re: Netflix's Alias Grace is Fantastic

This was a fantastic show.

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I lean toward more that Grace was raped and abused throughout her life and basically went batshit crazy when Mary died thus creating a split personality. I don't think Grace knows she's crazy. 

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This was my thought on the first watch through the ending. I watched the ending again, and I think they also hint at Jeremiah and Grace being in on the hypnotism session. I think it is also possible that it could have been staged so that the doctor couldn't write up anything negative. Had she come clean in a normal state, his report would've been negative. He wasn't going to leave until he had something of substance, either. As it is, nobody would believe him and it would likely only hurt his career and likely cause her to go back to the asylum if he published what he saw.

I think it's a brilliant ending. Thinking it's more likely that she's just crazy. That makes me think back about when she would've gone crazy (Mary dying, ofc) and the rest of the show and how that'd affect the story. There were several minor events where people overreacted to her and things she did; think of when she and Jamie went out together flowers for her birthday. Maybe they did fool around, or she at least teased him, but she doesn't remember that. Just an example.

Then I wondered how that affects the ending. Did she really go meet up with Jamie and get married? Did she stay in jail or get sent back to the asylum and her brain just fry altogether after the doctor left, so she doesn't remember that? Maybe that whole post-hypnotism ending was a figment of her imagination also.