Rodrigo is back in New York. The two gay men who have the little baby are having its christening. The two sides in the strike are on opposite sides of the church. You can feel the tension in the air. There are angry comments when suddenly Rodrigo shows up. He goes up to the front and tells one of the fathers to hold the baby's feet and the other to hold her under her arms. Now, he says, pull the baby apart. His point is that we have this lovely thing. We would never do that to a baby. But we would it do it to our beautiful orchestra. So Thomas sends all the non-orchestra people to a buffet and Rodrigo locks them in with heavy chains on the doors. Betty and Gloria are sent to a room to negotiate. They start drinking and looking at the realities of their situation. Things become really interesting as the orchestra members wait in the church.
2 Reviews
SPOILERS included - Give me a break
appnzllr-120 October 2017
Warning: Spoilers
I've been watching "Mozart in the Jungle", enjoying the music and the give and take of the main characters, but I was kind of disgusted by the episodes in Venice that seemed to have no purpose (why were all the main characters ending up in Venice), and by the strike. Don't get me wrong, a strike every now and then may be necessary, but it was the ham handed writing of the resolution that bothered me. Locking the front door of a church? What major building in a city only has one exit? Wouldn't that be against the fire code? The negotiation between the two women was OK, but the celebration at the end just seemed to lack any emotion. The writer(s) had to resolve it somehow before the end of the season, but - as I said - it was ham-handed and poorly written.
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