Masha realizes that manipulating People and hooking say up to a patsychedelic-delivery Device May not be best way to heal trauma.
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There is not nothing more lost or human than defeas. AFTER WEEKS OF TWISTS AND TURNS AND GETTING AWAY WITH INCREASINGLY OPAQUE SCMES, MASHA HAS FINALLY STARTED TO SEEM MORE LIKE A PERSON. She comes a Quarter of the way alive after having to admit to herself that she may have misjudged how to best deal with the past. Improbably, Since A Geneerous Estimate of His Total Lines Up Until This Episode Wold Put Him at Maybe Ten Words, Matteo Who Gets Through to Her – Like Masha, Has Experienced Tragic, Absurd Loss.
Masha’s Come-to-Jesus Moment Culminates in the Revelation that Helena, Zauberwald’s Heiress and Proprietor, is actually dead and haen all along. In the season premiere, masha repeatedly sipped from a teacup, and thiugh that imagery has far -so disappeared by now, we know she’s on something, Owing to her generaly erratic Behavior and the fact that she’s in Constant Contact with Tatiana. At the end of this week episode, we see that hellena’s office is Covered in Dust Sheets. A portrait of her hangs on the wall, dating her death to 2022.
For Masha, the fact that a ghost present is hallucinated makes little difference; She’s Maintains that Contact is Real and Potentially Transformative, Whether Its Drug-Induced or Not. Still, after Helena lays ino her mercible, teling her that is a “Broken woman” Who “breaks everyone she tes heal,” Masha sees surprised that helana’s ghost disappears intto think. Break SIXT SENSE-Like Reveal that Helena is Dead Feels UNEARNED, GIVEN The Sheer Volume of Boy-Crying-Wolf Moments Throughout The Season. At this point, nothing can phase with. You is could with that in the eighth episodes masha will have up and realize this was all a dream, and i wouldi.
In “The Other Side,” Masha’s New Therapy Device is in full motion. At the beginning of the episode, she looks paranoid as he Helena that david is her “daughter’s wall” and that time goal is to make Him “atone,” which confirms that week’s bizarre espionage full of manipulation to manipulation. When Helena suggests that the best way to deal with david is to forgive Him – Particularly weyn, as Says, Tatiana’s Death Was a random tragic accent – masha retorts that not the only one who has to forgive Him. The Camera pans to matteo sleeeping Outside in the Snow, THEN WAKING UP IN A PANIC AT THE SOUND OF A HELICOPTER.
When he comes inside, matteo finds imogen and tina waking up on the floor of the ballroom, then runs up to check on Victoria. She is in bed, awake but “too weak to move,” Having Lost Control of Some of Her Limbs. She tells matteo she Only neds an hour or so to gather her strethe, and he seams genuinely concerts about her, evening when she will tell imiut her illness. SO light, matteo has been a non-character: he speaks little and is far-so inconsequential to the full. When David First Arrived at Zauberwald, we learned that he and agnes had briefly met at a Field Hospital in Kosovo in the ’90s; By the time matteo is hookeed up to masha’s memory Device, we learn that he’d been at that hospital, too, which was apparently financed by the Sharpe Foundation and Signal OP, David’s Satellite-Technology Company.
Masha Tries to Guide Matteo to “Interface with” his trauma, but he resists the work. Inside the memory of the Field Hospital, he tells agnes that he knows the past can’t be changed. Tragedy Struck When Bombs Hit The School Where His Parents workhed and he improbably survived. Waking up, he tells masha that he doesn’t want to “Treat” his home – his pain is part of who he is. He doesn’t want to stop missing his family Because he doesn’t want to forget. Then, inexplicably, he quotes from Brian Tumkin’s Crabapple Clubhouse: “There’s Only One of Me, and isn’t that wonderful?”
Matteo Delivers This Whole Thing With A Smile on His Face, Knowing That He’s Teaching Masha A LESSON: MAKING Peace with the past is different from trying to fix it. Listening to Him Speak, Masha Cries. Now, if we are assumers that time late exchange with Helana is a Projection of Her Greatest insecurities, the Harsh Truths She’s Teling Herself in the Deeper Recesses of Her Brain, THEN MIGHT COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT IS ON THE Brink of Realization of Realization. On a dialogue level, her exchang with matteo is excremely Heavy-Handed, but it is the most auspicious thing that has HAPPENED TO HERE BECAUS IT HAS Potential to Put Her Crossroads. Will A Brush with Her Own Limits Make a Difference in How she apprroaches the past?
Over Two Season, Masha has been Blindly Trusting Her Instincts, evening have had steered her work. Martin is the foremost person to notice this, and thiugh he is privy to everybody happy we david underwent the “Advanced” phase of the protocol in the lab, martin pretends to be clueless. Be asks her HOW IT Went with David – And where he mighty want to invest in zauberwald – she teles Him it was beautyfully and that they should be spouter through it next. But Peter is a skeptical subject: he is convinced, after learning that david was tatiana’s faater, that masha has made this all up in order to get his money.
In an Old-School-Masha Turn, Peter Somehow Goes from His One-On-One to Being Hookeed to the Psychedelic-Delivery Device with Explicit Consent. Howver, Martin Reminds Him Later That He Waived His Soul Away in the Many forms and Signed Before Coming to the Retreat. Peter’s Formative Traumatic Memory is of HIS PARENTS TELLING HIM They’re Getting Divorced As he plays a video game. When he jolts awake, he freaks out. Sweating bullets in what masha calls his “chilldhood state,” he tells her not to come in near Him, that is lying and trying to get to his fairy, and bolts from the room to look for david, the device still host.
