i don't think an episode of anything, really, has wrecked me as much as this one did. anyone calling it a "filler" doesn't see how this episode is the climax of the entire series. to see events we've seen in the past 3 episodes in a new perspective- the entire scene changed. the few extended seconds of previous scenes altered the meaning of the entire setting and changed how i perceive these characters completely.
it almost felt as if we were charlotte herself. in the first episodes we see her perspective of it all, now we get george's pov and man. i genuinely could not move throughout the entirety of this episode. to be able to bring in the same scenes we've seen before, without making it feel repetitive- instead making it feel brand new, is a great deal of production and direction. im in awe
and if you thought george couldnt be besotted with charlotte even more, this episode made me 100% sure that he is the standard.
Not an awful episode but it had a lot of filler… the same could be achieved in much less run time.
In a season that has only six episodes total, I don't appreciate having an hour long "previously on"
That sketchy torturer/Doctor has all kinds of ulterior motives, even given those were the treatments in those days. What is he getting out of all this, anyway?
I love this episode because it truly shows that George wasn’t being rude or anything else. It shows how much he loves charlotte and how he wanted to be better for her
Review by Imme van GorpBlockedParent2023-05-12T19:07:14Z
Although I agree with certain previous comments that this did have a lot of filler elements to it, I do think it was necessary to get more insight into what George went through. Up until now I was not convinced he truly cared for Charlotte deeply, as I found him to be oddly dismissive of her. I never would have thought his illness went thus far that it affected him so much, which obviously we now do know, and this knowledge is deeply devastating as well as helpful for understanding his character. I would have personally added these scenes chronologically into the series, and not as a flashback episode like this, but I’d rather have these scenes in this way than not have them at all.
The devotion and perseverance of George truly shook me, and had my heart in shambles. Mental illness was such an ignored and misunderstood subject for so long in history, I can only imagine the pain and confusion he must have felt (after all, the real King George seems to have suffered from a similar disposition). The tragedy of this man’s story is truly painful.
Lastly, where I had started to doubt the romance aspect between Charlotte and George in the previous episodes, I am completely obsessed with it again after finding out how much George would have done to be with her, and how desperate he was for her company and love, if only he was capable of taking it. It’s such a sad story, but George has fully won my heart again, and I am so glad to see he does care about Charlotte, unlike what we were shown before!