“STOP MAKING ME CARE SO MUCH ABOUT HETEROSEXUALITY, JACK”
“MAKE TWO MOUTHS WITH YOUR ONE MOUTH”
“BERT AND CEC I FEEL LIKE YOUR COMMUNIST IDEALS ARE BEING SLOWLY WORN AWAY BY THE GLAMOROUS WARDROBE AND BENEVOLENT CAPITALISM OF PHRYNE FISHER, PLEASE DON’T FEEL SO BAD ABOUT IT THOUGH, COMPROMISE IS SORT OF LIKE GETTING USED TO A HOT BATH AND AFTER A WHILE IT FEELS COMFORTABLE, LIKE YOU COULD DO THIS UNTIL YOU DIED”
“Phryne I miss eating solids”
“HURRAH FOR LESBIANS”
“PHRYNE that gown looks beautiful on you but is also indicative of a design era influenced heavily by Orientalism!”
“IT’S THE LESBIAN DOCTOR AGAIN, HOORAY”
“THIS IS SURPRISINGLY PRO-SEX WORKERS, I KNOW YOU CAN’T HEAR ME BUT THANK YOU”
“PHRYNE I HOPE YOU GET TO SLEEP WITH THAT GUY LATER”
“THIS COUPLE HAS WEIRD AND KIND OF INSISTENT THREESOMES AND I HOPE YOU DON’T SLEEP WITH THEM PHRYNE”
“PHRYNE THAT HAT”
“PHRYNE THOSE SHOES”
“JACK YOUR FACE IS AN OCTAGON OF CHEEKBONES AND SORROW”
“I know this plotline is just going to be ‘Hugh says something well-meaning but outdated about women and Dot will get a huffy look on her face and do something small but empowering and then Hugh will do Confused Eyes and then they’ll chastely hug’ but GODDAMNIT IF I’M NOT ALREADY CHARMED BY IT”
“I NEVER KNOW WHO THE MURDERER IS, I CAN NEVER SOLVE RIDDLES OR GUESS WHO THE MURDERER IS IN A MURDER MYSTERY AND IT MAKES ME FEEL MENTALLY INADEQUATE BUT I STILL LOVE YOU, PHRYNE”
“I DON’T KNOW WHAT THAT WORD MEANS BUT I STILL LIKE AUSTRALIA”
“STOP SOLVING CRIMES AND TAKE YOUR HATS OFF AND KISSSSSSSSSSSSS”
“I WISH I HAD IMMENSE WEALTH AND A HOUSE FULL OF PILLARS AND TEA”
“I DON’T CARE IF YOU MAKE OUT WITH OTHER PEOPLE JUST MAKE OUT WITH HIM ONCE FOR ME I WOULD FIND IT DEEPLY MEANINGFUL”
“MAC I LOVE YOUR VEST”
“I THINK I NEED SUBTITLES AGAIN”
“THAT’S THE MUSIC THEY ALWAYS PLAY WHEN JACK IS COMICALLY FRUSTRATED WITH PHRYNE, I LIKE THIS MUSIC”
Mallory is an Editor of The Toast.