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I started watching Wednesday on Netflix and... I think this video is great and sums up what I think,

But yeah so far I like the show (granted ive only finished episode one so my thoughts might change but so far) Thats my main problem of the show so far, like it's fine as its own thing but as a Addams family adaptation? It's atrocious. Cause it's main thing in EVERY adaptation (minus the animated ones cause I haven't seen those so I can't really talk about those) the very core of the Addams family is that family is important. Like you can change things here and there in every adaptation in fact you should, that's fine, and there's been so many adaptations all with different details, different styles, different tones etc, and that makes sense cause theirs so many we would get bored if it was always the same and everyone has their own ideas of what an Addams family movie/show should be, that's fine, but no matter the details changed, the tone or style changed,

the core, the main idea, the whole focus of the story shouldn't change. I mean it's like if I remade Cinderella. The time period can change, the style can change, the tone can change, that's all fine, but at the end of the day there has to be someone who is being abused by their family, wants to escape, gets a chance to for at least one night, meets someone who changes their life, until they're forced to separate and then after one of them tries super hard to find the other, they reunite. If I changed that's it's no longer Cinderella. It's a different movie. Because that's the main thing of Cinderella. Now I can change the settings, the time period, make it platonic instead of romantic, no magic godmother, I can change a shit ton of things, as long as I don't change that main point, the main story that's being told, it's still Cinderella that's all fine. But Wednesday did change that main point. The main point of Addams family is "they love and support each other NO. MATTER. WHAT". They can disagree. They can absolutely hate that lifestyle their kids have chosen. But it doesn't matter. They stick together.

They don't have regular mother daughter strained relationships cause the whole point of the Addams family is they're weird. And Wednesday took that "they're weird" thing and went with very surface level weird. "She has a pet Scorpion that's weird" "she wears all black that's weird" yes the Addams family were weird in that sense but they were also weird because they didn't have regular family problems. Wednesday and Morticia in this show have a very typical mother daughter relationship. The word typical should not be used when describing anything about the Addams family! Yes they had conflict but it wasn't regular conflict any other family would have, cause they're the Addams! They're weird in EVERY sense of the word and the Wednesday show is just way to surface level with it's weirdness.

So Addams family had two main points

1. The Addams are weird in every sense of the word. They are not normal in any way shape or form including In their family dynamic

2. The Addams stick together and love each other and support each other no matter

Like I said with my Cinderella example you can make a lot of changes to make your adaptation your own and make it new, but you can't change the main points otherwise it's no longer an adaptation it's a whole new concept. And the Wednesday show no longer makes them weird in every way, they're just...odd. misfits. They're goth and that annoys the people around them and that's about it.

And they no longer support each other and stick together no matter what. Literally the first episode they're shipping their kid away to some boarding school against her will and Wednesday is threatening to run away and theirs some arguments with morticia and Wednesday about Morticia forcing Wednesday to be like her.

So both points are no longer being followed meaning this is no longer the Addams family. Meaning this is not an adaptation of the Addams family meaning this should be a different thing. If they had renamed their characters and not advertised it as the Addams family, most people wouldn't have thought it had literally anything to do with the Addams family.

So, again my thoughts could change as I keep watching, I've only finished the first episode, and so far I genuinely enjoy the show I just don't like it as a Addams family project

#wednesday #addams family #wednesday addams #the addams family #morticia addams #gomez addams #emma myers #jenna ortega

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The generational abuse in Moral Orel

I literally watched this show a few weeks ago and made it my whole entire personality lol

So one of my favorite messages in Moral Orel is defiently based on how having kids when you are still dealing/repressing trauma is never a good idea because you will eventually pass on that trauma to your kids, with or without intention.

I mean, besides the absolutely beautiful lesson about how family shouldn't be something made out of obligation but out of love, the latter message sticks out to me quite a lot.

For starters we have Bloberta and Clay, In the outsiders eyes they may seem like the best parents ever, but as a viewer, we are aware of how god awful they are at parenting.

Blorberta reduces her responsabiltiy as a mother to cooking, cleaning, and briefly attending to her childrens physcial needs.

She is barley attentive to her childrens emotional needs and always ignores them and tries to brush off their emotions to feel better about her own self.

Another thing is that although shes physically there, she isn't actievely present in her childrens lives and is always in the background.

