Diksha Sundriyal
The second season of Hulu’s ‘Am I Being Unreasonable?’ makes a return to Nic’s chaotic world, where she sinks deeper into the wells of her lies and secrets. The story picks up where Season 1 left off. We find Nic at Alex’s memorial, where Jen’s son, Harry, accidentally plays the video of her confession about having an affair with Nic. Naturally, the revelation causes chaos, and Suzie ends up losing a tooth or two. As things fall apart around her, Nic hides in a closet and only gets out when Ollie fakes a seizure. While the attention is on him, she runs away but ends up in a cab with a deranged driver. When she manages to get out of the cab and runs away, she crosses paths with the girl who had witnessed what happened with Alex, but she dismisses it as a hallucination.
Apart from her own troubles, Nic also starts to worry about her son. A psychic reading reveals that her son will carry the weight of her sins tenfold. So, if she cheated on her husband, her son will become an adulterer. And if she killed someone, her son would become a serial killer. This aggravates her concerns as she was already worried that her cheating with Alex may have scarred her son for life. The fact that he killed their cat, Mr. Meowgi, also becomes an important point to consider in this situation.
Meanwhile, Suzie becomes more and more convinced that there is more to Nic and Alex’s last meeting at the train station where he died. Jen becomes more obsessed with Nic, and despite being questioned about why she recorded her confession of the affair, she records Nic’s confession of Alex’s murder. While Nic continues to trust her, Ollie becomes convinced that Jen is dangerous, but all his warnings fall on deaf ears. The only thing that seems to be going well in Nic’s life is that she and Dan seem to have found the spark in their marriage again. However, even that happiness is fleeting as it is built on lies. SPOILERS AHEAD.
Suzie Discovers the Truth About Alex’s Death
Since the beginning of ‘Am I Being Unreasonable?’ Nic has been haunted by her actions. It isn’t that she had an affair with her brother-in-law, but that she was the reason he died. If she hadn’t pulled his coat in while the doors of the train were closing, he wouldn’t have gotten stuck, and the other train would not have crushed him. Nic’s guilt chips away at her psyche, and she is not able to talk about it with anyone until Jen comes along. Slowly, she wins Nic’s trust, and despite all the bad things that come out about her, Nic eventually chooses to trust her with her worst secret.
While struggling to keep herself afloat following her and Dan’s separation, Nic confesses to Jen about killing Alex, and despite being told not to, Jen records the whole conversation. When Nic starts to do better, and her relationship with Dan starts to heal, Jen becomes angry with her and deliberately sends the video to Suzie but then immediately deletes it. This act does its job and stokes Suzie’s curiosity. She tries to get the deleted video restored but fails. It seems she may never see the video again until she finds Jen’s phone in her son’s hands.
While Nic is at Mrs. Baggott’s funeral, Ollie and Harry are left at her house with Dan. He is supposed to babysit them, but then his girlfriend shows up, and despite his efforts to make her go away, she doesn’t. So, Dan calls Suzie to babysit the boys while he leaves with his girlfriend, who later reveals that she is not on the pill because she wants to get pregnant and make Dan leave his wife. While Dan is away, Suzie tries to get Ollie to play with Harry, who is trying to get a game on his mother’s phone. When Suzie discovers that it is Jen’s phone, she immediately looks for Nic’s video and hears her entire confession.
What Happened to Suzie? Is She Dead?
She is shocked by the confession, but what’s more distressing is that Ollie, too, has heard the whole thing. He is at the landing. The phone falls from Suzie’s hand, and that’s the last time we see her. When Dan comes back, he notices Suzie’s car is still in the driveway, and her phone is also at the house, but she is nowhere to be seen. When he asks Ollie where she went, the boys says she simply left. His answer is not satisfactory and feels particularly menacing, considering the fact that his parents have been struggling to come to terms with the fact that he could be a psychopath or a serial killer in the making. But then, how could a little boy kill a full-grown woman and get away with it?
One possibility is that perhaps Ollie is not lying, and Suzie did simply walk away. Perhaps she was so shocked that she needed time to process it and forgot her car and her phone at their house. Perhaps she went right to the cops. The other possibility is that she had an accident, but Ollie was not at fault. Perhaps she fell from the stairs and died or fell unconscious, and Ollie simply hid her somewhere because he didn’t want his mother to go to prison. It is also possible that he sent her to the basement where, as his father mentioned earlier that day, the stairs are broken and could lead a person to fall and break their neck.
