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Lady in the Lake Recap: Dream Logic
The series’ penultimate episode takes a pause on the whodunit element of the story to vibe out in the scariest place imaginable: Maddie’s mind.
This is why this episode spoke to me: Even as it ostensibly offered a chance for Maddie to dig deep into Cleo’s story to figure out the truth, it also allowed Alma Har’el to visually punctuate the themes of racial discord that structure Lady in the Lake. All it gets him is a bit of a lecture on African American community in-fighting … and sadly, even before Ferdie can keep pushing his luck, he learns that, as the white supremacist group NSRP (National States’ Rights Party) descends on Baltimore, he’s been pressured to resign. • Tessie Durst quoting Anaïs Nin to Maddie as the dogged reporter desperately tries to make sense of the many bodies she keeps uncovering around her is a moment as strange as it is alluring — and it speaks to the particular surreal tenor Lady in the Lake has nurtured over its season.
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