Trigger warning SA
I haven’t seen anyone else talking about this, but Helena straight up raped Mark S in that tent and he’s traumatized as fuck in E05. And all anyone has to say is that they “slept together.” Milkshake even puts it on Mark S, asking if he told Helly R that he “…fucked her outie.”
It’s like if a guy pretended to be his twin brother so that he could sleep with the brother’s crush. I think we would all recognize that as rape right away. I hope it gets recognized for what it is later on in the season, because so far that hasn’t happened.
The whole show is about lack of consent, and how it doesn’t matter if you don’t remember what happens to you, so I guess it’s on point, but I’m just feeling so bad for Mark S and I’m worried nobody is going to recognize what happened to him.
It 100% is rape because Mark S didn’t consent to having sex with Helena; he consented to having sex with Helly R. Speaking of Helly R., she definitely was also taken advantage of by Helena by using her body to take over her life down on the severed floor. I’m worried that the show is going to try and have a redemption arc for Helena given what we’ve seen with her relationship with her father and her comments about not liking who she was above the severed floor, but I think it’s clear that she doesn’t care who she uses and abuses as long as it suits her needs.
Yeah that’s going to be a hard pass for me on redeeming her.