Why does Misty hate Mariah more than Shades though? Even before the flip.
1. Because, as much as I love (or want to love) her, Misty’s almost always wrong.
2. Internalized misogyny. She was extremely hostile to Claire in season one when her real “issue” was with Luke and a huge asshole to Priscilla for…reasons? And, if I recall correctly, this season, she let Luke blame Mariah and took partial blame herself for HIS punching a hole in Claire’s wall.
3. Because according to everyone this season, everything is Mariah’s fault, always.
I thought she was bitter towards Priscilla because Priscilla was Mariah’s sorority sister/had clouded judgment about Mariah. Just like Mariah was Ridenhour’s high school sweetheart.
John had every right to be upset, but all Mariah did in that feud was order him to get her a drink when she was a teen. And I think her bossiness/brattiness came in part from her deep trauma, like Trish’s had. She wasn’t looking at the deal with any delight, she was just curious.
I feel like Mariah definitely is responsible for a lot of the evil shit in season 2, but Shades is her Lady MacBeth figure. He’s constantly by the side of her. She has an easier time humanizing or seeing the potential in him, though she can’t fathom Mariah having anything in her. I wonder if she had known about Mariah’s trauma, about her tormented upbringing, would she have been able to see another side.
As for the Candace death, that was all Shades. So I really don’t know why Mariah was the sole blame.
I thought it weird that Misty didn’t/doesn’t buy that Mariah is capable of love. Mariah has a love for Cornell. She has some kind of love deep down for Tilda. She has a love for Shades.
I don’t know why she thought it would be a good idea to reconnect with Tilda, even if just to use her for political photo-ops (which in and of itself is a shitty move). She gambled with her own mental stability and lost.
She uses people and hurts and destroys them, but she has some capacity to love still inside her.
Mariah is such an interesting character. Complex, more so than people think. She does some gruesome shit. She gradually loses her grip on stability and plummets head first into darkness. I think it’s both what was inside her all along AND what past memories and new arrivals brought out.
Why does Misty hate Mariah more than Shades?
1. The writing has been misogynistic from Day 1, so it’s not surprising at all.
2. Misty probably thinks Shades is the accomplice and Mariah is the mastermind.
3. I love Misty, but she’s so hardcore about justice, that it’s a tad uncomfortable. You know how people point out that Brooklyn 99 is technically police propaganda? Yeah, B99 has nothing on Misty.
Misty’s arc this season reminded me of the post that goes around about how illegal activity by cops is more likely to look like the “good cops” on TV instead of the bad.
I got the impression Misty wasn’t sympathetic toward Shades as much as acting nice to try to get him to flip. Also misogyny.
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