Welcome to the Parenting Roundabout podcast. I'm Terry Morrow and I'm Catherine hileco.
As parents and parenting writers, we can't help but see everything through a parenting
lens. But as our kids have become adults, we find ourselves more interested
in getting caught up on movies and streaming than I'm going over the same parenting
topics over and over. So since we're pretty sure we can find parenting wisdom
anywhere, we're going to talk about what we're watching, what we thought about
it, and maybe what we can learn from it, if only what not
to do. Watch and listen along, and let's all make like we're doing
something important for our families. Each Tuesday we bring you our thoughts on a
newer entertainment property, and for this week of July fifteenth, we're continuing with
A Gentleman in Moscow, which is a limited series on Paramount Plus. This
was episode two, called an Invitation. I found there were several some threat
some I'm not in this case, yeah, we get you know more certainly
of Anna Orbanova, the actress, who have we seen her at all in
the first episode? Was she not in the first episode with the dogs?
I don't think she was, but perhaps Okay, I just no, You're
probably right. I probably just mixed up when we saw her. But yeah,
she makes quite an entrance with her unruly animals. By the way,
A small note, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who plays that role, is married
to you and McGregor. So oh did not two years connect one child?
Thank you? IMDb? Okay, cool, I actually saw that in an
article and I don't remember what was the source of the article. Who was
saying celebrity couple together in TV show? And I'm like, okay, I
did not. Maybe you saw that at the dentist's office on it on the
gossip te chance it could be anyway, she was very enjoyable in that part.
Yes, she made quite an impression. Oh, they made an impression
on each other. I was right, they did the count and Anna,
Yes, although also made an impression on Nina that was not good. Do
not. Didn't you a little friend for sax Man? Come on, completely
understandable. I know what You've been cooped up there for a long time with
no companionship, but still you have a prior commitment, and a gentleman,
yes, would honor his prior commit Absolutely would. Yes, but he did
apologize and she seemed to accept his apology, and by the end of the
episode we had to say goodbye to Need. I'm very sad. I had
assumed that Nina would be a motif throughout this thing and would be his little
buddy all through. I am very sad to say goodbye to her in two
episodes. Well just remember, let's ask you if she comes back this this
this eight episodes covers something like forty years, like a long period of times,
so he will have other friends, all right, But yes, when
when she left, it was very it was very sad. Yes. So
do we think that this mini series is going to encompass the entire book?
Would you say, At the pace it's going, it looks like it's going
to be the entire book. I think so, yes, Because when I
was going into on demand to watch this, it is referring to it as
season one. Oh interesting, And I find that confusing because when a will
write another book quick, quick, quick, we need to see the Yeah,
unless that's just a quirk of how it's present is just a quirk of
the way things are, because it's it's been it's being presented as a limited
series, which I would assume would mean you get these episodes and you get
no more, and probably you're right, the computer just puts season one in
front of things. But on the other hand, I suppose they're keeping their
options open. It's well, I mean, they could do the whole big
Little Lies thing, or you know, or Game of Thrones where they just
keep making up stuff after the bird ends. But given that the author is
the executive producer, right, and is such a complete story, Yes,
that's what worries me is when things take off and then it's it's a complete
story. But but there could be more, Right, there could be more.
We could just change the ending and there could be more. Yeah,
I hope not. I mean, given how hard it is to find this
and watch it, that's true, Maybe it won't take off in such a
way that they feel like they have to do yess as was the as we
will discuss tomorrow as complications of lost Yes, in terms of a story becoming
uncomfortably open ended to do money. But yeah, I wonder anyway, I
mean, this episode was really pretty action packed for a guy who's yeah I
was stuck in a hotel, right, I mean, he got into a
fistfight, he encountered his jailor he got it on with a famous actress.
He went up to the roof. Yeah, first he expanded his living quarters.
Oh yeah, I was waiting for that. I was surprised that it
didn't happen in the first one. Yeah, that whole really fun. You
know the dream that people people have of like you suddenly discover that your home
has another room, and it happens. It happens to him. So,
yes, although I would guess that his antagonist would not consider that to be
part of his room. No, but that's why he has to hide it
behind the wardrobe. Yes, he seems to get around a lot for a
guy who is supposedly has a lot of eyes on him. Well, he's
getting around, but only within the hotel, but like through locked doors,
and I mean nobody. Obviously nobody's keeping an eye on Nina because they would
notice that, right he's sitting with her in the restaurant. You know,
how is it possible that no one is keeping eyes on Nina? This is
a fortunate convention, I guess, but we did not some time, according
to Papa, that she was consorting with criminals. Yeah, it's this sort
of thing that we just gently put aside. Well, but also, if
this is nineteen twenty two, children are seen and you're saying little girls weren't
high on anybody's list of concerns at this time, right, exactly, I
get that, And just children in general, I mean they were just like
I'm sure they'll be fine, Yes, probably paying slightly dogs, so yes,
But I mean I would think that you can see the count demonstrating his
parental skills with the dogs and then with his apology to me no, yes,
that was adorable, and that relationship was just so sweet, and I
feel like there's not gonna be a lot of sweetness in this Maybe there will
be more, but I'm sad to see her go, if indeed going.
