On the topic of the Vees making each other worse I do think Valentino was a more sympathetic boss before Velvette came around. Not a good boss by any stretch, still mercurial and given to tantrums or brutal crackdowns, but he’d have his odd moments of mercy. ‘Cause he remembered what it was like to be out there on the floor or in front of the camera, and before Velvette? I think some part of Valentino wondered if he’d ended up on top by chance. Maybe if some other hottie with an immaculate eye for cinematography and advertising had been in the right place at the right time Vox would have teamed up with them!
Then Velvette claws her way up into the Vees with only her wits and her gumption and he starts looking at his employees as failures. If a sinner dead for, like, twelve minutes could win Vox’s attention and respect that means everyone else must have not wanted it hard enough. Sucks to suck, babes! No more Mr. Nice Valentino anymore.