Orel never goes to her for guidance, and although that could be rooted in misogony another main reason is because she dismisses Orel constantly, telling him to go tell father or to go pray to God instead because shes busy cleaning.

Orel naturally has heavily been accostumed to not go to his mother for help unless it deals with food, clothes or messy rooms.

Then theres Shapey, who is obviously heavily neglected. His "bad" behaviors are manifested because of that constant negligence, she never once taught him anything and she will never bother to do so.

Shes always throwing Shapey around to Orel, making Orel the responsible one for Shapeys un-ethical behavior instead of realizing the reason he acts this way is because of the lack of an adult authoritive figure.

Most of her interaction with her kids are based on her giving them lunches, cleaning their room or when she lightly reprimands her kids when they get in the way of her cleaning.

Bloberta is a cold, cruel and emotionally distant mother...but why is that exactly?

Well, we can sort of blame the enviorment around her. Women in society, especially in a very religious society, are only respected when they are seen as "useful".

In Moralton, its clear that a womans worth is based on their usefulness for the people around them, ESPECIALLY their husbands and kids.

This very warped viewed on womanhood caused Bloberta to believe that the only right way to be a mother is just to be helpful enough in a physcial way, she never learned about the importance of emotionally nurturing her kids because in her eyes, thats the own kids job to do.

But the enviorment around her wasn't the only reason as to why shes a god awful parent, lets take a look at her family background.

Bloberta grew up with 3 siblings, and for some reason, her mother considered Bloberta to have an unimportant and neutral role in the family.

In turn, Bloberta felt useless, unloved and unwanted. The only person in the family who tried to help Bloberta was her dad, but even he couldn't stomach connecting with her unless he was drunk enough to do so.

So anyways, she's dealing with all this internalized urge to be of use in her own house.

Her decision to settle down with Clay was flat out obviously not out of love, but out of a need to be percieved as wanted.

It was both for her own personal need and to finally succeed in societal image's standards.

She also seems to be someone who cares a whole lot about her looks. She cares about them to the point she doesn't let anyone see her messy hair, baggy eyes, and lack of makeup. Including her own family.

She doesn't feel comfortable enough to show her true self to her own family. She keeps up an image even with her own blood.

Clay obviously never loved her from the beggining so she starts looking for external love aswell.

Which is why she cheats on Clay with Danielle and seeks sexual attention from Dr. Potters Wheel.

So all in all, she is basically seen as an extention to her husband and kids, which causes her to feel well...numb.

This numbness eventually is what makes her to start actively self harm. She feels absolutely nothing for her husband and kids besides this socital need to be seen as a good wife and mother.

One can argue that she does care for her kids, but it's not deep care, it's out of duty.

Although Orel can be naive, he does subconciously take in that her mother is never there in his personal life. In the episode "movie primere" Bloberta is only mentioned twice, because she has never tried to gain any type of connection with her kids.

Orel also admits that Stephanie (a peeson he JUST met) radiates more kindness than his own mother.

The reason she never reached out for her kids in an emotional sense was because no one ever did that with her as a kid, she doesn't know how to do it, she doesn't know how to deal with her own kids emotional needs because she herself has a looot of repressed urges and stress.

She doesn't bother to deal with her childrens pain because shes too busy trying to repress her own.

So thats the reason Bloberta is a god awful mother... Is it justified? Of course fucking not!!! But its totally okay to be able to sympathize and understand her.

Now we have Clay... Boy this is going to be a ride.

Also Clay's parenting towards Shapey and doesn't fully count, they aren't actually his kids. Is the way he neglects Shapey okay? Hell no but we can't expect him to care for him when he struggles to be attentive to his actual son.

Unlike Bloberta, Clay is way more present in Orel's life than she ever is, and although this should be considered a good thing, theres many factors that say the contrary.

Orel's almost-instict reaction when he wants advice is "gee... I have to ask dad!" that includes even asking him during unreasonable times, for example, when hes sleeping or when it's waaay to early in the morning.

This gives us an understanding that Orel trusts his father to guide him.

Without context, that's the sweetest thing ever until we realize Clay constantly spanks, gives hypocritcal lectures and constantly tries to drain the natural curiosity in Orel.

