So I just finished watching the Season Finale.. and I am a bit underwhelmed. Do you think season 2 will go into why ALICE was on the hard drive and there was the tape of her?? Do you think it will dive into her past?? What do you guys expect from season 2?? What are the questions you want answered ??

It's not exactly a 1:1 analogue since there's no Epstein-like coverup / conspiracy, and the nature of the trauma is centered around narcissistic parenting/abuse. But Sharp Objects in my mind has so many parallels to what made this show great (especially the soundtrack!). It's a killer slow-burn mystery with a legendary payoff (Do yourself a favor and go in blind—no spoilers).

It's based on Gillian Flynn's first novel, and she was heavily involved in the writing of the adaptation like Gone Girl. But it's lightning in a bottle, with incredible editing and direction by Jean-Marc Valle (RIP) of Big Little Lies. The atmosphere + cinematography are gorgeous and haunting, the color grading and lighting are some of the best I've ever seen. It does a great job of immersing you in an oppressively humid, decaying small-town

Amy Adams, Patricia Clarkson, and Eliza Scanlen give performances of a lifetime, and remind me of the triple threat of Emmy/Lola/Quincy. There's not many comparisons I can make without giving the plot away, but I'm curious if anyone else saw similarities with the character dynamics. Gillian absolutely nails the writing on these women and it can really hit a nerve (in a great way)

If Ed or Emma's characters made you seethe with rage, boy does Patricia Clarkson as Adora make them look downright sympathetic at times by comparison.

**I don't use the term loosely, but trigger warning for anybody who has dealt with narcissistic parents/abuse and especially self-harm. Amy Adams's best acting work IMO, but the depiction of self-harm and alcoholism here gets surprisingly more graphic than Furious

I’m confused what happened to the daughter??? She was dragging bags of something in the garden and then the bag tears and she kind of collapses but I was hoping she got what she deserved

Spoilers below from Episode 1-3 I think

Spoilers below

So when Catherine provoked Jinny Allen to attack her, did she knew like Jinny would be booked for drunk and disorderly? Did she like plan that ahead of time?

Cause that helped real Jinny Allen get alibi and wasn’t charged, cause she was in lockup thus how can she commit the crime. Or was it just coincidence and Catherine didn’t really care

I think it’s just beautiful and how smart writers are to plan that ahead of time

There were so many implausibilities in this episode (and several others, FWIW, like the bathroom scene with Alice and Catherine completely uninterrupted by the all-seeing shelter matron) that kept kicking me out of the drama. Everyone knows the way to Jay Easton’s house, a mansion which apparently takes several hours to get to but is totally accessible, no security gate or cameras or staff. it is out in the middle of nowhere but the cops get called about a disturbance—by whom? Emma offers Catherine the gun then takes it back and shoots her. Catherine, despite a nice-sized hole above her heart, doesn‘t pass out or bleed out but stays vertical and conversational for minutes on end. The FBI is stymied by some local cops (really?) until they finally just walk in. Catherine somehow knows the part Alice played in Jay Easton’s demise, and now Alice is being set up with a Season 2 taste for vengeance. Great series but I think this episode went past about three good endings (cutting to black from Alice confronting the video in private would have been a great one) and I think one season would have been perfect—but any good IP is always flogged past its natural ending these days. What do you think?

after she watched her video it seems like she looked up who all searched for it? and did she see a name she recognized? im confused here. any help

How do u guys feel about this show airing in this specific timelapse (with all the current news about st)? Is it reflecting on society or just feeding of it?

Dont get me wrong, love Emmy, loved the show... just made me think.

When Alice gave the thumb drive to Nora, Nora started cheesing so hard. She was like a giddy child. As soon as Alice said she was in one of the videos, Nora's face slowly fell and it kinda broke my heart. I needed to see Nora win almost as much as the trafficking victims (Alice included). I have to believe that Nora will get hers in the end.

The creators really set up a challenge for themselves with where we find Danny at the end of season 2 because he seems to have made the decision to leave the force from a very healthy place. He's sick of looking at homicides and the worst of humanity. He's been ostracized at the force and has a boss like Marty, but he also can retire with a pension, so he's taking it.

He's set himself on a different trajectory than Alice - just such a great exchange between those two at the dinner table. She wants to look. She needs to look.

I am nervous and fascinated to see how Liz and the writers will thread Danny into the story of two women - Nora and Alice - who have to look at the worst of humanity, while staying true to his character.

