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E1: "November"

The Year was 2016. The result of the presidential election set the whole country reeling. Confused about morality, confused about reality! Kim Wexler was no exception. And so she returned to the only person she could trust.


E2: "Howard"

Cheryl and Kim reach an understanding.


E3: "Just Like Magic"

Jimmy faces his parole hearing. Kim offers her services as a miracle worker to an eccentric new client: a priest who wants to fly.


E4: "Golden Rings, Golden Watches"

It was a perfect moment. She was in a white dress, he was in a white tux. The whole congregation was watching. The cake was lemon, as voted by committee. It was a perfect moment.


E5: "Better Build an Ark"

Kim got her happily ever after, but R.U.I.C. thinks she owes them her gratitude. A misprint in the newspaper is discovered.


E6: "Your Mom"

Wolves can't change. Wolves don't apologize for being wolves.


E7: "What do you mean by EVIL?"

As the heatwave reaches its peak, Pastor Leigh's history with Ricky Sipes is finally explained.


E8: "Pirouette"

Follow me to the place where the blue irises bloom.

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Carol's egg cells

It’s really amazing how such a small thing as Carol‘s eggcells (small as in just getting mentioned a few times very casually, not in small bc cells obviously are indeed very small) can serve so many purposes in the story.

First they say so much about Carol and her relationship with Helen and then they obviously become a real driver for the plot when it turns out the hive can use them to get Carol's stem cells.

Carol froze them 2011 so she must in general wanted to have children otherwise she wouldn't have done it. She says "the ones I froze with Helen", so it wasn't just her freezing them for "you never know" but she and Helen wanted children together. So they were happy together and wanted a future with a family... But... They didn't have children... They only froze Carol's eggs.

They had probably already been together for pretty long at that point. We don't know when exactly Carol's books started to be financially successful put if they could afford that procedure at that time they must have been pretty comfortable financially. And even if they put off having children for financial reasons they didn't have them either once Carol did earn quite a lot of money with her books. Writing is also a job that's certainly more compatible with having children than most others : Totally flexible hours, no physical constrains against being pregnant... So maybe Helen was worried about Carol's drinking and wanted her to get a grasp on that first? Or of course there could be other reasons that we just don't know about.

But I think it's more Carol's "You love feeling bad!" and "I'm not good at feeling good...". There is something she wants (otherwise she wouldn't have frozen her eggs) and that she could do (because she has a stable relation ship and she has enough money) but instead of actually doing it she freezes the possibility to maybe some day do it, but never does... For 14 years...

And maybe Carol knew that that that's what she was doing, because maybe Helen installed the motions sensor right after they froze the eggs because Carol started to drink more after that? (Or Helen thought they'd actually use the eggs soon and she wanted to know how problematic Carol's alcohol problem actually was, before they had children. That's also possible of course.)

Maybe she also was scared of that it would bring along more situations where she had to out herself with a child with two moms?

And it's not that wanting children was an idea at some point and then she lost interest in it because in the ice hotel, years after freezing them, she mentions her frozen eggs out of nowhere, so they must be pretty present in her mind all the time. Plus that I think (not sure) that you don't just pay for freezing them but also a continuous fee for having them stored? So if she had lost interest at some point she wouldn't still be paying for them and they wouldn't still be there for the hive to kidnap them...

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I’m convinced she only ever froze them to make Helen happy. That like Kim before her, she really doesn’t think she could handle motherhood. And if S2 is any damn good we’ll get a lot more exploration into that.

Although why would she bring them up in the ice hotel randomly eight years after the procedure was done? Um because the screenwriting on this show is amateurish; that’s why!

watch as vince utterly fumbles all potential for this plot thread!
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western media reviewing pluribus: in the collectivist cultures of The East, which place no value on individuality, the hivemind would not be understood as horrific uniformity but as a vision of harmony. the genius of the show is in gradually making us realize carol's resistance to the diverse and global hive is grounded in her ideological corruption by individualist capitalism and privileged position as an american white woman. i am very smart.

the japanese and chinese reviews i just looked up in like five minutes with google translate: the insidious hive is an obvious metaphor for western cultural imperialism and its determination to erase global diversity. love the subversion of making this english-speaking white person a victim of metaphorical colonialism for once, the shoe's on the other foot now huh carol? bit too on the nose to name the show after a latin word written on american dollars though

I do think Stursia are basically doomed already. And I don’t mean in the generic “doomed yuri”, star-crossed lovers sense. I mean there was potential for an interesting relationship, but 8 episodes in that was already ruined by one of the characters being stupid and doing something violent to the other. And if Vince tries to twist this into something that could work, I’m going to be very angry with him.

Early on, I had hopes that Carol would have the integrity to resist the hive’s obvious advances. And then MAYBE once Zosia was cured, they could forge a genuine romance together. But because of what Carol did, that happy ending has already been ruled out. Leaving only three ways this can play out:

  1. After being de-hived Zosia has some degree of amnesia about what she did under its influence, and she’s so grateful to be saved she bonds with Carol anyway. Carol never admits what she did and the entire relationship is built on a lie, putting Carol somewhere between Jimmy McGill and Walter White in terms of moral reprehensibility. But at this rate I honestly wouldn’t put it past her! She can be a coward!
  2. Best case scenario, Carol does have to face some consequences for what she did. If Zosia is a particularly kind person, she might - over time - come to understand the duress Carol was under and forgive her. But I still think if this team actually has any respect for women at all, the exploitative origins of this romance taint it to the point that there’s no hope for them moving forward. They can be allies in saving the world, they can begrudgingly come back around to an earnest friendship. But if Carol ends up in Zosia’s pants again after this, I’m ragequitting the show and writing the whole enterprise off as fetishized nonsense.
  3. We get the bad ending where Zosia is never cured, and Carol’s mind and spirit are broken to the point where she’s permanently a kept woman in an abusive relationship with the alien. But honestly if we’re not doing the pregnancy horror subplot I still have little use for this either. You’re doing whump and horror but can’t even cater to me on that level so why am I watching?

Are the rest of you really impressed by this?! Vince Gilligan writes a healthy, loving relationship between two equals, then forces them to break up because something something “we’re poison together”. Then he says he’s gonna write a hero for a change and can’t even make it through Season 1 without his MC raping a woman. And I’m sorry I just don’t have faith in this writing team to handle this topic maturely in the next few seasons. Vince has already made some fucked up comments about Diabete’s behavior that suggest that he doesn’t understand the implications of his own writing and isn’t taking this seriously.

Maybe this fandom should care more about how VG actually handles stories about women’s rights to autonomy and happiness, instead of just gobbling up any slop they put in front of you because “OMG two women!”

Something like Hannigram, I can forgive because the point of “Hannibal” was embracing the darkness of the human soul. So it makes sense to have an “and they lived messed up ever after” finale. But I’m not just going to shrug off what Carol did just because “oh she was lonely!” when I could be watching an actual hero practicing actual feminist convictions. And again THIS CHARACTER PLOT POINT WAS RUSHED AND I DON’T THINK THEY EARNED IT!

Also nobody would have accepted Hannibal’s ending if Lecter actually had raped Will at some point. So there’s that.

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