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Lady in the Lake Recap: Connect the Dots
Maddie is a selfish, bad journalist, but she’s the show’s main character, so she finds herself at the center of all these stories.
One of the most fascinating aspects of how Lady in the Lake is structured — and in this, the show borrows quite heavily from Laura Lippman’s novel — is how it narratively centers Maddie while making her “main character energy” deserving of constant scrutiny. It all began with how she first got involved in the Tessie Durst case, which led her to separate from Milton, and now she’ll soon find herself embroiled in Cleo Johnson’s disappearance, which again seems to fuel only her own selfish journalistic ambitions. The episode ends with Maddie bleeding all over the floor (in that gorgeous yellow dress of hers) while staring at Ms. Zawadzkie’s lifeless body in front of her (having killed herself) and unable to tell the operator on the phone how and why she desperately needed someone to get there as soon as possible.
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