Penultimate The Honourable Woman
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shallownessThe Honourable Woman - episode 7
BARKING!
At the top of the episode, I was thinking ‘She has agreed’ could refer to one of many and wasn’t it good that there were so many female characters it could refer to? Maybe I was growing suspicious of Atika, wondering if she was the 'she' in question. I was certainly wondering what Rachel would be doing next. But I’m sure I can’t be the only one who didn’t think ‘she has agreed’ referred to who it referred to. (Although IRL using such a phrase would be tenuous evidence, but obviously, enough for Hugh, the dog fetching the ball, step by step.)
I’m not quite sure what the Americans are meant to be getting at here and is Monica going to know, really. I’m thinking beyond having a puppet in charge of the Stein Group. Probably Julia or Hugh will drag it out of someone.
On to more tangible things, I was rooting for Nessa when she told the English rapist’s wife. And how sickening that he was blaming Nessa, the victim? Knowing more than Frances, I wasn’t sure if it was wise to trust Nessa – obviously she was acting to try to save Kasim. As for whether that’s the best thing in the bigger picture, quite possible not.
Oh, HUGH, having been so smart, he hadn’t figured out that Nessa was Kasim’s mother!? Not even from the pictures of Nessa and Atika at the time of the kidnapping!?
Anyway, good on Nessa also for keeping an eye on Mr Imodium, even if she was driven by desperation for this to go right so that Kasim could be freed rather than having paranoid antennae.
I couldn’t believe the show was going where it was going at that point.
But it was. Atika and Ephra were doing the slowest getaway ever (and we had plenty of time to watch the contrast between Nessa in white and Atika in black, even to the interior decoration surrounding them). Like I said, I was suspicious of Atika, even before that symbolism and the reminder of her feelings for Kasim, her foster son, or when she was questoning Ephra or we were reminded that Ephra was a Jew and she was an Arab.
So that she betrayed Ephra wasn’t entirely a surprise, or that Rachel had got suspicious. But that we ended up with a heavily pregnant woman shooting her adulterous husband’s killer with a shotgun.
!?!? has to be your response to that.
Still, whatever Atika is up to – and it seems that she agreed to help ‘the Palestinians’ for the kid??? So she's chosen Kasim over Ephra for whom she seemed to hold a torch for so long. Maybe? - she really did keep it together, protecting Rachel and her unborn child and remembering the Stein girls.
I am presuming that Nessa is not dead, just injured. If this were a Hollywood film, it’d just be a fetching scar, I expect it to be worse than that (although remember Nathaniel’s miraculous recovery from the first gunshot?) Surely, Hugh’s advice about trusting Shlomo will come into play in the last episode.
Finally, it appears that the former Mrs Hugh really did invite him to spy on her for relationship reasons, not plot ones.
BARKING!
At the top of the episode, I was thinking ‘She has agreed’ could refer to one of many and wasn’t it good that there were so many female characters it could refer to? Maybe I was growing suspicious of Atika, wondering if she was the 'she' in question. I was certainly wondering what Rachel would be doing next. But I’m sure I can’t be the only one who didn’t think ‘she has agreed’ referred to who it referred to. (Although IRL using such a phrase would be tenuous evidence, but obviously, enough for Hugh, the dog fetching the ball, step by step.)
I’m not quite sure what the Americans are meant to be getting at here and is Monica going to know, really. I’m thinking beyond having a puppet in charge of the Stein Group. Probably Julia or Hugh will drag it out of someone.
On to more tangible things, I was rooting for Nessa when she told the English rapist’s wife. And how sickening that he was blaming Nessa, the victim? Knowing more than Frances, I wasn’t sure if it was wise to trust Nessa – obviously she was acting to try to save Kasim. As for whether that’s the best thing in the bigger picture, quite possible not.
Oh, HUGH, having been so smart, he hadn’t figured out that Nessa was Kasim’s mother!? Not even from the pictures of Nessa and Atika at the time of the kidnapping!?
Anyway, good on Nessa also for keeping an eye on Mr Imodium, even if she was driven by desperation for this to go right so that Kasim could be freed rather than having paranoid antennae.
I couldn’t believe the show was going where it was going at that point.
But it was. Atika and Ephra were doing the slowest getaway ever (and we had plenty of time to watch the contrast between Nessa in white and Atika in black, even to the interior decoration surrounding them). Like I said, I was suspicious of Atika, even before that symbolism and the reminder of her feelings for Kasim, her foster son, or when she was questoning Ephra or we were reminded that Ephra was a Jew and she was an Arab.
So that she betrayed Ephra wasn’t entirely a surprise, or that Rachel had got suspicious. But that we ended up with a heavily pregnant woman shooting her adulterous husband’s killer with a shotgun.
!?!? has to be your response to that.
Still, whatever Atika is up to – and it seems that she agreed to help ‘the Palestinians’ for the kid??? So she's chosen Kasim over Ephra for whom she seemed to hold a torch for so long. Maybe? - she really did keep it together, protecting Rachel and her unborn child and remembering the Stein girls.
I am presuming that Nessa is not dead, just injured. If this were a Hollywood film, it’d just be a fetching scar, I expect it to be worse than that (although remember Nathaniel’s miraculous recovery from the first gunshot?) Surely, Hugh’s advice about trusting Shlomo will come into play in the last episode.
Finally, it appears that the former Mrs Hugh really did invite him to spy on her for relationship reasons, not plot ones.
