Full Circle
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I expected anticlimax, sure: This has never been a show concerned with traditional or predictable narrative shape.
But Louis and Nat have their work cut out for them.
She can start to right her wrongs by helping this young man return to Essequibo.
The biggest scars will be psychological.
After that, the episode refocuses on the Brownes Sam Browne specifically.
Claire Danes is careful and controlled in the moment, never crossing into hysteria or melodrama.
It happened at 1:11 A.M., of course, at a nearby park.
But its a life-changing moment for Sam, especially because her indirect death toll includes Manny.
From here, though, she sort of just … learns her lesson.
Without doing something, shed never be able to look at Jared the same.
In fact, Essequibo frames Sam as the main character of this whole story in retrospect.
That includes Mel, who cant reapply for any law enforcement position for another year.
But that doesnt feel quite right for such a deliberately messy, morally jagged story.
That was a privilege the underpaid, disrespected, traumatized staff wasnt afforded.
A boy still died, and his grandfather is still here grieving.
But the tragedy doesnt feel as acute as it should.
Its like that unbroken chalk circle left by Mr. Willoughby: full but with nothing inside.
Elliptical Thoughts
Its always about money, money, money.
Well, thats what pays for things.
That feels like a real missed opportunity.
(Or it came together too much.)
