TV Obsessive
This week, on The TV Obsessive Podcast Episode 63, Caemeron and Ryan discuss the finale of Lady in the Lake, Episode 7, “My Story” (written by Boaz Yakin, directed by Alma Har’el). But first, in the news:
- RIP Phil Donahue
- A new animated series is in the works from BoJack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg
- Penelope is set to release on Netflix on September 24
- Monster Season 2, focusing on the Menendez brothers, is coming on September 19
- If you liked Ozark, Peacock has given a series order to MIA
- The Acolyte has been cancelled after one season
On Lady in the Lake Episode 7, “My Story”
In 1952, a young Cleo and Dora sneak into the Shell’s club so they can sing in the talent show. Dora ends up singing while Cleo is offered a job as an accountant because she is Al Sherwood’s daughter.
Flash forward to the night Cleo was “murdered.” There is confirmation that Dora overdosed so Cleo and Reggie dressed her up to look her Cleo and dumped her in the lake.
In the present timeline, Cleo shows up in Maddie’s hospital room and asks her to not write her story because it will expose her and end up with her actual death. Maddie convinces her to tell the whole story so Shell can be exposed and Cleo agrees to try and take him down.
Maddie talks to Platt about the case but he has been fired. He wants nothing to do with the story anymore and wants to run away with Maddie.
Maddie wants the story more than a partner, so she convinces the Baltimore Star to let her pursue it. She visits Slappy in prison, but he doesn’t entirely believe the story about Cleo.
Reggie recruits Teddy to get in on the plan with his mom to take down Shell, leaving Teddy to confront Shell about Reggie going behind his back. While this meeting happens, Reggie and Cleo (dressed like a man) sneak in and burn some of the accounting books?
Teddy confronts Shell and forces him to call the police and confess everything including the numbers game and Summers assassination attempt. As a result, Slappy is set free.
Cleo offers a mountain of evidence to Maddie to write a story about Shell, and convinces Maddie not to write a story about Cleo being alive. This allows Cleo to escape to France and assume Dora Carter’s identity as a singer.
Platt rejects Maddie’s offer to just remain romantic partners, which leaves Maddie alone. By 1976, she writes a book about The Lady In The Lake and eventually becomes a famous author.
- The tone of the finale v. the series as a whole
- Cleo’s plan works, but did it make sense?
- No Santa!?
Next Time on The TV Obsessive Podcast…
We check out Homicide: Life on the Street, which has recently become available to stream for the first time on Peacock.
