Episode 5.5 [Rewatch]

[A Cousin]

This episode feels like a boulder rolling uncontrollably downhill with Harry and Ruth trying to outrun it. The boulder is veering one way and then another ready to smash Ruth or Harry depending on which direction it is veering. I love the pacing of it.

Zaf is precious. Adam is heroic. Roz is a bitch. Mace is slimy.

I really think that R&H don't actually completely realize (or at least fully acknowledge) the depth of their emotion for each other until the events of this episode. They are both taken off guard with what they themselves and the other is willing to do for the other. So by the time you get the the last scene on the dock, it's all the more heart wrenching. That is why she won't let him verbalize it, because the "something wonderful" has been fully defined for both of them but words would make it less.

I think my favorite line/bit is Ruth's line about playing Lady Macbeth. They can instill a bit of comedy into anything! Love seeing Ruth's brutal side.