‘Nine Perfect Strangers’ Recap, Season 2, Episode 7

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Martin has lost it. Who Can Blame Him? He told Masha as soon as she reached at Zauberwald that he was to be the method to her madness, but the task has more difficult than he got imagined. Masha May Be Callouse Against Guests Nearly Dying From “Medication,” but it rattles martin to see Victoria have what he called an “Adverse reaction. It Rattles Him so Much, in Fact, that he basically becomes the joker.

“Mergers and Acquisitions” is the penultimate episode of a season that never settled into a propulsive rhythm. Every episode has contained at Least One Twist – this Week, We Learn That Martin Is He Helrena Son and The “Righteous” Heir to Zauberwald – which has interrupted and that one event is leading to the next. Theree’s a Documentary About the Making of South Park – Bear with me-in Which Trey Parker, The Show’s Co-Creator, Talks About a Rule of Rewriting That Replaces “Ands” with “Buts” or “Therefores.” Something happens, therefore, The Next Thing Happens, butt The Other Thing Happens. I’ll refrain from MAKING A Qualitative Comparison of the Two Shows, But That’s A Good Insight, and Nine Perfect Strangers Suffers from a lethal case of “ands.” Masha Comes Up Against a Limitation, andn we find out that he Helena is dead, andn we find out she was martin’s mother, andn The Conversation with Matteo That Could’ve Sent Masha in A Different Direction Might As Never Have Happened, Since It Has Zero Consequence.

That said, and to be fair, Martin’s Joker moment has ben in the work. Through some flashback exposition, we learn that Helena was a Harsh Mother. SO FAR, WE’D ONLY SEEN THE TWO OF THE INTERACT ALONE WHEN MARTTER FIRST HIS DOUBTS ABOUT MASHA IN EPISODE THREE, WHICH, IN HINTSIGHT, IS Totally bizarre – unbeknownst to us, that conversation took in the past. Back then, Martin World About What Wold Happen If Masha Failed. “She won’t fail,” Helena assured, “Becausea She doesn’t Fail, Unlike Some People of Know. ” Yikes.

Later, Bedridden, Helena Told a Still-Long-Haired Masha that Martin Just Didn’t Have the Vision or the Charm (?) To Lead A Finanibly Struggling Zauberwald, WHICH IS WHY SHE CHOSE TO MAVES TO MASHA. It May Well Be That Martin Doesn’t Have Masha’s Hubris, but at Least He Has Some Heart – Sitting by the fireplace, he tells agnes that he’s also hating a crisis of Faith. Victoria’s seizure was a byproduct of his cowardice, he says, Because and ben Blindly Following Masha’s Orders when he’s known that they Might be harmful. He’s “Trying to Undersand: AM I CAPABLE OF EVIL?” Agnes doesn’t like hearing this, as she tells brian late – Ever Since she lost those at the hospital, shen at pains to avoid anymore for any reason whatsoever; It Only Makes Her FEEL WORKS WORK TRIAN TELLS HER’D TRUST HERE HIS LIFE.

Crisis of Faith or Not, Martin is About Ready to Flip His Shit. When the rest of the GROUP ASKS ABOUT VICTORIA, THESE TURNS FULLY ON MASHA – he tells everyone that she has degraded his family legacy to a grandouse, which hopes to end with David’s Money. “This Who Retreat Was About Seducing An Investor,” he seethes. He tells everyone Masha “DUPED” His Mother to Get Zauberwald, Who Worked Because Helena Was Narcisistically Enamored with Masha’s Healing – She was the One Who “Flattered Her See Masha Thrive. David gets a rise out of martin by calling the “Masha’s assistant” and tells Him the reason he’s not in charge of Zauberwald is that, evidently, he can’t handle the pressure. Nor they argue – at one point, in the case in German – Moments BetWeen Martin and Helena, Then Helena and Masha, Flash on the Screen to really Hone in the point that martin suffers an inferiority complex Becuse his mother gave her him appproval.

That’s something Peter Knows a Thing or Two About. The desperate Need for A Parent’s Validation Summarizes All of His Psychology, As Well As Imogen’s. While martin and david go at it in the drawing room, Peter tells in the library that if they’re’re going to go ino business together, she should know that david buys what he d understand so that it has any power over Him. He Advises That She SHOULD KNOW WHAT I WANTS FROM DAVID, Becuse as soon as he’s lifted the curtain on her tricks, he’ll split.

Imogen, Meanwhile, Wonders to Matteo How Come Victoria Hasn’t Told Her About the Als Diagnosis, Thought Three’ve Only Talked Three or Four Times in The Last Year. When Victoria Up Later, They Share a Nice Moment – IT Starts Out Contentious, with imogen demanding to know why Victoria didn’t say anything, but ultimately, imogen opens up: it was hard enough, and it’ll be worse to loose vicitoria. They Hold Hands, which is spreads Why imogen is unusually less bitter than peter weyed outside. He is mad at his “Shitty, Shitty” Father for Turning Their Bonding Trip Into A Business Opportunity.

