#when George was bidding on the charity and then Marian being the reason that George didn’t go to jail in s1 were cute and had potential)

[ladyofpembroke]

I feel like we haven’t seen much interaction between Marian and Bertha and George this season and I’ve really missed it. I feel like there could be doylist and Watsonian reasons for it.

For the watsonian reasons, in s1 the Russells had few friends in high society, Marian was one of the first to break with convention to socialize with them. In s2, they are pretty established in society and have chosen to associate with those of higher societal prospects as well as those rich enough to buy a box at the metropolitan. They have invited Marian to a few events, enough to not be rude, but have left her off the list for more prominent events.

For Doylist reasons, I think one of the reasons that Marian has been interacting less with the older Russells is because Louisa Jacobson’s lack of large age gap with Carrie Coon and Morgan Spector. Louisa is 32, Carrie and Morgan are 42 and 43, respectively. While the actors who play the Russells children are also playing younger and are 30 and 29, their characters are played as somewhat more immature than Louisa plays Marian. Last season, the interactions between Marian and the older Russells felt (to me at least) less like a young woman talking to someone around her parents’ age and more like peers talking. Maybe the writers felt this way too and sought to create some social distance between them.