I felt the tension draining out of the murder plot, and Tanya just wearing on me, halfway through the episode. Something about her slowness and delivery just scrapes at my tolerance. Extremely talented actress, of course.
It was never a very believable or credible plot, (the murder) but the direction and the acting and the feel elevated the material, but the conclusion just felt flat to me. I'm sure it's intentional, and the show's ethos isn't really a brutal murder of a woman, but it felt more farce like than the build up.
It was always a ridiculous plot, if they wanted her dead, just kill her any number of times. Why hire an escort? get her coked out? Party for days at a time, only to sober up and take a yacht ride, and then NOT do it on the open ocean, just throw her over, and then wait until they are inside the shore, and right off the hotel. And then, they were going to shoot her? Tie her hands and throw her overboard? It got too contrived and clunky, and the tension was lost. And i get it, it's not THAT show, it's not Breaking Bad, or any other quasi realistic look at crime. it's soapy and campy and over the top.
As for the couples, the message to me, seemed to hint/indict at the proverbial "rot" "mold", that lurks beneath the facade of normalcy and monogamy, and upper class life in hetereo relationships? A long LONG explored theme, going back to Revolutionary Road, even like 70 years ago. And Edith Warton novels before that.
Well captured, but pretty thin.
Quentin is wearing some YSL espadrilles I have, not sure if that's a good thing, in that last scene lol
note:
That image of Tanya after massacring 4 men, holding a gun, in a fight for her life. and she asks IS HE HAVING AN AFFAIR is probably already a meme, and kind of underscores culturally the obsession with monogamy and fidelity.