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Anonymous wrote:I think Laura acted badly to further the plot of pushing Cory and Bradley together. While it's unrequited love at this point, perhaps she will see how much he's done for her. He has been crazy since the scene with his mother. But, he is definitely the best of the bad guys.

Who is going to bring Paul Marks down? With Bradley quitting her job and Cory being escorted out of the building, will it be Alex after all?

I actually wonder if Bradley quit her job in part to make it easier to bring Marks down. She realized when he threatened her with the J6 info that she had no wiggle room at UBA.

Bradley, Cory, and Chip are all suddenly unemployed. Guess who else is unemployed? Cybil, who is busy buying up UBA stock. I think we're going to see them band together to take down Marks, as they each have a separate, and personal, reason to do so. And Alex will be caught in the middle, with personal allegiances to literally every person involved, including Marks.

Anonymous wrote:I think Laura acted badly to further the plot of pushing Cory and Bradley together. While it's unrequited love at this point, perhaps she will see how much he's done for her. He has been crazy since the scene with his mother. But, he is definitely the best of the bad guys.

Who is going to bring Paul Marks down? With Bradley quitting her job and Cory being escorted out of the building, will it be Alex after all?

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Anonymous wrote:I think Laura acted badly to further the plot of pushing Cory and Bradley together. While it's unrequited love at this point, perhaps she will see how much he's done for her. He has been crazy since the scene with his mother. But, he is definitely the best of the bad guys.

Who is going to bring Paul Marks down? With Bradley quitting her job and Cory being escorted out of the building, will it be Alex after all?

I actually wonder if Bradley quit her job in part to make it easier to bring Marks down. She realized when he threatened her with the J6 info that she had no wiggle room at UBA.

Bradley, Cory, and Chip are all suddenly unemployed. Guess who else is unemployed? Cybil, who is busy buying up UBA stock. I think we're going to see them band together to take down Marks, as they each have a separate, and personal, reason to do so. And Alex will be caught in the middle, with personal allegiances to literally every person involved, including Marks.

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Anonymous wrote:How did Marks know about Bradley’s brother and Jan 6?

That's what I was wondering, too - how did he know?

Why was Laura SO angry about the J6 thing? That felt... disproportionate?

And how did she know what Bradley did? Journalists are not mandated reporters. She was not required to tell them her brother was there. (Turning over video to the FBI is a separate matter- but there’s no requirement that she turn over her video unless the FBI took her to court.)

Anonymous wrote:I think Laura acted badly to further the plot of pushing Cory and Bradley together. While it's unrequited love at this point, perhaps she will see how much he's done for her. He has been crazy since the scene with his mother. But, he is definitely the best of the bad guys.

Who is going to bring Paul Marks down? With Bradley quitting her job and Cory being escorted out of the building, will it be Alex after all?

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Anonymous wrote:How did Marks know about Bradley’s brother and Jan 6?

That's what I was wondering, too - how did he know?

Why was Laura SO angry about the J6 thing? That felt... disproportionate?

And how did she know what Bradley did? Journalists are not mandated reporters. She was not required to tell them her brother was there. (Turning over video to the FBI is a separate matter- but there’s no requirement that she turn over her video unless the FBI took her to court.)

I am the PP - and I think Laura read between the lines when she saw the emails between Bradley and Cory. But I really don't know what she'd expect Bradley to do in that situation, as a normal human being who loves her family. It's not like Bradley showed every second of footage from the Capital - and, like you say, journalists are not mandatory reporters.

I also really don't know how Jon Hamm found out about all this unless he's monitoring which emails are being looked at from the hack. And even then?

Anonymous wrote:Is Paul Marks actually planning on giving funding to Alex to start something new?
Doesn’t sound like he would have money to do that.

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Anonymous wrote:How did Marks know about Bradley’s brother and Jan 6?

That's what I was wondering, too - how did he know?

Why was Laura SO angry about the J6 thing? That felt... disproportionate?

And how did she know what Bradley did? Journalists are not mandated reporters. She was not required to tell them her brother was there. (Turning over video to the FBI is a separate matter- but there’s no requirement that she turn over her video unless the FBI took her to court.)

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Anonymous wrote:This week's episode was bizarre. The Evening News anchor just doesn't show up because the exec wants her to have dinner with his mother? Where they went to get her help, but when she offers her help her turns her down? Jennifer Aniston's character kisses her new boss in an open office? Seemed completely nonsensical this week.

Yeah, a little out there. But I enjoyed having some backstory on the show's most complicated character.

Can someone do a good psychoanalysis of Cory's mom, and her effects on Cory? This storyline was awful and sad, and I'm not sure what I'm supposed to take from it (except for sympathy for Cory).

I love to psychoanalyze fictional characters, thank you so much for asking.

I think Cory's mom is completely enmeshed with him, and that as a single mom to one son, she used him as a replacement partner. He's her emotional support and has learned to validate and appease her to keep her happy, so that he could in turn get the validation and support he needed as a child. But a child should not need to take care of their parent's emotional needs in order to get validation and support -- a child should get those things from their caregivers no matter what. So this dynamic tuned Cory into a classic co-dependent people pleaser. That behavior has no doubt served him well in his career, where he has ingratiated himself with a lot of different people with enormous egos (from deep pockets like Paul Marks and Cybil, to celebrity talent like Alex, Laura, and Bradley) by knowing how to massage their egos in the right way at the right time. But it has come at a cost, as by always looking to please and serve others, he struggles to develop truly mutual relationships with anyone.

Even his attraction to Bradley is concerning because while on the surface it seems healthy for him to be interested in someone so fiercely independent, it's apparent after meeting his mom that a major part of his attraction is that Bradley is fiercely independent in the same way his mom is, and that even Bradley's rejections and efforts to distance from him have likely repeated patterns with his mom that have been going on since childhood. He probably needs years of therapy to untangle his enmeshment with his mother and learn what it looks like to have a relationship where the other person's needs are not always paramount, and where serving those needs doesn't require sacrifice and flagellation on his part.

As for Cory's mom herself, it's harder to assess with only a handful of scenes, but there's definitely a high level of narcissism at play, specifically a vulnerable narcissism where she is use to eliciting sympathy from Cory (and maybe others) in order to get what she wants. We also know so little about her background, what happened to Cory's dad, her upbringing, etc., so just much more difficult to assess. But the enmeshment and narcissism are the main components to her character from what we've seen.

I will need you to recap every episode of every show I like from now on, thank you

If there is genuine interest in this, I think I might need to look into a newsletter because this is pretty much my dream job.

Get good at making Instagram and TikTok reels with your psychoanalysis of fictional characters and start growing an audience. I'm serious.

There's already a podcast that does this.

What is it?

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Anonymous wrote:How did Marks know about Bradley’s brother and Jan 6?

That's what I was wondering, too - how did he know?

Why was Laura SO angry about the J6 thing? That felt... disproportionate?

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Anonymous wrote:How did Marks know about Bradley’s brother and Jan 6?

That's what I was wondering, too - how did he know?

Why was Laura SO angry about the J6 thing? That felt... disproportionate?

Anonymous wrote:How did Marks know about Bradley’s brother and Jan 6?

Anonymous wrote:How did Marks know about Bradley’s brother and Jan 6?