Confused

You're right to be confused i think because this relationship is still on the making and we get to watch how it "brews".I'll tell you my take on it.

The whole thing was initiated by Letty in a weird effort of "good" behavior to save Daphne and the whole dating and sleeping with him was probably a mixture of sexual attraction and the need for another adrenaline rush. After the pilot they both know the worst things about each other and are starting to connect through subtle situations while doing this "forced" teamwork.

What is made clear as the story progresses and especially the reunion and the family dinner episodes is that at the end of the day they have truly nobody in the world and do not feel close to anyone, leaving them in desperate need for any kind of understanding, acceptance and love. Since life brought them together in whatever means, they choose to hang on to each other (at least for now) certainly not from love yet, but because it seems like they provide a small ray of sunshine in each other's otherwise dark and painful reality.

They have no idea were they stand since both of them are afraid to commit to sth and i guess through various situations they will try to clear the dynamic in their own time. Clearly, the both have bigger things to worry about than their relationship status :P

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I'm with you. I like the show a whole lot, but I don't get the premise either. Frankly, it's idiotic and patently unbelievable. I guess one is asked to suspend belief, which is okay by me.

Everything is a gross over-exaggeration: Letty is extra bad. Letty is extra pretty. Javier is extra evil. Letty's shoplifting is extra excessive, not to mention extra successful. Letty's clothes are extra nice (for a woman who was cleaning toilets in the beginning...and btw, that filthy toilet was EXTRA filthy). Her "expertise" in catching swindles and plots are extra improbable. Her mother (Estelle) is extra trashy. (But I just love the actress who plays Estelle.) Christian's creepy little toad of a boss is extra toady. Javier's family (father, anyway) is extra revengeful. Tiffany's husband's gay sex affair is extra sleazy. And so on and so forth...

There isn't a plot or character that is remotely believable or authentic in this show. Every time I watch an episode I feel like somebody's hitting me over the head with a sledge hammer, yet I really like it, and find it eminently watchable.

I wholly agree with you. And it's not just the relationship dynamic that's strange. Javier is a killer who cares about people? Even if he can successfully convince himself he's only killing bad people (which he isn't), the effect of that kind of job on that kind of person would inevitably cause some sort of psychological break. Christian's kind of off, too. He does stupid things for Letty and blames her; well, I can actually buy that. It's just that his motivation is incomprehensible. He knows he's not going to get anything out of it.

That said, it's still a good show. Letty's actions are understandable and it's interesting how they always make her situation worse.


If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

I don't find it confusing at all. These two people are outsiders, both who live on the fringes of society, rejected by friends and family. Letty is a self-admitted thief and Javier, a contract killer. But the more they know about each other's lives, the more they've become supportive of the other, reinforcing a natural attraction.

These people are used to living life outside the norms of society.

I just started watching it, feels like the creator tried to merge Pretty Woman and some dark assassin show.

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