#simon jordan

[guiltyonsundays]

Margaret Atwood sat down to write Alias Grace and she said imagine the personification of 19th century ideas about white femininity (madonna whore complex embodied in a celebrated murderess and lunatic who may also be a virginal brutalised victim and is certainly a menial domestic servant skilled in textile crafts with a submissive yet composed demeanour) and white masculinity (a spoiled upper class manbaby who immediately judges every woman he interacts with on how attractive he finds them and has nonstop violent sexual fantasies while thinking himself the pinnacle of civilisation and chivalry and rational scientific endeavour) and then showed the man fucking falling to pieces while the woman is like. you good bro

[scorpion-flower]

scorpion-flower watches Alias Grace

I am one episode away from the ending and while I definitely have some thoughts about the show and the characters, I want to express that I am a bit surprised to have found out that the majority of the fandom actually dislikes Dr Jordan more than McDermott.

[whitney-aliasgrace]

[datsderbunnyblog]

'You may be perfectly frank with me, Grace,' he had said, 'You need hold nothing back.' 'I have no reason not to be frank with you, Sir,' she said. 'A lady might conceal things, as she has her reputation to lose; but I am beyond that.'

...

'Then you have given up hope?' 'Hope of what, Sir?' she asked mildly. Simon felt foolish, as if he'd committed a breach of etiquette. 'Well - hope of being set free.' 'Now why would they want to do that, Sir?' she said. 'A murderess is not an everyday thing. As for my hopes, I save that for smaller matters. I live in hopes of having a better breakfast tomorrow than I had today.' She smiled a little. 'They said at the time that they were making an example of me. That's why it was the death sentence, and then the life sentence.'

But what does an example do, afterwards? thought Simon.

— Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood.

[brittany]

I must forget Grace Marks.

Alias Grace  |  1x06

[snowraven007]

Sarah Gadon playing as Grace Marks in Alias Grace.

[lady-arryn]

Edward Holcroft as Dr. Simon Jordan (requested by anonymous)

[actuallynormal]

I am an old maid, wouldn’t you say, Doctor? And I’ve certainly been puzzled.