finally watched abbot’s latest episode (it was a busy week) and I need to say, as someone who’s mom was emotionally unavailable and barely showed affection (or showed up at all lol) and was able to find the closest thing to that motherly type of love in her elementary/middle school teachers seeing barbara’s and melissa’s relationship with janine warms my hear (and heals it a little bit to), thanks quinta <3
The way they use hair and makeup for story telling in abbott is top tier
In this recent ep (03x05) Barbara’s bold lipstick is insulted by sister sloss (I hate you sister sloss) and she reacts by covering her lips.
Then the rest of the episode she wears neutral lipstick colours.
It’s such a detail but tells you so much about how Barb internalises what those women say and how she wants to fit in and be respected by and be good enough for them.