Emma Fraser is a freelance contributor to Marie Claire. A reporter and critic with 15 years of experience, she covers television and movies, with a specialty in costume design and TV history. From the moment Emma first watched The X-Files, My So-Called Life, and E.R., she wanted to pull back the curtain of this industry.
What if your breakthrough success resulted from a tragedy within your community? Maddie Morgenstern faces this ethical conundrum in the. Set in 1966, two different murders in her Baltimore neighborhood inspire Maddie to make a bold leap from a dissatisfied housewife to an intrepid reporter. But in this adaptation of Laura Lippman's 2019, showrunner Alma Har'el never positions Maddie as a flawless hero driven by selfless reasons on a quest to break the glass ceiling.
woman in the lake. Serving as the narrator, Cleo's distaste toward Maddie's reporter-savior positioning is clear:"You said you knew who took my life from me, Maddie Morgenstern. You said no one cared until you came along. Truth is, you came at the end of my story and turned it into your beginning." Questioning Maddie's intention from the jump sets the tone, and guarantees audiences question her agenda throughout the season.
Rather than slink away when Allan demands she leave, Maddie insists her only agenda is to find out what happened to Tessie. Not that Allan agrees:"Everybody here knows the truth. You're trying to recover your lost dreams, and you want to use the body of my dead child to do it," he spits with fury. Maddie's teenage son Seth even sides with Allan, but her actions read as naive more than calculated.
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