The Madison | Best of Stacy and Her Daughters | Paramount+

0:00 Abby, how was your day?

0:01 Laser resurfacing is the most effective.

0:03 Doesn't that make your skin shiny like forever?

0:05 Still haven't seen it.

0:06 You're never seeing it.

0:07 It looks like a bloody zipper.

0:08 I wish I'd been there.

0:09 What, so he could have hit you, too?

0:11 Oh, you would have gotten a shot, stabbed, or worse.

0:13 What's worse than getting shot?

0:14 I don't know, but that's what would have happened.

0:16 Being set on fire is worse.

0:18 Girls, please.

0:19 the police, they just kept asking, "Oh,

0:20 what was his race?" Like that has anything to do with it?

0:23 it's pretty important information when you're trying to find somebody.

0:26 Woah.

0:27 That's so racist.

0:34 Where are you going?

0:36 To your father.

0:37 So, where are you going?

0:39 It is rude to talk on the phone in a restaurant.

0:42 It is also rude to play on your phone in a restaurant and surf the internet.

0:46 Basically, what all of you are doing right now is rude.

0:50 Rude to who?

0:52 It's rude to me.

0:53 It's rude to each other.

0:53 It's rude to the staff.

0:55 It's just[ __] rude.

0:58 Girls, can you Ninja up some Netflix on the TV?

1:03 For you.

1:04 Oh, God bless you.

1:07 It's nothing.

1:08 Just you to self-medicate like a good divorce.

1:11 What do you want, Grandma?

1:13 A comedy.

1:14 Uh [sighs] Hmm, how about A River Runs Through It?

1:19 It was Grandpa's favorite movie.

1:24 A river may run through it, but I've never actually gotten through it.

1:28 So, in honor of him, you've come to the right place.

1:37 Uh pizza.

1:39 Can you find some?

1:40 Pizza?

1:42 Yeah.

1:41 Yeah.

1:41 And ice cream.

1:43 What flavors?

1:44 Dazzle us with options.

1:46 Done.

1:47 Thanks, Russ.

1:49 I am haunted by words.

1:53 Thanks, [laughter] Mom.

1:53 I sure feel better now.

1:55 Jesus.

1:57 It made your father cry, too.

2:00 [snorts]

1:59 Every time, I could big baby.

2:05 [snorts] Oh, that and uh Rudy.

2:07 Only men can cry over fishing and football.

2:11 God, [snorts] for life to be that simple.

2:16 [sighs] You know, [snorts] in 39 years of marriage, we never fought.

2:23 Not once.

2:26 I mean, we we we danced right to the edge,

2:29 [laughter] but we both knew how how precious and how rare what we had was.

2:41 I should be happy that he died out here doing something that he loves,

2:48 not tethered to some hospital bed like most men are waiting [snorts] to die.

2:58 [sighs and gasps] He died living, not existing.

3:06 How many can say that?

3:09 I hope you find what we had someday, honey.

3:12 I really, really do.

3:13 I hope you meet a man that's worth missing.

3:19 I just like one to return my call.

3:23 [laughter] We got to work on your standards.

3:28 I never came with him because I thought I'd be bored.

3:36 Or I you know, a third wheel.

3:37 I didn't want to interrupt his man time, his brother time.

3:45 [sighs] Thought about bringing you two out when you were younger,

3:47 but then it's not a vacation for him.

3:50 It's a it's a trip, and he's worried about pleasing you and not himself,

3:55 and Wow, was I wrong.

4:02 I robbed us of this.

4:05 I robbed him of sharing it with us.

4:08 Please don't do that.

4:11 Do not blame yourself for things that you didn't do.

4:16 You had a loving marriage for 40 years in New York City.

4:21 I mean, they should build statues, you two.

4:28 Miss him.

4:31 God knows I will.

4:33 But no blame.

4:36 You two did it right.

4:42 It's getting late.

4:44 We'll take a hike.

