Mallory Rubin

Hot Who Among Us.

I wrote multiple times.

When she chose to, in the moment before.

Attempting to shoot him in the head.

That was compelling.

I understood that.

And then Dex obviously trying to work her, right, and manipulate her into the outcome that he is seeking, and then the fact that she kind of was willingly... It works on her in a way that it didn't with Madge.

Yeah, and she's like... It's not even like he's like, oh, I have manipulated you because I'm such a master at this.

She's like, I want that too, so I'm allowing you to lead me into this place, even though I know that that is what's happening.

dex will be handcuffed shirtlessly to a cot and did it make you think of spike uh manacled in the bathtub in buffy the vampire slayer season four it did and then you put that gif in our notes so it did again but like but my question was did you think of it before yeah i mean it's just you know again you have a type and it's very clear it's very clear

So, yeah, I don't know.

The Karen-Matt stuff is, like, not really working this season, I don't think, which is a bummer because I was very eager for their relationship to be centered again.

I guess I think it works better here, maybe.

Because we have the kind of pivot point from grief to rage, which feels like an effective beat to have lingered in for a minute where we're just like, we are mourning.

This tragic thing has happened.

We end in that dark, desperate place.

And then very quickly, we open there.

We're with him.

He's by her bedside.

He's crying.