nethra answers “Thoughts on the ending?”

Frances asked this question about Verity:

Thoughts on the ending?

nethra Jeremy as the real villain:
Starting with the fact that Jeremy read Lowen's book and staged the whole plan of her coming and staying at their house. Ma…moreJeremy as the real villain:
Starting with the fact that Jeremy read Lowen's book and staged the whole plan of her coming and staying at their house. Maybe he fell in love with her writing, and possibly her, or maybe he just wanted to kill Verity and needed an ally.
In Verity's letter, she reveals that it was actually Jeremy who tried to kill her, so maybe the whole thing about them being "chronics" was a ruse and a way for Lowen to feel pity for Jeremy. Further, if Jeremy had already read the manuscript, why did he make Lowen think that he knew nothing and played the victim? I'm not saying that Verity may have been a good person, we will never know that, but maybe the villain was Jeremy all along.
When Jeremy went to Manhattan, Verity said that she looked all over her office for the manuscript but couldn't find it. This shows that clearly someone placed it there, and the only person who had read it was Jeremy. After he came back from the trip with Lowen, he placed the manuscript in such a way that Lowen would find it and finally see Verity as the bad guy.
In the end, I feel his plan worked out as he planned it to. He had one kid left, he could start a new family with Lowen, and....Verity was dead.(less)

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Liz Iacoviello EXACTLY!!!!
Aug 09, 2022 06:05PM

Julia I like this idea! But does it really make Jeremy a bad guy? Surely if you found out your wife did such horrible things that Verity did, you would go t ...more
Sep 08, 2022 03:50PM

Adrija Goswami I agree with this. He was very smart in having a baby with Lowen as well. It was all planned.
Jun 11, 2023 04:25PM

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