First, in season one, she’s presented as damn near sociopathic with even her parents commenting on her being a “master m

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J-Curl-BiggernBlacker — 3 years ago(April 18, 2022 06:46 PM)

First, in season one, she’s presented as damn near sociopathic with even her parents commenting on her being a “master manipulator” then all of a sudden in season 5, she’s normal, suddenly experiencing empathy.
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Zippy47 — 3 years ago(April 19, 2022 01:36 AM)

She went through a number of experiences. That changes a person,

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J-Curl-BiggernBlacker — 3 years ago(April 19, 2022 08:25 PM)

Sociopaths are notorious for not changing even while going through negative experiences. She would need serious intervention to bring the imagined sociopathic grandiosity to it’s knees. It’s kind of an abrupt change; but maybe she got an intervention when she disappeared at the end of season 2.
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Zippy47 — 3 years ago(April 20, 2022 12:56 AM)

She had several interventions.
Her character did a lot of soul searching in seasons 3 and 4. A lot of that is off screen.
She decided that she did not want to be her parents and who she had been.