I'd like to think I can admit when I'm wrong, and when I started watching the first episode of All's Fair, I honestly thought I hadn't seen anything this bad since Madame Web. I mean, there's absolutely no way anyone could make it through the whole season, right? Well, cut to the final few episodes, and there I was, loving every stiletto clack and champagne glass clink, desperately wondering what insanely dressed catastrophe was going to happen next.
I don't know if it was Sarah Paulson's unbelievable commitment to the sociopathic Carrington Lane, or just getting used to Kim Kardashian's monotone, but the show really builds and then hits you with the piece de resistance: a twist-filled finale absolutely dripping in drama.
A lot went down in the final episode and we have plenty to discuss, so let's get into it.
Carr starts to get her revenge
At the end of the penultimate episode, we see Carr vowing to get revenge on all the women she thinks wronged her (AKA Allura, Liberty and Emerald) and boy does she make some headway. She starts plotting her final revenge in a little notebook, and first on the list? Liberty.
She heads to Liberty's office and starts trying to not only get Liberty on her side (with some help from a rare, commemorative Princess Diana plate), but drive a wedge between her and the other women. She convinces Liberty to go with the bridesmaid dresses that she wants (think: Pride and Prejudice, with high collars and tons of frills) and not what Allura might want. And the whole time, she's feeding Liberty's feelings of being an outsider with the other women.
Cut to some time later and Liberty surprises Allura, Emerald and Dina with the dresses that she wants, and the women immediately start cracking jokes about them (and rightfully so, those things are insane-looking). Liberty gets offended and storms off, saying Carr was right.
Reggie's been a little sus
As a wedding present for Liberty, Emerald does a deep dive on her fiancé, Reggie, and unexpectedly finds a few glaring red flags. Turns out Reggie took out a massive private loan for his business and is dangerously close to defaulting. They decide Allura will tell Liberty about what they find, and she does.
Later, Reggie comes into Liberty's office and she tells him the wedding is off. Reggie, of course, tries to manipulate her and say this is "your friends trying to turn you against me," (as if she's not a super competent lawyer and can clearly understand the documents herself) but Liberty says if he can't be open with her about something this huge now, how can she trust him as a husband? So they're officially done.
The partners vote on changes to the firm
Allura, Emerald, Liberty and Dina all gather in the board room to officially vote Dina in as a name partner. They then hold a vote on whether to bring Carr into the firm (which was Dina's idea) and it ends in a 2-2 tie, and they agree to re-cast their ballots in 48 hours since they need a 3-1 vote to make a decision. At this point, we're all kind of assuming it was Dina and Liberty who voted for Carr, right? Well, we were all wrong.
Carr comes to meet Dina for lunch, and Dina flat-out tells Carr she didn't vote for her. She said she knew Carr was behind the bridesmaid dress fiasco and that she couldn't support Carr when she's already sewing division before she's even joined. She says she now sees what the other women saw in her years ago—a terrifying sociopath. Carr throws her wine in Dina's face, and Dina vows to campaign against Carr, and then leaves. Carr seems to cry for a hot sec but then stops and keeps eating the lunch.
Carr kicks it up a thousand notches
Carr goes into Allura's office and says she's worried about Dina and has been noticing a mental decline. She shows Allura some texts from Dina that do sound concerning, like ones about her talking to her now-dead husband, and others saying she doesn't want to be here anymore. She says even Dina's housekeeper is concerned. THEN she says she tried to confront Dina about it and that Dina threw a glass of wine at HER! Not the other way around, like it actually happened.
Allura seems to be at least open to hearing more and somewhat believing it, and she asks what the housekeeper has said.
Later, all the women confront Dina about her mental state. Carr even brings in the housekeeper, Esperanza, who said Dina had grabbed her by the neck and choked her, and she has the bruises to back it up. Dina denies doing it and says Carr must be threatening to report Esperanza's family to get her to say these things. Carr then brings up that Dina changed her will recently to leave 80 percent of her estate to Esperanza, which Dina says she didn't do. Carr then pulls out a handwritten note, in Dina's own handwriting, approving the change. Dina says she doesn't remember doing that and soon starts questioning if she did grab Esperenza. She says she hasn't been herself since Doug died and hasn't been sleeping, and maybe she doesn't remember.
Dina gets arrested
As if potentially gaslighting an older woman into thinking she's losing her mind wasn't enough, just as that's going down, the cops show up and arrest Dina for the murder of Lloyd Walton, the man who drugged and assaulted Emerald. As she's being put in cuffs, Dina gives Carr a knowing glare and seems to assume this is Carr's doing—revenge for not voting for her.
And she might just be right, because right after, we see Carr cross Dina's name off in her little revenge notebook.
