I wondered that, about whether she was directed to act that way. I haven't seen Kelly Reilly in anything else but I'm going to look it up now.

As for the "she is bipolar" thing, I've learned to leave it up to the individual person to decide. I have friends in the autism community and they are quite vocal about claiming the identity and being referred to as "autistic" instead of "has autism", because the people championing the "has autism" movement are parents and are trying to eliminate their identity. I guess they rubbed off on me, because I don't really mind people saying that I "am bipolar". I see myself as "am bipolar" though I think when I tell people I usually say "I have bipolar disorder".

What's weird is when I saw the first episode, I initially thought Kelly Reilly was really hot, (I may have been hypomanic) but now I just see her as annoying. So now I really want to see her in another role.