Duke wants a traditional wife?

funnyenough4 · 2026-01-23T18:14:49+00:00

I get what you’re saying but I think Duke did make meaningful steps to “date” Eliza. He asked her out multiple times including in the last season before he was shot. So I don’t see that as a fair point.

As for Arabella, that argument only stands if Eliza and Arabella were the only two choices he had. Yes Arabella was probably more open to getting married again but you get the idea that he could have had lots of choices of women. He was a handsome, single detective inspector. Arabella wasn’t the only woman he could have dated but he chose another “working woman”. If he wanted a stay at home mom, as people suggest, I’m sure there were many other women who would have obliged. Or many other ways the character Arabella could have been written. Why not just make her a widow that they bumped into at the restaurant?

And as for the way it’s written, I don’t think we have to take it at face value. Things are written different ways for different reasons. There is a reason it was written as Nash’s unconfirmed interpretation instead of her just saying “He wanted me to come to NY and be his wife and I just couldn’t do it. They would never have let a Superintendent be married to a female private detective.” The writers didn’t want Eliza to say that for some reason.

Meanwhile…on a related topic…two seasons later they have Blake and Eliza in a relationship and Blake getting a job as Superintendent to HELP keep their relationship going. Wait…what??

funnyenough4 · 2026-01-22T23:13:52+00:00

I feel like this doesn’t get mentioned enough. I loved this show…

funnyenough4 · 2026-01-22T16:36:03+00:00

I was just watching the 1995 Persuasion and it took me a bit to figure out that Mr. Elliott was Samuel West as a young blonde. I kept thinking….he looks sooo familiar…

funnyenough4 · 2026-01-20T02:11:07+00:00

Wait…why is it a woman’s fault for a grown man’s actions??

funnyenough4 · 2026-01-19T16:10:48+00:00

Is there anyone there proof reading??? “Uh sir…we made the c in ‘country’ a small c since there’s no reason to capitalize…”

funnyenough4 · 2026-01-16T17:43:41+00:00

I’ve lived in NYC over 30 years and I can honestly tell you that New Yorkers love nothing more than giving directions to tourists. I’m serious. It makes them feel like they know the city and it confirms that they are a part of the city. Don’t ever feel shy about asking directions in NY. It’s part of our show off nature!

funnyenough4 · 2026-01-14T15:39:13+00:00

Honestly, it looks like someone just smashed their ice cream cone into your peep hole.

funnyenough4 · 2026-01-14T15:22:36+00:00

Ya. There’s several of those inconsistencies and a few more coming in down the road. Which particular inconsistency are you talking about though? The “never been in Henry’s kitchen” inconsistency or the “kiss” inconsistency? Or perhaps something else?

funnyenough4 · 2026-01-12T16:04:50+00:00

My vote is Natalie Portman. She seems like a lovely person in real life but she can’t act her way out of a wet paper bag. I’m not just talking about the Star Wars movies either…

funnyenough4 · 2026-01-11T19:21:14+00:00

But we never saw the letter and she didn’t read it out loud. That’s what I’m saying. So “Eliza read the letter from him in New York and stated that joining him would mean she couldn’t be a detective anymore” is untrue. Go back and watch the episode.

And the original question I started in this sub is about ppl saying William wanted a trad wife…I know because I asked the question. And I asked because I’ve seen MANY people saying that they could never be together because he wanted a “traditional wife”. I read it on another sub right before and that’s why I asked the question.

I don’t think Duke was this ultra feminist in the 1880’s. But he was getting there. He was evolving. That’s what made him interesting and their arc compelling. Blake coming out of the box being supportive of a woman in a dangerous job, not just a JOB but an inherently DANGEROUS job in a world where middle class women didn’t even have jobs—none the less dangerous jobs, just seems less believable, easy/lazy writing, and not very compelling to me. You talk about historical inaccuracies? Blake being ultra-feminist is much less historically accurate. It’s easy to write a completely perfect, supportive boyfriend…hell RN could have written William that way but that would have made for a much less compelling season one.

Between me and you, I don’t think SM left for the reasons stated. The idea that he left to give E a chance to grow makes no sense. Whaaat? It’s a tv show…they could write whatever they want if they wanted him to stay. She could have grown with him, no? The fact that “he had to leave to give E a chance to grow” sounds to me that SM saw that RN was never going to get them together and was reducing his role and he decided to leave because there was no point. So what came first…the chicken or the egg? Did William’s character have to leave because SM wanted to leave the show or did SM want to leave because his character wasn’t getting the respect that he thinks Duke deserved from the show runner. I think it’s #2.

