Sinatra will get a redemption arc
So, there have been tons of predictions here and it seems most have settled on the idea that not all is as it seems on the outside, whether an apocalypse never actually happened, or whatever disaster was mitigated, leaving the outside recovered by now. Most all seem to agree that Sinatra is the main villain, or one of them, and that she's been driven to this point by the death of her son.
I predict that while all of that is true, she will, in the end, get a "Darth Vader," like redemption arc and be proven good at heart. This is for a few reasons both cultural and hinted at in the show.
- It would be really fucked up to portray a woman as driven to be completely mad or evil due to the death of a young child. Losing a child is literally the most painful thing a person can experience. It's too painful to even imagine. I know the other parents here can relate. There's not a parent alive that wouldn't rather walk through Hell covered in gasoline, than lose their child. I couldn't keep it together during her conversation in the hospital with her dying son. When i re-watched it with my wife, I just fast forwarded through those scenes because she'd be bawling.
- We've already been shown, very explicitly in fact, so much of her good nature, and even hinted that it lives on in the present day. The fact that she placed so many mechanical horses around in memory of her son, her brief conversation with Collins telling him to go be with his kids. She's clearly a good person, who has been broken and is not fixed.
My bet would be, something will happen, either in this season or a later one, to put the city and all it's inhabitants in danger, and there will be a moment in which she ends up sacrificing herself to save everyone else. Obviously, that could be subject to change based on more developments but that's the way I'd imagine a Sinatra redemption arc playing out based on what we've seen.