Notice: Main spoilers forward for the season finale of “The Girlfriend” on Prime Video
Effectively, Daniel doesn’t have to fret about selecting between the 2 most essential ladies in his life anymore. Now there’s just one.
Episode 6 of “The Girlfriend,” now streaming on Prime Video, noticed issues lastly come to a head between Laura (Robin Wright) and Cherry (Olivia Cooke), as Laura drugged her personal son to maintain him away from his fiancée. This, in fact, was after she had Cherry arrested at her personal wedding ceremony bathe, which itself got here after a sequence of more and more dangerous decisions.
“I believe getting engaged behind Laura’s again, with Howard’s consent, to Cherry, I believe that was her breaking level,” Wright informed TheWrap. “I believe it was ‘OK, nobody believes me,’ one. And quantity two, ‘I’ve misplaced my husband due to it, and now he’s aligned himself with Daniel and Cherry.’ And I believe that might make any lady go mad, realizing full properly that what’s to return in Episode 6 from Tracy, Cherry’s mom, simply validates every thing that Laura was feeling.”
“And everybody was like, ‘You’re simply being loopy and neurotic and hysterical, like ladies are,’” she continued. “You realize, it’s that cliché factor, ‘like ladies are.’ It’s like, ‘Effectively, guess what? I used to be proper. I used to be somewhat bit proper.’ So there’s a number of that in there, that we take care of as ladies on the earth. And I needed to faucet into that.”
Satisfied that Cherry will not be solely attempting to take Daniel (Laurie Davidson), however attempting to kill him, Laura makes an attempt to homicide Cherry herself, and almost succeeds in drowning her. Happily for Cherry, Daniel manages to regain sufficient consciousness and mobility to tear his mom away, and shockingly finally ends up drowning Laura himself.
Realizing what’s taking place, Cherry yells at Daniel to cease, however it’s too late. Laura is gone, and neither Daniel nor Cherry transfer to try to revive her.
And so comes the massive query mark: did Cherry intend for this to occur? Was all of it a grasp plan executed to perfection by a psychopath who performed the lengthy recreation? Cooke doesn’t assume so.
“I don’t assume Cherry is that calculated,” Cooke defined to TheWrap. “I believe she’s simply extremely unstable. I believe Laura’s somewhat bit extra calculated. I believe Cherry’s feelings simply get the higher of her, and the pink mist descends and that’s it.”
“I don’t assume she meant for it to occur, however is she possibly happy with the end result ultimately? You realize, she’s bought the home, she’s bought the approach to life, the man, she’s bought the safety that she’s at all times needed,” she continued. “She’s positively benefited from what has occurred.”
Mockingly, it was really Wright, who was additionally an govt producer and director on “The Girlfriend,” who got here up with the thought for Laura to die by the hands of her son. The selection, acutely aware or not, by Daniel not solely fed the Greek tragedy components, however particularly the Oedipal side.
“He’s been trapped in that his complete life. He’s by no means going to get out,” Wright defined. “And it’s not that he was coherent sufficient, as we’re as we speak, saying, ‘Oh, properly, I’m going to kill my mother as a result of she’s trapped me, she’s smothered me.’ He’s beneath the affect brought on by his mom, to maintain him secure from her.”
She continued: “In order that type of Greek tragedy triangle is why I selected Laura to be killed, as a result of all people’s going to count on, ‘Effectively, in fact Cherry goes to kill mother as a result of she needs the home, and he or she’ll kill the cat later!’”
Within the ultimate minutes of the episode, we flash ahead a couple of months after Laura’s demise. Cherry is now pregnant, and he or she and Daniel are fortunately visiting his father on the home. However, due to that darn cat, Daniel finds his mom’s cellphone, which she dropped on the evening of her demise.
On it’s a video she recorded for her son, with the recording of Cherry’s mother warning that her daughter will do completely something to take away a risk and get her means. Visibly panicked, Daniel appears to be like to Cherry, comfortable exterior, and the episode ends. So, what does that imply for his or her future?
“Effectively, it’d be attention-grabbing if she finally ends up, you realize, kind of strolling within the footsteps of Laura with that baby,” Cooke stated.
“I believe she would positively kill the cat earlier than she had the child,” Wright stated with fun.
“The Girlfriend” is now streaming on Prime Video.
