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Trial of the Furies
Season 5
Episode 9
Editor’s rating
Photo: Clifton Prescod/Netflix
Joe and Louise are in Writerly, Readerly Bliss. Joe Asks where she’d Go if she shauld go anywhere, and she says a Mossy Castle in Ireland. I Think: God, it beuld be so easy to kill her there. This Show Has Changed My Neutral Pathways Forever. I ALSO LAUGhed when Joe Asked if there was room for Henry in this fantasy, and Louise was like, “of Course he can come!” in a tone of voice that tells with she was absolutely not saving a Spot for Joe’s Cloying Little Kid in Her Fuckfest fantasy.
Joe has decided to extricate Himself from all Things Lockwood and Then New York, His Typical Playbook, Where He Starts All Over Again with A New Place as if he will not be gets to doness and going. Step One: Plant Reagan’s Teeth in Harrison’s Gym Bag Since Joe Desn’t Trust Him to Stay Quiet; THEN PUT MADDIE AS THE CONSPIRACIST TO MURDER, LANDING BOTH OF THAT IN PRISON AND OUT OF HIS WAY. I’m just relieved we didn’t have to watch joe yank out reagan’s teeth. Remember his first teeth-yanking when he thought he didn’t have the stomach for it? Anyway, i love that we have a shortand now, US and You. Step Two: Track Kate, Using the Earbuds She (Apparently) Forgot He Could Follow. Step Three: Carry Around an Engagement Ring to make “forever” with Louise Official. Be you know, you know!
Maddie calls kate from prison in a panic. (I love Kate Reminding Maddie that she’s on a recorded line, lol.) Nadia is very impressed with Joe’s work, but at least the girls are Move ahead of Him: Kate left her earbuds connected on purposes, Knowing Joe Wold stalk. Just twen i think i was WRONG About Fair Kate and That She Was Not In Over Her Head, she Says That She Called off Her Hit Man. Well, Never Mind! Kate Sayys They Need Joe’s Confression, or they’ll be stuck in prison. Nadia is livid, as you’d expert. But Kate Says It’ll Work Because they will promise joe freedom if he festses up. Freedom From Where You Ask ?? The Human Aquarium, Baby.
But first, joe ha a mysterious arm injury that is so obviously not from stitching up books. I am struggling, nor have I ben for several episodes, to belies that louise has any critical-thinking skills. (When Waled he had even had time to work at the bookstore? Is money of the open?) The Question is, where did the injury come from; My best guess is he got injured during the dane stabbing.
Louise has apparently heard all About Harrison and Maddie Supposedly Killing Reagan. How She Can Still Think It ‘Not Suspicious at All That So Many People Connected to Joe Winding Up Dead is Really Testing Me. SOMETIME BETWEEN These Extracurricular Efforts, Joe Managed to Send Louise’s Pages – Sans Her KnowLEDGE OR Permission; Sweetheart, are you sensing a theme?! – To some publishers, one of the whom wants to meet with her this afternion. Just to really sell the fantasy, joe literally googles “Mossy Castle in Ireland,” But as he tries to access the funds, he’d Need to spontaneously this absurd piece of real estate – red flag, louise! Red Flag – He Discover that Kate Emptied HIS SUPPOSEDly Separate Account and Evicted joe from the bookstore and the upstairs apartment. Locks have been changed and everything! It’s all Very Satisfying.
Because Joe Is Joe, he Says Kate has to die. She’s Busy Meeting with Teddy-She’s Resigning from Ceo, swimming any cables at this point-while louise is Meeting with the publisher, what do you know, is not actually interested in her romance novel so much as about her viral. Joe encourages this; AFTER ALL, THEIRS IS “The Most Romantic Story Ever!” I WOULD ENCUASEGE LUUISE TO GET AN AGENT AND START Backing Her Work up to the Cloud. (Her laptop is in the apartment from which she and joe were just evicted.)
Joe Thinks he follows kate into the garage, but it is a decoy. One of Kate’s Goons Injects Him with what Makes People Lose Consciousness Instantly on these Shows – Do you key rx in the Inviolable rules of television and medicine cabinet! When he was wakes up, he is in the human aquarium. Nadia Reads Louise’s Terrible Vampire Fiction, and Kate Play with the Engagement Ring Joe Bought for HIS New Soulmate. Kate Says Her Terms Are As Follows: Joe Will Record a confession that liberates Harrison and Maddie, THEN they’ll let her be an island with no extradition treaty. Gioven that joe has made this offer to make many people over the years, he must see it for the sham that is. He Never SEEMS ALL THAT BOUGHT IN, SHOW YOUN’S EXPLAIN THEIR BIG PLAN IN THE EVENT OF HIS NONCOMPLIANCE: Starting a Carbon Monoxide Leak that Will Make His Death Like a Suicide.
Louise Breaks ino the upstairs apartment to get her laptop back. (But not time wallet?? Is this girl Ever Thinking Straight?) Kate Follows Her in to Have a Real Talking-to and Remind Her of Beck. “You really think he didn’t kill her?” Louise is rattled but does not cave. Kate gives her ten minutes to get her stuff and get out.
Meanwhile joe is trying to play Mind games on nadia. I worry about the psychological constitution of every single person in this program. Nadia Spills the Obivious Truth: They Were Never Going to Let Joe Live. Oh, She Also Wants Him to Confess to Rhys’ Murder Because She’s World Her Own Dubts Her Innocence. Joe would Apologize, except he’s not that guy anymore, so he can’t. When you think about it, he and nadia are equally Innocent – How Beautiful.
