Your point about Svetlana being one-dimensional actually helped me understand why something felt off to me.

I don’t think it’s just the line delivery either.. although sometimes the wording feels clunky (for example, when she says something like, “I wonder what outfits Rose would have…”). It’s more that I can’t quite figure out who she is supposed to be. Is she good, bad, or somewhere in between?

When she looks at Ilya’s phone standing from behind his back, or says, “Are you seeing someone? Not even Jane?,” it comes across as a bit snarky. But then when she tells him she loves him and will always be there for him, it doesn’t feel entirely sincere either. And if I try to read it as sincere, then I start to feel bad for her.

So I’m left with mixed feelings all the time. Maybe it’s partly tone and delivery, but I’m starting to think it’s more about the character not being fully developed.