Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. Then there was all the talk about how Cara Lynn really is bad. Her confession doesn't just knock the family: it also makes Bill guilty of statutory rape. TV-MA | 57 MIN. Cara Lynn James lives in northwest Florida with her husband, grown daughter, four year old . I rarely check my Goodreads messages, so if you are trying to contact me, the best bet is Facebook "[40] The second season was cited among the best shows of 2007 by numerous publications, including PopMatters,[41] the San Francisco Chronicle,[42] Time Magazine,[43] Entertainment Weekly[44] and NPR. TVLINE | Besides your upcoming CSI: Miami guest spot, what would you like to do next in your budding career? Season 3, Episode 3, "Prom Queen": Lois suffocates Frank with a plastic bag. You threw us away without so much as a second thought?" She's gone rogue! Here's the full lineup: 1. . Nicki reminds Alby he saved her when they were younger. Jace is the founder of television criticism and analysis website Televisionary and can be found on Twitter. The outside scenes of the three homes that Bill owns were filmed on location on Shady Lane, in the small town of Fillmore, California. Season 3, Episode 9, "Outer Darkness": Barb at the Temple. We've been forged. The role is played by Chlo Sevigny. Market data provided by Factset. Thomson works in the music industry, where she is a singer-songwriter. If HBO were to do a sequel to "Big Love", it would have to be called something like "The Three Sister-Wives." Was death her only escape? But Bill's death accomplishes something that Barb, Nicki, and Margene had struggled with for the past five seasons: it finally unifies the three sister wives in an unbreakable bond. She co-starred in the small-budget movie Cop Dog at age 15 in 2008. === === Cara Lynn was the youngest born out of the Gilmore family. Review aggregate Metacritic indicated positive critical response for all five seasons. But just as the family comes together, they're hit by another bombshell: the arrival of potential fourth wife Ana ( Branka Katic), who turns up and says that she wants to give plural marriage a try. When Roman thanks Nicki for helping him, the weight of her actions finally hits her, and she shoves her father down the courthouse steps. [3] She currently lives in Los Angeles, California. Template:Chart/startTemplate:Chart [14][15] Creators Olsen and Scheffer included a drive through the twin FLDS towns of Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona, as part of their research for the show. Season 4 Episode Discussion. "[46] After two years of popping up spottily on critics' 'Best Of' lists, season three was recognized as one of the top seasons of television from 2009. Which is why that scene in the car was so blissful. Finally, these two battleaxes have their happy ending. In her rumination on the finale, Ginia Bellafante of the New York Times noted that "[Big Love] was always at its most compelling as an indictment of the mindless spiritual avidity and the bizarre displays of self-exoneration that can go on in the name of faith," and celebrated the finale for committing to that theme. Chloe Sevigny is one of the most talented people I have ever worked with she can do anything! An open embrace? Columbia Law Review 110:8 (2010, pg. Bill Hendrickson and his three wives struggle with all of the daily trials of contemporary family life: parenting, finances, intimacy, and sex. Will she go through with her baptism at her new church and turn her back on her husband's church, the one he built for her after her ex-communication? It was a gut-wrenching twist for a character who had seemingly found love after enduring so much (including a marriage at 14 to a 52-year-old man and the betrayal of her twin sister at Roman's trial). Season 5, Episode 10, "Where Men and Mountains Meet": The sister wives take a joyride. In aggregating Top 10 lists from every major television critic, Metacritic reported that 10 critics had cited the series, tying for the eighth-most mentions (and, in particular, Big Love ranked third on that list among series in their third season or later). of Nickis daughter, played by up-and-comer Cassi Thomson. Faith comes from that love, not the other way around. And while Bill comes off as a dedicated father and tireless husband of three, there's a feeling of relief whenever he's not in the picture. For you. Newport, Rhode Island, 1899, is a place of shimmering waves, sleek yachts, and ladies of leisure. Big Love. She lived on a ranch in Vanuatu until she was 5 years old after which her family moved to New Haven, Missouri, in the United States. [16] Nicolette Eugenia "Nicki" Grant[1] is a character in Big Love, an HBO television