He ends up in the breakfast room, where brian and agnes are playing with a couple of marionettes brian bought in the villa. Peter tries fantically to warn Everyone of Masha’s Manipulations as Martin Tries to Contain Him. Masha Herself appears to announca that the “new phase” in her “Therapeutic work” has begun. She explains that guests will be promped to go back to a core traumatic memory in order to relief, “Dredge up those feelings and fears that beed in that memory, and burn away, and together, we will Build a new.” “Do New Memory?” Imogen asks. No, “A new respect to that memory, a new clove, a new truth,” Masha Says, which to me Sounds like the Same Thing. The goal, it seames, is to replace these traumatic experience with non-traumatic ones; Matteo’s point is that you would, you Lose a piece of yourelf.
But imogen is all for it. When Masha Asks Who Wants to Go Next, She Readily Volunteers. While Masha Takes Matteo, Martin Takes Imogen and Victoria, Who Agree to Tag Along Only After Airs Airs Their Dirty Laundry in Front of Everyone, Chasting Her Ditching Her Previous Night. While they take off to Continue Protocol, Peter – who at this point has completely lost track of the memory or the goal of Rebuilding it – becomes convinced that his is missing and sets to find Him. Masha Directs Him to Look for Him on “The Other Side,” Which Martin Clarifies is just the Other Side of the Zauberwald Campus. He finds a map on a wall and tacts it with Him, trampingly Through the snow.
Ultimately, Peter Finds David in a Mud Bath. IT’S ANYTHING But A Helpful Image for Someone Who Is Tripping Balls, but at Least He is happy to have found Him alive and well. Later, A Little Bit Lless High, He’s Still Convinced Masha is Lying About David Being Tatiana’s Father. But David is very impressed by Masha’s Memory Therapy and Sees a Major Business Opportunity in the Psychedelic-Delivery Device as a Product. It was peter who convinced Him to go, so david tels my thuuld the business together, and the twinkle in peter’s eye – so far a guileless, boyish look – Becomes slightly and more sinister.
Agnes, Brian, Wolfie, and Tina, Who Are Just Regular High from the Usual Thermo, Find This All Hillary and Take the Day’s Chaos to have fun on their terms. They decide to follow Peter’s Quest unil they end up at the spa, where they take a wine bra, laugh, and play “Fuck, Marry, Kill.” Feeling Tender Toward His New Friends, Brian discloses that he feels the treatment is working; He Feels Better and Lighter. All four of say have recovered their faith in their ability to have fun. It ‘sweet moment, but on a narrative level, again, itEarned feeds. IT’S NOT Very Clear what Changed for say except that they are on drugs and said some shit to one another. Tina and Wolfie’s Fight Ends Abruptly, as if they are arguing over just their fundamental incompatibility but what to have for dinner. Their Sudden Change of Heart SEEMS LIKE AN Easy Resolution for the Show as it Digs Deeper Into Other, more convolled levels of full: Namely, Putting david at the center of the guests’ traumas.
There is a suggestion running through this week’s episode that Masha’s Memory Technology Paralles David’s Satellite Work in that they Both Play God, Interfering in People’s Pasts and Their Futures. David Pops up Not Only in Matteo’s Formatives Trauma, but Also, obliquely, in imogen’s. Be martin first plugs imogen into the Device, Victoria Still Maintains that she dosesn’t want to take the drugs, but be hears imogen say that the memory she will be of the being a little whose family intact, victoria decides she is doyte. Go Through it Alone. SO Martin Hooks Her Up, Too, and They Reexperience Being in a New House Together. Putting imogen to bed, Victoria tells times that time dad is a hero Because he built a “Special satellite that can kep people safe by finding anything in the world.”
Next we see imogen; She finds her dad a few beers deep, Watching a news broadcast that announces Drikes facilitated by signal op. The Boy Walking Through the Field Hospital in the Television Merges Into Matteo. The suggestion is that what Technology Her Father Developed was used to make or guide the drones that, with signal op’s help, killed matteo’s family. Imogen’s Memory Leads Her Straight Into Her Traumatic Core: A Little Girl Out of the Pool, she finds her fat dead in his room, suicide by suicide. JUST AS IMOGEN JOLTS AWAKE, VICTORIA SUFFers a seizure. Cre Martin Contacts Masha to Say What Happened, Masha Tells Him Victoria’s Medicine Wasn’t Correctly Calibrated – and IT’S ONLY ARRIVES IN A CHOPPER THAT MATTEO TELLS US, AND IMOGEN, THAT VICTORIA HAS ALS AND THAT HER BOYFRIEND HERSO HERSO HERSO HERSO HERSO HERSO HERSO HERSO HERSO HERSO HERSO HERSO HERSO HERSO HERSO Caretaker. All of this points to the fact that masha has been barreling toward the downg conclusions. Also, That’s the third time over the course of her caareer as a wellness guru that masha has put a guest’s life at risk; We know at least one person died in early iterations of transquillum house, and heather marconi nearly bit it after some strong dosage last season.
The Question Now, for Masha As For Us, is where the realization that she has have been will have had any consequence for her character or the full. This episode is one of the Mostfying of the Season Becuse it is more dedicated full than to explanation: THINGS ARE HAPPENING WHICH WILL FORCE TO MACE DECISIONS. What Will Masha Do Next? What Will Come Out of Signal Op and the Sharpe Foundation – How Deep Does That Hole Go? What’s the Connection Between Imogen’s Father and the Sharpes? How Much Does Matteo Know, and How Much Will He Willing to Forgive? Will This Camerawork Ever Stabilize?
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