So I’ve made it until “The Cut-Wife”. The first thing that I have to tell you is that it’s almost impossible to write about it and although I like being sarcastic about things, cracking jokes and stuff, but here i won’t. I just can’t. It wasn’t an episode like all the others and not just because we didn’t meet most of our regular characters. It had a strict line to follow from Ms. Ives not having the slightest clue about who she is and what’s going on in her mind, until the end, where she leaves the house of the Cut-Wife with all the knowledge she gained from her.
This episode was 80% about Ms. Ives’s inner development and I don’t just think of her studying process about herbals, tarrots, daywalkers & nightcommers, the devil’s language or cooking as a lady. The Cut-Wife showed her that sometimes she has to accept things the way they are: she had to face the fact that people don’t live until the end of times and that there is a moment where she has to let them go. Not to mention the fact that she doesn’t have enough power yet to go into a battle with those who deserve to be brought to justice some way, because sometimes patience and waiting for the right moment can be more useful.
We basically watched her growing up innerly from a naive girl who wants to rescue her best friend into a strong woman who already realizes that time and gaining strength can be more useful than running against the wall, full with emotions.
The “Cut-Wife” episode has its consequences for us all. Sometimes we wish things so hard that our heart can lead us to unweighed decisions that would cause a lot of harm and finally we could loose all our chances for success. But if we truly face every possible consequences of our decisions, it can lead us to the right path to choose.
Also there were some interesting scenes in this episode. Ms. Kali being the sister of the Cut-Wife was something which I didn’t expect and also the way she tries to manipulate her using her emotions to get what she wants was also something that can sound familiar for us all, although we don’t usually meet witches in the 21th century. It’s seriously heartbreaking how people can use love and insistence as weapons to get what they want and seeing the Cut-Wife struggling with herself against her sister’s filthy will was more than moving for me.
We could also get a glimpse into Ms. Kali’s past marriage – I have to remind you that her husband must be already dead, because she’s talking about him as “her late husband” to Mr. Murray in the gun store (always those stores, always…). Ms. Kali’s husband Sir Geoffrey Hawkes is also such a type of people whom we can meet in our age too. His weakness, guilty pleasures, threatening techniques and simply awkward personality combined with money and power makes him a serious walking nightmare. I wasn’t surprized as he tried to seduce Ms. Ives, neighter as him being the leader of the villagers to publicly burn the Cut-Wife, but watching him doing these terrible things was still a horror, because it reminded me how deeply rotten one’s personality can really be.
After watching this episode I was just listening to the “Float” from Flogging Molly and for about five minutes I didn’t make the slightest move. It made me think about scenes of my past and about life, after all.
The only thing I can recommend here is: you have to watch it, because it somehow makes you reconsider a lot of things about yourself. It’s seriously challenging, if you look behind the dialogues. A lot of applause goes to Eva Green and Patti LuPone for making this episode as living as I’ve never imagined it could be. So many positive and negative qualities that are all parts of the human nature, stuffed into one single episode made me think that this series seriously deserves as much attention as it gets and I just can hope that most of its fans will make the right consequences and are going to be led to the best possible conclusions, after all.
junk for all the junkies 