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So, Who Won That Brutal Industry Fight?

Let’s unpack — and rank! — the emotional baggage Harper and Yasmin brought to their vicious exchange.

They’ve lived and worked together, been entangled in a pseudo-love triangle with their colleague and housemate Robert Spearing, and tracked down Harper’s twin brother, who left her family without a trace. She fetched coffee and lunch to demonstrate her willingness to do grunt work, tolerated abusive management to be seen as a team player, and bounced between departments to find a role she excelled in, to no avail. But more damaging than the line itself is the condescending faux pity with which actress Marisa Abela delivers it: The way she cocks her head and shifts her register as if to facetiously say, “You poor little thing …” It’s not a tone that the prideful Harper can stomach.

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