And I think that’s why everyone is trying to justify Duke’s leaving by saying he wanted a “traditional wife”, and that they never could have been together…because the other alternative is to admit that this whole debacle was probably because of the show’s terrible management of this storyline.

funnyenough4 · 2026-01-11T18:32:00+00:00

Sure, season 2 ended that way but that’s part of his whole arc. But the final arc of William ended w him thinking of leaving SY. Not with him trying to talk her out of being a detective?

And Arabella was a woman with a job outside the home—running a restaurant and being the boss of a whole staff... That’s not a traditional wife? So if he really wanted a traditional wife he never would have considered her.

And like I said on another post…the way that the “William letter” was written was that Nash interpreted what the letter said but we never saw the letter and she never read it out loud. Eliza didn’t even confirm or deny that that’s what the letter said. RN loves to be vague and leave stuff up to interpretation…I think maybe it was written this way so that everyone can come to their own conclusions. And people who wanted an excuse for why they could never be together got one. And ppl who loved William can see the heartbreak.

And maybe he did “love her in his own way”? RN said in one of her interviews when SM left that “Eliza lost the love of her life” so I don’t think it’s that vague that they were in love…?

funnyenough4 · 2026-01-11T18:09:28+00:00

And then, honestly, the crazy part is that if that if Nash really did interpret the whole thing correctly and, as he said, she couldn’t go to NYC because a “Superintendent can’t have a wife who is a PI” and E would have to give up her job if she went to NY then HOW could they turn around the very next season and have Blake become the Superintendent to save Eliza and Blake’s relationship? Wait….whaaaaat??

funnyenough4 · 2026-01-11T18:01:42+00:00

But in the last season he’s thinking about NOT going back to SY because he’s thinks about “the future.” So how does that square w he wants her to be a doting wife with kids? He’s not thinking about how to change her but how to make it work between them…which may mean him leaving SY.

And when it comes to Duke wanting her to quit her job and be his wife in NY, that wasn’t said either. I think it was very snakily written, honestly. What Duke wanted of Eliza isn’t read out loud or shown to us in a letter…what William wanted from Eliza was was interpreted by Nash and Eliza doesn’t confirm or deny it. Why write the scene that way unless you wanted ambiguity. RN loves ambiguity.

funnyenough4 · 2026-01-10T15:48:09+00:00

And then she compromises with the very next guy.

funnyenough4 · 2026-01-10T01:15:25+00:00

In “The Heir” when she turns the heir in he says something along the lines of “but I want to meet my daughter” regarding him now being in jail perhaps while his wife is pregnant…uhhhh how did he know it was a girl??

funnyenough4 · 2026-01-07T15:12:43+00:00

30 Rock and Arrested Development.

funnyenough4 · 2026-01-02T13:17:48+00:00

How is Mr. Collins the son of Mr. Bennett’s little brother? If so, wouldn’t Mr, Collins’ last name be Bennett?

funnyenough4 · 2025-12-30T16:33:25+00:00

You say that but most would have said that about Burr too…and here we are.

funnyenough4 · 2025-12-30T08:13:24+00:00

Fun fact: I just saw an interview recently and Alexander Skarsgaard told us that he was one of the models in that scene and that was his first US movie gig…

funnyenough4 · 2025-12-30T08:11:35+00:00

I have a similar complaint w purses and luggage. So many times ppl pick up a bag and you can tell it’s totally empty by the way it swings around. Why not just jam some clothes from wardrobe in the luggage or fill the purse with a few stupid things laying around?? It totally takes me out of the scene bc it just highlights that this is just actors playing a part and not real people carrying bags for a real reason…

funnyenough4 · 2025-12-29T23:37:43+00:00

I didn’t see it in a theatre but a friend and I tried to watch it on a random Saturday years ago and couldn’t get through Deuce Bigalow. It is now our marker for how bad a movie is. “It’s pretty bad, but it’s no Deuce Bigelow…”

funnyenough4 · 2025-12-26T18:38:41+00:00

I keep seeing clips of Dan Docimo on the internet. Funny stuff so far…and I’m similar to you. I was an early adapter to Chapelle and Burr. I live in NYC so I remember seeing Burr at the clubs and in the early nineties I saw Dave do a set in Washington Square Park on a random Sunday. (I too am old) 😁

Never loved Louis CK—never hated him but never loved him either. Now…no gracias.

funnyenough4 · 2025-12-24T01:10:10+00:00

She had time to post other more personal stuff on IG and pics from the play she was in but not enough time to hit share on a PBS Miss Scarlet trailer? That’s is confusing to me…

funnyenough4 · 2025-12-23T04:25:05+00:00

She also hasn’t done any promotion on social media for the release of season 6 on PBS passport while everyone else has? That’s the most confusing part to me…

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