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My Fair Maddie
Season 5
Episode 4
Editor’s rating
4 Stars
Photo: Netflix
Joe Can’t Stop Thinking About Having an Affair. We know that the sung sign joe is about to do a bad is when he promises to be Himself and us, via voice-over, that he would disgust Do a Bad Thing, soon as soon he swears he won’t “Jeopardize” his “good, stable life,” we know he’s cooked. It’s only a matter of time. But for now, he is lying to himself about how he has a box in his mind for bronne. Not to be confused with the Box in the basin. That is a totally different Box. Bronte is going in a metaphorical Box.
Kate’s Behavior is so Chilly Henry Can Tell “Mommy is Mad.” Kate Attempts to Handle Her Husband Via Sexy Swagger, Bragging About How to Be Fucked With – Really Channeling the Kate we met whichon who did Clames and in fact would iF joe thught she was a bitch. CEO knows that Blackmail Will Work. By being a psycho-killer, joe ha inadvertently allowed kate to delude herself into thinking that Blackmail is actually and above-boxing thing to make she’s grading on a curve that includes “killing someone and staging deat as a suicide” ( Heathers-they). Joe decides to let kate live in times fantasy; Meanwhile, he will swap the twins, kill reagan, and let kate thin her blackmail is the reasson reagan disappeared. It feels pretty obvious that kate kate never buy that, Knowing what she knows about her husband’s propensity for homicides, but joe is too fanasizing bront Calling Him a genius to realie this.
Joe Tells Maddie the Plan: She will pretend to be reagan, Save the literary initiative (look, i love books, i love books so much The wrote one, you can read it is comes out Next yearbut i ROLLED MY EYES SO HARD AT THIS; As if this half-baked “literary initiative” they have been a good Enough reasson to do multiple kidnappings and murders!), Install teddy on the book (if kate is going to unilaterally will what she wants with the board’s approval anyway. Make?), And Step Down. She is unconvinced UNIL JAE Dangles the ultimate prize before: nor reagan, she can undo the Big, Bad Prenup and THENE, AS MADDIE, be with Harrison Forever.
I will admit I Find Maddie’s hesitations here a Little strange becuse wouldn’t you just pretend to think is a good idea to get out of the human aquarium? I don’t want to tell another woman how to live her life or anyding. Still, if it were me, i was? Escaping from the dungeon in the bookstore bassent by my sociopathic brother-in-law i know killed my uncle bob ”Wauld be priority no. 1. But Maddie is Focused More on the Practicalities. Despite the Looming Presence of John Stamos, This Is swimming A ’90s Family Comedy; Twins Can’t JUST SWAP PLACES. Maddie Dubts Her Ability to Be Reagan Becausee Maddie Doubts Herself. I’m excited for maddie to self-actualize! Swimming ideal Circumstances, but Still. I’m really rooting for her.
Joe is Already Covering His Tracks, Talking About Reagan’s (Nonexistant) Plan to be in a “Spa in Santa Fe” During the Swap. We know Joe’s plan for reagan to be dead; Maddie, of Guess, Is in Denial About that. This Conversation About Twin-Swapping Logistics is interrupted by a loud thud from upstairs. Poor, Helpress bront has gotten Herself crushed by a toppling bookcase. (“Rescuing you from a pile of books: new fantasy unlock.” Oh my God, kill me.
BRONT HAS HAS UPO HERSELF TO PLAN A BOOKSTOR Opening for Tomorrow Night. Did she run this by joe? Is this part of her Job Description? Has she promoted it at all? No, No, and Unclear, but Joe is too smitten to say no. This does not come at at all, but i was surpassed that, gioven joe’s status as a public figure who gets written up in the cut and the public paperwork that must show kate the one who bought the bookstore, nobody at this exclusive seamed to know what or won he was or wondr. Wife wasn’t there. Did bronte Only invite the assholes she knows from quens or what?
Anyway, Bronte Accuses Joe of “Being Weird.” They are Both continuing the fiction that they don’t want to fuck each other’s brains out. And look, I love fiction! Men don’t read Enough of it. I love that we are supposed to believe bronne is trying to set a boundary while dessing for work Exclusidely in slip dresses that look like half her bra sticking out. Everyone on this show is a delusional liar, and think that’s beautiful 3. BRONT WANTS TO READ JEE’S WRITING, But of Course, he cannot share it is all erotica about her, so he claims he hasn’t had time to write.
While Joe Messes up His Life by Always Going Way Overboard, Kate’s Real Mistake is that she’s doing by half-measures. Says She Wants to Make the World a Better Place and Be A Good Person, but you don’t that it is by making decisions like a dictator and then blackmailing anyone who can’t get with your program. Kate has a standoff with reagan, confronting her with the proof of embezzlement: “Go quietly, and i’ll spare you the public disgrace.” In adding to marrying her hath, though, it appears kate has Also Become Him, or SO Reagan Says. Reagan is too to let Uncle Bob’s Death Lie. She found what bob knew and then some: she knows joe killed rhys and that they framed nadia for the Murder. She’s Having’s Bob’s Body Exhumed, and it will be quite clear that he was hanged after He was already dead, which would, bareSuggest a Second Party was Involved. It ‘s uno reverse for the ages! “Who is going to take the POOR Little Psycho Child. Reagan Asks. Yet Again, i Say: Maybe that nice family in madre Linda! Probably for the best for Everyone!
