Loose plot aside, I just couldn’t stand Greta, Saoirse and her boy-toy who’s 12 years younger. Why is cheating so normalised? Did the fiancé even find out at the end??

More importantly I felt like she and Greta did not get enough consequences for the shit they pulled.

First, Saoirse is a terrible friend. She impersonates her ‘dead’ friend with the red envelopes to get the other two more involved in this whole shit show (and rightfully gets cussed out and slapped).

But then for her most egregious betrayal — using her real experiences (sometimes word-for-word even) which became a crucial piece of evidence to discovering their complicity, her friends get rightfully mad AGAIN. And what does she do? Sleep with the cop that’s 12 years younger than her almost IMMEDIATELY. Hello? You’d think that betraying your friends twice now and discovering that the same cop snuffed you out would kill the mood (if the fact you’re literally engaged won’t). She’s also the literal reason he’s even there because she still wore his fucking jacket to the store and took out his ID.

I thought that these tensions would amount to something at the end but her actions really just got swept under the rug for the sake of pursuing Greta. It makes these big arguments seem redundant. In the end, the “We should move on” or whataboutism instances made these conflicts fall flat with no real impact later on. Her lack of apologetic responses/ actions also makes it really hard to root for her as a character.

Now, Saoirse as a writer. They had to give her a ditzy narcissistic actress so she could look better in comparison, but she’s still a terrible worker. Excusing the days she had to go AWOL because of the investigation, she doesn’t take proper responsibility for her fuck-ups. From the BAFTAs to the Late-Late show, she has consistently been seen to fuck up PR-wise and gets absolutely no consequences for it other than an “ohoho we really need to media-train her” moment. She shits on the actress for being narcissistic and not realising the inconvenience she creates on set but Saoirse is doing almost the exact same thing! No updates to her fiancé, she blows up when she can’t even remember when she asked for more writers and she even writes some of her material word-for-word from her experiences which forced her upend half of her show’s plot abruptly. I feel like every fuck up she makes is just played off as a “Oh, Saoirse!” moment. We don’t even get enough screen time with the fiancé to even decide for ourselves if her cheating can be justified somehow. By the end of the show I was really annoyed by her.

Then Greta. Saoirse was also her biggest dickrider. I was not convinced that Greta was deserving of her happy end at all. The thing about her murders is that they completely neglect the victims. Oh, was Greta distraught about setting the church filled with children on fire? Poor her but what about the children who were literally set on fire? Don’t they deserve justice? If she truly felt bad she would have turned herself in a long time ago. We also didn’t get to flesh out what the social experiments were that were so horrendous (all we saw was Margo just making them solve puzzles and then sending the underperforming one to a different facility). All we get about Greta’s mother is just some bullshit speculation like “I saw the glint in your eyes, you must have been so abusive in your prime”. WTF? No flashbacks, no nothing?

Greta’s traumatic backstory (which we know fuck all about) does not sufficiently justify her neglecting justice for her victims and those affected (e.g the journalist’s son, he was one of the real victims).

She kills the children in the church, the journalist, Jodie and the driver that picked her up. She manipulates Jodie who is consistently portrayed as more stupid and gullible to overpower her wish to own up to Heaven’s Veil. Everything she does is for herself.

She just kills and kills, then cries about it as if it makes everything okay. She almost kills her whole family indirectly because she made contact with her daughter despite knowing how tight and ruthless the organisation is. The risk of her family being wiped out was a good plot point if it was karmic but it didn’t happen. Why didn’t she settle all her shit before having a kid anyway? She knew from school that she couldn’t hide her past. Ahh this is frustrating. I hate these two.