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Okay lets not bury the lede here, babes (er yall?
Should I only be using yall now?
Its not a fake-out, friends: Dottie is REAL dead.
By her own hand!
What a mind-boggling move!
In just one episode, country music icon Dottie Roman was out here lighting the matches sometimes literally!
Every soap needs a bitchy schemer to both love and fear and we may have just lostMonarchs only one.
I mean, Albie might have potential.
The line needs some workshopping, but the sentiment is strong.
The second scene set in the future finds Albie still in those woods, burying a body.
That reporter Albie punched was on to something, because Dottie Roman is really dying.
She has terminal cancer and has been given mere months to live.
Albie is beside himself with grief already.
Dottie is his rose!
He wrote that song The Brambles for her!
After the barn fire she took off and he never cheated again, he tells her.
She calls him a liar and a cheater but tells him she will always love him.
Lets talk about this barn fire for a PUN VERY INTENDED hot sec.
When Albie mentions it in his confession, it is so fast you might miss it.
Its like the barn fire is simply a way to denote a certain period in Roman family history.
But we know it has much more meaning than that.
She still hears the screaming.
Did Dottie murder Albies sidepiece?
Honestly, that would be great for us, not for whoever may have perished in that fire.
Anyway, back to sizing up the rest of the Roman clan.
Nicky is a forty-something country singer who is still only seen as her parents sidekick.
No one, save her brother, maybe, believes in her as a solo act.
She wants success on her own so badly though.
wouldnt she set all of her kids up for success instead of holding them back?
Dotties motives are very confusing!
Nicky does show some grit.
She talks a big Oh, Ill show you!!
game, but her bark is mostly bigger than her bite at this point.
She wants to keep up appearances but shed obviously be better served by burning it all down.
Like her mother!Allegedly!)
Then theres the whole situation with her younger sister Gigi.
First, shes a harried working mom (she, maybe runs and/or owns a bar?)
Gigi is amazing (shes played by Beth Ditto, so, obviously)!
The crowd chants her name!
A Man Who Promotes Music Tours asks Dottie where shes been hiding her all this time!
So Gigis story is that she stayed away from performing because she didnt want to upstage Nicky?
I guess well go with that for now?
Are these just empty threats from both sides?
Everyone needs to think she died from her disease.
Ive done things that can never be forgiven, before dying.
So thats like a super cool and chill final mother/daughter conversation to have.
So thats probably going to add a few more wrinkles to their sisterly bond.
But also he seems to bring some of his problems on himself.
You know, for instance, my guy is having sex on the regular with Gigis wife, Kayla.
Thats not a typo!
Hes banging his sister-in-law!
And he seems very into her?
And that is so messy!
That is the kind of troubleMonarchneeds in the wake of Dotties death!
Lukes father might not be proud of him, but I am.
Is there no softer way into that?
Very bummed to learn that Joshua Sasses character is the non-singer of the family.
Young Dottie is played by Sarandons real-life daughter, Eva Amurri, by the way.
Why did Dottie have to secretly leak her prognosis toPeoplemag?
Couldnt she have just … announced it?
Its all very high maintenance!!
Now, that is the punch in of energy this show needs to bring each week.
