Mallory Rubin

Yeah, perhaps.

And then, you know, it would hold together.

You wouldn't see the tape from the front.

You would see the scars, but it would just be some additional thematic resonance.

I was thinking of Buck's wig again when he and Heather were talking about how like they don't have a lot of people anymore.

And I was like, no one remembers that hair then.

That's something.

You know, that's something.

The Karen wig was remarkable.

I do wonder, is it possible that it was a deliberate creative choice to make it that glaring and that galling so that we were really focused on it?

When it was then dramatically snatched.

As you know, I had some questions about Karen's journalistic integrity in the first series.

Yeah.

I don't think that the Matt-Karen conversations were very good in this episode.

Or very successful.

I think that there is a version of this that could work.

Yes.

Because...

So it's more about the execution than the kind of, like, core idea or intention, as is so often the case, of course.

I think that Karen, over the years, you know, if we think back to something like... Not just the stuff that is actively invoked in these scenes, like what she went through with Wesley, which, again, like, I kind of quickly mentioned that last week, but that was on my mind when we just were watching her, like...