4:45 You can come back in the morning.

4:51 I'm going to stay [music] here.

4:55 Oh,[ __] Where is she?

5:02 Bathroom.

5:03 What happened?

5:04 Honey?

5:04 Mom!

5:05 Honey?

5:06 Mom!

5:07 Did they sting you?

5:10 I'm coming in.

5:12 What stung her?

5:13 Oh god.

5:14 What?

5:14 I I said there were hornets, right?

5:16 You heard me.

5:17 Oh, that is not going to save you.

5:21 Where'd they get you?

5:22 It hurts so bad.

5:24 Let me see.

5:27 Is it bad?

5:31 It's not funny.

5:32 I KNOW.

5:33 I KNOW.

5:33 I'M SORRY.

5:35 DON'T COME IN.

5:37 Look for a medicine kit.

5:38 Try and find Benadryl, Tylenol, and calamine lotion.

5:41 Wait, what?

5:41 What?

5:42 What's that?

5:42 It's for itching.

5:43 It's a pink bottle.

5:43 Pink, got it.

5:44 Okay.

5:44 You knew again, AND YOU DID NOTHING.

5:50 YOU'RE TOASTED.

5:53 OKAY.

5:55 UM, TYLENOL, BENADRYL, and the pink stuff.

5:59 Okay, thank you.

6:05 Okay, here the Put the lotion up in the loft.

6:09 Okay, there there there, Tylenol.

6:13 After you do that, I recommend you redeem yourself.

6:17 Great idea.

6:23 [sighs and gasps]

6:29 Now you get rid of them.

6:34 Says she can't.

6:48 I don't think I'm going to make it.

6:51 We can do it on the couch.

6:55 [panting] Okay, do we really want to be eating some strange person's food?

7:15 Fried chicken, fried steak.

7:18 How would they fry steak?

7:19 Don't eat it, then.

7:20 Maybe ask what we like before you bring it.

7:28 I blame myself.

7:30 After all, she's raising you like I raised her.

7:35 Complete strangers spent, I don't know, how much time they spent,

7:39 how much thought went into this, not to mention money.

7:45 Looking at that truck, money isn't something they have in abundance.

7:49 And you have the nerve to judge it?

7:54 Spoiled little[ __] we've raised.

8:00 What did she just call me?

8:05 Mom.

8:06 Mom!

8:07 They are not your children.

8:08 You do not have the right to speak to them that way.

8:10 not talking about THEM.

8:11 I AM TALKING ABOUT YOU.

8:13 You and your sister.

8:15 Oh, the walking wounded.

8:17 We haven't been here 2 days and everyone has already forgotten why we're here.

8:23 WE ARE NOT ON VACATION.

8:25 My husband is dead.

8:27 Your father is dead.

8:30 So, if everyone can just stop counting the minutes until

8:34 we leave and remember why we're here in the first place.

8:40 And here, somehow I thought losing him would bring us closer together.

8:47 You want to be all so[ __] miserable?

8:50 Go!

8:51 I'll do what I always do.

8:53 I'll take care of it myself.

9:04 Ooh, I'm in for it now.

9:05 What are you going to do, Abby?

9:07 Are you going to bend me over your Don't you ever

9:10 talk like that around my Don't YOU EVER[ __] TOUCH ME.

9:39 WOO!

9:41 YOU GIRLS WANT TO SEE A TANTRUM?

9:44 Cuz boy, are you going to.

9:46 I can see that we've all completely forgotten why we're here.

9:51 Or maybe it's just that I did such a terrible job as a mother that I instilled

9:56 in you absolutely no love or respect for each

10:00 other or for anyone else for that matter.

10:03 This is not your house.

10:05 This is my house.

10:07 And unlike my other house, you make a mess in this one,

10:13 you will clean it the[ __] up.

10:28 Cade, Stacy.

10:31 [sighs and panting]

10:31 I'm sorry to bother you, but I need to pick up Paul's truck at the sheriff's,

10:36 and um I was wondering, are you sure?

