Oh, my thoughts! My feelings! This is a Serious Matter. Basically: her season one hair! Has perfection ever existed in a purer form? Has beauty ever been more true? Has anything ever been more wonderful? Answer: no.
And then the season two promo pics came out, and it was gone. And in its place was -- not much hair at all! Where were my beloved perfect forties-style super-chic curls? What happened? A knife to my heart! A shadow in my soul! Like, Olivia is allowed to get a haircut and everything (Olivia ... could probably eat kittens without even killing them first and I would still support her 110%! It is serious, this love thing), but Adelle's hair! I genuinely spent like the first two episodes of the season feeling like she had committed this horrible betrayal against me. I didn't know how we'd ever make it out of this endless forest of betrayal & woe & strange newness & did I mention the loss of the miracle curls??
Then I remembered how she's Adelle DeWitt and, what the hell, she can do anything, and I will blindly follow her, mad with love. So we worked it out okay! And I clung to the few instances in which we got flashback hair. And then started giving the haircut actual Resonance & Importance In Terms Of Her Characterization, wherein in season one she was softer and a bit more feminine and idealistic and romantic, but then, GUESS WHAT! Her #1 workplace bff and true true love betrays the hell out of her! This will not stand! Her heart is hardened! And so goes the hair, because she is going to look fierce and severe and pretty much like someone who, yes, can actually kill you with the amount of badassery contained in the lift of one of her perfect eyebrows. And just as she looks way more Wicked Queen Hardcore now, thus does her character arc go! Her life spirals into unparalleled suckitude and disorder and alcoholism! She responds by getting steadily scarier & icier! Somehow, somehow, Adelle Hair 2.0 complements this all perfectly.
Maybe it was sort of like that scene in Buffy where Spike calls Buffy Goldilocks so she chops all her hair off. Maybe Dominic had a secret affinity for her hair that we never got to know about! Could any of us blame him?
The actual story is: Olivia had to get her hair cut for a movie she was in over the summer.
(... I can't believe I wrote actual paragraphs on that just now. That was an accident. Me and Adelle! It's just weird! Anyway. The fact that her hair had regained its former glory in the last episode made me happier than it rightly should have.)
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And then the season two promo pics came out, and it was gone. And in its place was -- not much hair at all! Where were my beloved perfect forties-style super-chic curls? What happened? A knife to my heart! A shadow in my soul! Like, Olivia is allowed to get a haircut and everything (Olivia ... could probably eat kittens without even killing them first and I would still support her 110%! It is serious, this love thing), but Adelle's hair! I genuinely spent like the first two episodes of the season feeling like she had committed this horrible betrayal against me. I didn't know how we'd ever make it out of this endless forest of betrayal & woe & strange newness & did I mention the loss of the miracle curls??
Then I remembered how she's Adelle DeWitt and, what the hell, she can do anything, and I will blindly follow her, mad with love. So we worked it out okay! And I clung to the few instances in which we got flashback hair. And then started giving the haircut actual Resonance & Importance In Terms Of Her Characterization, wherein in season one she was softer and a bit more feminine and idealistic and romantic, but then, GUESS WHAT! Her #1 workplace bff
and true true lovebetrays the hell out of her! This will not stand! Her heart is hardened! And so goes the hair, because she is going to look fierce and severe and pretty much like someone who, yes, can actually kill you with the amount of badassery contained in the lift of one of her perfect eyebrows. And just as she looks way more Wicked Queen Hardcore now, thus does her character arc go! Her life spirals into unparalleled suckitude and disorder and alcoholism! She responds by getting steadily scarier & icier! Somehow, somehow, Adelle Hair 2.0 complements this all perfectly.Maybe it was sort of like that scene in Buffy where Spike calls Buffy Goldilocks so she chops all her hair off. Maybe Dominic had a secret affinity for her hair that we never got to know about! Could any of us blame him?
The actual story is: Olivia had to get her hair cut for a movie she was in over the summer.
(... I can't believe I wrote actual paragraphs on that just now. That was an accident. Me and Adelle! It's just weird! Anyway. The fact that her hair had regained its former glory in the last episode made me happier than it rightly should have.)