Telegraph: Slightly Sloppy Writing

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So I loved the penultimate episode of this season. It was, I believe, a fitting setup to what I hope must be an epic finale.

I had an issue, however, with the shooting of the MIB’s daughter. Look- I am not one of those people who love to nit pick each decision by the show writers. They’re brilliant at their jobs and I do not feign to be half as capable as they are. That being said, I too was hanging on the edge of my seat when the MIB was having his last discussion with his daughter. I sat there having a full blown discussion with my television:”He a host. Oh fuck she’s a host. Oh wait she’s real! Come on it’s obvious she’s real.” You get the picture. My issue is not that he shit his daughter, but the sloppy decision making that convinced him he had to.

We see earlier in the episode that the director takes GREAT CARE to show us Ford handing William his Amex Platinum Card / W/ profile. They take great care to show William slipping the profile into an old book on his credenza. They take great care to show Williams wife removing it, reading it, realizing the true side to her husbands alter- ego, and thoughtfully placing it in her daughter’s jewelry box.

If you are William- and your wife commits suicide the night that you admit to her the truth in what you are- that you are a toxic cancer, someone who has always had an evil soul trapped in a titan of industry and philanthropists body, you place the ONE tangible object known in the real world that contains the most detailed minutia on your real identity in your bedroom in a very specific hiding place. Assumingly, after your wife kills herself, and you and your daughter wax endlessly about how this night was no different than any other (but you KNOW) why it was, you don’t think to go and retrieve the Holy Grail containing the most personal, precious, lewd, and lecivous, honest, and intricate data on you from your ultra specific hidey-hole?

When finally confronting his daughter and accusing her to be Ford, William (arguably the second most prepared/intellectual/inside-knowledge filled) guy in all of WW next to Ford can’t bring himself to consider the fact that when she begins to spout off only details contained in his profile, that maybe just maybe, she had found it and read it!? It was given to him by Ford. His arch nemesis. He didn’t destroy it. He knew it existed. Somewhere. In the real world. He lost it- or so he thought- or he just had it hidden in a BOOK in his master bedroom? Is that really where you would put your own personal version of the 18 missing minutes of the Watergate tapes for eternity? I know he has become detached from reality- but for a character who is always a step or two ahead of everyone, this was a weak plot hole and just sloppy in my opinion. I did not and will not believe that Williams psychological disorder is so prevelant so as to override his well known and respected logic and problem solving skills. It had to or should have occurred to him that his daughter got her hands on his profile.

Anyways- can’t wait to hear your Deep Dive on this episode. Keep up the amazing work- and tell Keri Gross that she is a welcome addition to the show. YouTube is for trolls.

Best,
Mitch

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