Laura Neal wrote some of the most overtly homophobic television I have ever seen. This was worse than Lexa because the entire season was one big allegory for why being religious and straight is the only way to live your life.
Notice how May was okay until she acted on her feelings for another girl, then she’s murdered by that girl. Fernanda, same thing: first time with a woman, that woman gets her murdered by proxy. Helene: I don’t need to spell it out. Gunn: wants another woman too much, eyes gouged out and abandoned.
Villanelle: spends months being quiet and changing via Christianity, but once she gives that up and gets back to killing and showing her love for women (Eve in this case), she’s punished in the end by being murdered by a straight woman she was vulnerable with while in an intimate moment with the not-straight woman she had changed everything around for. The idea I got from this was that if you turned your life around for god and be on the straight & narrow, you’re good. If you try to change for ‘man’ (or woman), then it’s not good enough and you’re not worthy of the celestial light.
Eve: Previously straight woman who was lured in by the thrill of a woman, but is baptized and reborn in the blood of her lover so that she can have another chance at everlasting life. Because according to Laura ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Neal, Eve was reborn in that water and screaming in relief for her new life sans the sin of loving other women (that last part is my addition, but I figure that’s what Neal said to herself when she masturbated over thoughts of crying sapphic fans).
It’s an embarrassment that Jodie and Sandra were forced to film this mess. I would have preferred the show been canceled after season 3 due to the pandemic rather than come back and film this Christian fanfiction on steroids.
I expect the spinoff to feature Carolyn handing out Bibles at the book club.
Well if the only way to live is religious and straight then i'm going to pray that Laura Neal goes straight to hell can I get an amen. I kept saying if 4x08 ends badly I'm going to pretend that 3x08 is the series finale, but I honestly don't think I'll ever be able to watch this show again so there's probably not much point in my trying to erase s4 from my brain. Remember when we all used to joke that we wished KE could be erased from our brains so that we could remember what it was like when it discovered it for the first time??? Now I just want it erased to forget.
Jodie and Sandra are ultimate professionals. I would've told em to fuck off and thank you very much, but that's just me. But as good as they are, even they couldn't save this season. S3 should've been the end of it
Spin-off? What spin-off? There is no way in fuck anybody is touching Sid Gentle Films with a 10 ft pole after this debacle. And especially a spin-off with Carolyn? She murdered a fan favorite, nobody was going to watch that fucking show anyway, but especially not now
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