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while others are on the rocks.
Em is the only member of her family who got out of attending the christening.
At the Dickinson household, Maggie the maid answers a cloyingly cutesy knock at the door: Its Sam.
She requests, then demands, the immediate return of her poems.
In Sams framework, Em is still the daisy and he will always be the sun.
Ems perfect response to this is that she HAD AN EMPIRE … in her brain.
is all, Oh, youre jealous.
Then he pretends he wasnt flirting with her, which, OOOOKAY, buddy.
He was 100 percent flirting.
Dont let your emotions get in the way of your career, advises this hustler.
That is always what happens to women.
But his increasingly desperate claims of his own importance suggest the latter to me!
You get the idea.
Plus hes already sent her latest poem to print.
DID HE EVER PAY HER FOR THESE POEMS?
They get into a tug-of-war over the satchel in which her lifes work is stored.
Or so they think.
but I think it works in the moment.
Back at her desk, Nobody/Frazier reappears for the final (?)
Im not sure this particular bit of symbolism is holding up here under even moderate inspection.
But he leaves Em with the charge to be the bravest, most brilliant Nobody who ever existed.
I feel like it is.And then the teens burn the church down, whoops!
Send them back to Brooklyn!
Do these actresses have chemistry to you?
I really wish they did!
And I believe that the characters should, based on the writing.
But when they are actually together, its almost like theres this pane of glass between them.
So does it track that she would be so brazen about having sex with his wife?
Sue pushed Em toward fame because Sue could not handle being the only person reading Ems work.
This … doesnt really feel like character progression to me?
This is exactly what Sue said at the start of the season.
So how is this news to Em?
This is the opposite of news!
Without me, I dont think you know how to have feelings.
Woof, I dont know how you come back from saying something like that.
And then Sue just pivots toThe only time I feel things is when Im with you.
Youre not even Sue anymore, youre a fake person!!
Everything you say to me is a lie!
EM, I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS!
Their shouting turns into making out, as your shouting is wont to do.
Like, how are they not concerned about getting busted here?
Its all very Garden of Eden.
Sue swears to never let go of Em again.
Instead of snitching (cool) or reprimanding them at all (?!
), he just says, Well, nobody needs to know about this.
Things burn down all the time.
Jane is eating this up for sure, as is Mama Dickinson.
On the Dickinson property, Hattie passes by the barn and finds it empty.
She reads Ems latest poem, the one Sam was able to publish under the wire,The Snake.
Is he as crazy as Em, or is Em not so crazy after all?
