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The Ineffable Mrs Sandwich

So. Mrs Sandwich.

I’ve been wondering at her relevance. I put a post up a bit ago about the signs at her front door that rang honking great foreshadowing bells: “Come Upstairs” and “No pairs. One only. Be Brave” on a wall surrounded by stars. Not to mention they now have a “New Model” with “Friendly Hands” up there.

In the party, she says something to Aziraphale that made my brain jangle because of all the meta that I’ve been eating: [her girls] stand on their own two feet. Initially I thought this was a sex-work joke, but there’s the fact that at the beginning of the season, both lads are completely co-dependent, especially Crowley who talks about “my only friend”. By the end of the season, the boys are separated and they will be forced to stand on their own two feet for the first time since 2500BC.

Throw into the mix that God’s department is always referred to as “upstairs” and Mrs Sandwich is the only person aside from Gabriel and Crowley coming down from an upstairs to a ground level that has a chandelier, much like Aziraphale’s bookshop also has a chandelier on the ground floor, directly over his contact point with the almighty.

“I don’t know why you invited me,” she says and Aziraphale makes a point that she’s part of their world, even if she feels she’s separate from it. Then you have the seamstress conversation and yes, maybe she is a brothel madame, but the fact she can’t say what her actual role/position is has very ineffable vibes to me. A convenient way to mask her real identity/purpose.

When Crowley walks her out the party, he says “Have you got your hand in?” and she replies “Oh, I’ve got more than that, love.” which would track for the person who was playing three-card monty with the universe. Since they’re so careful with their dialogue, between all of this and her calling Crowley “a good lad”?

Add the fact that her “girls” upstairs can tell when Nina is unhappy when making coffee and that one of the drinks she orders almost matches the order by the Metatron, who has professed to consume human food/drink. His version has almond syrup instead of hazelnut and almond is symbolic in the bible for watchfulness and promise of a new season. (However, interestingly, some Biblical translations of hazelnut and almond mean the same thing)

And what is a sandwich if not two separate sides with something in the middle?

spinner-sophie

Mind-blowing for sure and although I’m at that stage where I can and can’t accept almost all theories, I must say I wouldn’t put it past Neil, the genius trickster (meant affectionately of course) to introduce the Almighty in the body of Mrs. Sandwich.

After all, Madam Tracy was the ‘receptive body’ for the angelic spirit in season one and personally, I love the fact that Neil brings all people in. Because no matter how the general approach looks upon them, we’re all part of civil society.

Also to add to the above from @puppy-bums post:

which [most probably] says:

“DON’T [PAY] THE GUY WITH THE BLACK GLASSES HE DOESN’T WORK HERE!’

puipui-official

"Un-uhlaive? UN-UHLAIVE? Ma'am, that man has been killed. He has been MUHDUHED. To DEATH."

froginapicklejar

boudhabar

DARIA HLAZATOVA

faust-and-furious

Good trope: “Hey! You dropped this!” As a cute moment or a way to meet

Great trope: The thing they dropped is super weird

lorlocks

Agreed

kenloganroy

GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY (2022) dir. Rian Johnson

proskatersora

after stede and edward stop fighting eds gonna be like "fuck.. sorry about all your books.." and stedes gonna be like "oh no matter i have secondary copies of every one" then he's gonna open another secret passageway and lucius is gonna be in there eating paper