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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The poster so heartily defending these women as "misunderstood" and "small slip ups" is the one forgetting its a TV show lol. No one is lobbing personal insults, it's TV characters who were written to say and do these things.

I actually had no issue with Hilary exchanging her glass - that was disgusting. But everything else she's just putting puri inbetween all her issues and indirectly blaming her. Davids horrible behavior is no excuse.

I also dont think Margaret deserves that much grace in her situation. Yes, its horrible, but that doesnt mean you can treat people horribly. I'm glad she was honest with Esse and took ownership of her feelings of jealousy that started down the road of Gus's disappearance. [/quote]

Margaret was only honest with Essie when she was simultaneously asking for a huge favor.  What is perhaps most annoying about both Hilary and Margaret's behavior is they think they are caring employers but actually they are quite selfish and thoughtless.[/quote]

Agree with this. There is a real lack of self-awareness that this episode makes obvious because you are seeing the scenes from the perspective of the helpers. Like the scene where Margaret flips from greeting Essie warmly, to telling her to go change, to asking her to make dinner? I don't think that would have registered if the episode's focus had been Margaret and her family. It would have seemed normal -- of course Essie will get dinner ready. It's only because we followed Essie through her day off, heard her talking about her relationship with the family and her complex feelings of guilt and grief over Gus, that we can recognize that Margaret is actually being thoughtless there -- not really listening to Essie talk about her day, not giving her a chance to rest or relax on her day off, suddenly announcing the family is moving to a virtual stranger at dinner without considering that Essie could hear and was learning this for the first time.

To me, flipping the focus of the episode to the helpers really changed how I looked at some of the interactions between the helpers and their employers. Mores so with Puri/Hilary, but you can see it with Essie too. The shift in perspective was very enlightening.

One thing that really struck me is how tight their bedrooms are. So tiny! That's the only space they have to themselves, these little windowless closets. I can't imagine employing someone and sticking them in a room like that and then patting myself on the back for being a good employer. They don't even have windows![/quote]

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