His way of connection through Orel is through scolding him, through reprimanding him and through physical abuse (well—Clay doesn't consider it physcial abuse but we all know damm well that it is).

He sometimes gives little pats in the head or puts his hands on his shoulder as a small way of normal parental physical reassurance but thats about it.

As for emotional reassurance, it's very scarce.

Clay avoids any external conversations with his child unless it involved any sort of scolding or hypocritcal lessons.

He once openly admits he loves Orel but it was worded pretty interesting: "Oh Orel, I could never love you more! People only have a certain amount of love in them and im afraid I have to divide mine up between atleast a dozen people.... But remember son, I love you enough."

His argument here is that he loves too many people so he can't spend it all on Orel, but the true reason he can't fully love Orel is a much more sinister reason.

Let's talk about Clay's background shall we?

Clay grew up for 12 years very pampered by his mother. His father was much more stern and lacked much warmth but he still tried to be present for his son.

His mother made Clay believe that he was the most precious thing to her, until later Clay starts finding out about his mothers multiple miscarriages which causes him to have a full existencial crisis.

He wouldn't have existed if it weren't for the previous miscarriages.

This causes Clay to pull a really childishly cruel prank where he plays dead to worry his mother and father.

What Clay expected from this prank was to be reassured that no matter the previous miscarriages, he will always be loved by his mother the most.

Well... Lets just summarize that Clays mothet has a weak heart and in turn died of shook.

Ever since that incident his father blamed Clay for the death of his mother.

Arthur (clays dad) would hit him, and Clay started to view that as affection because thats the only fatherly acknwoledgement Clay ever got to know.

So Clay would purpously rile his father up so that he can hit him and give him the desperate fatherly attention he craved.

But Arthur noticed this, and instead of realizing how much he's fucked up his own childs perception of love, he completely stops paying attention to Clay, basically disowning him without ever kicking him out of the house.

So now we understand why Clay connects with his son through physical abuse, right? This was the only fatherly attention he ever got as a kid and he doesn't know what else he can do to show his kid love since he never got it himself.

And although this is an unpopular opinion, Clay really was trying to put an effort into being a good father. In "beforel Orel" he didn't talk to Orel because he was nervous about his parenting.

It was until he faced his father again which gave him the outmost confidence to parent Orel in a way that his own father never did.

His parenting skills are obviously the worst though lol.

Orel may have loved his father, but his subconcious feared him.

One time when Orel made a stopmotion he drew Clay as a scary wolf saying that his dad was made as a dog because "he's loyal and good." Orel understandably feared his father, I mean the only way he properly interacted with him was through his father hitting and scolding him.

Now, something important to consider is that Clay never wanted to get married, he confirms this in the episode of season 3 "help". He got manipulated in a marriage with Bloberta and it was too late to pull back.

His horrible marriage with Bloberta aswell as being tied to a family and job that he didn't actually want start to make him extremely miserable.

Which causes him to drown out all his pain with alcohol.

But funnily enough, alcohol only worsens his pain more.

In the nature p1 AND p2 episodes, we realize how much alcohol Clay consumes, which is honestly really disturbing.

So basically in those episodes, Clay takes Orel to a haunting trip, trying to continue the Puppington tradition (funnily enough, that tradition was cut short after Clay's mothers death).

Orel being a normal child, wasn't really keen on killing animals, so he was already quite nervous about the hunting trip.

When they arrive to the reserve, Clay is drinking and he doesn't stop, each time he drinks out of frustration that Orel hasn't killed any animal.

Orel gives up and doesn't kill anything, telling Clay that he isn't comfortable hunting with his him. He then proceeds to call him "too drunk" which in return makes Clay mad.

Clay proceeds to call Orel as pessimist by saying his cup is always half empty, which is ironic considering Orel is naturally one of the most positive characters in the whole series.

He then goes onto a rambling, confusing bright with "blight" and then admiting his own life is truly full of blight, he starts crying and then says how he hates himself.

Orel starts tearing up himself, never expecting to see his dad in such a state.

The bottle in his hands start yelling at him "WHY DO YOU QUIT WORKING ON ME?" implying that Clay would expect the alcohol to drown out the pain but instead amplifies it more.

He then starts rambling again, he is quite literally talking about women and how they force you into something you don't want and "squeeze things out of you."

