Things are falling apart for Ashley (Jasmine Cephas Jones) in the Season 2 finale of STARZ‘ Blindspotting. In the episode “Return to Ithaca,” she is ostracized by the entire Turner family after it comes out that she cheated on her incarcerated husband.
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