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I love how in this ep Liz repeatedly says how much she works but we see precisely 0 second of her doing any actual work (or basic reasoning bc what’s the point of making a show of thoroughly vetting nanny candidates when you leave your kid alone w/ a stranger who just appeared next door?) It is so... typical of how she is generally written, all talk no walk (and no sense). she is ~special~ but how exactly? Red can’t even be bothered to protect her anymore. she is said to be a great profiler, too. well, I sure would love to see it one day. and now she is this overworked single mother whom we can’t even see working, and these all come together to form my main issue:
her connection to Red has been diminished to the point of irrelevance. All those things that were meant to grant her ~special~ status in Red’s orbit are just not there: Red now talks to and confides in anyone but her. Her profiling skills that could give her unique insight into his real identity are def not there and she has to trick or force info out of him like any other character who wants info from Red. And the emotional bond that once made her his kryptonite is broken now, as well, thanks to all that crude backstabbing she resorted to.
She is supposed to be the protagonist in this “chosen one story” but as things stand right now, you can switch her w/ almost any character (and they have, in fact, switched her) and you would watch the same show, a show that’s composed of loosely connected situations (crossing people off a list within a teflon-y mystery box format where nothing ever sticks) and not an actual story where the protag is the linchpin struggling towards a meaningful goal while undergoing a necessary transformation.
Fail better, show.
