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In the end,he killed her.
Isnt that always how it goes?
Remember, wearewatching Lifetime.
At its core, it is as toxic as the masculinity it purports to be taking down.
I am (almost) out of stairwell urchin jokes!
For this and for so many of my ills, I blame society.
It feels likeYouwants to be edgy and subversive.
Thats not a plot twist.In reality, thats just the plot.
This is the kind of gratuitous shitthat made me quitThe Handmaids Tale.
Did any of you watchNatalie Portmans speech atVarietys Power of Women event?
Its worth 15 minutes of your life.
What if we took a year off from violence against women?
Lets see how that goes.
What is the function of this murderers row of scumbags?
Youwants to be a deconstruction of pop-culture romance tropes.
You cant tell me thats crazy, Joe tells Beck about his secret stash of her stolen underwear.
Its the stuff of a million love songs.
ButYoudoesnt seem to know what to say or how to say it.
Didnt you want to be saved?
The one woman whodoesget saved in this show is Claudia, Pacos mom.
(Victim insists it was an accident.)
So isYoutrying to say that women do, in fact, need men to save them?
Or that they dont?
Joe is our classic unreliable narrator.
Obviously we arent supposed to buy his perspective as an accurate one.
But the show never shatters Joes vision of the world.
His comeuppance the no-duh return of the not-dead Candace hardly undoes that damage.
Joes flashbacks, with Candace and with Mr. Mooney, take up a considerable amount of screen-time.
(They really giveDon Drapers Little Whorehouse on the Prairie flashbacksa run for their clunkiest-symbolism money.)
Its frustrating, to say the least.
But its better than nothing, which is exactly what Beck gets.
Youtreats us to zero Beck flashbacks and (almost) zero Beck voiceovers.
This shall upend Joes, and our, expectations and revealwho she truly is.
But this never happens!
Sure,we met Becks not-actually-dead dad.
It is Beck pretzeling her narrative into a form she thinks will appeal to her abuser.
Its not Beck actually telling us, the audience, her story.
And its true, no guy has ever done anything like this for her before!
Of course she doesnthateJoe, she couldnt possibly, shes just trying to understand him.
In a peak girlfriend moment, she even apologizes for being crazy.
She submits to Joes every whim.
And then he kills her anyway.
Everybody excited for season two?