Perhaps Ollie found a way to send Suzie to the basement, where she fell and died. Because no one goes to the basement, the boy knows that his parents won’t find out about it. One could also consider the possibility that Ollie got help from Harry, with whom he otherwise prefers not to hang out but is seen sitting next to when his father comes home. Because Harry wanted to befriend him, Ollie manipulated him into hiding a body with him. This also explains how Ollie could have gotten away with murder while Harry was still in the house. The boys might now be joined by the pact of silence, where Harry has sworn to keep Ollie’s secret.
Why Did Jen Kill Mrs. Baggott?
While Nic might seem like an unhinged person whose life is completely off the rails due to her own actions, Jen is the one who reveals herself to be properly deranged. The first season reveals her to be a stalker who is plagued with the idea that she needs to help women escape their bad relationships. She seems to have a severe case of a savior complex that leads her to destroy people’s marriages without thinking about what the other person really wants. Her biggest tool in creating this chaos is recording the conversations she has with the women she befriends and then using them at critical moments to get what she wants. She does the same with Nic.
In Season 1, Jen records Nic’s confession of the affair, which is played at Alex’s funeral. At first, it seems to have been a mistake, but then Harry tells Ollie that Jen made him play that video. Nic forgives this trespass on the condition that Jen will never record her, but then it happens again when she confesses about her part in Alex’s death. All of this is not just to break Nic’s marriage but also to completely tie her with Jen. Nic doesn’t see this, but Ollie does. So, when Jen’s landlady, Mrs. Baggott, passes away, Ollie openly wonders if Jen has something to do with this. Ollie theorizes that Jen killed Mrs. Baggott to get Nic’s attention and bring her back into her circle following their falling out when Jen discovered that Nic and Dan were back together.
Nic dismisses this theory and immediately shows up by Jen’s side to help her plan the funeral. Jen tells her that Mrs. Baggott had a heart attack while they were watching ‘Magic Mike’ together. However, during the memorial service, Jen has a flashback where we see her putting the pillow on the old lady’s face. This suggests that Ollie’s theory was right and that Jen really killed her landlady to get Nic’s attention and befriend her again. Clearly, her plan worked, and Nic is back to being best friends with her. However, this also raises a question. Is this the first time Jen has committed a murder to be close to someone? Or, is it her first kill, and did she do it to feel closer to Nic after discovering that she, too, had killed someone? It seems that there is a lot more to Jen’s story that is yet to come out.
Who is Mrs. Baggott’s Grandson? Will He Rat Out Nic?
While planning Mrs. Baggott’s funeral, Jen mentions her grandson, Sam, who she has invited to give the eulogy. The stress of arranging the entire thing is compounded by the fact that Sam is nowhere to be seen, and this bugs Jen more than anything else. Eventually, the grandson does show up, and it turns out to be the boy who had been on the train the night Alex died. He and his then-girlfriend saw everything and have been haunted by it ever since. When they got off the train, the girl wanted to go to the cops, but Sam was too scared to report it. He convinced her to keep it a secret because they didn’t really have anything to do with it anyway.
Over the course of the year, they broke up, and she got pregnant with someone else’s baby. But then, she came across Nic one day, and the whole thing came back to her in a torrent. She talked to Sam about it and expressed her desire to go to the cops, but he still wasn’t convinced. And now, as he comes face to face with Nic himself, one can’t help but wonder if he will finally heed his ex-girlfriend’s advice. Nic also wonders the same thing when she sees him at the door. At first, she thinks she might be hallucinating because her mind has been playing tricks on her since Alex’s death. But then, Jen reveals that he is Mrs. Baggott’s grandson and is here to the service, confirming that the person in front of her is not an apparition but entirely real.
Earlier, Nic was protected from Sam and his girlfriend because they didn’t know who she was. Because they didn’t report it to the cops immediately, she thought that they had chosen to forget about it and moved on. Even if they had a change of heart later, they wouldn’t be able to report her. But now that she and Sam are face to face, he knows her name, and he knows what she has done; there is a grand possibility that he will try to cleanse his soul of the crime of not reporting Nic earlier. Still, with the way things are in ‘Am I Being Unreasonable?’ the interaction between Sam and Nic could go in any direction. So far, none of those directions look good for Nic, especially if Jen finds out who Sam is and what he has seen.