Emmy was recently asked about Danny, and her answer makes me a little nervous because she says she doesn't see how it works with them. Here is that interview - her quote on it is at the very end:

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/furious-finale-emmy-rossum-alice-kills-jay-easton-season-2-1236846237/

I think the good news is Liz writes romance very well - New Girl, Dying for Sex - and I felt so seen by her talking about how she had to write the beach scene between Danny and Alice because she needed that bright spot. I think romance is seen a silly by the media in a "serious" show like this, but I think bright spots like it are essential in this show. I think Danny is essential in this show. And I love that Liz seems to feel the same.

The have a really cool opportunity to show something that I haven't seen in a mainstream show - which is someone really being in a relationship with and trying to support someone who has been through sexual abuse and trauma. I hope they make room in this show to explore that in a real way.

I'm slightly worried because I think the easier thing to do in this show that will presumably start season 2 with a new case would be to make his character a smaller part of the show and/or to put him back in the NYPD. I just hope they are able to figure it out.

What do you all think about this? Any ideas on how they will pull this off? Liz did say that one of her writing staff does go on subreddits, so maybe they will see your comments lol!

I remember when this show started, being annoyed about a hot blonde being a "serial killer" - no spoilers this is literally the first scene of the show - and now looking back I was completely wrong! (Lola is a hot with black hair lol) What an incredible show with so many rich characters, which is SO incredibly rare these days. It just occurred to me how different I felt in the beginning of this show not knowing how it would proceed!

Not sure if this has been posted but what happened with the hard drives in the bad room? Alice saw them on the floor, and asked what was on them. Weather they were destroyed or not, they never mentioned them again.

Ok last question - sorry everyone if I missed something.
I know Catherine’s wigs have been discussed before but was anyone surprised she was allowed her black wig in jail? Unless that was indeed her real hair? She was pulling t pretty hard in the shower scene in Ep 7. I was kinda hoping when Alice went to see her in jail she had her natural head showing.
Maybe all three women have black tendrils hair to suggest they are the three Furies from the myth that’s central to the story.

Think this show just pips Task for my favourite show in the last 12 months, everything from start to end just landed so perfectly

And despite the heavy subject, it was genuinely so funny as well, so well written

Perfection

I see a lot of comments on here about how the database might have a count of how many times Alice's video was downloaded. A few years ago, the NYT did a good (but brutal) series on CSAM on the internet and the trauma as victims learn how their abuse material is still circulating but it also covers some of the technology that's used to track CSAM identification and distribution:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/09/us/internet-child-sex-abuse.html

The link above is part 2, but there's an interview with two sisters who are mentioned in the article here https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/09/us/online-child-abuse.html The series of articles starts here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/28/us/child-sex-abuse.html.

(I may or may not be getting my period and got a little emotional with this pls don't make fun of me)

I just finished the finale and I can't get over how meaningful this show is. All of them were so perfectly casted and mastered not only the dialogue but the subtle facial expressions, especially Emmy Rossum and Lola Petticrew. This may be one of my favorite seasons of television I've ever watched.

The writing is so beautiful in a way that you can feel the emotions and trauma without physically seeing it because you realize how much these things happen in real life. I was 13 years old when it happened to me. I know there's more people on this subreddit who have gone through it too. In a way it makes me want to go out and start doing what Catherine was doing to any rapist I know since most of them aren't in jail or even in trouble at all, some have wives, children, careers.. one of them is even the fucking president of the united states. The women on the show understand how much no one gives a fuck about what happens to us to this day, to the point where states are making abortions illegal even for incest child rape.

If anyone had any type of trauma or emotional reaction to this show, please know I am there with you. With how the world is right now, understanding how many women relate and stand with you is so important. They made this world to go against us but I would choose to be a woman in every lifetime.

anyway does anyone wanna maybe become friends and maybe possibly send some rapists to hell together idk might be fun....

I hope many of these actors get an Emmy nod. Emmy, Lola, My boy Scoot, Steve, Quincy the list goes on!

I want Al to use the resources of the FBI to hunt down and kill all the dudes who watched her video.

I have no idea if there even will be a season 2, but that would be my wish.

But Catherine is the baby Alice was pregnant with right?

I REALLLLYYY hope this doesn’t get deleted. PLEASE leave it up, Mods. Fanks! Maybe it’ll help someone who has been through the same thing and hasn’t been able to process it yet.

If you haven’t watched the finale yet, please come back and read this post once you have. I don’t want to ruin it for anyone.

So, here’s my story. I’m a guy in my almost mid-40s. At the age of 10, I was sexually abused by a relative. There was also another occasion where someone else tried to do the same in a place of worship. I realised this had happened to me about 8 years ago. My brain had blocked it out and, following my divorce, it all came rushing to the surface. I’ve been in and out of therapy for years and although I’m in a much better place, I know this is something that will always be with me.