10:42 Thank you.

10:46 I have to say it is refreshing to see you two passionate about something,

10:51 even if it is hating each other.

10:53 Now, if I could just get you to show

10:56 half this much emotion over losing your father.

11:04 Go sweep.

11:09 [snorts] What is your plan?

11:10 My plan?

11:11 Yeah.

11:13 In New York, for the future.

11:15 I don't know.

11:16 Co-parent my daughters.

11:18 You're doing that anywhere.

11:21 Work on myself.

11:22 Honey, [snorts] what does that mean?

11:25 I don't know.

11:26 Try and find happiness.

11:28 Find someone who makes me happy.

11:31 I don't know.

11:32 Start dating.

11:34 I don't know.

11:34 Try to You have no idea.

11:38 No.

11:39 You should stay with me.

11:42 [laughter] No.

11:43 I am not moving to the Upper East Side where everyone is married and Here?

11:48 I told you what I'm doing.

11:49 Mom.

11:50 Abby, you have never been challenged in your life.

11:53 Mom.

11:53 This would be a challenge.

11:55 And challenge is exactly what you need.

11:56 are not moving to Montana with no running water.

11:59 We have running water.

12:00 We have no sewage.

12:01 How can you live here?

12:02 You have no friends.

12:03 The grocery store is an hour away.

12:04 And what are you going to do in the winter?

12:06 Are you going to chop wood?

12:08 I know you are hurting.

12:09 We are all hurting.

12:11 I don't know how to move on from a failed marriage.

12:13 I can't fathom moving on from a perfect one.

12:15 But this is not moving on.

12:18 This is hiding.

12:20 You have countless friends in New York.

12:22 Your family is there.

12:24 All of the charities that you worked so hard about what I will do is over.

12:29 This is a debate about what you will do and what I will do as a result.

12:35 I will sell your house, which is my house.

12:38 And as executor of the trust, I will cease all payments to you.

12:42 You want to live in New York, you make it work.

12:47 And what about my children?

12:49 Pick a boarding school.

12:49 I'll pay for them.

12:50 think their father needs to be a part of this decision, Mom?

12:52 I am selling his house, too.

12:54 There are no more free rides for anyone.

12:56 Your options are stay here with me or you figure out your life on your own.

13:05 What the[ __] did I do to make you hate me so much, Mom?

13:10 Abby, you don't understand that this is the most love I have ever shown you.

13:18 Let me out of this car.

13:21 I want out of this[ __] car.

13:23 I want OUT OF THIS[ __] CAR!

13:30 WHAT?

13:37 WHAT?

13:38 WHAT THE[ __] What are these again?

13:43 Uh fritters of sorts with zucchini from the garden.

13:47 There's zucchini in the garden?

13:48 There is a bit of everything in the garden.

13:50 How many fish did you catch?

13:51 Seven.

13:52 What?

13:53 No kidding.

13:53 Mhm.

13:54 I find that very hard to believe, Mom.

13:56 Ah, you caught me, Paige.

13:58 I bought it from the fishmonger in Three Forks.

14:00 You caught them with a pole?

14:02 Yeah, that's how it's done.

14:03 This is all very suspect.

14:05 I need evidence.

14:06 Oh, evidence.

14:07 Um kind of like that leaf embedded in your hair.

14:09 How did that happen, Paige?

14:13 [laughter] What?

14:13 I fell.

14:15 I did.

14:16 You try walking a riverbank in Louboutins.

14:18 I bet I know exactly what you fell on.

14:21 Oh, look who's talking.

14:22 While you were swallowing Deputy Do-Right's tonsils.

14:25 Ew!

14:25 Okay, so gross.

14:27 [laughter] [snorts] I'm sorry.

14:44 [snorts] I wonder if you know how [laughter] happy this would make him.

14:52 It would it would fill his heart.

