(In fact, this rapid route to redemption also feels like the reason they killed Mitch!) Alex has been reckless, nasty, dishonest, inconsiderate, and hurtful, but now she's sick, and she's shivering, and she feels terrible and scared. But it feels like her illness is supposed to serve the same purpose here - it's a shortcut to resolving the conflict between the way the character has been acting and the way they want you to see her. Giving Alex COVID is much more palatable, so please understand I'm not drawing an equivalence. Using that device thoughtlessly inspires at best sympathy and at worst pity. There were two problems with that, of course: first, that it's offensive to use violence as a device in that way second, that it doesn't actually make a woman any more likable, as violence happens to pleasant and unpleasant people alike. It used to be that shows that wanted to 'humanize' women would have them stalked, beaten up, or sexually assaulted.

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