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From (2022–) 2x10 "Once Upon a Time…"

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DUSTER 1.01 — Baltimore Changes Everything

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Because I told my wife about you. She fucking loves you. But she's never met me. She loves the idea of you. First black woman at the Bureau and all that shit. 'It must be a nightmare for you to work with all these stupid white men' blah blah blah.

Duster (2025) - 1x3 "You're No Good"

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My experience tells me that there’s more to this. So… What could that be? Beats me. But it must be something that’s more valuable than the building.       Song Joong Ki and Jun Yeo Bin as Vincenzo Cassano and Hong Cha Young in             VINCENZO (2021) dir. Kim Hee Won

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Sometimes I think about Louise Hobbs for too long and start going a little crazy.

Garret Jacob gets all the attention on the show. Abigail gets it from fandom. The absence of Louise is almost invisible. She’s not there. We don’t think about her.

We don’t think about her, of course, because she’s not in canon in the first place. She has no lines. Her name is not mentioned in dialogue. She only barely appears on camera.

Here is Louise Hobbs alive and well. Striking about this bit, once I was looking at it: she doesn’t look towards the camera, she doesn’t look towards her family members, and her family doesn’t look towards her. They move around one another and don’t directly interact. Look at it: Abigail and Garret Jacob Hobbs are communicating, here, in a way that she’s entirely cut off from.

(And, ok, listen, I’ve gotta sidebar. Even before Abigail actually picks up the phone, GJH is keeping track of where she goes. There are no clear frames of this tiny interaction, but look:

he’s keeping tabs on her. The minute she moves, he’s checking over his shoulder to see what she’s up to. By contrast, he doesn’t look at his wife even once.)

(One other thing about this tiny little scene of them playing house. GJH has absolutely no chill. He is tense and intense even before he gets on the phone. It’s not really possible to tell what Abigail is thinking through all of this–we know from later that she’s a pretty good liar–but Garret Jacob Hobbs is not subtle. He’s jumpy as fuck, and he’s probably that way all the time.)

Continuing.

The next time we see Lousie, she’s being shoved out the front door. Think about that. GJH didn’t kill her immediately. He’s not interested in seeing her dead. He’s using her to buy time in the kitchen with Abigail because he knows he doesn’t have any left.

The way I remembered Louise dying was with a cut to her throat, but look at it. She’s got wounds on her arms, on her torso. He wasn’t careful, or quick. He didn’t hold out his hand to her and ask her to come closer. He attacked her, shoved her out the door, and slammed it behind her.

That is the end of Louise Hobbs.

Hobbs family dynamics just. Absolutely fascinate me. (Too much.) I so desperately want to know what it was like to be Louise Hobbs. I want to know how much she knew, how much she suspected, and how much she refused to let herself understand. She’s the cannibal the show cares about the least. She’s the one who dies so that someone else can have a little more time.

The show constantly returns to the idea of murder as a way to break or make families. Besides the Hobbs family, there’s the children and foster mother from Oeuf, Gideon killing his wife in backstory, Lawrence Wells who killed his own son, Margot and Mason, and of course Dolarhyde’s obsession with killing families together. Louise Hobbs’s is a murder to break a family. She is, very literally, cast out.

We do see her one last time:

It’s interesting that, when Abigail sees this, Alana is the one who becomes her mother. Whatever you want to say about the long-term feasibility of the Murder Family, it’s indisputable that Hannibal was never interested in planning a future with Alana. She’s there nearly by accident. Holding a place meant for Will. She is not part of the plan.

If Abigail mourns for Louise, she does it off-screen. We see flashbacks to her interactions with Garret Jacob, but, after this, Louise never returns. We’re left to wonder, or to forget, all on our own.

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🎬 Our Movie 우리 영화 (2025) | Episode. 02   

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Tom Hardy as Harry Da Souza in MobLand S01 E08. Helter Skelter.

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NATALIE SCATORCCIO 1.01 "Pilot"

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HAPPY FATHERS DAY TO ASH!!! he’s such a cringefail dad to brandy but he tries so hard…

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tag yourself I’m samir

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Tom Hardy as Harry Da Souza MobLand | S01E3 “Plan B”

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DUSTER ⛐ 1x01 "baltimore changes everything"

— for @powersuitup

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YAO as Bo Chow SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

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Despite knowing the journey and where it leads, I embrace it. And I welcome every moment of it.

Arrival (2016) dir. Denis Villeneuve

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Gelphie — Wicked: For Good (2025)