But the scene then takes a turn: He passes out, and dies there on the spot.
She’s still so defeated.
“What the f is wrong with you?”
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June asks her, after gushing that Moira made it to Canada.
Emily barely musters a response.
It’s time."
Suddenly, however, Lydia calls Serena into the bedroomand informs her it’s a false labor.
If only it were really a win for June.
June, still grinning, says it’s for the best.
Fred is outraged and banishes her.
“You have no idea what it is like to have a child of your own flesh and blood.
And you never will.”
It’s what always sets them off, particularly when it comes to requests about Hannah.
Here, though, they take it further than they ever have beforebeyond monstrous, closer to evil.
They call it “the most natural way.”
In a show full of them, it’s one of the most uncomfortable and brutal scenes to date.
The camera stays on her for nearly a minute, in the agonizing stillness.
And even that doesn’t mark her finest work in “The Last Ceremony.”
Slowly they find their way back to one another.
It is devastatingly human, and Moss is just stunningly raw.
But goodness is it difficult to sit through.
In any case: We’re left with a different kind of horror to close things out.
(She’s also aware, implicitly, of his feelings for June.)
He’s thrown into a truck and driven off.
There are lots of intriguing plot threads left dangling by the time we cut to black.
But all I could think was: Can this show get any darker?
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