I think the "women" he's proyecting on is defiently Bloberta. He didn't want a marriage, but he was manipulated and obligated into one anyway, and then public image caused them to force themselves into having a child.

Clay didn't want that, he didn't want to be tied down this way. He expected that having a family could make him feel alright, but that eventually quit "working on him" because it wasn't what he evidently needed.

His rant on women can also tie down to his own repressed homosexuality, which makes this all too sad.

Later on, Clay foolishly starts handeling his gun with no safety on and accidently shoots Orel in the leg.

Instead of apologizing he asks "what have you done?" and Orel responds "I got shot by you..." his passive sentence here gives us an understanding that he is still processing that his own dad shot him.

When Clay opens the first aid kit, he sees the rubbing alcohol and drinks it up instead of applying it on his son, which causes Orel to finally say "I hate you."

This was Orels moment of realization.

Clay being drunk and obviously dismissive of the power of Orel's words just brushes it off by saying "Hate away, sister. Hate away."

When Clay sobers up the next morning, he completely acts as if he didn't shot his son, not wanting to accept he hurt his son that way aswell as not wanting to accept the blame.

Orel also lied to Clay that day, telling him that Clay shoot the bear and not Orel himself, because he didn't feel like his dad was someone worth making proud. He wasn't worth it.

When they return home, Orel has a conversation with his mother asking her why she married dad in which Bloberta responds "why not?"

This has been Blorberta's whole thinking process ever since she met Clay, "he's an attractive man and I have to marry soon to prove my worth so why not?"

She never choose Clay out of love, but out of mere obligation and pressure.

When Orel tells her mom that when Clay drinks he changes, Bloberta finally confirms to Orel that he doesn't change, that its just his true nature coming out.

All those repressed emotions, toxic masculinity, societal pressure, labor stress, awful marriage, and the crumbling of his perfect image.

Thats Clay's true nature, how he feels about himself and how he deals with it is what makes him who he is.

Afterwards, we have an amazing episode called "Sacrifice".

This episode is the most self-awarness we will ever get from Clay.

So this takes place literally after the haunting trip, Clay overhears the previous conversation between Blorberta and Orel.

He then also finds out his wife has been desiring Dr. Potters Wheel. So he decides to drown all that out by going to a bar.

In this episode, Clay kickstarts into a series of alcohol induced rants.

He initally focuses on the term sacrifice, feeling as if he's sacrificing his own happiness for his kids.

Clay thinks that by economically supporting and lecturing his kids is enough to give them satisfaction. It's a really hypocritcal rant because although he does mantain the whole family, he also made his family life miserable by keeping his awful marriage with Bloberta and drinking alchol to drown his sorrows.

Aftee a whole series of events unfold...Clay's monolouge gets deep.

"maybe there was a jerkoff called Darwin after all and that you never acknowledged his existence, because you knew deep inside that you were really what you feared you were: Weak, and passive, and ultimately broken by the ones who were made the fittest. And then through your weaknesses you built up a poison, that poisoned others around you... That you love..."

He then starts tearing up when he says that, unable to truly finish the sentence. He ultimately knows that he destroyed a dynamic with the only person in the family that genuienly loved him.

He feels hurt, he feels torn, but the guilt won't make the bullet hole go away (literally).

I also have to mention that Clay wss desperately trying to poke at the people who were in the bar, expecting them to beat him up. He wanted to be beat up, to be proven that he is worth it, Clay used to measure his wortfulness over how well he parented Orel. But after the incident, he can't even feel slightly worth it, thats why he needs to be proven by others that he is.

But everyone leaves him alone, because he truly isn't worth it anymore. And he knows it.

It is also implied by Orel that Clay has hid away in his study for 6 months. He stayed away from Orel out of personal disgust and guilt, but refussing to change and take responsibility.

During Honor, we see Orel desperately trying to find a way to still honor his father, so reverend putty tells him to go to talk to someone who truly loves his dad to find out the reasoning behind it.

Orel then goes to Danielle.

Now Danielle was actually upset with Clay because he saw him kissing Censordoll.

He was hurt because well, he loves Clay and Clay would rather get physical with another woman for buisness issues over giving Danielle the actual love he feels for him. (once again, repressed homosexuality!!!)

Orel and Danielle basically hang out throughout the whole day, which causes Clay great jealousy and discomfort.

