I have read the novel by Renee Knight, so I can offer an educated guess that there will be much more nudity in the final episode. It’s a very clever thriller in the “Things are not as they seem – or are they?” genre. I won’t spoil it, but I can tell you what the show has already dropped: that the Blanchett/George character is about to tell her side of the story about that controversial Italian vacation.
I can tell you that the series uses a cheat that was not available to the author of the novel, but I have no problem with it because I think it makes the story more engaging. I can’t say what that is until the series is finished.
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There was only this tease of pubic hair and a sand-covered nipple in episode 6. An alternate version of the pubes shot, presenting a very different explanation for the exposure, had already appeared in episode 4.
Here is the film clip. You will probably have to download it. It didn’t stream correctly for me.
This show has already offered some of the hottest sex scenes of the year
— and in episode 4
Are there 8 or 7 episodes in total? I confess I was confused. Can we expect some miraculous nudity or sex scene from Cate Blanchett? If it’s not too much to dream about lol. Maybe you have some ideas after reading the original?
I don’t know how many episodes. The original announcement said six. Wikipedia said six. That was obviously wrong. ScreenRant refers to next week’s as the “seventh and final” episode.
I’m not anticipating anything from Blanchett. I think what we will see is a VERY different Leila George scene from the ones we have seen.
So can there be more nude scenes of Leila George? you could give us a spoiler of what happens haha, more or less
TOTAL SPOILERS . Do not read farther if you want to experience the reveal as it was meant to be presented.
Pretty much everything we have seen before never happened that way. It was obvious in the book that the story of the affair was told through the eyes of the dead boy’s mother because it was told through her novel, The Perfect Stranger. Since we readers know that, we know from the beginning that the scenes in the past are merely from the point of view of somebody who wasn’t there. What we don’t know is this: if the account is false, why does it bother Catherine so much? Since that card is kept hidden, we kind of assume that the account must be on the money. It turns out that she was hiding a completely different secret.
As opposed to the book, the show cheats on that a little. They show us the events of the past and lead us to believe that we are watching a flashback to what really happened. We don’t know that what we’re actually looking at is the account from The Perfect Stranger, as written by somebody who was not there.
To make a long story a little shorter, what we should see in episode 7 is Leila George being raped – while the little boy watches – thus explaining his own mental issues in the present. The reason Catherine was so upset by the book was not that it was accurate, but that it forced her to face the fact that she had never told anyone about the rape or the fact that her son saw it, and should therefore have received some kind of therapy immediately, which her silence denied him. She realized the author of The Perfect Stranger, although wrong, was going to force to the surface all the nastiness that Catherine had never dealt with while attempting to preserve her secure, tidy existence.
(I have not seen the series finale, so I am assuming that the show will follow the book. There are many additional plot twists after the truth comes out, but they are unrelated to nudity.)
IMDB always said 7 episodes. They routinely get the right info from the horse’s mouth that Wikipedia often fails to.
I’ve learned in my old age that I’m not bothered watching a show or reading a book minus the surprise. I’m now just ignoring spoiler warnings. I guessed since the show so far didn’t seem good enough to cast Blanchett & Kline, there had to be a twist. My suspicion was right along the same lines as your spoiler.
oh yeah. I thought you were talking about the nudity scenes. The story itself didn’t really grab me, it didn’t catch my attention. But you seem to like the book. It seems full of plot twists.
Scoop, I am intrigued by this comment of yours:
“I can tell you that the series uses a cheat that was not available to the author of the novel, but I have no problem with it because I think it makes the story more engaging. I can’t say what that is until the series is finished.”
Well the series is over and I just binged it last night. I thought it was riveting. Can you/have you revealed what you are referring to above? I can only hazard a guess that you mean the novel didn’t have the false narrator? Is that it or something else?