Disclaimer 1x5 & 1x6

[silverstarry]

1x5
I had to tell the world the truth.

1x6
Only death is irrevocable.

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I forgot to post last week so feel free to discuss that episode along with this week's episode. Next week is the finale!

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[ginainabottle]

Haven't seen the episodes yet but I'm loving this show. DRAMA <3

I do have issues with the main storyline tho [under the spoiler tag just in case)]bc unless we get some significant twist about Johnathan's death, I don't get why the dad is acting like Catherine literally drowned his son? Yeah, she was heartless but the way the mom wrote the story - with facts she could not have been at all privy to yet seem somehow accurate given Catherine's reaction - makes it sound like Catherine literally murdered the kid.

I do love terrible women in fiction tho, so I might be biased lol I know grief works in very particular ways but yeah, I'm not sold. Speaking of grief, the ending of episode 3 (4?) with the parents in the ocean... that scene took my breath away, it was SO BEAUTIFUL. Lesley and Kevin are delivering so much, I hope they get nominated for all acting awards <3

Irrelevant but I'm shook by young Catherine's body like... damn sis, that's a work of art. I think the sex scenes are well done too, and I'm guessing gen z hasn't discovered this show yet otherwise we'd probably be seeing more discourse on that.

[silverstarry]

I have the same issue with Jonathan’s parents. I totally get being upset that Catherine told the police she didn’t know him. But even if she had admitted everything about their very brief relationship (if you can even call it that), that wouldn’t have saved him.

And even in his mother’s biased/fictionalized version of the story, Catherine didn’t trick him into drowning or ask him specifically to rescue Nicholas. She was just yelling for help (and probably assumed that the lifeguards would come running).

Catherine acted selfishly and grossly, but his parents are acting like she strangled him with her bare hands or held him under the water herself.

I am curious about what else is in the book that made her coworkers seemingly agree with that assessment. Or are they all clutching their pearls because she cheated on her husband with an 18 year old?

I was trying to figure out Catherine’s approximate age at the time. She’s obviously older but there’s a big difference between her being 25 vs 40.