Am I missing something? I see no connection other than the origins of the festival or party or whatever that would tie her to KKK leanings. If dumbass Black people wanted to join that bullshit, that’s of course their choice but I don’t see where she was personally connected to the KKK or even racism. I also think it’s…

Yes, especially because Carrie’s trauma is largely informed by her poverty and that she is using because she didn’t want an incident like the bathtub to happen again. On the theme of motherhood and breaking generational trauma, seeing her and Carrie unite I thought would have been more powerful than her connection to…

LOL yeah that was definitely the “awkward conversation of the year”--”before I get sent off to jail for killing my relative that I had an incest baby with and leaving you to raise our family alone, would you also mind raising that incest baby?”  But it does fit the mold that John Ross is just a gigantic piece of shit.

20 years ago sitting in a restaurant I was interviewed by FOX news during the election— even though both of my names are common with no unusual spelling— that team made me tell them it three times and spell it out.

I wish that had resolved differently, too. I think there was a space within the narrative for Carrie to realize she wasn’t ready for custody and to work out a shared arrangement with Mare. Or, with Siobhann heading off to college, Carrie coming to live in Mare’s house. I think that latter option would have been…

Pretty sure it’s more about John Ross’s inability to keep his dick in his pants. Unless I missed something, he’s the only one whose mistakes/imprisonment had a direct connection to sexual interest in Erin.

I think showing Mare letting Carrie still interact with her son would have been a powerful way to show how recognizing trauma is healthy and healing, and the only way out of it. Carrie may never raise him but she can still be his mother in some capacity, just like his father will always be his father in some capacity.…

Back in the day....20 years ago...if you spelled someone’s name wrong you got fired. It meant you didn’t care and that you were a hack and that you were incompetent.

It just doesn’t happen that often, like ever.

It’s really a cruel environment to raise a child in. Your brother killed your mom and your dad raped her! Let’s go visit them in prison! (And dad will be out before long, nobody gets a very long sentence for rape/incest, unfortunately. And he’d get a not-awful plea deal for covering for his son.)

The biggest contrivance that I can’t square is, if Billy and John both know who really killed Erin, and if the whole point was to frame Billy for the murder, what the hell was the point of John getting Billy to say to him that he killed Erin?  It made no sense, because John didn’t need to hear it, because he knew it…

He wasn’t a serial killer though; he was a kidnapper and rapist (although maybe he did serial killing on the side, who knows). He seemed to be modeled on real life cases like Ariel Castro case in Cleveland. I think it would be more unrealistic for the cases to be connected.

I would have much preferred DJ to stay with Dylan’s parents. It really did feel all sorts of wrong to have Lori with him, even with that tacked on happy family scene at Ryan’s prison. A bad writing choice. 

My random pet peeve is wondering what the whole point was the plotline involving the guy kidnapping the girls and keeping them trapped in his house was. You can’t do a show supposedly completely grounded in reality to the point of everyone do the funny accents and then do a quick jaunt to a completely unrealistic…

Speaking of custody I was also not really satisfied with the resolution of the Carrie plotline: it was clear there was going to be movement there after she had her scare in the tub (at which point I’m pretty sure the show was telling us she was still sober and just stretched too thin), but I was figuring this would…

This seemed wrong to me also but I think it works, sort of?

Yes, I was also confused as to how she’d get the kid by default with no drawn-out legal process. But I guess rapists get to keep their rape babies close in a lot of states, that’s just how it works. Depressing.

All the Jess/Dylan stuff was a Red Herring mess.

Another possible plot hole: we see Ryan steal the gun, shoot Erin, then return the gun all seemingly in the same night. And late at night at that. If that’s the case, is Powell just going into his tool shed multiple times a night to look at his gun? Because the way he described the missing gun to Mare, it sounded like…

I feel so sad for Dylan’s parents, who lost baby DJ. It seems very weird that Lori wound up with him. Isn’t Dylan still legally the dad? I don’t know anything about Pennsylvania family law, so maybe what happened in the show is accurate, but it doesn’t seem like “wife of statutory rapist bio-dad who is charged with…