series set among contemporary polygamists in Utah. Big Love received the best early reviews of its entire run. The fifth and final season received an average score of 85/100, or "universal acclaim". Sarah later escapes the polygamist lifestyle that she's chafed against for so long, heading to Portland with her husband in Season 4, enabling her to grab onto one of the show's few happy endings. [25], It is revealed that Nicki was married to an older man named J.J. Walker (Wanda's brother) when she was fifteen and still living at Juniper Creek. Barb sits with Lee Hatcher and Bill to review her interrogation by the police. Ailish and Julia O'Connor as Nell Henrickson Bill and Margene's daughter. [6][35] Also in the finale, she goes against her characteristically cold demeanour when she informs her sister-wives that she wants Bill all to herself and will stand by him even if they do not. EMBRACE YOUR WEIRDNESS! "[62] In March 2009, the LDS Church stated that HBO's writers, producers, and executives were displaying insensitivity to church members by choosing to display simulated segments of the LDS Church's Endowment ceremony in an episode of Big Love. I am unprofessionally professional human being. [33], Upon its debut, reaction to the series was mixed-to-positive. The show was co-created by Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer, who also served as executive producers. Last week's revelation that . Big Love stars Bill Paxton, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chlo Sevigny, and Ginnifer Goodwin, as well as a large supporting cast. Or he would haveif his life hadn't been so brutally taken from him by a former friend. In concluding, Atkinson makes the case that Big Love and other HBO shows like The Sopranos, The Wire and Six Feet Under "contribute to a fuller conception of humanity" than other forms of art and entertainment. Facebook gives people the power to share. Albert Grant ( Matt Ross) has been an increasingly dangerous and unpredictable element throughout Big Love's run, but it was this Season 1 scene that first established just how mentally unstable Alby really was. The question that hovers over the action is whether following the Principle is worth, not only the heartache, but the eternal separation of her soul from her family's. The series lasted from March, 2006 to March, 2011, with a total of 53 episodes in five seasons. Season 4, Episode 9, "End of Days": The wives out themselves on stage. [35] In the season finale, she cuts her hair, which was always in a compound style braid. Following the Henricksons on a road trip to Cumorah, New York, (where their prophet, Joseph Smith, was said to have discovered the gold tablets that were the basis for the Book of Mormon), the weary family, undone by tensions both large and small, is nearly ripped apart by a series of secrets that come tumbling out: Ben and Margene see each other naked; Ben admits to having feelings for her; Nicki's birth control pills are discovered by Barb; and Margene learns that Bill has been taking Viagra. Big Love seeks to persuade us to accept ambivalence and to be open to changing our minds because of the complicated nature of women's (and men's) lives; feminist legal theory ought to persuade us to do the same. [30], Nicki discovers that her father died and takes time to grieve. 5 Seasons | 53 Episodes | TV-MA. Thomson was born in Queensland, Australia. Episode 43: End Of Days - Season Finale! Template:Chart As an adult, he was the owner of a hardware store in Utah . Shes been a fan forever, so Ill watch at home with her! Many of the businesses owned by the 'UEB' are similar to businesses owned by the Latter Day Church of Christ (aka the Kingston Clan), another Mormon fundamentalist church. [5][6], Thomson has also worked as a singer-songwriter. Although set in Utah, the series was primarily filmed at the Santa Clarita Studios in Valencia, California. Template:Chart or redistributed. With everyonefrom Albert Grant to the LDS Churchbaying for Bill's blood, Margene has unwittingly transformed Bill into everything he's fought so hard against. Template:Chart Whoop 4.0: Which One Is The Best Health Tracker? (HBO) ( Corbis. She was born on 14 July 1988 in Vermont, United States. Michigan Journal of Gender & Law 17:1 (2010, pg. 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[42][41] Nicki breaks down after Cara Lynn has a meltdown in the backyard while burning her textbooks, but Bill busts into Nicki's locked bedroom door to comfort her.