The deathbed
16:09The reading of the will
16:12Once in a thousand times
16:15It's interesting
16:30Aren't they a lovely couple
16:32I'm sure they'll be very happy
16:34I always say
16:36Happiness
16:37That's the great thing
16:39The important thing
16:41Is to be happy
16:54Why are you here
16:56I just wanted to say
16:57I thought the love scene
16:58Was great
16:58Thank you
16:59You know especially
17:00The part about
17:01No one being perfect
17:04Because you're right
17:05You know
17:05People are flawed
17:07All of us
17:07I need you to leave
17:10I want you to leave
17:13Promise we'll discuss this
17:14Before you talk to your father
17:15Which one?
17:41This here
17:42Is the new part
17:43Of the cemetery
17:47Here's your friend
17:48Mrs. Gibbs
17:49And uh
17:50Oh
17:52Mr. Stimson
17:53The organist
17:55At the congregational church
17:58Hanged himself
17:59In his attic
18:01Over there
18:02Is Mr. Crowell
18:03And Mrs. Soames
18:05Who enjoyed the wedding
18:07So
18:07You remember?
18:10You know as well as I do
18:12That the dead
18:13Don't stay interested
18:14In us living people
18:15For very long
18:16Gradually
18:17Gradually
18:17They
18:17Get weaned away
18:19From earth
18:20That's the way I put it
18:23Weaned away
18:24And they stay here
18:26While the earth part of them
18:28Burns away
18:29Burns out
18:32Aren't they waiting for the eternal part
18:35In them to come out clear
18:40Oh
18:41It's just started
18:43Our undertaker
18:44Come to supervise a new made grave
18:49Let me see now
18:51Do I know you?
18:53I'm Sam Craig
18:55Great sakes alive
18:57I was in the east
18:58When I got news
18:59Of my cousin's death
19:01Very sad
19:01Our journey today
19:02Samuel
19:03I always say
19:04I hate to supervise
19:06When a young person
19:06Is taken
19:08Joe
19:09What did she die of?
19:10Oh didn't you know
19:12Had trouble bringing
19:13A baby into the world
19:14To us her second though
19:16There's a little boy
19:18About four years old
19:19If you'll excuse me
19:23I see they're coming
19:25It gives us inward pain
19:32But we shall still be joined in heart
19:39And hope to meet the end
20:02Hello
20:03Hello Emily
20:05Hello Mother Gibbs
20:08Emily
20:11It's raining
20:16Mother Gibbs
20:17One can go back
20:19One can go back there again
20:20Into living
20:21I feel it
20:22I know it
20:24Why
20:25Just then for a moment
20:26I was thinking about
20:28About the farm
20:29And then for a minute
20:30I was there
20:31And my baby was on my lap
20:32As plain as day
20:33Yes of course you can
20:36I can go back there
20:37And live those days over again
20:38Why not
20:39Some have tried
20:40But they soon
20:41Come back here
20:42I won't live over
20:43A sad day
20:44I'll choose a happy one
20:45Why should that be painful
20:47You
20:47Not only live it
20:50You watch yourself
20:52Living it
20:53And as you watch it
20:55You
20:56See the thing
20:57That they down there
20:58Never know
20:59You see the future
21:02You know
21:03What's going to happen
21:05Afterwards
21:05But it's something
21:06I must see for myself
21:09I'll choose a happy day
21:11I choose my 12th birthday
21:14Hmm
21:15Oh good morning mother
21:17How'd it go Charles
21:19Oh fine I guess
21:21I uh
21:22Told him a few things
21:25Oh Charles don't forget
21:27Today is Emily's birthday
21:29Did you remember
21:29To get her something
21:30Oh yes
21:31I've got something
21:33Here
21:36Where's my girl
21:37Where's my birthday girl
21:40I can't bear it
21:41They're so young
21:42And beautiful
21:44Why did they ever
21:45Have to get old
21:49Mama
21:52I'm here
21:55Good morning mama
21:58Well now dear
22:00A very happy birthday
22:01To you my girl
22:03And many happy returns
22:05There are some surprises
22:07Waiting for you
22:07On the kitchen table
22:09Mama you shouldn't have
22:15I can't I can't
22:16Now birthday or no birthday
