What did the nail the main character had in his hand at the end of the final episode mean? I know he had a vision of them falling down on him. But where did the real one come from and what was its meaning?
shareDo you not remember Fonso's story about the nails from the cross?
Obviously Fonso put the nail there. Whether or not the nail was a blessing or a curse we'll see if there is a next season. It could be interpreted either way.
The end result is that Fonso get's pretty much everything he wanted: White Tony (his competition) is dead. His daughters are free from arranged marriages. His horrible mother is no longer running his life.
So either Fonso is blessing whoever stole the money for helping with his plans or cursing them for stealing from a Gypsy. It's hard to know what Fonso is thinking given that he manages to pull off the long con of the entire season.
The bottom line is the only thing we know about the nail is that Fonso put it there and it's his freedom that was his own ultimate goal. Everyone else was a pawn.
We also still don't know how much Charlie was being either manipulated or simply stumbling through with blind luck. Is he a shut eye? (fooling himself into thinking he has powers?) Or does he really have visions? It's intentionally not proven either way.
It's really not that complicated, the story Fonso tells at the beginning is the key to everything. No one is allowed to pull off a long con but a Gypsy and it's Fonzo that wins. And in the process a Gypsy can not steal from another Gypsy so he had to arrange for non-gypsy to handle the thefts from his family.
this was really helpfull, thank you. What about the relationship between Eduardo and Fonzo? will we explore more in next season? this was a great show but very short!
shareThere's no way to know how that relationship came about. It isn't revealed until the last moment as a final "look what Fonzo did"
We're at the whim of the writers to expound on that further, if they do
"Is [Charlie] a shut eye? (fooling himself into thinking he has powers?) Or does he really have visions? It's intentionally not proven either way."
And, because they are intentionally not proven, the subjects of these inquiries are artfully portrayed and questioned.
Another ongoing question might be, knowing the nature of shut eye that you mention and the profession Charlie has chosen, how can he keep his eyes open, ahead of his own game of tricks that are his mental and familial issues, so that he can stay abreast and oust himself from the clutches of gypsies?
Of course, the current answer is: only the vision of the spike allowed Charlie to know he had been played. So, it was a heightened understanding of his power which showed him that he was still fooled. How far it goes, as you say, is up for grabs.
Also, the term used for the show's title could refer to the Third Blind Eye which denotes a person's ability to see as a clairvoyant, the "blind" part suggesting some subconscious or subtle fear or some thwarting preconception of the vision's imagery.
And, despite not being mentioned on the show or whether Third Eye is a pseudoscience or not, Charlie certainly deals with the fears and misreads rendered through his subconscious.
Although they could be called hallucinations, they are not portrayed with any symptoms of psychosis. Donovan's character doesn't distract from mental fog or difficulty concentrating then see something then let it take him to a dream-like state. Each time, it's first triggered by a stimulus, and there's a sort of deflating aftershock when it passes, suggesting heightened adrenaline from a supreme effort of mental attention and it is not preceded or followed with withdrawal, anxiety, depression, disorganized thoughts, or suicidal notions.
There's even a considerable portion of an episode dedicated to Charlie bringing a podcast showcasing a neurological disorder that he thinks he might have based on his symptoms and Dr. White countering by condemning the false logic and pseudoscience of her own field, his find included.
As such, for me, it's not whether he has visions, but whether he can better understand them.