Maureen Callahan

Carolyn unhooks her seatbelt and says suggestively to John, because what's sexier than knowing you're going to die in a violent way in about two minutes?

She says sexily to John, permission to enter the cockpit and

And then she climbs into the seat next to him and she, the audio, the sound design in the scene, like you hear the perfect click of her belting herself in the perfect adjustment of her beautiful earphones with the little microphone.

Like everything is designed to sound and look dainty and elegant.

It's really fucking perverse.

It, it,

aside from the fact that this never happened, this never happened.

And then she leaves her sister alone in the backseat.

Her sister, her only use in this story, this was, by the way, a brilliant woman who worked in finance, a star.

She was going places.

Everyone loved her.

Her only function in this series is to cheerlead Carolyn to stay with John.

That's it.

And what do we see of Lauren in the backseat of this plane?

Just smiling so contentedly because the quarreling lovers are getting along again.

Now the plane warnings start going off.

And again, we're going to talk about the way this is depicted versus reality.

Real talk about fake shit.

Let's go.

everything okay yeah no you should go back to your seat i want to stay with you okay so that is that is meant to be an echo of jackie kennedy's