[40][42][41]. A promo for the HBO show "Big Love." In the show's much-anticipated second season, the invitation became more pointed and persistent, with intermittent references to 'coming out,' 'closeted families,' and 'the state' as repressively surveilling nonconforming 'big love.'" [33] She decides to visit a fertility specialist, the son of her ex-husband J.J, who is now sealed to her mother. "[59] Writing for TV Squad, Dr. Ryan Vaughn was less enthusiastic about the finale but said, "I'm not going to let a great series be sullied with a mediocre finale. She's been messing with us. Nicki now knows that Cara Lynn is having this relationship with her teacher Greg Ivey (played by Christian Campbell),. I was fortunate enough to get his book free for my Kindle on Amazon a few months back and I finally got around to reading it! View the profiles of people named Cara Lynn. It has been the subject of seminal pieces in top academic journals, including the Columbia Law Review, Law and Contemporary Problems, and Michigan Journal of Gender & Law. Lua error: bad argument #2 to 'title.new' (unrecognized namespace name 'Portal'). Requested URL: biglovecompound.proboards.com/thread/448/cara-lynn-spoilers, User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 15_5 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) GSA/218.0.456502374 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1. The chance to break the big story is all Charlotte needs to secure her future. TVLine is a part of Penske Media Corporation. Lost, NCIS, Big Love, Veep Writers on His Legacy", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nicolette_Grant&oldid=1113059567, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles using infobox templates with no data rows, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Joey Henrickson (brother-in-law via Bill), This page was last edited on 29 September 2022, at 14:25. After some kids steal her ladder while she's working on the roof (Nicki is always self-sufficient, if nothing else), Nicki shines a spotlight on herself, announcing that she is the daughter of polygamist Roman Grant, and that she owes everything to the Henricksons and Margene for offering her support and compassion. TV Show. Henrickson lives with his family in three neighboring houses in Sandy, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City. Template:Chart [40] However, Verlan pleads with Alby not to kill his own sister. And Barb, who struggled with her questions of faith, gains the priesthood she's long sought after and leads the righteous into a new beginning. When Nicki reveals that Kathy is the Jane Doe witness and Kathy's twin invalidates Kathy's testimony, Roman is freed. [62] Among other things, the church stated, "Despite its popularity with some, much of today's television entertainment shows an unhealthy preoccupation with sex, coarse humor and foul language. Mar 7, 2011 at 12:09am writerwannabe said: BTW, Texas changed the age of legal marriage with parental consent from 16 to 18 because of the influx of polygamists. Claire LeGrand - Winterspell 4. In her conclusion, she wrote "the future of feminist legal theory depends on its ability to remain ambivalent about the tensions presented in the consent doctrine as applied to contexts such as polygamy, prostitution, sadomasochistic sex, obscenity, and domestic violence. Her murderous wrath is interrupted by a phone call from Bill, with questions about the decades-old suicide of his sister Maggie. For Barb, the act represents her freedom, her desire for a fresh start amid the chaos and confusion of their current situation, and her quest for inner fulfillment. traditional or legal marriage 2023 TVLine Media, LLC. Much about this current season either didn't make sense or greatly annoyed me. I'm spiteful, jealous and mean." Big Love stars Bill Paxton, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chlo Sevigny, and Ginnifer Goodwin, as well as a large supporting cast. offspring. The theme song for the final two seasons of the series was "Home", by the band Engineers. With her father mysteriously away, Cara Lynn is being raised by a mother she's still getting to know and adapting to non-compound life with the Henricksons. Get the best of Fox News' entertainment coverage, right in your inbox. In "Big Love", home is where the heart is, as long as you follow Bill's rules. In particular, several critics noted improvements from season one. David Byrne recorded a complete soundtrack to the second season, released as Big Love: Hymnal on August 19, 2008. Season 3, Episode 4, "On Trial": Nicki shoves Roman down the stairs. However, she claimed that Hollywood and television critics' desire to interpret the polygamy in Big Love and beyond as representative of American "quirky families" was a miscue. But their relationship doesnt just end. Newport, Rhode Island, in 1900a glamorous resort town where the rich and famous go to see and be seen. Of opulent