And then Jane Rizzoli, knowing this is her very last chance to give us a Big Gayzzoli Ending, pulls out her own plane ticket and says, “I know!” Yep, our girls are going to Paris together. You know, no biggie, it’s just like the most romantic city in the whole wide world. (No offense, Akron.)
Jane has used Maura’s miles to buy herself a first class ticket to the City of Light and Lesbianism. Remember when Maura told Jane she’d never been with a French woman? Well does being with a woman in France count? The look on Maura’s face says yes.
Maura squeals some more and then crawls in bed with Jane. Again, verbatim that is what just happened. People sometimes ask how I got into writing about the subtext of this show and I say, look, I didn’t invent this subtext – the show literally put them in bed together and dared us not to notice. (And one other thing I definitely noticed – Maura’s bedroom is completely different from the first season.)
They make more high-pitched happy noises (ahem) and talk about all the fun they’ll have in Paris. Maura tells Jane she has to go home and pack. Jane says she is already packed: jeans, sweatpants, T-shirts, toothbrush. Maura is appalled because what’s the point of taking your hot girlfriend to Paris if you can’t show her off a little? Well, you know, besides the sex.
So now their itinerary is: drink a bunch of wine, eat some smelly cheese, look at old French things and do it in every arrondissement in the city. Now that’s what I call the perfect honeymoon. C’est magnifique! Maura says this is not how she saw the next chapter of their lives starting. Funny, this is exactly how I saw the next chapter of their lives starting. Jane and Maura in bed together, like the first time we saw them, bickering and flirting and generally being just so stupid in love it hurts.
There are so many things I’ll miss about this show – The Adorable Bickersons, The Totally Gratuitous, Totally Gay Touching, The Eye Sex, The Ponytail of Righteous Justice, The Aviators of Sexy Justice, The Synchronized Phone Greetings, The Great Turtle/Tortoise Debate, The Dead Body Flirting, The Big Gayzzoli Endings – but what I think I will miss most of all is you, the Gayzzoli Family. You helped make writing about this show for seven years the most fun and rewarding and welcoming experience. You guys are amazing and it has been a true honor going on this ridiculous ride together. So thank you. Thank you from the bottom of my Rizzles heart. With that, here are your supersized final #gayzzoli tweets of the week.