She is speaking on a parenting point. This whole confinement to the hotel business
reminds me of what a bad idea it is to try to confine your child.
It's the you know you're grounded, but that means that you have to
watch them all the time, right, and make yourself available all the time.
And if you don't watch them all the time, they ain't gonna stay
grounded, right, They're gonna go have fun, They're going to talk to
their friends they're gonna do, you know, and so you have to be
the guy who keeps going in there and saying you're not supposed to be having
fun. Why are you having fun? Toop that, please be miserable.
Yes, so this is why I don't advise making kids stay in their room
or stay home all weekend, or not use their phones or whatever, because
you were gonna have to sit on them all that time, and it's not
fun for you either. Yes, So it also reminded me I thought you
were gonnas. This is what I thought you were gonna say that. You
know that period when you have very young children and you are kind of confined
to your hotel, you know, you have to you're beholden to nap schedules,
and you know, like what if you don't want to have to change
a diaper or what, you know whatever it is like, Yeah, I
mean I was. I feel like I was pretty good about being out and
around with my kids, especially when I just had one. I mean you
you had two from the get to immediately. Yes, but they could walk,
well, they could walk, but anyway, the older one could walk,
the younger one could not. But we had a double stroller that was
completely ridiculous. Yeah, for a person of my sons to pull out of
the trunk and open up and then wheel over and put one child in,
and wheel over and put the other child in, and then bush places.
I still think back to that time and just shake my head. Do you
feel like superhuman? Because it was heavy without children in it? Right?
And then and you're a very small person, like a four and a half
year old and an eighteen a month old, right, four and a half
year old ones so light, But it just it was nice. The one
thing that I liked about strollers that I missed when they went away is that
the confinement of them was helpful, right, especially when my son finally outgrowed
the umbrella stroller and I had to just let him run free. It was
like, oh, man, that was so nice. That was so nice
to be able to buggle in. Man, I know exactly where he was.
It all done right, Yes, But that is true that you know,
children are their own sort of little Bolshevik revolutions jailers, as you call
it. So we got more little tantalizing bits, more of the story about
his sister, and apparently his front of me right saved his life, so
that he could be confined to a hotel, right, better than being shot,
I suppose. Yes, you could have sex with actresses of the things.
Yeah, we win parties, drink champagne. Yes, we had that
whole New Year's Eve party with yes, uh staff, staff, and but
Mishika was there, so like, yes, I'm not sure who invited?
Well didn't the didn't the the lady with her little boy who came to his
room. I guess a maid. She's like the seamstress. Yeah, okay,
yeah, yeah, yeah, the seamstress. Didn't she tell him they
were having a party. I thought she sort of invited him. I think
she invited the count, but she was, oh who invited? Yeah,
I'm not he just possible. He just invites himself quickly. Absolutely, I
will do whatever I want now. But he probably probably has friends amongst the
wh Yes, so that looked like a good time. This looked like a
very good time. Not, that's a nice form of house arrest. You
know, you still get to go to parties. Yes, this is an
entirely too nice form of house arrest. I think certain parties are going to
begin to think, but you can't always anticipate what punishments are going to work
the best, that's right. That's a parenting lesson times possible for children to
turn a punishment to their own advance, especially when they have an accomplice in
Nina with a pass key. Yes, but that that outdoor, you know,
discovering that he can go outside after having been inside for I think over
a year to actually be able to go outside, even if you're just on
the roof. Yeah, just yeah, like even though it's winter and there's
snow and he's not even wearing a cultor, but you can just see the
how glorious it is to actually be there. You don't have snipers on the
roof apparently, no, I know, I feel like, get down.
It's just careful and anybody look up and say, hey, who is that
on the roof? Is he supposed to be there? I don't think so.
Well, they didn't say he can't go outside and outside the hotel his
feet are still on the hotel. That's one of those he doesn't jump up
technicalities. Yeah, but of course I don't think this is a regime that
particularly cares about technicalities. No, clearly he's not supposed to be doing that.
But you can understand what he would want to right, Well, he's
not supposed to be a lot of the places within the hotel that he actually
not supposed to be having a good time come on. As is so often
the case, those being put under limitations are oftentimes wiley in getting around them.
Children and also parents sometimes. Are you excited for next week as the
last rosstus? Yes, So next Tuesday we will discuss that third episode.
I'm really enjoying this and I'm almost like, oh, eight is going to
be too few, you know, I'm already like preemptively sad about it.
It is a very enjoyable watch, excellent acting, it's beautiful to look at,
and the story is interesting. So yeah, keep you coming. Yeah,
but we'll see you back here tomorrow for a discussion of lost quite different
properties. Also, also, could people could find to a space unwanted space?
But this is true so far, no polar bears in the hotel on
gentlemen in Moscow, though you never know it would be a little more geographically
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