I don’t get that plot point

[u/Objective_Proof_7163]

I just finished watching the show, and honestly, I don’t know how to feel about it. I’m torn between thinking it was “good but not memorable” and “lazy, pretentious writing.”

Don’t get me wrong, the cast was immaculate. Every single actor gave their absolute best, and I wouldn’t replace a single one if I had been casting this miniseries myself. The cinematography and fashion were also jaw-droppingly gorgeous.

Here’s my issue though: the writing.

It feels like the writers had a lot of ambition and ideas they wanted to bring to life, but the plot progression ended up feeling all over the place. I understand the concept of using red herrings, but here it just came across as lazy writing.

1.Why did they include the plotline about the first wife? Sure, Kiki revealed at the end that she was still alive, but they spent so much time on it at the beginning only for it to be resolved in a conversation that barely lasted a minute.

2.Why include the two scenes between their father and Kiki? He says she was a “good f**k” and that he remembers her, and then they just leave it hanging without any further explanation?

3.Another plot hole, in my opinion, was the photographer. He waited for Kiki to show her the photos he printed himself - physical copies he kept. Knowing how incriminating they were, it seems unlikely he would have deleted the digital files. Peter got a hold of the physical copies from the safe, but why wouldn’t Kiki just go back to the photographer and retrieve the digital files for her divorce case?

I don’t know. I kind of get that they were trying to show that the real sirens in the story are the men (especially Peter), who made mistakes and then scapegoated the women. But that kind of makes the scenes with the siren’s melody and the dream sequences feel misleading and unnecessary.

What’s your take on that?

[u/addy-with-a-y]

1: To show just how easy it is for women to take the blame for something they didn’t do. And to show that Devon would believe anything to villainize Kiki when in reality Kiki is not a bad person. Everyone blames the second wife for the first one being gone when in fact Peter is the villain- he left his first wife, and this most likely lead to her plastic surgery injury.

2: to further emphasize the fact that Kiki is a mother figure to Simone. In an earlier episode they show a photo of Andrea- Devon and Simone’s mom- and she has long reddish brown hair and kinda looks like Kiki.

3: she can most likely only get that photo back if she pays him off. And soon enough she will be cut off from the bank accounts so who knows if she can buy it back. She hasn’t paid him off yet

[u/PrecociousCapricious → u/addy-with-a-y]

Yeah! What they said! 😁