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Posted on August 22, 2018October 19, 2019 by booasaur

Harlots – 2×08

Tagsand everything was so organic! nothing too neatly wrapped or too unrealistically so, and yes I wanted more for amelia and violet but it's by no means resolved either that's totally open ended, and yet somehow pretty much everyone in an okay place, but given the very premise of this show unless they were going to thrust isabella and her daughter into the middle of the harlot world, charlotte wells, considering HOW MANY people were vulnerable at the start of and during the ep and how evil the bad guys were, ending with charlotte looking like that...with that lingering look at lucy and then the final shot of her face, even the other with a simple caring gesture from isabella is no longer a threat to charlotte, harlots, harlots 2x08, harlots spoilers, harlotsedit, harriet and ness solidifying their friendship, I came in with such nerves at the things that could go wrong and at pretty much every possible point the writers chose kindly and cleverly?, I'm still stunned to be honest, it really felt like a series finale and I could accept that, jessica brown findlay, lucy was redeemed; nancy got to admit she loved mags; the wells family found out mags was still alive, lydia undone once again by a male relative that was certainly ironic, of the three villains one is dead one is neutured, soooo...I'm kind of shocked at how good a season/possible series finale that was??, that was a solid season, the number of women the variety of them it allowed so many different dynamics and characterizations, there were so many loose threads and at the end of each a vulnerable woman or black man, this was all handled so gently and without making more people suffer, this was by far the best ending they could have given her, though it seems so unfair that a legitimately gritty show about women that doesn't unduly hurt them gets cancelled without much fuss, yes I'm a huge shipper and my heart thrilled at the shoulder touch and the reassurance of safety and the guarantee of charlotte's protection

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