One of the things I'm absolutely loving about Spartacus: House of Ashur is the social commentary. If you blink, you'll miss it. Hilara is clearly our resident dim-witted pick-me. She's observant enough to psychoanalyze Achillia (Tenika Davis), but still deluded enough to think she and Ashur are truly more than master and slave.

Hilara is easily threatened by other women; even before Achillia attacks Ashur we can tell right off the bat that the Nubian goddess's mere presence rubs her the wrong way. Even before Achillia so much as speaks, Hilara's facial expression betrays the fact she's bound and determined to hate this woman.

But the disrespect in yesterday's Episode 3 is what finally made me root for this bitch to die. To left is Messia (Ivana Baquero of Pan's Labyrinth legend), a fellow enslaved woman of Ashur's. Unlike Hilara, Messia is no pick-me. She has no delusions about her status in life. She bears Achillia no ill will and is subtly rooting for her Black Queen to succeed. And she's in love with Hilara (unfortunately).

So yesterday, Messia confesses her love to Hilara, who politely turns her down and tells Messia she's her "dearest friend". I felt bad for Messia, because she was obviously heartbroken, but I was also like, "Sis... you could do better. You deserve soooooo much better." And yesterday's episode proved that when Ashur and Hilara start to get it on right in front of Messia. Annoyed and disgusted, Messia eventually joins in because, again, slave. She's done this countless times before; it's literally how we're first introduced to her character.

But this time, Hilara doesn't want her there. Like the Domina she is not and never will be, Hilara dismissively commands her "dearest friend" to "fetch wine" and then "wait until summoned".

Girl, if you don't GTFOMYFWTBS. 🤨