man can you believe this is like the bajillionth video i've made on icarly
what can you believe that it seems impossible that that is possible i don't normally do this
welcome to icarly thursday's yes you heard me right from now on up until the end of the first
season of the icarly revival we are going to be covering the latest episode every single week
on thursdays while still having regular content come out every tuesday and friday as well so we're
just gonna have more content overall and i think that's pretty cool maybe not for my sleep schedule
but you know that's been messed up for years so what's a few more weeks or years or decades thank
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or just hit it because you enjoy the video that's cool too episode 8 i love gwen this episode
centers around millicent freddy and his ex-wife and millicent's mother gwen and her coming back to
town to see millicent's school play yes freddy got the a plot also harper makes a joke about kanye
it's all sad that it's not relevant like kanye right as he's literally dropping an album anyway
we find out a lot of backstory a lot of filling in those gaps that a majority of us have been
questioning since the start of the revival we get told about what gwen does for work and why
she isn't in millicent's life as much as freddy is for gwen being the mother when she arrives
we see carly and her having a bickering battle attacking each other in front of everyone in the
room but when freddie offers gwen to stay over at his apartment while in town carly walks her
out into the hall and it's revealed that they're actually close friends and pretend to feud in
front of freddy so he thinks that she is on his side when the divorce happened we find shortly
after that for millicent's play the costume designer and the set decorator dropped out and
she wrangles and convinces harper and spencer with compliments and the promise of a prize being won
by the most outstanding aspect of the production to come aboard and volunteer their time and this
causes that competitive nature of what upping each other that we've seen plenty between harper and
spencer which now this really does seem like it'll be a reoccurring b plot when the episodes shift
their direction heavily on one singular portion carly now over at freddie's apartment with gwen
finds a heart-shaped locket when gwen leaves the room that has both pictures of freddy and gwen
inside leaving carly to believe that gwen still likes freddy and also freddie's apartment looks
the exact same as it did back in the day so that's pretty cool look at those pictures of vacuums
love it back at spencer's apartment we hear freddy talking about what he misses the most about gwen
and that's her enchiladas literally enchiladas but milliset enters secretly mid-conversation over
hearing everything being said and interpreting it as not the enchiladas and that he loves and misses
gwen herself the child literally overhearing that there's a chance her parents could get
back together she runs over back to her place to find carly in the locket and both realize
that they think the same thing that freddy and gwen both like each other once again and
as millicent wants to start nudging them closer to make this happen carly is hesitant at first but is
easily quickly persuaded because she's carly and she must interfere if she feels she's doing the
right thing we also get to return once again of miss benson and because of the parent trap idea of
putting both freddy and gwen in the same room and recreating their first date night miss benson gets
to have a sleepover at carly and harper's place and we see her having all the same safety first
mannerisms and overbearingness but she feels she's letting loose because she's never been invited to
a sleepover back at freddy's we see him already having known what's going on thanks to a note
and gwen walking in finding the surprise they begin to have a chat about everything going on
and show off how they are handling the divorced life we find out that millicent's original father
actually passed away before freddy came around as well as these two don't share the same feelings of
getting back together but they are really close and know how to work as co-parents
and gwen also reveals that she is seeing someone and doesn't know how to tell millicent carly and
millicent want to go actually spy on the date so they try leaving the apartment only to get stopped
by harper and spencer having parts of their competition happening and just getting in
the way carly tricks them into competing at finishing the puzzle first with mrs benson
while they dip out when they clearly peek through the door seriously what in the sitcom logic of
not seeing them is happening they are in clear view regardless they overhear freddie and gwen's
conversation once again and what they interpreted was them waiting to tell millicent they are slowly
working on getting back together was in actuality them discussing her new relationship and when she
was going to tell her fast forwarding to the play things are all over the place with harper and
spencer's competition at its peak with spencer's bread made set falling apart and then trying to
get the audience to vote on what is better the costumes or the set backstage millicent tells
carly that after her monologue she is going to open her heart out to freddie and gwen about
being happy that they are getting back together and carly is excited for her to do so now in the
audience carly sits next to freddie and gwen as she can't contain not knowing that they are back
into each other when it's revealed to her that's not what's actually going on the necklace is for
milicent to have so she knows that they both love her and that she is going to tell her that she is
actually seeing someone new which makes carly confused that gwen didn't tell her about her
new relationship and that breaks the secret that they were actually friends and freddie is slightly
peeped about it because of one being lied to all this time and two that she lied about a specific
trip that she went to go see her father when she really went to go visit gwen and feed sea turtles
by hand but that's not good as millicent is about to go on stage and blurt out how happy she is for
them to be back together so carly rushes backstage to try and stop her but the curtains open up and
we have spencer in spencer fashion fixing up the set with peanut butter to stick the bread back on
this bit happens again and it's as great as you can imagine and carly tries to warn millicent
