Seriously, whatever else everyone was going through, it wasn’t alllll this together.
There are a bunch of asks about the ending and I was gonna do them as a batch but I was just watching random scenes before bed and ended on the finale and man, the way it built up, with the mom going, I gave you everything you asked for but I wasn’t going to let you take my daughter and Dana smirking at that and you JUST HAD THAT INKLING WHERE IT WAS GOING, all the previous moments starting to come together, when she “knew” to pick up Sterling from the lock-in and was so oddly proud and was like I guess it’s mother’s intuition, and then asked for a hug.
AND THEN IT WENT INTO TWIN VISION, for characters other than Blair and Sterling and it was like, well, of course they’d have it too, and then their convo and the audience knowing what was coming, and Debbie and Anderson, and then heartbreakingly, BLAIR realized before Sterling and as you said, that “No” and reaching out for Sterling’s hand before Dana dropped the bomb. Aaah, it was so well done.