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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought this show was brilliant. It made me think a lot about how we (society) are so comfortable blaming women.

Sirens - mythological creatures who would hang out on the rocks and "lure" sailors to their doom because they would become enchanted by their beautiful singing ... and a metaphor for men acting on their sexual desires. (And then blaming the woman for doing so!)

For the person who mentioned the blue walls - that and also the "watery" look of the lighting ... that's to evoke the water. A nod to the mythological sirens.

Devon is a walking trauma response. I think a lot of her behavior is an attempt to avoid that trauma and possibly also to avoid becoming blackout drunk. So when she can't smoke on the boat she chooses to act in a sexually aggressive way.

The reason this show was so brilliant IMO is because it makes you as a viewer examine your own expectations and responses. It's become a pattern for this type of show to have a murder happen and then the rest of the series figuring out exactly how/why/who.

So we are all anticipating something big/murderous happening. Gossip around town tells us that maybe Kiki killed the first wife. We're waiting for that shoe to drop. When something significant does happen ... Ethan falling ... we see him blame Simone even though we *know* she did not do anything. We literally SAW Ethan fall off the cliff himself and still people here are trying to find a way to say that Simone pushed him off. No she didn't. If they had wanted us to wonder if she had they wouldn't have shown us her emotional state and concern for him, telling him to come away from the cliff.

We want to see Pete as a good guy, oh look he makes his coffee and is kind of charming and sweet. Oh but oops he sees his marriages as disposable and will get rid of a wife when she has a measure of power over him. The reason the photo was significant was because she would have been able to get a settlement that went beyond their prenuptial contract, this is spelled out in the facetime call with her attorney. We get the best measure of Pete's character when he so casually mentions to his wife that he might go on and have another baby. THAT is who he is. He let his kids 100 percent blame Kiki for the marriage vows he broke and then he sneaks off to be with them, again, not trying to take blame in any way but just to let his wife be the bad one. The ending is dark (and brilliant) because he has just seamlessly moved onto the next woman, and sent the other "siren" on her way.

At the end, Devon's realization of the future is so beautifully done. She sensed danger on the island and also blamed/feared Kiki--a woman. But Pete was the danger, and maybe just all the ways Simone had been shaped by trauma and made vulnerable to a man like Pete (and Ethan). Whoever said that she will help out with the kids in the future, no, that is 100 percent not happening. She lost her sister in that moment.

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Great critique of the series.  100% spot on.[/quote]

+1 I love this critique. PP please go watch Better Sister and report back on that thread. Also about the decor and the personalities. Please and thank you. [/quote]

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