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the eldest four ghosts of the house being close is so dear to me. the idea that they’ve been there for each other the longest—that the boys even watched hetty grow up—is such a tender and compelling touch.
what’s also true about this friend group is that they only ever have one brain cell between them at all times, and it bounces between them like a ping pong ball. <3
ghosts • we came as romans
every so often, hetty will drop a line about her life that is so replete with raw pain and regret that it sucks all of the oxygen out of the room, and then she’ll immediately smile or crack a joke afterwards like she didn’t just reveal something so terribly devastating about herself and the explicitly unhappy circumstances of her life.
flower teaching this ultra repressed robber baroness about her own sexual autonomy and inherent right to pleasure is so important to me, actually
okay, I’m immediately on board with this omfgggggg. it makes no sense. it makes total fucking sense.
she’s a Victorian robber baroness with so many unresolved emotional hang ups, her portrait would be right next to the clinical definition of repression. and he’s a y2k finance bro who never does anything by halves—whose kindness left his junk hanging out for an eternity, and his commitment to the bit literally killed him.
it’s like if an unstoppable force met an immovable object, and they were both morally dubious capitalists who were equal parts tragicomical and horny as hell.
excellent. incredible. I can’t wait to see what these weirdos do next.
danielle pinnock is so, so good. she knows exactly how to ground alberta’s personality in something so beautifully real and human, and that really hits home in scenes like these.
This was such a great Hetty episode.
Not only did we get her and Molly conceptualizing that they were both victims of Elias’s abuse for the first time, but I’m also glad that Hetty was able to see how the power differentials between Elias and Molly made it an entirely coercive situation. Plus, there was likely her own complicity in whatever unsafe factory conditions led to the demise of Molly’s husband.
And that they get to celebrate Elias’s condemnation together is such a fun and triumphant note.
He’s suffering for what he did to them.
Good.
