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« on: September 28, 2015, 08:47:42 PM »
Daniel is one seriously disturbed kid. His behavior with Maggie is way out of line. His interactions with Elizabeth and Amy show that this is a very spoiled and nasty little boy. This is more than grief over his mother's untimely death or even denial. Yet Quentin (and everyone else) just continues to ignore it.
The singing portrait was apparently a one time only appearance. None of the people who visit the room ever hear any singing [spoiler]though Quentin and Alexis will be later treated to a phantom piano player.[/spoiler]. Was this supposed to be ambiguous? Or just an unresolved plot tangent?
It's been quite a welcome to Collinwood for Maggie. She desperately wants to fit in but is still unsure who her enemies are. She makes an unfortunate mistake by taking Hoffman's advice about scoring points with Daniel. It would have made more sense for her to have asked Amy, who genuinely likes her. But, after the situation with the record, Maggie does acquire some much needed touch of Eve Arden and puts Hoffman in her place. That is one of my favorite pieces of dialogue from the show. I wish that they had continued to write her this way.
And, after an extremely stressful day of hearing Angelique worshipped like the saint that we know she wasn't, Maggie has quite a shock for her in the drawing room. Too bad the credits spoil the surprise for the audience. But this had happened once before[spoiler]during the Leviathan sequence when the victim of Barnabas' bad driving is credited as Unknown Man David Selby[/spoiler]