"I'm referring, of course, to what "The 752" tells us about Doris. Until this point in the show, she's been the most boring kind of cipher: someone whom we are led to understand is mysterious and secretive without any other character traits, a thoroughly uncompelling enigma who appears to say cryptic things every so often to remind you that you never know who you can fully trust or whatever. But in "The 752," she finally, actually does something!"
"Doris, it turns out, is a secret vampire, a Talamasca test subject whose exceptional memory as a child got her taken from her family, given the Talamasca library to memorize, and then turned into a vampire to ensure she'd remain a living archive forever. She is, in fact, the living 752, something I suppose I could have guessed from the show's flashbacks if Talamasca had made me care even one bit about its puzzlebox elements. (It takes Guy, like, thirty full second"
Talamasca's season finale, "The 752," shifts focus from the show's ostensible spy premise to a darker revelation about Doris. Doris, previously a vague, cryptic cipher, is shown to be a Talamasca test subject turned vampire whose exceptional childhood memory led to her being seized, tasked with memorizing the Talamasca library, and transformed into a living archive. The reveal reframes Doris as the literal '752' and makes earlier puzzlebox elements feel underdeveloped. The series delays meaningful character and organizational exposition until its final minutes, producing a sense of misdirection and retrospective ill-conception.
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