Apparently this magic coin, which conveys instant adoration and fame, can be discarded at will. We see this in the opening scene where Fiji gives the coin to Jasmine.
Then Fiji goes out and gets herself hit by a bus.
But as we would later learn, as soon as you get rid of the coin, all the fame goes away. We see this with Jasmine. So why does Fiji kill herself? She'd have lost the fame soon enough...
And about that: As the episode progresses, Jasmine is clearly uncomfortable with all the fame she's getting, AND she realizes that it's the coin. So why the holy fuck does it take so long for her to get rid of it?
But the icing on the cake...the ending. Oh, lordy, where do I begin.
As soon as Jasmine, who's now living alone in a cabin in the woods, sees who this new singer "Mynx" is, she starts laughing and then gets really pissed off. So Jasmine goes and kills Mynx out of jealousy. Then we find that Mynx is...Jasmine's SISTER?
The same sister who, throughout the episode, has been shown to already have a very successful life (as a doctor)?
In what parallel universe does this make even the tiniest bit of sense? Jasmine's sister not only doesn't need that fame, she clearly wouldn't want it, as she was really weirded out over what was happening to Jasmine...
I mean, Jasmine did give her sister the coin, but the implication was that said coin would be thrown in the river. So why did the sister keep it? She already HAD a good life. Which she clearly preferred over Jasmine's.
Oh, fun fact: The sister is Beckett Mariner from
Lower Decks.
as S1.
