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edmund_the_destroyer wrote

Hogarth lied when she told Inez she had evidence that Shane had other girlfriends. After Inez killed Shane, Hogarth opened the envelope that was supposed to contain the list of letters Shane wrote to other women. It only contained Hogarth's list of pawn shops to call to find her stolen gear.

But yes, the author still wrote an invalid description of those events.

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iguanacam wrote

I agree completely that Hogarth manipulated Inez into murdering Shane. However, for the premise of this article, it's immaterial because no matter the tactics used, Inez is still the one that pulled the trigger. At worst, Hogarth is an accomplice to murder. Even if manipulated, Inez is still a murderer, and saying that she was "framed" is letting her off the hook entirely.

Since the author's main criticism of the showrunners in her article is that the crimes of the protagonists are mitigated by the level of sympathy we're designed to feel for them, her Hogarth/Inez/Shane example is a bad one because she does the exact thing that she criticizes. My point was that hopefully she did so because she didn't watch the show and someone relayed the plot to her inaccurately. If she did watch the show and still wrote what she did, then I'm going to call bullshit.

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