The show isn't excusing her or approving of her. It shows us the complexity of human existence and lets viewers sit in that discomfort. We all work with people we hate and who hate us, and we rarely get to call them out. We're all victims of the system, but that doesn't mean we're equally impacted.

April 10, 2026 - 19:30 UTC

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This character has barely had any lines and yet we know SO MUCH about her, about her beliefs, about the way she moves in the world.
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And you can see what of that worldview has percolated into Dana, both in terms of what she absorbed and what she rejected. Even her treatment of Emma reflects in some way how Monica trained her. It's masterful craft work on a subtextual level, and to reduce that "Monica bad" misses the whole point.
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What I have learned is that people are not necessarily interested in the story the storyteller is trying to present to viewers. They are interested in the perfect self-insert character who completely represents their views on everything with no ambiguity whatsoever.
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My hate for the "filler episode" discourse just rang like a bell in my head reading this.
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I also think that they are often completely missing when the story IS rendering an opinion on these characters unless it is a brick to the face. A lot of the disapproval on the Pitt is lingering looks and awkward silence, but man it is THERE.
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