Antebellum Ending Explained And Why That Wild Twist Makes Sense

Veronica’s narrative is split into two very different sections, her life before the abduction and her life after the abduction. However, instead of telling this story in a linear fashion, we see her life as “Eden” on the plantation first, before we’re introduced to her actual, modern persona. So the implication of time traveling abduction, cleverly planted into people’s minds with the trailer, takes hold in the first act. So by time we reach the end of Act II, where Veronica’s abduction in the here and now is depicted, we see that Senator Denton and his family aren’t time travelers, just very vile Civil War history buffs.

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