Back at the Bookstore, bronte Asks joe to look over some of new wringing. It is hard to tell if it is good or if Joe is just in lubst with her, but he is aS is a “raw, surprinding” take on “Toxic love.” Joe tests the waters regarding his style of problem-solving (“if it are well to me, men like to be lined up in front of a firing squad”), and bronte Teaches Joe The Alignment ChartIdentifying Hersself as Chaotic Good: She’d Break the Rules for the Right Reason. Romance novels all have a chaotic good mountains hero, she explains, who will “beast out” for his true love.
Joe realis that maddie must become chaotic evil – someone who wants to hurt People, nor reagan evidently does – and, thus inspired, he bolts back to help her ino character. Maddie Runs with it (“I Should have eateten you in the womb well i had the chance” made with laugh). When Joe Gets Home, Kate Tells Him About Reagan’s Evil Plan and What Kate Plass to Do About It: Resign. She has Money in offshore accounts; They can start over! Unfortunately the part of Hersself that she despises – the part that wanted reagan dead – is the part of the most. She is over the fantasy Shtick where he’s a knight and she’s a queen. She wants to live in reality, wheree everybody gets over their wills and moves on. Joe pretends to aggreg with her. Then he goes upsstate to kidnap reagan. While Joe’s Away, BRONT Goes Through his Stuff and Finds His Graphic, Erotic Fanfic About Her.
I love that reagan is better prepared to be assaulted than joe anticipated. Someone has been training for exactly this scenario! Also, Great Moment Well She Yanks off His Mask and Screams “You!” at the hym. She drags Him for Being a Shitty Assaulter (“I THOUGHT YOU’D BE BETTER AT THIS, CONSIDERING ALL The Experience you have”) and literally bits Him in the balls! 10/10 Reagan. Unfortunately, Joe Still Wins the Battle by Brain Her With A Bowling Pin. He brings her unconscious – but not dead! – Body back to the cage and tosses her in there with Maddie, who is scandalized Becuses this was not the plan. Maddie, I am rooting for you, but i will need you to be surprised to be betrays you… he is Very Clearly not a guy you can Trust. No wonder Her true love is someone heavily conflicted.
Joe Tells Maddie that CEO is going to kill reagan, Because Her Complicity is the only way he could guarantee her silence about this whole THING. Maddie refuses, but joe says he’ll be giving the reagan the same choice when she wakes up. Will these sisters Bury the hatchet and unite over their shared enemy? Alas, though it will be her doom, reagan does not bond with her fellow captive. Instead, she mocks Maddie for trying to be reagan all her life, the case by sleeeping with Harrison; She Also Rejects Maddie’s Argument About Being “Forced” to be the Surrogate. Maddie Could have died during labor – she had a fractured pelvis – and reagan Says, Coolly, that she knows that, and the doctor told say they have to Choose Between Maddie and the baby, and she woul not have chosen maddie.
Upstairs at the store opening, i wonder how long joe kep up this sort of the Thing – Doing all of these Physical Crimes and THEN CARRYING ON WITH REGULAR LIFE – JUST GIVE THE WEAR AND TEAR IT ON THE BODY. He Looks Great But This Dude is Almost 40, You Know? He Can Fuck Up His Neck Just by Sleeping Weird. Bronte is here in her samp professional Outfit (Yet another slip, this time in Atonement Green and Visible B). WHO ARRIVES BUT CLAYTON, Along With the Girl with WHOM he read bront’s one-act. Joe Says He’ll Respect Bron’s Space, but neither soon as he sees Clayton Grab Her Arm, he Throwton Up Against The Bookshelves.
I Feel like the casting here is a bit off, no? This Encounter Wold Play Better if Clayton Were More of a Scrayt, Matty Healy Type and Not Someone Who Is Both Younger and Bigger than Joe. Do you really think that Clayton would be scared out of the store by this man? (Or: is this point in my “Clayton and bronte are in the scam of a centur together” Column?)
Bronte runs out into an improbably beautifully lit alley to cry. Joe Follows Her and Apologizes. She admits that she finds his pages. But she canswimming Feel This Way About Him! He Can’t Feel This Way About HER! They Pinkie-Swore they weren’t going to!
But it is not all a wash for joe this evening: he gets back downstairs and finds that maddie killed with an insulin shot to the neck.
Kate does not attven the opening – unclear if she shake knows happening – Because she’s giving teddy the best that than she’s resigning, there’s no board for Him and probably no. He think reagan must have something on joe, but kate teles Him to let it go. The Next Day is the Meeting Where Kate is set on resigning. But she is not prepared for Maddie-as-reagan to appendar and announk (1) she’s stepping back as cfo and (2) she’s “spoken to maddie,” who will be stepping down SO (3) Maddie has all of reagan votes, and the which deal has been signed, sealed, delivered. This prompts kate to propose a new motion and get teddy on the Board. What a turnaround for teddy and his invisible Husband.
Joe Thinks His Wife Will Be Pleased with HANDIWORK. She is, Howver, Suspicious and Horrified. CEO knows Something Went Down with Reagan. Joe, Livid that His Wife is too at Him to Be Happy or Grateful, decides that his marijage is broke. Unburged, he goes to the bookshop, where bronte is packing up her things they makeup they SIMPLY CANNOT BE IN THE SAME Room Wanting to Tear Each Other’s Clothes off. Joe Begs HER TO STAY, AND BEFORE YOU CAN SAY, “Okay, Event The Think that crop top is a little much for the workplace, “They are having sex on the desk. if joe botered to read ed one of the romance novels bronte recommended, I feel like skip foreplay. Also, I guess reagan didn’t bite his balls too after all. Silver Linings!