(Nicotine: the devils stick!Wire hangers:also bad!
Rare filets: okay.)
Dont worry Joan,its not like Christine will write a book about any of this!

Credit: Suzanne Tenner/FX
Thrilled, in fact!
More thrills for Bette.
Well, shes a strict disciplinarian, you see.
But she also finds that giving them a task provides a real sense of accomplishment.
Bette seems intrigued, and offers to take Crawfish (is this nickname brand new?
It seems like it) out for a few cocktails after the day wraps.
The plan is partly to soften her up and deliver the B.D.
), to her mothers second husband(!!).
We werent blood relations, she assures Bette, so it wasnt incest.
Bettes face is appropriately thunderstruck.
But she also has her own stories of boarding school: no electricity, naked baths in the snow.
What nightmare Dickens novel were these two raised in?
As the camera cuts between Bette in a scene with Victor Buono and at home trying to coach B.D.
(At least she knows it, though.)
Its women like you whove nurtured venom and resentment for years….Truthteller.
Hedda slaps back with (not untrue) s talk about B.D.s performance, but B.D.
unfortunately overhears the unkindest part of her mothers reply and misses the tiger-mom roar that came right before.
Its like fingCamillein reverse!
), and tells him to fix it.
He also reminds him that its notCasablanca, which is real boost for Bob.
While Bette comforts a devastated B.D.
Bette also reaches out to Margot at the institution without much response, so now both moms are sad.
Its also a wrap, after one cool staredown outside the dressing room.
Until next week, kiddos.
Well, half yours.
Bobs assistant to Bette, when she requests an audience
Shes adopted!
She could be talented.
Bette, talking virginity with Joan
Im sure his Falstaff is the talk of Tijuana.
Bette, on her special bond with homosexuals
Yes, women outlive men, children leave.
Best get used to it.
Mamacita, offering tender comfort to Joan
I want the dirt.
Hedda, to JoanYoull have to settle for sand.
Joan
Im not falling on those.
I dont do stunts.
Bette, on Joans enhanced bosom in the beach scene
You have… loads of potential.
Victor, to the young man hes servicing in a movie theater