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Lady in the Lake Series-Finale Recap: Where You Gonna Run To?
The series finale manages to give Cleo the ending the novel never could.
Not so in Lady in the Lake ’s television adaptation, which fittingly calls its final episode “My story.” Cleo won’t be just a narrative crutch for a young dissatisfied suburban wife’s character development. Set to Nina Simone’s “Sinnerman,” the entire sequence is thrilling, and it gives Cleo the kind of fiery agency she somewhat lacked in the novel, where she remained a bit part of Maddie’s life and story. And I gotta say, stealthily making the entire show hinge on Maddie’s own ill-equipped ambition was a lovely way to reframe what had often felt to me as a blind spot in the original novel where Ms. Schwartz does end up merely benefiting from Cleo’s “life and death” with little regard for the former and little respect for the latter.
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