mansions that serve as summer cottages for the rich and famous. [38], Nicki is kidnapped by Alby and Verlan in order to execute Nicki to punish Bill. Not every HBO series has been so lucky. [9][13] She has been shown going to some lengths to be a part of their lives and keep them a part of hers, much to the dismay of Bill and Barb. Gillian Flynn of Entertainment Weekly wrote, "Big Love has dropped the last vestiges of its ostentatious quirkiness and fashioned itself into a rich and grounded family drama," and Diane Werts of Newsday said that "'Big Love' does more this year than you might expect, and more richly, more provocatively, more dramatically and amusingly, too. [45], Season three vaulted Big Love to universal critical acclaim. Nicki said she was happy finally getting the coveted front-and-center spot she deserved. Mary McNamara wrote, "Big Love quickly reclaims its astonishing ability to balance the insightful and the absurd, hilarity and heartbreak and the personal with the political. Directors of the series include Jim McKay, Adam Davidson, Rodrigo Garcia, Charles McDougall, Sarah Pia Anderson, Dan Attias, Burr Steers, Michael Spiller, Alan Taylor, John Strickland, Mary Harron, Steve Shill, Julian Farino, Michael Lehmann, and Alan Poul (former executive producer of Six Feet Under). Can you ease their minds? You've successfully subscribed to this newsletter! She is known for her recurring role as Cara Lynn Walker in the television series Big Love [1] and for her role as Nikki Papagus on the series Switched at Birth. Has Barb been on the right path? Nicki and Cara Lynn are at a breaking point right now, and this week Nicki just goes crazy. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Bill, smarting from the collapse of Home Plus, is clearly seeing this as an extension of her rejection of his patriarchal church. ", "Hank Stuever previews 'Big Love': Season 4 is a tangle of story lines", http://community.post-gazette.com/blogs/tunedin/archive/2010/01/07/big-love-big-disappointment.aspx, "Eternity: Thoughts on the Series Finale of HBO's, "Big Love Watch: God Only Knows What We'd Be Without You", "In 'Big Love' Finale on HBO, a Comeuppance for the Man", "Church Responds to Questions on HBO's Big Love", "HBO Vs. "reinforce the belief that life on earth is the equivalent of a blink of an eye; Barb hasn't just lost her church, but her family in the afterlife. Lua error: bad argument #2 to 'title.new' (unrecognized namespace name 'Portal'). When JJ brought her back to Juniper Creek, she met her real mother, Nicki. Lenore Appelhans - The Memory of After (previously known as Level 2) 5. [22][21] But Nicki refuses to stop taking the pills. List of Big Love episodes WATCH NOW. [2][3][18] She is ostracized from the Grant family before her father is shot, and she steals from them to get revenge. She is a very beautiful American actress and social media star. Episode aired Feb 20, 2011 TV-MA 59 m IMDb RATING 7.5 /10 154 YOUR RATING Rate Drama Barb capitulates on Bills marital plans, but not on her hopes to attain the priesthood. Since its premiere, Big Love has been the subject of several seminal studies in the humanities and social sciences. The series charts the family's life in and out of the public sphere in their Salt Lake City . Cara Lynn Shultz - The Dark World 2. Big Love is an HBO drama about the Henricksons, a polygamous family with its roots in a fundamentalist Mormon splinter group hiding in plain sight in a Salt Lake City suburb. Not exactly Chekhov, but I'd probably watch. [51] Putting it into perspective, Rob Owen of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote, "In this new season the show is spinning off into too many directions. March 13 2011, 2:32 PM PDT. TVLINE | Will Cara Lynn continue to see her teacher, ultimately putting the family in more danger? And then insists to his failed business partner Don: "The only thing that matters: our families, our marriages. Cara Lynn was raised by her father JJ and his wives in Kansas. Club, which a year earlier had cited the drama as one of the previous decade's top 20 shows, described the fourth season after its finale as "The season that virtually obliterated Big Love's dramatic credibility. Template:Chart/start After accumulating $60,000 in credit card debt, she passes the buck by focusing on the faults of Bill and Barb. Template:Chart This weeks episode still shows some stuff happening with Cara Lynn and Greg, but Nicki is not weak and she will get what she wants, which is to protect her daughter. Posts. But the moment is shattered when the reality of their situation inevitably catches up to them: they might be together in this car, but they're coming apart at the seams. [1] The show focuses on the family of Bill Henrickson; Nicki is the second of Henrickson's three wives, and the mother of three of his children: Cara Lynn (with JJ Walker), Wayne, and Raymond. Big Love was a success for HBO, running for five seasons before concluding its run on March 20, 2011.