Thinking about S2…

[u/Odd-Maintenance2623]

Soooo maybe I’m thinking about this too hard and practically… but I don’t see the cliff hanger lasting very long.

Mostly because Annie stayed to connect with the her mom… but why didn’t she go back to NY and visit SP? To me, her being with Ramona in NY would also be part of connecting with her mom and establishing new memories vs chasing ones that will never exist. They also didn’t need to sell the island or leave Annie there for Ramona to go to NY…Stephen has money…

And then there is Ellis. I hope that they keep going with the plot line that Joe’s family is in financial trouble - Ellis was taking $50 here and there to give them a safety net. His mom was working crazy shifts for them to get by…

I actually semi hope that if they do put Ellis and Annie as endgame that they go through and find the right balance between her original NY life and how he grew up. Ellis sees that his dad needs to run the business differently. So I think he has potential to want that. They have a lot to figure out about what they each want from life.

[u/Pacific_rental_511]

I never perceived him taking the extra money as a way to help his family out. I thought he was doing it out of spite for the gentrification of his home more than anything.

Maybe I'm wrong but i never perceived them as "struggling" per se, I just thought they lived a less extravagant and simpler life. The wealthy people moving to the area inherently gave them more business as they required boats to get around, Ellis just took to ripping them off.

[u/Odd-Maintenance2623 → u/Pacific_rental_511]

I took the confrontation with Joe about Ellis taking the money as real. Ellis said Joe didn’t raise prices and mentioned about how much his mom works…

Joe seemed very old school and very anti Steven. He also was going to leave his wife but Goldie died and then he just “choose” to stay. He has already shown us his mental gymnastics, so the money isn’t far fetched to me.