The 'Disclaimer' Finale is Eerily on Brand for this Week in America

What a week for the Disclaimer finale.

As the country laid bare its inherent sexism and misogyny, a series that had played on those two things all along reached its conclusion.

I’ve had my suspicions that we, the audience, were not being told the whole story. How did Nancy know what she put in her book with such specificity when she wasn’t there? Finally, we learn the truth as Catherine tells Stephen the entire horrid story. After getting a glass of wine at the hotel bar that night, Catherine went to her hotel room. She felt good, “joyous” even. She was okay being by herself with Nicholas. They had had a wonderful day at the beach. “I wonder if that was the last time I was ever truly happy,” she tells Stephen.