And that’s the end of the last , right up to the penultimate episode!!

I hope you all enjoy the final episode of Gourmet Hound tomorrow 🍳!!

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I think I’ve written about how I used hair to represent their grief and loss—there’s a sharp change (a haircut, hair dye) then slow, continuous, steady growth as they move forward

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Lucy honors Lynn’s legacy not by saving the cooking school, or naming the coffee counter after the school

But by finding people as lonely as she is and building something together with them!!

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I saw someone comment that the aprons represent the co-owners of the bookshop (Smith and Fuji)

But it was 100% unintentional, I just thought it was cute, you’re all cleverer than me!!

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I have no headcanons about the future of GH’s characters except “Lucy and Jacobi antagonize each other into personal and professional success until they both die peacefully of old age in their 100s on the same day (and Jacobi still thinks he wins bc he’s older)”

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I’m not sure if it was established strongly enough, but Bell Corner is a LGBTQ+ bookshop—that’s why it was important to me that it was these 3 that took it over!

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They’re either dating or have been “oh my god, they were roommates”-ing for four years, you can choose

(But cmon, they’re dating, I gave you all the clues)

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It’s about two people with large and defined feelings for each other managing to hold hands because they’re finally in sync!!!

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Yes I chose carbonara because it has eggs in it

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I wanted to show an unremarkable day that still felt imbued with happiness—Lucy and Graham return to their everyday lives, where they’re loved

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I wanted to show that Bartlett is willing to return to Fairview and make contact with the people who remind him of his painful past after speaking to Graham and Lucy

(Also, I wanted to give Haddock something to do lol)

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The reason they kiss twice is because I wanted it to be clearly mutual ha ha

Equal opportunity face grabs and kisses!

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I wanted the feeling of Graham‘s confession to be that he knows that Lucy’s in a good headspace now, and he couldn’t hold it in anymore!

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This was originally the last episode before the timeskip, which is why I leaned SO HARD onto the callbacks ha ha

(But then I found out that I should add another episode, so... oh well, the callbacks were still fun!)

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It was also important that when Graham thinks about his happy everyday life, it’s not just Lucy! It’s more widespread and stable that just one other person

(Though, yes, he does think of her as special ha ha)

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It was important that the question wasn’t “Are you happy now?”, since that suggests a final stage or completion

They’re still working on themselves, but they recognize that they ARE doing better!

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The Affogato ep needed to happen, but I was worried that after the catharsis of the previous episode, having Graham pull Bartlett away would ruin the momentum

I’m glad I did include it though—Graham needed his arc completed with this convo

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The idea was that there was no reason for them to have met with both Bartlett and Lynn gone

That they DID meet years later, and happened to be just the right people to support each other through their troubles, is the miracle

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That being said, I was also worried that “the Dimanche chefs’ cooking + her grandmother’s recipe notes and scent” would be too contrived!

This had been my plan from the start, but I still asked my editor “Is this alright?? Are you sure????”

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There are lots of hands in this episode because I wanted to show the chain-link relationship between Lynn, her three students, the Dimanche chefs, and Lucy— it’s as if a piece of Lynn is lovingly handed from person to person and finally returned to Lucy via Dimanche!#GHliveblog

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