#that she thinks hürrem is trying to mirror it with nigar

[redxluna]

In a bit of a spin off from this parallel made by @hurremology​, it seems relevant to note how Hürrem is able to accept the confidences of servants previously at odds with her, slowly but surely bringing them over to her. Which, for a woman often cast as the most vindictive of the lot, stands out.

By comparison, this is one of the rare moments where I have to apply a quote about Cersei Lannister to Mahidevran rather than Hürrem—“She never forgets a slight, real or imagined.” 

Because, in re-watching moments from the first season in particular, how Mahidevran targets Nigar is largely over an internalized slight rather than a true one. It leaves her, overall, unable to believe that even things done by Nigar that are less biased or outright kind, are falsehoods, not to be trusted (this is the clearest example).