To quote The OA: “We’ve been going about this all wrong”
I feel AMATEOTW episode 6 was a real eye opener for both Darby and us viewers. Just like Darby, fans have more likely than not been caught up in our own “whodunnit” (who is the killer, why etc) and this is partly due to the marketing from FX (which maybe is intentional or maybe a complete misdirect) but this episode really shone light on the narrative and murders (both true and fictional). It’s not about the killer at the end of the day, most of the time, like Bill said, they’re boring, predictable, broken people who break others. A predictable pattern we see repeated countless times. We don’t need to keep shining a light on killers, we don’t need to keep the morbid fascination going with true crime podcasts or glamourise them in biopics. It’s about the victims. Who were they before their life was tragically cut short?
And that is what this story has been about the whole time: Bill, the victim. That is why every episode has had a flashback about him. Showing the puzzle pieces of his character. An artist. A lover. A recovered addict who helped Rohan get sober himself. Who wanted to tell the stories of victims, and stop future victims of both serial predators and greedy capitalists. Someone who wanted to help the world be better.
If the end of this show ends up with an “obvious” killer or doesn’t even bother to show them or they are a nobody I won’t be mad because I understand the commentary B&Z are making now. I still feel like we’re set for a doozy of a finale down the rabbit hole that will either wrap up everything or leave us with a million questions. But episode 6 just had such a simple but beautiful message.
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So who’s gonna write a fix-it-fic where Bill isn’t killed off in the first ep and he and Darby solve the murders together?
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