In today’s media landscape where everything is always about big shocking reveals with little to no narrative set up or follow through, going with the most obvious route and actually making Langdon have an addiction problem was the most subversive choice they could make imo. And to me the fact that there is so much outrage is evidence of that. It was the obvious answer all along and was right in front of us the entire time, and yet most of us still didn’t see it coming. Because Langdon is a kind, charming guy and he’s likable and put together and highly competent and we didn’t want it to be him. From the get-go this show has been asking the characters and the audience to examine their internal biases, and now we are all being forced to whether we like it or not. And as disappointing as it all is character wise, in hindsight I think any other resolution to this storyline would have felt like a cop out.
