Maureen Callahan

And what they are doing is trying to recover this bullshit fairy tale that is so dangerous.

And you know who it's most dangerous for?

Women.

who are being told to normalize being blamed for things that their men do, even if that results in them getting killed, and to also accept terrible behavior from a man that they're dating or that they choose to get engaged to or to marry or to have children with because that's just how they are.

It's really, really insidious, dangerous sludge, okay?

So this episode opens with John and Carolyn talking to their marital therapist.

And Carolyn is recounting her recurring nightmare, which this never, this is not part of the historical record.

None of her friends have ever said she had this recurring nightmare.

The writers made it up and put it in her mouth and it's sacrilege.

In this dialogue, the Carolyn character says, I have a recurring nightmare in which I am John's mother.

in the back seat of that convertible in Dallas on the day of the assassination.

And I'm wearing the pink Chanel suit and the pink pillbox hat and his blood gets all over me.

Subtle.

It's sacrilege to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

Sacrilege.

Then the therapist advises a trial separation and listen, the gall, the gall of these writers to put these words in a character's mouth, knowing what's coming in this episode.

Here we go.

Your advice for our marriage is

Maybe if you severed contact for a little while, you would gain a clearer idea of what you're missing or what your life would actually look like without the other.

Yeah, like one, two weeks.