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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It was definitely a weird season, very uneven. I'm not sure why they spent so much time on Noah's fixation on John Gunther only to reveal it's all in his head. And then to spend no time explaining how on earth he went from hallucinating and stabbing himself in the neck to being totally fine. Personally I would have preferred that it really was John Gunther and there was some interesting backstory there.

I like Juliette's story -- I don't really see how it connects with anything unless they plan to weave her into the storyline next season. But I think she's a very talented actress and very compelling on screen.

I didn't buy for a second that worldly Whitney would ever defend a man who hit her. And I also didn't buy that she would forgive her dad that easily. It would have been much more authentic to the narrative if she either temporarily forgave him, or fake-forgave him, to get out of Paris and back home. She has too much anger to let it go so quickly. [/quote]

I completely agree with your first and last paragraph. But for Juliette I think they have just set up a slightly under-explored parallel. The woman is having an affair and losing her husband through illness and eventually death. And she is devastated. Its given the story some humanity that was missing. Everything in previous seasons about all the affairs going on was pretty broad brush strokes of emotion and cliche. This woman and her complex background and her even more complicated responses to her circumstances, are accumulatively all the more human than anything that has come before. It ended in a graceful way, but only because her story was allowed to dominate.[/quote]

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