It’s time to have the Maeve discussion.
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It → ’ → discussion
Always with the unfunny insults, overflowing with vulgarity that thuds to the floor rather than ringing in your ears.
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that → overflow → ears
Loyal to no one, out to get everyone, and never honest for a moment, a characteristic that over time proves very boring indeed.
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that → get → time
So I admit I took grim satisfaction in how poorly things went for the Harrigan family’s mad queen this week on MobLand Season 2 Episode 6 on Paramount+.
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things → admit → Paramount+
On the run from Kat McAllister and Frankie Cooper, she’s forced to hide at the Mallorcan villa of Priyanka (Koël Purie Rinchet), a woman she hates because Conrad had a fling with her that resulted in Seraphina, whom she also hates.
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she → force → whom
To her shock, she finds Harry there waiting for them, with Eddie and Gina in tow.
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Eddie → find → tow
She demands to know what’s going on, and Eddie unwisely tells her he carried off her mission to murder the Medusa as planned.
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he → demand → Medusa
I can think of a million reasons why this is stupid, not the least of which is Harry and Gina can both contradict this version of events and neither of them like Eddie one bit anymore.
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neither → think → Eddie
But Maeve sees through his bullshit anyway, estranging her from her chosen one.
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Maeve → see → one
Harry then pulls Maeve away to discuss the disaster he narrowly averted when he saved Eddie and Gina from the Medusa and his men.
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he → pull → Medusa
“I’ve yet to find anything that I would not do for you, or for Conrad,” he says.
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he → ’ve → Conrad
(I’m sure I’ve missed a few “yeah”s and “right”s, but that’s the gist of it.)
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that → ’m → it
“I have yet to find the line I will not cross in your service.
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I → have → service
Well, yesterday I found it, because yesterday you knowingly put my daughter in mortal jeopardy.”
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you → find → jeopardy
Eddie is hers to do with as she likes, he says, “but if you ever put my daughter in a dangerous situation again I’ll just kill you.”
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I → do → you
He says it just like that, no break, no comma.
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He → say → that
He’s not making a threat, he’s stating a fact.
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he → make → fact
Though she knows better than to talk back in the moment, Maeve is furious.
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Maeve → know → moment
But her fuming to Conrad goes unheeded, because he’s on cloud nine from the blowjob he just received from Priyanka.
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he → fume → Priyanka
As Maeve suspects, Seraphina is up to something more than just offering her fractious family a safehouse with her mom and stepfather, billionaire Charlton (David Bedella).
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Seraphina → suspect → mom
Priyanka is just doing her part to butter him up.
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Priyanka → do → him
At dinner, Seraphina makes her pitch.
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Seraphina → make → pitch
It’s one Harry already knew was coming, a fact that upsets poor out-of-the-loop Kevin, who really isn’t respected by anybody in the family at all.
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who → ’ → family
Harry explains that both Kevin and Seraphina are Harrigans, and he works for the Harrigans, plural, but of course that doesn’t cut much ice with someone who thinks you’re his best mate.
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you → explain → someone
Kevin and Bella do share an actual moment of empathy when they both finally acknowledge he can never really be a father figure for Eddie, so at least that’s something tough but probably healthy that happens to the man this episode.
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that → share → man
Anyway, Seraphina wants Conrad to go into business with Charlton, who can use his contacts, influence, and money in the legit world to secure the Harrigans’ reign over North London and beyond indefinitely.
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who → want → London
It’s a bold ploy, considering she’s only just barely convinced Conrad she was out to ratfuck Kat McAllister from the start, and that with Harry backing up the lie.
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Harry → ’ → lie
Conrad doesn’t go for it.
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Conrad → go → it
Though he repeatedly shushes Maeve when she insults Priyanka and interrupts Seraphina — one more indignity she must suffer, which she does in silence — he says he can never be anything other than an outlaw.
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he → shush → outlaw
He’s a Sonny, not a Michael.
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He → ’ → ?
For him, it all comes back to a magical night on the cliffs overlooking the water with Maeve, when they were young and dirt poor and new to London and high off the thrill of mugging some dipshit for his wallet together.
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they → come → wallet
He gets that feeling from being a gangster, not a CEO.
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He → get → feeling
In his own fucked-up way, crooked cop Colin Tattersall can relate.
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Tattersall → fuck → way
By now Frankie has occupied the Harrigan home and killed Conrad’s beloved dogs, but literally all of the Harrigans are in the wind.
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all → occupy → wind
Even Harry’s civilian wife Jan has eluded capture, and she’s still in London.
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she → elude → London
Meanwhile, Frankie’s lost half a dozen men, including one who was badly tortured by Conrad.
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who → lose → Conrad
Why, he wonders, shouldn’t he just kill Colin on the spot?
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he → wonder → spot
The answer, Tattersall reveals, lies in his pants.
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Tattersall → reveal → pants
Turns out he’s literally turned on by this gangster shit.
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he → turn → shit
“It is my plight to only truly feel alive in the company of the criminally insane,” he gasps with Frankie’s gun to his head.
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he → feel → head
…and 16 more, not listed.
The Aporia
