re: Actress Helen McCroy, wife of Damian Lewis, has died at age 52 of cancer

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loved her as Aunt Pol, I don’t know how the show is going to replace he

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To be honest, and not to diminish her character or her as an actor or anything, they needed a bit of a change from that character arc. In the beginning she was the smartest person in the room usually and a huge domino mover. In later seasons she just kind of turns into a nagging aunt who goes completely against Tommy at every turn for weird reasons

I imagine they’ll have to pivot and turn her death into a mechanism for the incoming Tommy- Michael feud- or possibly the end of it