"As I watched the episode unfold, my giddy delight in Dianne Wiest's performance slid into sadness at what a dreadful corner Mother Constance felt herself backed into, disgust at Monsignor Frank ( David Rasche) for placing his ambition above the needs of the convent, and further disgust at Mother Constance's choice to exploit the solution to her long-ago crisis of faith in service of committing the worst of sins."
"A fictional pop star with a mishmash of qualities drawn from the careers and lives of Madonna, Kesha, and Katy Perry, she is trapped in the contractually iron grip of her controlling producer, Shane Sills (Ben Chase), who owns Jade's masters and can access the full contents of her cloud storage accounts, so that "if she so much as sang in the shower" he can monetize it."
Alaïa Jade (née Alana Jacobs) was a pop star whose persona combined elements of major contemporary pop figures. She was contractually controlled by producer Shane Sills, who owned her masters and could access her cloud storage, enabling monetization of even incidental recordings. Her remaining fragments promised multiple posthumous albums and a possible hologram concert. Alaïa planned to buy a convent for autonomy, offering $27 million, but the struggle over control contributed to her death. Reverend Mother Constance, cornered by institutional pressures and Monsignor Frank's ambition, exploited a crisis of faith and committed murder. Investigators did not seriously pursue Shane as a suspect.
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