Where does Letty get all the clothes?
In ep. 1, she steals some jackets, shoes and underwear!
We see her with only a carry on, but she parades a full wardrobe.
Did Javier let her keep de 19k?
Where did she get the 1k to see his son?
Some futile questions i know! just intrigued!
Maybe he did let her keep it. He has a soft spot for her, to say the least, and she has helped him get away with a double
murder. :)
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To expand the OP's question, how does a self-admitted poor student from an obviously white trash family (calm down, I'm not a bigot and I'm white), who dropped out of high school, comes from a very small North Carolina town, has multiple substance addictions and has spent a considerable portion of her adult life in prison develop such sophisticated taste and knowledge of fashion, jewels, literature, computers, etc? I realize a college degree isn't necessary for everyone, but she has absolutely no grounding in any of those areas. Even her grammar is better than many wealthier and more highly educated Americans (DO NOT get me started on how mortified I am that this country will be represented by the least eloquent public speaker in the history of the presidency!).
However, aside from that bit of unreality, I really like this show! Michelle Dockery is such a good actress. The writing may be a little uneven, but she's a pleasure to watch, as is the actor who plays Javier. Hot hitman, lol.
In ep.3 she tells Javier she did her GED in prison and did great in english.
In ep.4 Kyle remember the story she did in mid-school about a roster! Looks like she always got a good imagination and was very good in writing! The time she spend in prison was spent reading and studying (looks like it)and she is a con artist all the rest are tricks of the trade!
My opinion and sorry my english!
First, if English isn't your first language, you use it much better than many, if not most for whom it is. And whatever your native language, I'm quite sure I can't speak it. Don't apologize!
However, I disagree with your conclusions. With her family, hometown and personal circumstances, she would have had no exposure to such exclusive specialties like high fashion and gemology, whether she did well on her GED or not. I doubt those are covered subjects, and there's only so much that can be learned from watching Sex In The City. Besides, even growing up with money in a large metropolis doesn't guarantee good taste. Look at the Kardashians.
In my opinion good taste and elegance is not something you learn. You are born with it.
Some people can pull of a sweat pants and white tee combo and look great (not my case!!! 😊 ).
Money and high birth doesn't do sh** if you are "trashy" even with a 2.000$ designer dress!
Example of that is the K. sisters like you said.
But what bother me the most is the logistics of things... She only has a carry on (half empty) and a weekender bag and parade clothes that can fill 3 large suitcases!
I loved the yellow skirt that she wore on the 2nd day of work at Kyle's Law office (ep. 4) and the black dress at drinks with Robyn (Ep. 2)!
Ps: My native language is portuguese if you want try!!! :)
Yes, after rethinking I do agree with you to a point, at least about fashion. But she knows too many details she has no way of learning, like when she was drinking champagne in the jewelry store and discussing the finer points of diamonds. I doubt she learned that in the prison library.
And sure, Portuguese! Only the hardest of the Romance languages. I speak, or more accurately read, and understand - a little -slowly spoken French, Italian and Spanish. I pride myself on being able to order from any menu, lol, but only because I'm a lifelong foodie. And my grandma taught me some words and phrases in Russian and Yiddish (mostly naughty), so I grasp a little German. I've been trying to learn Cymru and Scots Gaelic, but they're very hard to pronounce and the syntax is impossible. Portuguese is way beyond my ability. But that's all the more credit to you. I know English has such random rules for those who learn it later in life. Who knew Trump learned it as a second language? It's the only way to explain his poor grammar, vocabulary, subject-verb agreement, even pronunciation of words like "euphemism" and "Tanzania". (Hey, do you think that means he wasn't born in the US? Maybe we should demand to see his birth certificate.)
Good one, witchywomanfrombrooklyn.
shareIn my opinion good taste and elegance is not something you learn. You are born with it.
Thank you neverstandalone. I'm picking up some good stuff from Colbert and Meyers.
But everyone seems to be missing my point. It's not that I don't think Letty's too stupid to learn this stuff, or that no one could without a college degree. To me that's just insulting, since almost everything I'm pretty much self taught in everything I wanted to know but wasn't taught in school. It's just that with her background, she wouldn't have had the exposure to such information. Given her age, the life she's apparently led, her substance abuse problems, and the time she's spent in prison, I think it's doubtful she owned a computer or had access to one with that info that she could have spent enough time on to become an expert in those subjects. I'm not being a snob, just realistic, which is probably silly since it's a TV show. I think they either should have adjusted her background to make her acquisition of this expertise logical, or find a better way to explain its existence instead of attributing it to doing well on her GED. For instance, slip in the fact that in her teens she'd slip away to Asheville where she spent hours at the library. Or she did drugs with/had a fling with a middle aged jeweler who taught her all about gemstones. Just saying.
Perhaps it is a case of social mobility, only in the wrong direction. Lettys moms house must have been nice, once. So perhaps something's comes from the family... granny once posh, and so on.
shareI had a similar thought when I saw the house. Well, OK, I really said it out loud because I have a bad habit of talking to the TV.
That's another good plot line. But none of them works if the writers don't use them.
When there's such a simple solution, it reminds me of bad romance novels I read in high school, or even soap operas where the main couple breaks up over a simple misunderstanding. I used to want to shake the writer till their teeth rattled and scream, "This is so stupid. Fix it!"
witchywomanfrombrooklyn, it's a plot hole for sure.
shareMinor, but not insignificant correction, having just watched episode 3, and not having read the responses before this...
She said she took the SATs, not the GED. There's a pretty significant difference between the two. If someone else pointed this out, apologies.
With Letty, I think it goes beyond mere intelligence. She is a prodigy (her son likely is as well) and a quick study. Look how quickly she can pick up on a situation and manipulate it, create a backstory for herself, a persona, and do so with absolute authenticity. It doesn't surprise me that she could achieve a command of art, style and fashion and make it convincing to other people...even without being to the manor born. Shes a human sponge. It totally reminds me of the Patricia Highsmith 'Ripley' novels.
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