22:19I want you to eat your breakfast
22:20Good and slow
22:21I want you to grow up
22:22To be a good strong girl
22:23So you chew that bacon
22:25Good and slow
22:27It'll keep you warm
22:29On a cold day
22:31Mama just
22:33Look at me for one minute
22:35As though you really saw me
22:37Mama 14 years have gone by
22:40I'm dead
22:43You're her grandmother
22:44Mama I married George Gibbs
22:47Well he's dead too
22:48We felt just terrible about it
22:49Don't you remember
22:51But just for one moment
22:53Now we're together
22:56Mama
22:56Just for one moment
22:58We're happy
22:59Let's look at one another
23:00Your father has a surprise
23:01For you too
23:02But I don't know
23:02What it is myself
23:05Here he comes
23:06Where's my girl
23:07Where is my birthday girl
23:11I can't
23:14I can't go on
23:16It goes too fast
23:19We don't have time
23:21To look at one another
23:24I didn't realize
23:29So all that was going on
23:31And we never noticed
23:37Take me back up the hill
23:38To my grave
23:43But first wait
23:46One more look
23:52Goodbye world
23:55Goodbye Grover's Corners
23:58And Mama and Papa
24:04Goodbye to clocks ticking
24:06And Mama's sunflowers
24:09And food and coffee
24:12And new iron dresses
24:14And hot baths
24:17And sleeping and waking up
24:23Oh earth
24:24You're too wonderful
24:25For anybody to realize you
24:31Do any human beings
24:33Ever realize life
24:34While they live it
24:34Every
24:36Every minute
24:41The saints
24:42And poets
24:44Maybe
24:45They do some
24:49I'm ready to go back
24:54I'm losing her
24:55It's okay
24:56She's okay
24:58It's the play
24:59Were you happy?
25:03Mother Gibbs
25:04I should have listened to you
25:08That's all human beings are
25:11Just
25:13Blind people
25:17Mr. Stinson
25:18I should have listened to them
25:20Yes
25:20Now you know
25:23Now you know
25:25That's what it was
25:27To be alive
25:28To move about
25:29In a cloud of ignorance
25:31To go up and down
25:33Trampling on the feelings
25:35Of those about you
25:36To spend and waste time
25:40As though you had
25:41A million years
25:43To be always
25:45At the mercy
25:46Of one's self-centered passion
25:48Or another
25:49Now you know
25:51That's the happy existence
25:53You wanted to return to
25:56Ignorance
25:57And blindness
25:59She's a little scary
26:02She's freaking amused
26:03That's what she is
26:14Mother Gibbs
26:15Yes Emily
26:20They don't understand
26:22Do they
26:24No dear
26:25They don't understand
26:38Most everybody's asleep
26:40In Grove's Corners
26:42There are a few lights on
26:45Shorty Hawkins
26:47Down at the depot
26:48Has just watched
26:49The Albany train go by
26:51Over at the livery stable
26:53Somebody's setting up late
26:55And talking
26:57Yes
26:58It's clearing up
27:02The stars
27:03Doing their old
27:06Old
27:06Crisscross journeys
27:08In the sky
27:09Scholars haven't settled
27:11The matter
27:12Yet
27:12But they seem to think
27:14That
27:14There are no living
27:16Beings
27:17Up there
27:18Just
27:19Chalk
27:20Or fire
27:23Only this one
27:25Is straining away
27:27Straining away
27:28All the time
27:29To make something
27:30Of itself
27:31Strained so bad
27:33That every 16 hours
27:34Everybody has to lie down
27:36And get a rest
27:44Hmm
27:45Eleven o'clock
27:46In Grove's Corners
27:50You all
27:51Get a good rest
27:52Too
27:55Good night
27:56Good night
28:35I'm gonna get a head start
28:36I know these people
28:37When they stop clapping
28:38They're gonna wanna drink
29:00Where's my dad
29:02Where's my dad
29:03Upstairs
29:08Oh my boys
29:16Thank you
29:18Thank you
29:18Thank you
29:19My son
29:21My star
29:23Yes
29:24Have you seen Miranda?
29:26No
29:28Tell your wife
29:29She stole the show
29:31I will
29:31I will
29:33Did you find her?
29:34No
29:34Did you find him?
29:35No
29:35Can you get me a beer?
