Strange plotline aside, Daisy Edgar-Jones absolutely shone. A mutual correspondence motivated by self-loathing with a BDSM photographer set in snowy Sweden seems like just an unwarranted story-of-the-week episode. I have no problems with keeping Marianne and Connell apart for an episode or two, but not if the plot driving this feels so inorganic. Did Marianne know who he was beforehand? Did they discuss it while they had their brief “normal” relationship before she let him indulge his other side as a photographer? This entire subplot felt so jarring coming off of last episode. That is, until Marianne needed him to be someone she absolutely wouldn't connect with. Turns out he was actually quite normal and was just another guy she couldn’t connect with. From the start, it seemed as if he had some ulterior motive in approaching Marianne. Rather, I find the way they chose to characterize him weird. I don’t have much of a problem with the actor who played Lukas. It doesn’t follow at all that Marianne being with Jamie, who "likes pain," would lead to her finding a Swedish guy at a party who just happened to be a BDSM photographer. But on the other, we have a very random BDSM plotline that seems to have come out of nowhere. On the one hand, we finally have Marianne accepting a bit of self-love with support from Connell, and we actually end on a pretty content note. She has deeply internalized the idea that she is unworthy of love, and without Connell or even Joanna around, she has no one to pull her out from the deep self-destructive path we see her taking. And it’s here where we see Marianne at her lowest point. She keeps loose contact with Connell through email, but is mostly alone. It’s been months since the events of Italy and leaving Jamie, and Marianne is now taking a course in Sweden as an exchange student. We travel from Italy to Sweden in an episode that should have seen a major character breakthrough, but instead felt strangely like filler.
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