from the side of the stage as she's delivering lines but she isn't understanding so she takes
the boy's hat who is supposed to go out on stage and pretends to act while telling millicent not to
go through with her plan which ends up leading carly to eventually just break down and tell
her the truth that her parents aren't getting back together thus fully ruining the play and just when
the tension hits the most spencer breaks through the back bread wall to tie up the ruining of the
play overall after the play we have a nice moment between millicent and her parents as they explain
and go over everything and she reacts to it pretty well mainly excited that she will still have two
birthdays and two christmases spencer and harper come to the conclusion that millison tricked them
with no real prize to just help her with the play and then when they were called to the principal's
office as if they were in trouble for how they handled themselves for the play mainly spencer
and his crazy bread antics they return happy with ribbons and a role as co-chairs of the pta that
they each treat as their own prizes and feel satisfied carly gets cold into the principal's
office but not for a good reason as she walks away everyone gives her the um that someone
would get when they get called out of class to go to the principal's office for being in trouble and
then it ends ring ring ring hello creativity monthly why yes i will be on your cover click
all right wow another solid episode from the icarly revival i must say if you watched last
week's video you know how much criticism i had for example episode 6 but how episode 7 written by
francesca ramsey was a huge improvement fixing on so many of the personal issues i was noticing with
the show thus far here in episode 8 we follow that trend by having another solid episode delivered to
us that goes the distance of making sure it hits all those same notes once again first the mature
way they show handling a divorced couple and our minds may be just mine we've built up this whole
thing about millicent's mom being this absent not as caring and possibly self-absorbing person but
it throws that great curveball of expectations out the window of who she really is and how much
she actually does love her daughter and her love for freddy for the time they did share as well
as how they come together for their daughter no matter what of course not all divorces are this
clean in real life some can get pretty nasty and the kid or kids are usually the ones most
affected by it so instead of portraying her as this evil nasty woman who only comes around when
she wants and bosses around freddy et cetera and freddie throwing back an equal amount of toxicity
towards her we get a pretty cool marine biologist mom who cares about millicent and still works
towards a great relationship with freddy and it's great to see freddy have the full-on a-plot this
time around while we do spend time with carly and millicent trying to push the two together
seeing more of freddy's backstory learning more about this history in general helps fill in those
ambiguous gaps we had since episode 1. nilsson's character here was also great she still has those
bossy and attitude driven moments but in full-on benefit of the story to drive the b plot for
harper and spencer rather than just for the heck of it the smile and joy it brings to her when she
thought she heard freddy still in love with her mom and seeing them at dinner thinking everything
was going well it's great to see her break from her shell a bit more learn possibly why she's been
so reserved and why she has this defensive nature about her having her dad pass away at a young age
and then have freddy and her mom not work out and divorce it's just also heartbreaking as now you
know the real truth about them not really getting together and that that will eventually come out
after she got her hopes up and when it does come out she surprisingly does take it well she looks
on the bright side and all is right with all three of them together in that moment knowing that no
matter what they are still family the feud between spencer and harper was pretty fun just these quick
little gags of them trying to best one another as they become closer as friends literally the
start of the episode is them playing pool together the bread gag that spencer pulls off is one of the
best yet for spencer in general it's quick it's funny and it gave me that icarly energy that a
portion of this new series hasn't had yet and also the fact that the set is made out of bread loki is
important to me originally since spencer is rich he was going to have the set be this expensive
eloquent sandstone but later on realizes that bread just kind of looks like sandstone it's
lighter to move around and it's more creative as he puts it taking away the allure of him having
money now to him going back to his creative inventor roots that we all know and love
another note having more miss benson was great she still plays the character very well and similar to
freddie drops random spanish words mid-sentence just us chicas just connecting them closer and
knowing where he might have gotten into saying so many randomly in sentences another small detail
that i think is very well done and by the end of the episode it is fully wrapped up older episodes
may have handled carly being friends with gwen as the final moment with no real resolution here we
get that resolution in a fun moment of reveal for freddy the competition between spencer and harper
has a clear shot end and resolution pushing their friendship further milliset in general had great
character development and ends this episode a more relatable and understanding character this felt
like the old icarly while giving it that new age slightly more adult seasoning on top this is now
two weeks in a row where a lot of the issues in the first few episodes are not present here maybe
aside from the full-on lack of icarly in icarly but now it's what to be expected at this point
some episodes will feature something related to it others won't hey maybe instead of just credits at
the end it plays moments of the web show or the content she is currently making just something
to spice up the credits and give us a little look into the web show and where it's truly at in terms
of content other than that i truly enjoyed this week's episode i can't wait to see if
this upswinging quality continues on that was this week's episode of the icarly revival you heard my
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