This article contains discussions on dependence, mental health and suicide.
In the 5th and last season of “You” – the Soapy drama, reinforced Netflix which presents Penn Badgley as a killing machine Joe Goldberg – we find established characters and meet new ones, one of which is the character of Madeline Brewer Bronte. A playwright that has broken into Mooney (the bookstore where Joe worked in the first season of the show and he now has thanks to his super-riche wife Kate Lockwood, played by Charlotte Ritchie) and ends up working there, Bronte, who seems to have baptized after the family of famous authors who were Kate, Charlotte, Emily and Elizabeth Joe’s Eye. Even if he is ostensibly married to Kate – whose wealth, privilege and influence allowed Joe to recover his name and his identity after having pretended to be Jonathan Moore in London in season 4 – Joe finds himself attracted by Bronte, and if you have Never I have already seen this show, I bet you can understand where everything is fine. (Nowhere good for Bronte, probably.)
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The New Jersey’s native Brewer has been working quite regularly on the big and the small screen for years now, and his role as a bronte on “You” is the student of the support player in a good faith advance. (While season 5 of “You” continues, Bronte becomes more and more crucial for the story, but I will not spoil this now.) So, where have you ever seen Brewer? On two fairly popular television dramas, in fact.
Orange is the new black (2013)
Netflix entered the dramatic game TV Prestige in 2013 with “Orange is the New Black”, the series of Jenji Kohan based on a memory of Piper Kerman (an author who really spent time behind bars). Although the story is presented as Piper – Kerman’s replacement played by Taylor Schilling – his stay at the Litchfield penitentiary gives the show the opportunity to highlight the stories and history of other women, including women and especially queer, trans women and women of color. (In particular, “Orange is the new black” gave a major The platform of the trans actress and activist Laverne Cox, who obtained a sign of the Emmy for her role of the detainee Trans Sophia Burset and became a huge star.) Madeline Brewer only appears in season 1 of the series, but her bow as a detainee Tricia Miller has certainly set the tone for this show would become dark.
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We quickly learn that illicit substances flow freely through Litchfield despite the administrator’s efforts to understand how, and Tricia, who was fighting with dependence before his imprisonment, is one of the people using said substances in the prison. (Thanks to flashbacks, we also learn why Tricia found herself in Litchfield in the first place; she stole the drug trade in the prison for her own profit, he provides it. Tricia overdose and dies in a supply closet, and when Mendez realizes it, he suspends it to the ceiling and stages a scene suggesting that she is died. deeply The painful intrigue has performed well by Brewer, showing precisely to what extent the American penitentiary system can be corrupted and how people who work there can and will abuse prisoners for their own gain.
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The Handmaid’s Tale (2017-present)
Based on the dystopian novel of Margaret Atwood of the same name, “The Handmaid’s Tale” started its race on Hulu in 2017 and put Madeline Brewer as Janine (a character who also appears in the book, although in a much smaller role). When we meet Janine for the first time, she belongs to a commander named Warren (Stephen Kunken) – giving her the name “ofwarren” – and she is quite friendly with the main character in the June series (Elisabeth Moss), who, at that time, is “offer” (she is the servant of maintenance to Joseph Fiennes de Waterford). Before the United States became the religious totalitarian state known as Gilead, Janine worked as a waitress and had a son named Caleb (who revealed later, died in a car accident shortly after the rise of Gilead), and she begins her training as a servant at the same time as June. Janine is initially obstinate and provocative towards women supporting the Gilead regime – including the terrifying aunt of Ann Dowd Lydia – in the red center, and as a punishment for trying to retaliate, her right eye is removed.
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After this frankly horrible test, Janine encounters serious mental health problems, believing that Warren is in love with her and “removing” the baby they have together (in Gilead, babies produced by servants are immediately devoted to high -level women of their respective commanders). It is sent to the colonies – which is, for all useful purposes, a forced labor camp – before being returned to Gilead proper and suffers a lot, much more traumatic indignity under “its eye”, as the saying in Gilead says. “The Handmaid’s Tale” is a Really Uncomfortable show to watch, especially in 2025, but Brewer is absolutely sublime than Janine.
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