Liz’s humiliation and resulting defiant reclamation: she is both exposed by alpha gossip (an affair allegation) and physically wounded, then converts humiliation into a public unmasking of the alpha group’s hypocrisy and to practical solidarity.
Liz’s humiliation and resulting defiant reclamation: she is both exposed by alpha gossip (an affair allegation) and physically wounded, then converts humiliation into a public unmasking of the alpha group’s hypocrisy and to practical solidarity.
Events in This Arc
In Liz’s cramped kitchen she enforces blunt household order—‘use a magazine’—as she hands out mini‑pizzas while Julia admits she skipped breakfast. A small domestic moment jolts into crisis when Liz, …
Liz, dishevelled, bandaged and slightly drugged, barges into Amanda’s kitchen to collect her children and immediately punctures the alpha-mums’ performative calm. Amanda offers a cold, patronising welcome; Liz matter-of-factly holds …
After Amanda coldly cancels Julia's childcare request and slams the door, humiliation turns into practical solidarity on the pavement. Julia admits she’s been cut off from the ‘alpha’ network; Kevin …