15:25 [sighs] Let's [music] talk about tomorrow.

15:31 What's tomorrow?

15:35 Tomorrow, we bury them.

15:43 [music] Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

15:50 [laughter] Hey, it's okay.

15:50 It's okay.

15:51 It's okay.

15:52 Do you know what this is?

15:55 It's how much you loved him.

15:56 And your body just doesn't know where to put [laughter] all that love now.

16:00 Okay, but you don't have to put it anywhere,

16:01 and you don't have to stop loving someone when they're gone, honey.

16:05 In fact, one could argue that you should love them more.

16:09 And who's the sad back up life?

16:13 [sighs] [gasps] You will feel this way again.

16:16 Yeah, when I die.

16:18 When your husband dies, and your friends,

16:20 and and someday your children will feel this way about you.

16:25 Thanks, Mom.

16:26 I feel so much better.

16:29 [laughter] I come bearing gifts.

16:31 I'm not hungry.

16:32 It's not food.

16:33 It is a drug.

16:35 It is sugar and chocolate in a mixture that only your metabolism

16:38 process in a way that doesn't end up on your hips.

16:41 And I hate you for it.

16:46 I used to eat this when I was like five.

16:48 Well, you still act five, so.

16:54 __] you and your bad roots.

16:55 Now, she's back.

16:57 I don't understand it.

16:59 I just like the crunch with the cold and the mushy of the ice cream.

17:05 The explanation doesn't sell it, Paige.

17:08 Well, you got her.

17:11 I got her, but I cannot stay the night.

17:13 I can stay the night.

17:17 She called you, too?

17:18 she called everyone in her phone.

17:19 She needs a lawyer, Mom.

17:20 Oh, no, I handled that part.

17:22 I guess I'll handle this part, too.

17:29 Ma'am, I can't have you speaking I'm her mother.

17:30 Ma'am, I can't I'm going to say it again because apparently it didn't sink in.

17:34 I'm her mother.

17:35 Could anyone stop your mother from talking to you in a similar situation?

17:39 No one on this planet.

17:41 Thank you.

17:45 She told me Dad deserved it.

17:48 That[ __] looked me in the eye and said he deserved it.

17:51 When did my daughters turn into pugilists?

17:54 What does that mean?

17:55 Pugilist, a fighter.

17:57 So, now we punch people when they offend us.

18:00 This is New York, Paige.

18:02 Arms going to get pretty tired if that's the new plan.

18:09 I imagine you don't want to spend

18:10 the next 4 hours doing paperwork for this nonsense.

18:14 Yeah, I got better uses of my time, ma'am, for sure.

18:20 Let me guess.

18:22 How to be her.

18:33 I'm just wondering what hurts worse, your eye or the fact that you deserved it.

18:38 I what?

18:39 Someday you'll lose a parent.

18:41 It's inevitable.

18:42 Been there, done that.

18:42 My father died of cancer.

18:45 So, you knew how she felt all along.

19:01 That must have been tough watching your father battle that and lose.

19:06 I'm sorry you had to see that.

19:11 But, you got to say goodbye.

19:15 Yeah.

19:17 Got to tell him you loved him.

19:21 Paige didn't get that.

19:22 Just woke up one morning and he was gone.

19:25 You want to send my daughter to jail?

19:27 Fine.

19:28 Think it's going to make you feel better?

19:30 It's not.

19:32 Fact is it's going to make you feel a whole lot worse because you

19:35 know you know how it feels and you chose to make her feel worse.

19:41 I bet he's real proud right now, isn't he?

19:51 So, what happens now?

19:52 What where will you take her?

19:55 I'll process her down here at the precinct

19:57 and depending on what the DA wants to do.

19:59 going to press charges.

20:01 But she owes me an apology.

20:07 You think?

20:08 Look at my face.

20:09 Her bruise is bigger.

20:10 You just can't see it.

20:15 I'm just going to cite her with disturbing the peace.

20:17 I'll take it.