S01.E06: VI

[Snazzy Daisy]

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Only death is irrevocable.

Air Date: Nov 01, 2024

 

[aghst]

Oh man, the Brits and their tea.

Brigstocke has turned her husband and coworkers against her, was standing menacingly over her son.

So Cathryn decides to break into Brigstocke’s home to tell her side of the story?

It’s a confrontation and she’s holding a knife, orders him to sit down, to hear what she has to stay.

So he says want a cuppa?

She say why yes and waits while he is drugging her cup.

 

Why is she trying to reason with him?  Why isn’t she telling Robert what really happened instead of trying to deal with Brigstocke, who means to kill Nicholas and her?

She can’t convince her husband, who’s such a dupe that an 80 year old man calls him feeble?

Her husband, son and coworkers workers should be believing her, not some stranger who’s weaving a salacious tale about her.

But she doesn’t really try to tell her side until the penultimate episode?

Speaking of salacious, Nancy imagining and writing a lurid narrative with sexually graphic details involving her own son.

Jonathan appears to be a dubious character who must have really alienated and scared Sasha and her mother.

[Mindthinkr]

11 hours ago, aghst said:

Jonathan appears to be a dubious character who must have really alienated and scared Sasha and her mother.

I hope we learn what really happened to send her back home to her parents rather than finish out her vacation with Jonathan. 
 

 Brigstocke really is hell bent for revenge. When he put the drain cleaner into the syringe my first thought was that the chemicals might erode the plastic and render it useless. 

[aghst]

He was a boring professor and now at a really old age he’s this criminal mastermind.  First he’s plotting all these moves to turn everyone against Cathryn, then manipulate Nicholas online with the ultimate goal of killing him and then her.

Did he know Nicholas was shooting up?  Because how was he going to kill a much younger man and then his mother?

If Nicholas wasn’t incapacitated in hospital, what could he do?

He was also going to confront an intruder with a little cricket bat?  Ok maybe he suspected that it would be Cathryn.

Then he thought of drugging her tea.  Most people wouldn’t improvise like that with an intruder at any age, much less at around 80 years old.

Just as it was incredible that Nancy who wasn’t a professional writer could write softcore porn about her son, it’s hard to believe Stephen can make all these calculated moves with the ultimate goal of committing two murders, at his age.

 

[Snazzy Daisy]

Disclaimer | Episode 6 — 'Where's Nick?'

 

[Ellaria]

If I am watching an episode and wondering if anything that I’m seeing is real, then the use of unreliable narrator(s) has gone too far.

The hospital scene with Stephen and the events that followed are ridiculous. None of the hospital staff question Stephen’s presence in ICU when the patient’s mother says he shouldn’t be there. Robert is a complete moron that accepts this weird stranger into his life without any second thoughts. Catherine shows up at his house in the middle of the night with a large knife - obviously aware that Stephen is some sort of threat - but decides to accept tea from him.

And through all of this madness, Catherine still has not explained “her side of the story” to anyone.

At this point, I am questioning everything and I’m not sure that I should be.

Edited November 2 by Ellaria

[Snazzy Daisy]

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“The book was a work of fiction, but it released the truth from its ballast, allowing it to float up to the surface.”

There you go. Robert (who feels emasculated by a dead man) believes everything that’s written without giving Catherine a chance to explain things. The faith that he puts in Stephen and the book is truly ridiculous.

The hospital staff immediately siding with Stephen is absurd. Catherine clearly says that he is not her father and nobody takes her word seriously. Stephen is never questioned.

The HR call also doesn’t make sense. They need to hear her side of the story, not believing a book of fiction.

Catherine doesn’t think she flirted with Jonathan when he was looking or sent him wrong signals etc. From Catherine’s POV, Jonathan was kind of stalkerish and he made her uncomfortable. Remember that cameltoe shot from E01?

Sasha needs to tell her story. Things that actually happened between them could shed some light on who Jonathan really was. For Sasha to abruptly leaving Italy, it must’ve been bad.

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“I wanted her to suffer the ghost of absence. Only death is irrevocable. Only then could I kill her.”

Stephen is consumed by his desire for revenge. We get it. But this premeditated kill plan has turned him into a cartoon villain now.

Why would Stephen be using Jonathan’s more than a decade old deodorant? This man is really unhinged.

Catherine slapping Stephen is the most satisfying moment in E06. But why would you drink that tea, Catherine? Not after everything he has done to you and your family. 🤦🏻‍♀️

 

[Ellaria]

Just wanted to add something that I noticed…

The postcard that we see Jonathan writing says “Dear Mum.” The one that Stephen reads at their home says “Dear Mum and Dad.” The content of the rest of the postcard is different as well. The postcard that comes to their home doesn’t mention Sasha.

Based on what we saw and heard between Nancy and Emma, we know that Sasha didn’t leave Jonathan because of her aunt’s death. The truth is more troubling and something (else) that Nancy changed. It is telling that Jonathan made no mention of her in his actual postcard.

Edited November 3 by Ellaria

[Madding crowd]

I’m finding this show so depressing. I really hate stories where tragedy results because of misunderstandings. I guess we don’t know anything for sure at this point but I think I would believe a woman might slip down to the bar for a glass of wine to go rather than think she would just sit in the bar leaving her son alone. Why is she not telling anyone the real story? I also find the narration pretentious. Watching for the actors I guess.

[Snazzy Daisy]

DISCLAIMER* — Inside Chapter VI: Cate Blanchett and Alfonso Cuarón on Trauma and Truth | Apple TV+

 

[meep.meep]

I think it's important to find out why Sasha left.  I think it's also important to find out how tiny little Nick got that boat out into the ocean.  The whole time I was watching the scene in the restaurant with Catherine and Jonathan, my brain was going - what about the kid?  No parent would leave their child alone in a hotel for so long, especially one who couldn't sleep unless he could see her.

Is there one more episode or two?

[Ellaria]

A few other things on my mind before the finale:

• Why did Nancy lie when telling Catherine that her husband was dead? She reached out to her presumably because she was dying but why not sooner?
• Stephen assumes that Nancy found Jonathan’s camera but - as far as I can tell - we don’t see it. We know that Nancy grabbed 3 (?) rolls of film. Did she develop all of them? Have we seen all of them?
• I assume that Nancy didn’t intend for her novel to be published. It was hidden in a locked drawer. Perhaps it was intended to be a release from grief for her.
• Stephen says that she changed some things when writing the novel. It’s all fiction; she wasn’t there. Rather, I think that Stephen changed things

I hope that there is enough time in the finale to address all of the questions.

Edited November 7 by Ellaria