#tbh reminds me of how good black sails is at making you like whoever they want you to like at any given point

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I love that Imelda Goldfinch went from "mildly unsettling, probably evil but I'm going to hold out judgment before I decide whether she's intentionally malicious or has just bought into the zealotry too hard" to "oh she is EVIL evil, actively, willfully, terrifyingly zealous evil" instantly this season.

It's very fun because it also immediately puts you on the side of both Weepe and Jonas Spahr, both of whom looked very bad at the end of season 1. But I think it's also the first time we get a look into Jonas's head, and find that it is very similar to Phineas's, and that also adds a whole extra layer of "you are also partially a victim here, and you just might actually be on the verge of starting to recognize it." (And honestly, I wonder if Jonas, who does not necessarily feel like he needs to struggle for some kind of external validation, may recognize it faster than Phineas now that he's really seeing the effects up close and personal.)

This show is fascinating for how terrible all of the characters are yet also how simple they make it to identify who is simply terrible and who is terrible because there are only shit choices in the world of Midst.