Don’t Touch Me.

You know the meme "me and my wife saw you across the bar, liked your vibes and wanted to say hi?"

This pic is giving the exact opposite.

It's giving "Me and my wife saw you across the bar and hate your vibes and want to take turns kicking your ass"

Rachel and Nellie bonded pretty quickly and Nellie immediately helped her with the curse and believed her and also they made out

Rachel and Jules share like the biggest trauma of their life?? Jules was literally there the moment she was born?? and also immedialtely believed her and tried to help with the curse

So what if... what if all three of them are soulmates 👉🏻👈🏻?? What if they just raise Jude as a funny cursed little polycule 👉🏻👈🏻🥺🥺

It’s your last night of freedom. Do whatever you want with it.

5 seconds later:

Victoria Pedretti as Alexandra Harkin Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen (2026) Episode 4 | "The Witness"

So I was thinking about this moment and the decision they made in filming this scene. This is the key moment for Richie to express the immense guilt he feels over "failing" Michael, and, by extension, whole family, and Carmy especially. This is one of the many things these two have been carrying throughout the show that has kept creating a barrier between them, and all that resentment is building up. And they could have kept this scene paning between Carmy and Richie.

But they decide to pan the camera to Sydney every time they have to cut to the shot of Carmy and Richie. They do it 2 times over. Carmen -> Sydney -> Richie, then they bring it back in the reverse order. And I love this detail because is expressing many things:

Sydney is part of the family, and she should be here for this. This is her pain, too. Because she loves them.

If there wasn't for Sydney, this conversation wouldn't be happening in the first place. "Any chance of any kind of good," right? Carmen starts to open up by looking at Sydney, and when Carmy says Sydney is "her," Richie tells Carmy to continue.

Because it ties to the core character wound of the 3 of them. all of them carry guilt over things they had no control over. You can even see the camera panning to Sydney the moment he says, "I failed," and Sydney's worst fear is to fail the people around her.

Richie blaming himself for not being able to stop Michael from killing himself is as irrational as Sydney declaring herself the cause of his father's heart attack. It is also irrational for Carmen to believe he deserves abuse, that he failed Donna somehow, and that's why she treated him the way he did. All of them are wrong. And the beauty of goodbye is that they can see that when it applies to somebody they love. Richie would have told Syd it wasn't her fault. Carmy tells Richie it wasn't his fault. Sydney will tell Carmen it wasn't his fault.