29:37Oh good show
29:38Good show
29:38Oh Richard
29:39Richard
29:40Richard
29:41Can you convince
29:42This young genius
29:43To sign with me
29:45Think of it
29:45The two of you
29:46In my stable
29:47The three of us
29:48Would be unstoppable
29:48The talent it runs
29:49In the family
29:50Well apparently
29:51It's so nice to be here
29:53Miranda
29:53Just went talk to her
29:55Miranda
29:57Miranda
29:57Miranda
29:58Come on darling
29:58We constructed it
30:00Countless times
30:01Against impossible odds
30:03Richard
30:03Bean
30:05Sorry we didn't make
30:05The curtain call
30:06But he wanted to get
30:07His review in
30:07For the Sunday arts
30:08Can you give us a taste?
30:09I really can
30:10I'm sorry
30:11He said run
30:11Don't walk to
30:12Millersburg, Pennsylvania
30:13I have seen the resurrection
30:15Of Richard Bean
30:17Cheers
30:17Cheers indeed
30:19Well you're alive again
30:20What do you think of that?
30:21That's fine
30:22I'm really looking for my
30:24Niece
30:24Dad
30:26Sweetie
30:27Oh my god
30:29Oh my god
30:31You
30:32You
30:34Were
30:35Fabulous
30:38No you
30:39Broke
30:40My heart
30:41I have never been
30:43So proud
30:47I'm proud too
30:50I'm proud to be
30:52Your daughter
30:55Dad
30:55Listen
30:56Listen to me
30:57Sweetie
30:57I
30:58I need to tell you
30:59Something
30:59And you
31:00You can be
31:00Angry at me
31:01It's okay
31:02I just
31:04I need you to listen
31:13Oh Chris
31:15I think John
31:16Must be in the kitchen
31:16Did you find Miranda?
31:18I had her
31:19In my clutches
31:19And then we got a
31:20Rave in the
31:21New York Times
31:21What?
31:23There they are
31:24I've got the good stuff
31:25Alvis says
31:26The Times is raving
31:27Yeah
31:28Yeah
31:29And he said that
31:30We should expect to sell
31:31A whole lot of tickets
31:32Hey
31:32You may have just
31:33Saved this town
31:34After all
31:35And I did not see
31:36That coming
31:36No
31:37Because you're
31:38Philistine
31:38Nadia
31:39But I forgive you
31:40Because you came tonight
31:41And I'm also
31:42Man enough to say
31:43It was
31:44Fucking brilliant
31:45Everyone
31:46Are in your
31:47Dosses
31:48For he's a jolly good fellow
31:52For he's a jolly good fellow
31:54For he's a jolly good fellow
31:58Which nobody can deny
32:03Yeah
32:04What if she's already found him
32:05And told him
32:05It doesn't matter
32:06But we have to explain
32:07What happened
32:07We have to beg for forgiveness
32:09And just say
32:09It was a stupid mistake
32:10Ah
32:11But something beautiful
32:13Came out of it
32:15Yes
32:15But let's not say that
32:17Come on
32:19Oh
32:22You are not going to say
32:24A fucking word to dad
32:25Well we were just
32:26No no no no no
32:26Because I tried
32:27And I couldn't
32:28It will break
32:29His heart
32:30And that wonderful
32:31Sweet
32:31Caring man
32:32Should not have to pay
32:34For your stupidity
32:35So from now on
32:36We are one
32:37Happy
32:37Family
32:39Understand
32:39Okay
32:40How how how how
32:41How we're going to act
32:42Because we're all
32:43Fucking actors here
32:44So act happy
32:47There they are
32:49My favorite people
32:53Let's take a family photo
32:54All of us together
32:55Hey dad dad
32:56Come join us
32:57Family photo
32:58I can take it
32:59This is a big day
33:01For the beans
33:02It certainly is
33:04I've been aware of it
33:06All along
33:07It's so fucking obvious
33:09What's that
33:10Okay everybody get clothes
33:13Miranda is Richard's daughter
33:15What?
33:16I have to say
33:17Thanks
33:18And now
33:35How long can you
33:36How long can you
33:36That say
33:36What's that
33:37How long can you
33:37How long can you
33:37Four
33:38Five
33:43Two
33:44Says
33:46Six
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