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Nine Perfect Strangers Season-Finale Recap: A Deal With the Devil


If there’s one takeaway from the season finale, it’s that Masha has nine lives and, no matter what happens, she will always get her way.

Masha maintains there’s value in learning hard truths, but Victoria’s “mother-to-mother” appeal strikes a chord: Tatiana watches them in the background, waiting to finally meet her dad (which, by the way, never happens, though it was a much-talked-about possibility). I understand that all three characters made peace with knowing they are better off alone than with someone who brings out the worst in them — in fact, after Wolfie leaves, Tina plays the piano again, which moves Masha to tears — but the juxtaposition kind of implies that Jesse and Brian are breaking up too. A former girlboss, Masha knows she’s worth more than that, but when she tells him she won’t sign, he blackmails her with his own damning footage — of all the people who have committed crimes, been violent to themselves or one another, or otherwise nearly lost their minds under her care, including last season’s Carmel.

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