I know some viewers might see Jeri’s arc as nonexistent in this season. Jeri is, as she’s always been, a woman who likes a little indebtedness in her romantic partners, her associates, and her friends.
She pursues yet another relationship with a power imbalance when she hooks up with Inez.
Jeri is rude to the sex workers she hires she ogles her yoga instructor. When her partners try to force her out of the firm, she schemes to trick Jessica into helping her, even though Jessica has already made her boundaries clear and said she doesn’t want to speak to her anymore. “She was more than a consenting adult, or did you not see the way she dressed? She practically did a split on my desk.” This is a woman who dated her assistant despite the power imbalance, and now she slut-shames her-just like every shitty, victim-blaming executive who ever lived. “I never harassed the stupid girl,” Jeri snaps. She and Pam have broken up, and Pam is now suing the firm for sexual harassment. But we hate her when she’s all about “taking”- from those who love her, from those who work for her, and from those whom she simply finds useful.Īs the second season opens, we find Jeri doing much of the same. On the one hand, we love her when she’s “fighting like hell” for what’s hers it’s a joy to watch her deploy her formidable talents as a lawyer and manipulator, and to display the savage confidence we usually only associate with men. I love that quote because it so perfectly sums up the contradictions of Jeri’s character.
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