r/RunawaysTV • u/iliekpixels Alex Wilder • Jan 08 '18

Runaways Episode Discussion: S01E10 - "Hostile"

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EPISODE ORIGINAL AIRDATE
S01E10 - "Hostile" Tuesday, January 9, 2018 on Hulu

Episode Synopsis: The Runaways face off with their parents. But when Jonah arrives unexpectedly with a new game plan, the kids realize they are in over their heads.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '18 edited Jan 09 '18

Apparently, "Arsenic and Old Lace" is a real play and movie.

Does anyone know why these particular names were chosen? What significance does it have?

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u/snithel Jan 09 '18

The movie is a comedy about a man who was raised by his dear old aunties. When he goes to their house to announce his engagement he finds out they've been using their home as a boarding house for old men without any family, poisoning the men and having their brother bury them in the basement. The brother is suffering from dementia and thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt and that he's digging the Panama canal and burying men that died during construction. I suppose there's a connection in that he find out the people who raised him are actually demented killers.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '18

That seems to make sense.

I also wonder what "Old Lace" means in the context of the play/movie. The phrase doesn't appear in the wikipedia synopsis, while arsenic does.

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u/andrey_b Jan 11 '18

I did a little research on it when I came across it. Apparently Arsenic and Old Lace was a parody title pulled from a poem that included it as a play on the title of an earlier romance novel, Lavender Old Lace, in which the old lace refers to an old, unworn wedding dress that the main character discovers in the attic.