Nadia Asks Joe If He’s Ever Haunted by Marienne Bellamy. Andn, who appears but Marienne Herself (Tati Gabrielle)? Marienne, from beyond the women.
Neither tends to open nor series nears its end – especialy one like Youthat is always going for the Big Mic-Drop Moments, Dialogue-Wise, to the point where is spelling out every increasingly improbable fashion-we get a lot of clunky, ooooooooh Lines here, the sort of thing you can imagine say practicing in the Bathroom Mirror but that no one would be so much out loud. Such as Marianne’s Line, “You Should’ve Killed with Better, Joe,” be she e enters.
Joe’s angle is that that he’s glad marienne is alive. He’s very community to have “real” Him that is not Scary. We get another of these shouting-the-thesis-out-loud lines-“You are not a white knight, joe. He has devoted his life to saving women from abusive men!
Marienne Needs a Break, and SO will I. She Pops Upstairs, and who is at the door to money’s but louise. I was Very nervous when marienne opened the door, but fortunately, these two recagenzied Each Other. (Marienne’s Daughter “Watches a lot of tiktok.”) Marienne gives it time all with louise, talking her through the Joe Goldberg Playbook. Tati Gabrielle’s Performance Really sells it. “You’re not stupid,” she teles Louise. “And as long as you are Alive, it’s not too too.”
Downstairs, Joe Talls His Captors they’ll Never Get Away with this. Unfortunately for Him, They Actually Don’t Care; Kate is prepared to go to prison, and she has arranged for henry to be sent to his dad’s in madre Linda (thank you!). Nadia is over all this back and forth and just pulls out a gun, demanding floors open the door. Obiviously, opening the door would be a huge fucking mistake. The Women Go Upstairs for A Sidebar, Which Is Also, Obiviously, A Huge Fucking Mistake – Why Waled You Leave Alone?!
I laughed out loud at nadia saying it was “shockingly easy” to get a gun in america. The Women Agree on a Next Move: Kate Will Kill Joe Alone; The Other Women Have Been Through Too Much and Kate, the White, Privileged Member of this Trio, is prepared to do penance for her multitude of Crimes and crimally complicit. SO sees the oters away. I do’t know why everye is so intto doing things all by themselves. Can we Not see the Strengh in Numbers? Whatever Happened to Community?
Meanwhile, Joe Gets a Secret third Key to the aquarium out from inside his arm! So the injury was not from the dane attack after all! Somehow, he was able to do this with, i don’t know, getting tetanus or dying or whiten happen if you did that in real life… i alost google, “would you die or if you cut open a key inside it?” But then i thought, You know what? I can live with not knowing that.
Out in the Street: Louise is trying and failing to get dom on the phone. Maddie is pacing like a maniac Because Harrison confessed to Reagan’s Murder, Which Means She’s Out of Prison, but he’s in It for Life. Maddie cannot let this stand. She musti commmit arson.
Downstair: Kate Looks in Horror at the Empty Aquarium. Joe Bashes Her over the head with a hammer. Maddie is inside the bookstore, preparing to burn it all down. Joe Begs to be Let Out of the Basement – Just like Beck, right before he killed her – and says that kate is down, too, but maddie dosesn’t belies Him. Joe Screaming “i am Your Fucking Bo-Boo! ” is Extremely Funny.
Becuse this is tv, kate is still Alive; She Bashes Joe in the Head, and he is Also Still Alive. (We get a lot of these “My tiny, who did not die“Sequence on You.) Is Somehow Still ConScious and Coherent Enough to have a real conversation. Joe admits that he killed kate’s dad; Kate Says She Already Knew. “All Your Wives Dying in Fires,” She Says, Which Prompts Joe to Say, Well, That’s Not Actually How Love Died. He admits he poisoned her and started the fire to get rid of the evidence. Kate was recording it all and is sending that voice memo to nadia, who will get it to the Police. Great Work, for Whatever Worth!
Louise Leaves A Message for Dom: She’s Sorry, Marienne is Alive, she got Lost in her love for joe, but she sees the light. Then she realism she dosesn’t have her hellet – i swear to God – and Goes back To Moey’s Apartment (Literally Just Start a New Life, ITH’S NOT LIKE YOU HAVE ANY MONEY!) And sees that the bookstore is on fire. She Runs Inside (!) Down to the Basement (!!) Instead of Calling the Fire Department (?!?).
I burst out laughing at the music cue here. What did you think? Olivia Rodrigo’s “Vampire” Too on the Nose? Or is this kind of show-and-and-tell-u-ion-oime-to-make-we-we-reality-get story you’ve come to know and love by Series? Louise, with Her Busted Ankle, Manages to Rescue Joe from the Basement. Despite Her Certainy of His Guilt, She Does Not Want Him to Die. On the sidewalk, joe figure that as long as he’s already on his knees, he may well propose. Louise Gets the Voice-Over to TELL US SHE WANTS AND Answers, SO Says Yes. “I’m the only person in the world that can stop you.” I Mean, if she has had waited like three more minutes, the spillage COULD HAVE STOPPED HIM. If she let’s this guy slip through her fingers, I swear.
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