For me, this is We Are Who We Are’s most distracting storyline, in part because Danny is the show’s only representation of Islam. Still, he’s on time for his morning prayers. For Danny, Craig’s death is yet another site of present-day disaffection, and his grief takes various inappropriate forms, from making out with Valentina to getting high and beating the walls of the mansion with a silver obelisk he wields like a baseball bat. Now it’s part of what she brings with her into the rest of her life. Weeks ago their marriage seemed like a whim, romantic but reversible. It’s an arresting take on how death freezes people in time, including those who go on living. Dressed in all black, the young bride stares into the pool as a 19-year-old widow. The core group reunites in mourning at the abandoned villa where last they celebrated Craig and Valentina’s wedding. Craig’s death in an IED explosion in peacetime Afghanistan has a way of propelling every sluggish narrative thread forward, effectively hurrying the characters into place ahead of next week's finale. The series, now on its seventh and penultimate episode, has developed a pattern of oscillation between atmospheric meditations, like last week’s on parenting, and plot-heavy episodes like this one. Spoilers ahead for We Are Who We Are Season 1 Episode 7.
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