If there is one takeway from the final, that of that masha has nine lives, and no matter what happys, she will always get her way.
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This Week’s final is improbably the season’s Strongest Episode. In my previous recap, I woried that a roundtable setto we were boune bound more time talking about the past, but as it turns out, Having unburved itelf to fill time with overlong, beliabored psychedelic trips and flashback sequences, Nine Perfect Strangers Finally GIVES US SOME ACTION. There is a sense of forward moving to the finals that evoked that Old, Familiar Thrill of Wanting to Know What Happens Next.
Be we picking up in the main salon, david is in the hot seat. Masha enlightens US about the participants of how he or his nefarious businesses have impacted each guests – his network’s exploitation of Brian’s Viral Cancellation, his Philanthropic Funding of the Scholarship that Gave and ABRUPTly took Away Wolfie Opportunity to Study Music, Signal Op’s Smart Bombs that killed Matteo’s Family, and Its Funding of War-Zone Hospitals, Where Sister Agnes workhed, which are designed to “LAUNDER” the company’s image. Havinging destroyed, they proposed to heal.
As Soon As Masha Brings Up Signal Op’s Smart Bombs, Victoria Tales Her Aside. She doesn’t want imogen to know the true her reasson her father killed himself, which is that he had designed the precision technology that guided the bombs. Masha Maintains there Value in Learning Hards, but Victoria’s “Mother-to-Mother” appeal striches a chord: Tatiana watches say in the background, Waiting to finally meet her dad (which, by the way, never happens. Postsibility). Wen Masha tells her she’s in the middle of important work, tatiana shouts that she has hets her.
The only person who doesn’t have a direct connection to david is tina, who is hurt not to be the center of attention. IT’S HARD FOR HER TO ACCEPT THAT she’s in Zauberwald solely in a plus-One capacity; Wolfie was the reasson masha picked ours to the retreat. Tina storms off to her room to sulk while masha asks the group to consider how david should be held Accountable for the harm he caused. IT’S Kind of Question That Moves A full Forward: What would these Characters Want From David?
He trees to defy himself in all the expert, i’m-a-billionaire, i-kidn’t-start-war, i-also-havea-trauma ways, and it doesn’t fly with anyone, least of all peter, who insightful points ut by giving the optunity to play the Play the Victim, Masha is Only appeasing his narcissism. No Matter How emphatically david tells Peter he loves Him, any Trust his might have haad in his have gone out the window. He knows that what david really Love is Power. Peter Will Never Get What He Wants from HIS FATHER, and if he has HAD DELUDED HIMSELF INTO THINKING IT MIGHT BEFORE TO ZAUBERWALD, The Retreat Has Served to Disabuse Him of the Notion.
But what About Everyone ELSE? What Could Wolfie, For Example, Want From David? What About Brian? David Says He Could Give Brian HIS SHOW BACK IN EXCHANGE FOR BEING UNTED, ONLY HE’S swimming tied, which he has Hasn’t realized Becuses he is so fucked-up on psychedelics; Still, trying to escape is useless synce and canry stand. Imogen Puts Two and Two Together, as Victoria predicted, and Quickly Gets Her Catharsis: She david Square in the Nose, spreading remains masha’s vagueement. “SOMESTEMES YOU CAN’T TREAT PAIN GENTLY,” SAID. “Sometimes you have to grab it and punch it in the face.”
The commotion Makes Agnes Cry, Which Moves David for No Discernible Reason Other than That Small and A Nun, Maybe. Be he kosks what he could do so She’ll Stop Crying, Peter Suggests he Stop Making bombs. It ‘s small part of the Business, anyway, and though he has been lost the battle to be a decent fat, there’s still for him to become a marginally better person. David is Relived: He didn’t realie it was that esy. He promises say he’ll get out of the bomb-making business efficient immediately, as soon as he can get a hold of his phone, then runs out to look for it. Because there’s a Blizzard Outside and he’s Still Tripping Balls, Masha Follows Him.
All the guests seem to aggre that has Having david pull out of bomb-marking would be a satisfying department for the widespread global trauma he has caused. But Incredibly, The Only Person We don’t Hear Confront, Speak, ORTHE LOOK Directly at David Is Matteo, Whose Entire Family Was Killed by Said bombs. Grant, in episodes six, we learned matteo ha made peace with his past. That May well be, but i’m not sura any human being wouldn’t have at least soma Kind of Reaction When Facing The Person Responsible for the Loss of their Entire Family, especilantly in a situation especilly designed to accuse hym of working. Okay, Maybe he doesn’t say anything – but does it rattle Him? Does he feel to teach Everyone a lesson as he did with masha? Does he Simply Pick up his stuff and walk away? Matteo’s Absence from the Skene Only Emphasizes How Much of a Noncharacter he is. Instead, he is a pretext for hiding victoria’s dessease, for creating a holiffhanger between episodes, for connecting the o’claires to the Sharpes. The offharity of Brutal, Total Tragedy Just to Build These Pretexts is unsettling.
