S01.E02: Sabina

[AnimeMania]

A nosy neighbor puts the wrong kind of spotlight on Dana before a nasty fall triggers a trip back to the past; Kevin gains firsthand experience of Dana's troubles as the pair are forced to play uncomfortable roles in order to stay out of harm's way.

Premiere Date: December 13, 2022       FX on Hulu

[Avaleigh]

Yeah, I think in reality Kevin would have been out of there. With Dana screaming and scratching him and then she starts saying that her mother was dead and now she's alive...

The Nightmare Neighbors are so OTT it's hilarious. Their cat goes missing and they immediately assume it has something to do with their new neighbor who lives across the street? No other possibilities? Lol. 

Wasn't expecting Kevin to go back to the past but it's an interesting development. 

Nobody in the past comments on how Dana got her black eye. It's just par for the course in their world. Sad. 

Kevin is the worst liar. Like why wouldn't you say you're headed north and that you're a northerner who was visiting southern relatives? Also, I couldn't decide if it was a good idea or a bad idea that he decided to pretend that Dana is his slave. I get that they didn't have the time but ideally they could have discussed which strategy would be better. I can't decide if it would have been more dangerous or not to say that she was a free WOC. What does she do if she's stuck there and something happens to him?

[ursula]

7 hours ago, Avaleigh said:

I can't decide if it would have been more dangerous or not to say that she was a free WOC.

She’ll need to show emancipation papers which she doesn’t have and then will be labelled a runaway and if no one claims her, she’ll be auctioned.

[Spartan Girl]

10 hours ago, ursula said:

She’ll need to show emancipation papers which she doesn’t have and then will be labelled a runaway and if no one claims her, she’ll be auctioned.

Even if she has the papers, that wouldn’t automatically mean protection. Look what happened to Solomon Northrop. Just saying…

[Avaleigh]

11 hours ago, ursula said:

She’ll need to show emancipation papers which she doesn’t have and then will be labelled a runaway and if no one claims her, she’ll be auctioned.

This makes me curious how it worked for the gens de couleur libres in Louisiana and Mississippi or the children born of slaves who'd been freed. Did they walk around with papers on them at all times? I'd be so worried about being robbed of them. It's not like they had photo ID or prints or whatever else the could use to prove they are who they say they are.

That's on top of Spartan Girl's point that even if they have those things people could just choose to ignore it. 

Even if Dana could make it north things aren't much better there.

[Spartan Girl]

2 hours ago, Avaleigh said:

That's on top of Spartan Girl's point that even if they have those things people could just choose to ignore it. 

Even if Dana could make it north things aren't much better there.

Spoiler tagging for those that never read the book: 

Spoiler

Alice was legally a free woman, that didn’t stop her from being captured and sold to Rufus all because she ran off with Isaac.

[Quickbeam]

Kevin’s realization that any crap out of his mouth was seen as reasonable since he was a white man…..his global discomfort with the whole scenario. The actor did a good job. Dana did a wonderful job being wearily accepting of the treatment in order to survive long enough to get to her mother. Butler was a genius…no one else was or has written like this.