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To be fair she was pretty damn frightening 😂

I stopped believing the scene from first season was actually John getting raped. It sure looked like that and the gross cop was also joking about it, but maybe the intention was something else. I don’t know, I prefer to believe that I simply misunderstood. Otherwise it is absurd how unfazed he was by it. When it comes to Joseph I assume he got accepted into the Kreizler’s Institute. Realistically John couldn’t adopt him because the rumors would surely spread about the boy’s former profession (as the high society folks were hella bored and had a talent for finding out that stuff) and people would probably suspect that John keeps him around for certain ‘purposes’. Of course the writers probably just wrote him off as they had no ideas to keep him in the plot. And they didn’t mention Mary as we were supposed to focus on Laszlo’s new ‘hot’ affair

You killed me 😂 I couldn’t agree more

Well I must say I really enjoyed this season. When it comes to the baby kidnapping arc I think it was better than Japheth Dury resolution. That being said, the soap opera plot points were sooo cringy. Everything has been said about John/Sara but I was also disappointed in Kreizler character development. I didn’t care about that romance (?) one bit. And for a central character he really didn’t do much. His relationship with that boy who wanted to do magic was very interesting and then the whole threat of losing the Institute but at the end it kind of seemed like it doesn’t matter anymore because he got kissed 😂 The writers of this show should really stop watching so much Hallmark

I believe you’re right. There is a very interesting article about it on questmag page titled “Hollywood Versus History: Decoding NYC Society’s Past in The Alienist” To quote just a short part from it "In fact, Cornelius Vanderbilt, who is a character in The Alienist books, had a real-life run-in with the law, explains Daniel Czitrom, author of New York Exposed: The Gilded Age Police Scandal that Launched the Progressive Era (Oxford University Press). According to Czitrom, Vanderbilt’s son-in-law, Robert Crawford, was involved in a wild shoot-out on the street near the family’s mansion. When the police chased down Crawford hiding in Vanderbilt’s home, the business magnate sent for Thomas Byrnes, captain of the Mercer Street Station, requesting $2,000 to invest on his behalf. Leveraging his stock market connections, Vanderbilt quickly turned that $2,000 in to $6,000 as a reward to quell the scandal. ”

Yes of course it existed but much more commonly in lower classes (that’s why Marcus and his girl were a non issue to me). Women of Sara’s and Violet’s upbringing would have been taught from a very early age that premarital sex can destroy their entire lives, not to mention it is dirty and makes them used and worthless. Of course it is not the case, but no matter how progressive and educated you are there is a huge leap from living in that environment your entire life and seducing a dude in your lingerie during a party. All of this could still happen but not so randomly and with no repercussions. I guess I expect more insight like this from a show so focused on psychology.

I just can’t believe they made John a cheater. Taking into consideration what he was going through in the first season, after his former fiancée cheated on him and left him, what he did now seems really gross. It is also really strange how easy going they all seem to be all of a sudden about sex. In the first season Sara could hardly say the word and the fact that she did, was considered to be brave. Now everyone has one night stands apparently like it’s a How I Met Your Mother episode. Sorry to be so negative I just really don’t like when period dramas miss the fact that people’s upbringing and attitudes towards some issues were completely different to ours. I used to be able to really immerse myself in the show as it felt real, but now for some reason it feels like a bunch of modern people dressed in old fashioned clothes, and I can’t get as invested in it.