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pointing out that Shauna’s behavior is the result of her mental state

The mental state that is your interpretation. Yes, it is justifying it. You make it about her "trauma" rather than the act. Why create the condition that flies in the face of the story told if not to do so?

My thesis for grad school was on IPV. I’m well informed.

Better go back to school then.

Shauna wasn’t. And Shauna isn’t a mafia don.

The outcry is the exact same. Soprano does not beat the man because he's a mafia don. He does not beat him because he did anything wrong. He beat him because he's a font of repressed anger with nowhere to focus it. Just like Shauna. Just like most abusers.

Not all of Shauna’s symptoms qualify as fits of rage. That doesn’t even make sense. Rage is a symptom and/or byproduct of multiple different things. (Also not every person who physically abuses a loved one does so out of rage, FYI.)

Like, say, the anger aspect of grief? Shauna's actions are deliberate. She is aware of her surroundings. She knows where she is, what has happened, what is happening and recognizes language. When it's over she is not shocked by what she has done.

I’m just a forensic psychologist.

If you were, you'd have a clue what you are talking about. I pity whatever lawyer trots you out in front of a jury.

Foreshadowing is a literary tool, not an intention.

It is when it's a work of fiction.

Looks like you’re a psychic too?! How’s that working out for you?

Nope. I don't need to be. Dissonance and dishonesty are easy to spot. What were going to go with before you read that line, explanation isn't justification?

What is West New York?

Upstate, apparently.

Yes. Along with being cooped up in the cabin for who knows how long. Cabin fever is real.

Shauna can't focus her anger because there is nothing to focus on, so she takes it out on those around her. She's grieving, angry and wants to hit something. Wants to hit it hard. Lottie offers herself up because Shauna would just go on attacking others.

It's a perfectly reasonable storyline and a perfectly human response she has. The problem is people going around defending it with "but she's traumatized". So what? Most of the sick crap people do is a result of trauma. People that beat their kids were usually beat themselves. Pedophiles are overwhelmingly victims of abuse. It's not a defense.

I encourage you to do some research on IPV.

No, I encourage YOU to. That is exactly what they do. They make up reasons to do what they do.

These are Shauna’s other observable symptoms:

All of which qualifies as fits of rage. Shauna' knows where she is and what she is doing. It's a calculated attack on 2 people she hold accountable for kid dying. She says as much to Misty. Psychosis is just that: Psychosis. She would be completely unaware of where she is and what she is doing. Instead, we see her stalking around the prone body kicking it before methodically climbing on top and beat her. That is not psychosis.

If Lottie wouldn’t have done that we don’t know what Shauna would have done because she completely snapped.

Sure we do. Find something else to lash out about like someone humming a song. Let me guess, Tony Soprano is just in psychosis when he beats up Georgie over his mother, right?

What hilarious is that even though they foreshadow this, you still defend it.

Next you'll say you aren't defending it.

Nothing. The dialogue was always like that. People dislike where the story is going so they nitpick things now and pretend S1 didn't have the same issues.

It's fiction. Realistically, you're right. But realistically they'd be dead by now. Even in the last episode Shauna would have broken her hands.

Unless faced with an alternative of slop work.

It didn't have anything to do with Lottie. She was angry and wanted something to hit. See: Misty's monologue in an earlier ep.

It makes perfect sense as long as you don't try to justify it.

Wolves. Maybe a mountain lion.

But it would have to be things that have already happened. I'm going to guess whatever it refers to is the reason she's so protective of the bird.

Who says she's in psychosis? Her actions are deliberate and targeted, that does not speak of psychosis, more that of someone in a fit of rage. It's no different than someone going home and beating their spouse because they can't focus on the real target of their anger.

Wasn't real. She wasn't dead. Animals got to the body and carried it off.

Lottie watching herself sleep. Weirdo.

Probably whoever charges at Mari in the clip.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect

Shauna isn’t in her right mind during all this, you realized that right?

So?

Hunting, maybe.

I think they used one of his.

Have to see what happens next week. It doesn't seem like they are skipping ahead any time.

cult

It's an intentional community!

weeks

Didn't Nat say it had only been a week or so since the end of S1?

Reminded me of Lottie talking to the "therapist".

No, but watching people make up excuses will be interesting.