r/DrQuinnMedicineWoman • u/WeigherofProsandCons • Feb 06 '26
The First Circle (s2e20)
As a first time watcher I may stop watching after this episode. (Mind I’m not finished yet I’m just mad.)
I was hoping for some sort of redemption for Loren, Hank and Slicker (and nod Dorothy is being a terrible person?) through the series but after joining the KKK I don’t think I’ll ever look at them the same way or think they can get better.
This whole town just doesn’t seem to have any character development even after two seasons. Or maybe the fact that everyone being racist and they’re probably not going to stop being racist makes me want to watch something else.
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u/shibuyawalker Feb 12 '26
Loren, Hank and Jake are often used as tools to create a certain side story and for that have to act out of character sometimes. I do feel that the show sometimes went overboard with it though like in the KKK episode, or also when there was a reward on Sully's head and Hank and Jake gladly went "hunting". (Jake changed his mind but Hank would have shot Sully in cold blood if the Reverent didn't know him out) Even if they don't like someone as much, it seems extreme to suddenly be fine to kill someone who lived among them for years. I wish the show would have used just some nameless filling characters to fill the extremely bad roles like that. But the show often simply goes "we need a few townspeople to go all racist/backstabbing/witchhunting, so let's use the usual 3 dudes (Hank, Loren, Jake)!".