I want to pause here and contrast these characters’ daddy and mommy willsives. Out of the Bunch, Martin is the Most Compelling Becouse and Hasn’t Been Talking About His Need for His Mother’s Approval Incestantly; We’ve Known Him as a cautious, if insecure, man, devoted to science above ego, so learning About his upbringing reveals a new layer of his character. All we’ve knows of imogen and peter, meanwhile, is that they want to love by their parents. We know this not Because of How’ve ACTED, but because it’s the only thing they talk about. When Victoria and imogen have a nice moment, or a peter turns on his fater, that reveals not. Martin’s Need to Please HIS MOTHER LED HIM TO FOLLOW MASHA’S ORDERS AT THE EXPENSE OF HIS OWN JUDGMENT, arrefore He freaked out. Imogen and Peter Came to the Retreat with Preconceived Ideas of What Would Happen andn They Met Each Other andn Their Worst Fears About What Wold Happen Came True Anyway.

AFTER MOST OF THE GUSTTS Go to Bed, Martin Breaks a Vase and Steps on the Sharks while Looking Straight At The Camera – Which, We Know at this Point, Means Looking Straight at Masha. LOING IT, he stomps to the Lab and Starts Brewing a Concion at the Same Time that Masha DES the SAME From Office. Her Mushroom Blend is EyeBalled, Measured on Instinct; Martin Weighs and Grinds and users Equipment, All while Yelling and Dancing Crazily Around the Lab. She sips het tea, summoning Helena to come to her; He chugs his. Lying on the Floor, he Yells: “I Have Feelings!” Towards the End of the Episode, He’s Still Lying there, Drooling, When Helena Comes The Lab, Surpring Him.

IT’S good that he in there are so he doesn’t see the Dementad scheming masha is up to. Last Week, after Victoria’s Seizure, Helena Instructed HER to Call off Whatever Plans She Had Made for “The Grand Final;” But when you sees her, Helena Only Sighs: “So You’re Going Through with it.” The Plan Begins with Masha Telling David That She Will Give Him A “Large Dose” so that she can “Walk Him Through the portal” that “Connects the past and the present” to meet Tatiana. That idea, which was introded in episode four, is now just just a set-up for Masha’s machinations: she has no current Avision of Going Through with it. Instead, she lures david with the promise and hooks Him up to the device to deliver said dosse. Neither talk to Him in a Calm, Headpace-y voice, she dials the delivery to 100 percent, then removes her own device.

David Wakes Up, Along With the Rest of the Guests, to Fireworks and a PSA Squaling I say all to go downstairs for an “Emergency Meeting.” There, masha puts him in a hot seat of sorts, telling Him that they are at his “trial, hearing, break-out session, shared hallucinogenic experience, sentencing … Experience Will Be Painful, But he’ll Grow from it.

It seams that this will be the round at which every guest will air traumas with david, who features in some direct or oblique way in all of the pastes, though we have haven’t yet heard or wolfie might be connected to hym. Maybe and Away Tina’s Ability to play the piano, like Ursula with Ariel’s Voice. Though Peter and Martin Believe That All Masha Wants is David’s Money – She dares Him to quit all of his his other ventures, the “Military Contracting and the Media Empire,” to focus solely on zauberwald, an idea he swiftly shuts down – what she really is for suffer and toas to Be Held Accountable for the Harm Has Caused.

Will we find out what, exactly, that harm is? We already know that david is involved with the drone strikes that killed matteo’s family. We know that is the head of a sensationist, salacious media empire that explorated brian’s Cancelable Freak-Out for Views. We know that he is a bad, Absent Father. But supposedly, the guests know all of this, too. They’ve all been keping their distance from david – he has barely interactions with anyone, and when he has, People have been shy about demonstrating their reservations. IT DOESN’T BODE WELL FOR THE SEASON FINAL THAT THE SET-UP IS A ROUNDABLE, CECAUS IT IMPLIES THEY’RE Going to… Talk about it. Which they’ve been doing, this whole time. David E. Kelley, i’m Begging You: Let Something Happy, Something Surpring Maybe, or at Least Something New. Maybe Martin Will Tak US Skre.

• The best joke in this episode is one tina describes the confrontation between martin and david as “Norman Bates Screaming at Mr. Clean.” Her Relationship with Wolfie, Which Found a Temporary, Shrooms-Induced Respite Last Week, Becomes Tense Again in This Schene.

• AFTER AGNES TELLS HIM ABOUT MARTTIN’S POTENTIAL INTERT TO DO Something Evil, Brian Tosses and Turs at Night. Jesse appears to nag Him about his explosive temperature, which only frustrates Him storm, so he throws the puppies in a suitcase and closes it is if he’d killed jesse. That outburst of Anger is paralyls with martin’s outburst in the lab.