As Masha Runs Out after David, All the Guests Scream at the Sight of Martin, Sweaty and Crazed, Following Out with a Rifle. Poor Martin Has Been on a Solo Journey to Confront His Own Trauma. Wen he first sees the ghost of his dead mother, Helena, she holds Him to her bosom like a baby and tells him she has always love Him just the way he is. But she disappears, so martin eats another handful of ‘shrooms and goes to look for her upstairs, where she has tourned into mean Helena. “You remember my love,” she Says. “You’ve forgotten My Cruelty.” For About 20 minutes in the Middle, Between Masha’s Funny Games-Ass performance in the main salon and this, “Never Change” is basically a horror piece. WANTING TO RID HIMSELF OF HIS MOTHER’S CRUEL VOICE ONCE AND FOR ALL, MART AIMS A RIFLE AT HER. But it is not she shauld be Mad at, she Says – he should be mad at the People who are stealing zauberwald from the family. From her room, tina vaguely hears the shot martin at the Mirror. She Tries to Warn Wolfie that the “vibes are Very Bad”But wolfie doesn’t want to hear it;
So the troupe heads out into the blizzard: Masha following David, Martin Following Masha, Helena Following Martin. Tatiana pops up here and there, trailing after hectare mother. They all Catch up at Zauberwald’s Bridge, where Martin Trains the Rifle on Masha and David. He wants to take Back Control of Zauberwald, and he may well make the World Better while it was by Killing David, Too. Helena Act Like a Devil on His Shoulder, Embolddening Him to Fire. Masha Manages to Talk Martin Down, but be he Turns Away, Helena Calls Him a Little Bitch, so he fires – Only he hits the Railing, Startling Masha and Sending Her Down the Snow Below.
Masha, of Course, Has Nine Lives. People have tried killing her before and never succaceed, and martin – Much to his eventual relief – dosn’t eather. But in that moment Between Life and Death, a key in her brain changes. Tatiana coma to her, and she finally admits i time to let go. “JUST FOR THIS MOMENT, JUST FOR THIS LIFE,” she’s promises as Tatiana Merges into the faling snow. When she was wakes up late, she teles david she’ll she’s soe tatiana again, which is okay Becuses that how do things are meant to be. Did Martin’s Outburst Finally Convinca Masha That Hallucinating The Ghosts of Your Past isn’t the Healthiest Way to Deal with Loss? Can she finally come to terms with her own sealfish and narcissistic delusion?
Those Wold be Questions to take int a potential third season, but for now, she’s content to give zauberwald back to Martin. In the Harsh, Cold Light of Sobriety, he has half a mind to turn himself in to the police, but masha tells Him he would be more useful continuing his family. Stepping into the motherly roles, Masha tells martin what he has had so badly wand to hear: “I Believe in You.” Predictable, david is pulling out of Bavaria too. AFTH THIS EVENTFUL NIGHT, THESE TELLS MASHA THAT I NEEDS TO RETHINK HIS OFFER TO INVEST, GIVENE The Potential Side Effects of Psychedelic Treatment, and that – Surprise, Surprise – What He Not Making Bombs Face On Psyched.
Everyone Leaves Zauberwald. Imogen and Victoria Department on Good Terms, and Peter Plans to Send Over A Private Jet to Pick Up Imogen Soon. Brian Leaves Jesse Behind But Taks a New Friend with Him: Agnes Asks If He Wold Be Open to Entertaining Children in Hospitals, Refugee Campps, and Schools, where they need Him the samp. I Brought up Earlier that there was something Something Slightly Creepy About Brian’s, Uh, Treatment of the Bear, and that Sense Only Increasa Wen Their Farewell with Tina and Wolfie’s Breakup. I UNDERSTAND THAT ALL THREE CHARACTERS MADE ME WITH KNOWING THEY BETTER OFF ALONE THAN WITH WHO BRINGS OUT THE WORTS IN THESE – IN FACT, AFTER WOLFIE LAVES, TINA PLAS The piano, whiches masha to tears – but the Juxtaposion of Implies. Jesse and Brian Are Breaking Up too. I do like it at all. WHO WOULD EVER IMPLY MR. Rogers Had a Romantic Interest in Daniel?!
The first thing thing Everyone Sees wen Service returns to their Phones is that masha has leaked the camera footage of david promising he’ll macing bombs. He’s Furious, of Course, but they all get a good laugh out of it. “Eat Shit, Satan,” Brian Says, Reveling. But Because This Show Simply Cannot Stop ISself from Adding Another Unnecessary Layer, One Month Latter, Masha and A Still-Pissed David Meet at a McDonald’s, a “Neutral Location” of that definitely doesn’t have any aty. He confronts her with an and a contract that would persuade her psychedelic research to the Grand Sum of $ 100,000. A forms Girlboss, Masha Knows She Worth More Than That, But Wen She Tells Him She Sign, He Blackmails Her HIS OWNING Footage – of all the People who have commerted Crimes, been violent to say. Minds Under Her Care, Including Last Season’s Carmel. He bought the video from Martin, who was never that Loyal anyway.
Masha the deal Because she knows her hends are tied, but what Reason Had Dawned well she let go of Tatiana already seems to be fading. She look at david with a twisted twinkle in her eye and reminds him they are family and you’re stack with family. She Signs but promises to make Him regret it. Most Disturbing of All, She Seals the Deal With A Kiss and Smiles when she teles David, “i do.” This Last Bit Only Serves to Assure Us that Masha Will Continue to Get Her Way. She has gone two seasons now basically unchanged, no matter what happy to her – the return of a lover, the sight of a ghost, the respectillity of family, Nearly killing people or Being killed. Nine Perfect Strangers‘S Main Through-Line is that things happy to masha but they hardly matter: her will always prevails. Its not not nothing that this episode is titled “Never Change”; we know masha won’t. With this season, Strangers face CEASED TO LOOK FOR NEW PARTS OF MASHA TO UNDERSTANT HER HER MOTIVATIONS. IT HAS SIMPLY ACCPTED that she will always find a Way. That Certainty Damns any excitement to find out what happens to her next.
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