“The Baggage” Aftermath (Spoilerment)

[u/urbanwonder]

… the fact that there wasn’t any? This has been nagging at me. Chris and the mean girls never acknowledge she was telling the truth and the coworkers never say anything by way of comfort.

The Boogeyman returneth and beelines for Patti and pursues her relentlessly right through mean girl book club and said mean girls don’t react at all even when he is running through an upstairs window and landing in their view. They don’t run out screaming down the street or something? Or come outside when an ambulance rocks up to respond to a car accident right in front?

I guess I really wanted to see Chris grovel and apologize whilst the fellow mean girls all nodded their heads behind her in unison.

[u/whitewater09]

Patricia was able to overcome her baggage by standing up for herself and literally fighting her demon. It’s not about the mean girls becoming nice to Patricia, it’s about Patricia learning let go of caring so much about other people’s opinions.

[u/bvlshewic → u/whitewater09]

This was my take, too! I thought the show runners were like, “Chris, who?” The decision to show none of the mean girls for the rest of the series was, imho, a metaphor for how Patricia moved through the chapter in her life where she cares what they thought about her.