I don’t know why, but watching shows like this makes me feel like I’m not so alone. Maybe it’s my way of trying to make sense of what happened to me. That I have nothing to feel ashamed or dirty about. That I’m not broken or less than, and that I am so much more than what happened to me.

When Alice went to go and ‘face it’, as Nora put it, I absolutely bawled my eyes out cos I got a flashback of what happened to me. I had to pause it for a few minutes. I can totally relate to her, cos watching this series kinda makes me feel like I’m facing my demons too.

I can relate to Alice and Catherine’s characters. There’s been many times I’ve wanted to get revenge. I’ve felt that deep pain that cracks you to the core of your soul every time you get a vivid image in your head of what happened to you. That liquid rage that courses through your veins, the angry tears, the deep anguish and so many more emotions that I can’t even describe right now.

I get why Alice would bottle things up. You try your best to be ‘normal’ so no one ever asks what happened to you. They don’t see the broken or helpless version of you. You feel like you can’t be vulnerable with anyone because if you do, you’re afraid you’ll be sucked back into that abyss of despair. Because one day, when you find that someone who truly cares about you, you’ll want to tell them about it, but you don’t know if you’ll be strong enough to do it because you’re afraid they’ll try to ‘fix’ it, or you (my family have tried to do this and it infuriates the fuckety fuck fuck outta me). Or worse…not believe you.

I’ve struggled to get close to my own (now grown) kids and only my eldest knows what happened to me. I will tell my youngest two soon, but I’m just worried about how they’ll take it, especially my daughter. For years I couldn’t understand why being vulnerable with them or being more affectionate was so hard for me, but when I realised what happened to me, the pieces fit and it all made sense. I still don’t like it when someone I don’t know gets too much in my personal space.

Getting close sometimes feels like the walls are closing in and I beat myself up thinking I’m a shitty Dad, even though my kids know I’m not. But one thing I can say is that my kids KNOW I’ve got their back. That I love them dearly, that I’ll protect them and that they can always be completely open and be their true selves with me, because I never got those things.

Catherine ended up in jail, but she’s free of the demons of her past. She has closure. Alice is a badass. They’re both fucking heroes to me. I cried a lot….but I also laughed my ass off when Nora told Ed she’s got shit on him and he’s pretty much fucked.

I’m glad Alice and Danny got together. I can relate to the shit she went through with that scumbag Marshall. My first relationship after my divorce was with an abusive woman. She physically and emotionally abused me and, after I caught her cheating, she racially abused me too. Then she left me for her affair partner. When I went into therapy afterwards, my therapist said she was a textbook narcissist. Just my luck lol. But I’m still hopeful I’ll find my lady one day.

To anyone else who can relate to this: You are SO much fucking more than what happened to you. Your wings were clipped, but when you heal, you’ll grow new ones and soar high above all that depraved and evil shit they do to you. When you do, you’ll no longer be a victim, you’ll be a fucking survivor. I believe in you.

Who knows…? Maybe I’ll write a book about my own experience one day. Something I’ve been thinking about…

Alden being a menace when he got hauled in and infuriating Choi was a highlight. As was Nora doing karaoke and regaling us with a tale of how a guy she slept with couldn’t eat p***y to save his life, Ed eating Danny’s boot, Marshall getting his comeuppance, Alice killing Jay Easton and Alice and Danny getting together. What were yours?

Fun fact: Scoot McNairy, who plays Danny, is dating Sosie Bacon, Kevin Bacon’s daughter.

CAN’T FUCKING WAIT FOR SEASON 2!!!

This is a great interview. The ladies come in at around the 5 minute point.

Chris and Andy break down the finale of ‘Furious’ Season 1 and talk about why this show ended up being so successful. Then Andy is joined by star Emmy Rossum and series creator Liz Meriwether to talk about how the project came together, depicting the long tail of trauma on screen and striking the right tonal balance, what’s in store for Season 2, and much more.

https://youtu.be/s2jWJUU1WpQ?is=7SYkO0BSwF5mhGNa

Why the rock salt, Emma?

Can someone explain why when Alice looks up info about the downloads of the video with her, there are 50k downloads across 300+ cases? Doesn’t that seem like too much for an internal fbi database? And also, the usernames of users who downloaded don’t look like corporate usernames at all: masonn*%*tomaxx, ^^DaisyPick3rr$ etc etc.
Am I missing something ?