And that’s not a bad thing! Our instinct to compare the HBO dramas because they’re led by and tell stories about women does a disservice to how uniquely excellent both series are.
Madeline and Celeste would never stand for this much sweating. They’d have fled to their Buicks and Lexuses, cranked up the A/C, and high-tailed it out of Wind Gap, Missouri, faster than a Monterey PTA mom could down a bottle of chardonnay.