Dont get caught no name gpsy4/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Is this what she wanted all along? Is it just a game? What constitutes winning? Rather than looking concerned or worried about being caught in her lie, Jean smiles slyly at Sidney. In the last moments of the final episode, Sidney walks into the back of the elementary school auditorium where Jean is giving a speech on bullying. Dolly is perhaps the only true innocent here, although a case could be made for Jean’s colleague Larin as well. While Jean is certainly the worst offender, it seems that everyone in this show lies, cheats, and manipulates those around them. Their marriage seems not long for this world, but I was happy to finally see all of this tension come to a head. Michael confronts Jean, and she admits to keeping the apartment in the city, but not to anything else. As soon as Alexis mentions the name “Diane Hart” to Michael, we know from the look on his face that Jean’s lies are finally going to catch up with her. Sidney sees Jean’s photo in Michael’s office, and storms out. Alexis, of course has no idea what is going on, or who “Diane Hart” is. She sees Alexis’ published story, and comes to the office to confront her. Sidney is a lot of things, but stupid is not one of them. Meanwhile, Jean gives Sidney the story Alexis wrote, and passes it off as her own work. Jean, in her haste, leaves behind a photo of her mother. Jean burns her original notes about Allison, and clears her secret apartment of photos and ties to herself, so that the detective won’t be able to link Allison’s last known location to her. Jean is so used to controlling others through her lies, she doesn’t know how to reconcile that she’s been played. Jean learns that Allison has been lying to her the whole time-her mother’s not sick, and she was living with her. She manipulates Sidney in order to destabilize Sam’s mental health, so that he will ultimately return to her.Īllison goes missing, and her mother comes to Jean for answers. It’s like her patient’s’ need for her is her drug. When Sam tries to quit therapy, Jean becomes obsessed with upending his newfound stability, so he’ll come back. It’s crazy how far Jean is willing to go to protect her lies. Jean goes so far as to visit Rebecca, persuade her not to see her mother, steal a letter Rebecca wrote to Claire, copy Rebecca’s handwriting, and then write a new letter, which she sends to Claire. Does she really care about any of the people around her? Does she simply take pleasure in manipulating others? Does she revel in the adrenaline of almost getting caught, but ultimately getting away with her lies? Every time she nearly gets caught-like when Claire’s daughter, Rebecca (whom Jean has befriended as “Diane”), agrees to come to a therapy session-Jean digs even further into her patients’ lives. It’s unclear, throughout the series, what Jean’s motivations are. Is it only a physical relationship with another person, or is an emotional connection an equal violation? ![]() That film, and this episode pose the question of what counts as cheating. The whole episode was very reminiscent of the 2010 film, Last Night. He’s willing to flirt with cheating, but not to actually do it. Meanwhile, Michael comes very close to sleeping with Alexis, but ultimately pulls back. Both push the boundaries, but Jean finally gives up her hesitation and crosses the line into full-on affair with Sidney. What to reveal? What to hide? How far to go?Įpisode 7 finds both Jean and Michael in concurrent games of Truth or Dare-Jean’s with Sidney, and Michael’s with Alexis. Jean’s life seems to be a Truth or Dare game she’s playing with herself. Maybe it was a little later in high school when alcohol was involved, and the dares got a little more dangerous and the truth questions a bit more prying. Perhaps innocently at a middle school party where the dares were silly and the truth questions boring. Let’s start with a game of Truth or Dare. Even when Jean gets caught, she twists the conversation to make herself the victim. It’s hard to know where to begin unraveling all of the lies and manipulations, or if that’s even possible.Īll I could think as I was watching the final episodes, is this feels like what Pretty Little Liars would’ve been if we’d been viewing it from A’s perspective. So, a lot happens in the last four episodes of GYPSY, and yet nothing seems resolved.
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