[4]. Jennifer L. Armentrout - White Hot Kiss, Don't Look Back Check out more details here. In age of elegance and excess, Lilly Westbrook longs for a love both true and eternal. [57] James Poniewozik wrote for Time Magazine that "In the end Big Love came back full circle to the core relationships We closed on a moving if messy note for a moving if messy series. TVLINE | Talk about Cara Lynns journey in these final two episodes. (If you want to see this as a metaphor for the ongoing fight for gay marriage equality, I won't stop you.). Big Love ***SPOILERS*** "BIG LOVE" in the NEWS. Christopher Randazzo and Zachary Randazzo as Joey Henrickson Jr. Joey and Wanda's son. [28][22][25] Wanda reminds Nicki of this and how when they were girls Nicki, would tell Wanda how she "hated" J.J. and that the thought of him "made her skin crawl. "Rethinking Consent in a Big Love Way." By exploring the movement seeking to culturally legitimize same-sex marriage, she concluded Big Love served as a most powerful, unique allegory: "Big Love plays on an even more decisive gap: polygamous marriages are not legal in Utah or anywhere else in the country. Shocking and unexpected, it's the first indication that the manipulative Nicki might finally realize the damage that had been done to her. [37][38] Barb initially resists seeing that she'd have to divorce Bill, but eventually gives in with hopes that Nicki, Barb, Marge, and Bill can have a resealing ceremony. [22][30], Also in the Season Three finale, Bill helps Nicki pack her belongings as she prepares to move with her kids into an apartment owned by Don, Bill's friend and business associate. It's a punch to the gut for Barb, and her pain is palpably felt here, and the line at the end"Your 15 minutes are up. TVLINE | Big Loves final episodes have been filled to the brim with shocks, and fans are concerned the series wont be able to wrap everything up by the end. But while the evening goes horribly awry, it's the morning after the prom that's truly cataclysmic. Shes deeply concerned that what shes doing is hurting them, and she didnt really understand what was at stake here with this relationship with her teacher. Jace Lacob is The Daily Beast's TV Columnist. Nick Bryson is all business, focused on making a name for himself in his father's teamship line. Cara Lynn James in her new book, "Love By The Book" Book Three in her Ladies Of Summerhill series published by Thomas Nelson takes us to 1902 Newport, Rhode Island. The Mormons In Battle Over Temple Ceremony", "LDS Temple secrets? They race outside to cradle and comfort their fallen husband, who looks at Barb and asks for a blessing as we fade to white. 22 TV Characters Who Deserve Their Own Spinoff Series, The Voice Needs to Make This Change in Season 23 and We Mean Immediately, The Voice Needs to Make This Change in Season 23 and We Mean, The Last of Us Director Liza Johnson on Crafting the Perfect Post-Apocalyptic Teen Mall Date in Episode 7, The Last of Us Reveals Ellie's Tender First Love -- and Loss --in Left Behind Flashback Episode: Read Recap, March Streaming Guide: What's New on Netflix, Amazon, Disney+. While Nicki is secretly betraying both the family and the course of justice (by aiding her guilty father), she does stick up for them when it seems as though Bill and a neighbor might actually come to blows at the neighborhood block party. Renee Albert as Julep ("Jo-Jo") Don's third wife. Her real name is Lynn Love. The Match Factory Reports Red Hot Sales For Berlin Silver Bear, Wall Street Wary of Man United, WWE Deals as Sports StocksSlump, 'The Mandalorian' Seasons 1 and 2 Take Place Over 'Many Years,', 'Stranger Things' Stage Play 'The First Shadow' to Open in. Nicki was yelling at Barb how Cara Lynn was not going to defile her body. [33][32][28] The specialist breaks the news that she is infertile, but he assures her they will attempt to work through it so that she may conceive. All Rights Reserved.). (In true Big Love fashion, any fragile peace is punctured by an unexpected twist.) Season 5, Episode 10, "Where Men and Mountains Meet": Bill is shot to death. She played recurring roles in the TV shows Big Love and Switched at Birth. Big Love - Cara Lynn finds out the truth about her father - YouTube 0:00 / 2:26 Big Love - Cara Lynn finds out the truth about her father 48,748 views Jan 31, 2011 87 Dislike. "God Only Knows" was covered by Natalie Maines for the series finale. Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now! Love On A Dime by Cara Lynn James Love On A Dime is the first book in Cara Lynn James' series, the Ladies of Summerhill. CelebrityThe IndependentLoretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner's daughter whose songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia, has died aged 90. Template:Chart Maureen Ryan of The Huffington Post and noted critic Alan Sepinwall remained ambivalent towards the show; otherwise critics were uniformly positive. 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[41] Cara Lynn ends up staying, but Nicki tells her that the math teacher was relieved to end the relationship and he "got what he wanted from her. Its been so amazing. Instagram @caradelevingne STOP LABELING!. But it's the unexpected miscarriage that secretly pregnant Sarah has while on the road trip that finally brings everyone together. The 12 scenes selected below from Big Love's five seasons exemplify the way that the show shifted effortlessly from domestic drama to faith-based vision quest, and from the mundane to the divine. As he celebrates his newfound freedom, crowing that "the righteous have prevailed," Nicki is forced to contend with what she's done to engineer his release and what had been done to her as a teenager (she was sealed to a much older man in marriage when she was 15). If you go all the way back to the pilot when we first introduced that teen world, Heather is the character who's largely demeaned by all the cool girls. Melinda Hollister is a society lady, intent on finding a rich husband before her peers discover her quickly diminishing wealth. Dr. Cheryl Hanna explored "the problem of categorical exclusions to the consent doctrine in private intimate relationships" through the lens of Big Love, specifically citing its "beautifully explored" tensions between individual autonomy and state interests. Cara is a partner at Tisher, Free & Lynn, PLLC. Market data provided by Factset. [55] Overall, the final season of Big Love tied as the fourth-best reviewed returning show of 2011, trailing only Breaking Bad, Louie and the animated comedy Archer. TVLINE | Any special plans to commemorate Big Loves finale night? Cara Lynn is to be found wearing either a pink uniform, or running around the city with her family getting into a little bit of trouble. How will it all end? Nicki, fearing anything that will split the family apart, is all judgey as usual, telling Barb, "It's good to have an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out." This final moment, after a contentious and often over-the-top season, as the wives stand side-by-side (in red, white, and blue, no less), is a stunning scene to go out on, leaving the audience realizing what the Henricksons don't: that where there is much light, the shadow is deep. Club awarded the series finale, and the series as a whole, a B+, writing that its first three seasons in particular qualified as "remarkable television. The film received mostly negative reviews from critics. "[39], By the second season, critical reception warmed. Bill Henrickson is a fictional business owner and politician and the main character from the HBO drama series Big Love. [3] [4] [1] Contents 1 Characterization 2 Biography 2.1 Early life 2.2 Season One 2.3 Season Two 2.4 Season Three "[29] Nicki and J.J. had a daughter named Cara Lynn, but when Roman finally allows her to become "unsealed," Nicki left her infant daughter behind with J.J.[30][23][1] In the Season Three finale, Nicki brings Cara Lynn into the Henrickson household. Big Love (2006-2011) is an HBO television drama about a fundamentalist Mormon family in Utah that practices polygamy. At least "Big Love" had an ending. [21], On a family vacation, Barb finds Nicki's pills and assumes they are her daughter Sarah's. PMC Entertainment. The hour-plus finale thankfully shucked much of the grotesque Utah-Mormon-Gothic melodrama (murderously mad prophet Alby was taken care of last week, shot down but not killed when he tried to storm the statehouse with the Henricksons inside) and stressed the themes of an unorthodox family and marriage unit fighting for acceptance and survival in a judgmental and often violently unforgiving world. "[54] Similar raves came from Nancy DeWolf Smith of the Wall Street Journal, who said the final season was "mesmerizing", and the New York Post, which awarded the final season a perfect four out of four stars. When I read Episode 6 I though the same thing, but everything will get tied up and the series ends on a put-together note. [22] More shatteringly, the evidence reveals to her that she was in "The Joy Book". Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. 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