User Reviews

The poignancy of the entire episode and the motifs is remarkable. The title is brimmed with context through this episode and I loved it.

We have at the very beginning a woman who died suddenly, and appears to have been a complete unknown, without a single person in the world. Living a completely invisible existance.

Then, we have Brenda, who tries to write a novel. And popping at her from the blank page are sentences from her inner voice basically telling her that she has nothing to say and has accomplished nothing. A practically 'invisible' existance.

Afterwards, she gets together with a client of hers, who happens to be a prostitute. Talk about a proffession that's kept out of sight. But not to keep that invisibility too metaphorical, we have a scene where Brenda plays substitute watcher for her, for a client who likes to be looked at while getting a blowjob. An invisible woman, again.

Claire wants to get her SATs and is stumped when upon registering an unknown girl passes the registration as Parker McKenna right infront of her, managing to take the test for her and being the invisible woman in this scenario.

One may also connect some dots between Keith's niece staying at his place, being the neglected child while her mother remains not to be seen.

Still, the dominant character who plays the role of the invisible woman is Ruth, who takes action to try and put into place at least some of the requests the deceased woman made but as luck would have it nothing seems to go as she would have wanted. Ruth realizes she's been trying to do so because she fears ending up like the woman, and actually makes a plea to her children for more intimacy, failing in the process. The episode ends with her standing alone in front of her children's framed early photos, crying.

A 10/10.