By: Carmen Phillips

In reply to Rooty Poot.

Ok but I loooooooooooved loved LOVED this long comment!! More long comments, whenever you feel like it!

And I think you’re completely right about both things! I’m actually digging the Idina/Hattie and Hattie/Ida parallels on the show, I also want Idina to be free of Hattie so I guess for me it’s complicated. But from a storytelling perspective, I think what they are writing is really interesting. It shows that who has power in a relationship isn’t always as obvious as you’d expect.

I also completely agree with everything you’ve said about Ida. She does deserve not only more time to gain more comfortability in her skin, but an understanding of where SHE is coming from. So much has changed, so quickly, and I think it’s really easy for someone like Hattie to forget that.

(Also you comparison that Hattie has her sexuality figured out but the rest of her life is a mess vs Ida feeling not yet assured in publicly demonstrating her sexuality but so confident in everything else??? That’s art right there.)