He then drags Bloberta and his two illegilimate kids to Danielle's home.

He burts through Danielle's door and tells him to stay away from Orel because.... "he's not yours I am."

Cats out of the bag now, am I right folks?

Sadly, thats not the case.

He immedietly brushes off what he said and hugs Orel, looking lovingly into Danielle's eyes.

"Oh how I miss you... Orel"

"I need you in my life... Orel"

"and I..."

He then pushes Orel away and walks towards Danielle, repeating "I love you" mulitple times but ends the last "I love you" with Orel's name. Still trying to shield his very obvious declaration of love.

Danielle was the only person that Clay actually loved that didn't involve manipulation, obligation, or mommy issues.

But of course, he screwed it up. It was too late.

Clay deprived himself of the arguably healthiest love he would ever have.

After this episode, we get a beautiful time skip

The time skip includes Orel finally marrying Christina.

Christina is someone that Morelton looks down upon because of her differing beliefs.

But Orel gives a damn about image, he loved Christina as a kid and always has.

In turn of marrying someone he truly loves, he had children he truly wanted with her.

Like the Reverend said "family is sometimes a group of people that are forced to live together but every so often, a miracle happens."

The miracle was Orel choosing his own life without the need of societal pressure. Orel genuienly marrying for love.

In the end scene, we see all the happy kids sitting with Orel while Christina sits next to him.

And in the back we see Clay and Blorberta, who grew old together and never divorced.

They are miserable and will always be miserable.

Orel, however? He learned not to follow into their footsteps.

He broke the chain. And I admire his braveness.

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Sooooo listen. I know a lot of people really like she hulk and I personally think it has a lot of potential but... Does no else find Jen just the women version of a toxic man??? I mean... I see so many women applauding Jen for doing the same disgusting shit we criticize men for doing. Jen has a picture saved on her phone as her background of captain America's ass. Jen has tried to find out how some dude lost his virginity and made jokes about it. Jen in that same conversation made comments about how a attractive person doesn't "deserve" to die a virgin implying that

1. No one would want to be a virgin

2. That there's something wrong with being a virgin

Jen has made unnecessary comments and jokes about "smashing" Matt Murdock. And even several of the fans have referred to him in objectifing terms.

Like... It's just wrong. A women doing it doesn't make it any less objectifing. I'm starting to see marvel start going "well people aren't liking it when we objectify women...so let's have the women do it to men" and women are enjoying it. It's wrong. Same thing with that scene in Thor. If a women had been forced naked against her will and had a bunch of people stare and gawk at her body and the camera focused in on it for a while and a bunch of guys were thirsting online over it. It would've been gross. But it's a man, so now it's ok. If one of the men had a picture of black widows ass as their phone background, or one of the men made comments and jokes about "smashing" some girl or some of the men were digging into some girls sexual life and whether or not she was a virgin. You guys don't see how that's weird, off putting, gross, and demeaning??

I feel like the show has potential but that's definitely one of my main issues and I'm very disappointed in how the fans have been reacting to all of this.

Also don't like how the show focuses so much on her love life. Again sexist idea of women must need/desperately want a man and must be obsessed with relationships.

#she hulk #she hulk attorney at law #she-hulk #matt murdock #daredevil #dare devil

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Sooooo I haven't really seen anyone else point this out sooo

This book yellow guy gets.... Does anyone else see a familiar symbol? Let me try turning it upside down

See it yet?

Right there, let's zoom in

Gee awfully familiar right? It's almost like we've seen it somewhere before, oh wait

Obviously the shape are exactly the same but even some of the details like this

And the two dots next to the shape

And when yellow guy makes his new language, it's all the same symbols as on the book

Which is interesting since

1. The symbol on the fridge has been there before yellow guy even knew about the book or was even smart

2. It's a made up language yellow guy made

#dont hug me im scared #dhmis #don't hug me i'm scared

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I wonder how many times you’ve been reported by people you’ve been harassing

Lmao did you seriously send like a thousand replies, then messaged me to then block me so I couldn't respond to majority of your things? Lmao, I'm not harrassing you babe, I sent one comment being like "oh I disagree with this" and you went off, threw a tantrum, called me a moron, like you need some serious therapy, I mean you went off on a rant when you could've easily ignored me or calmly said your opinion 😂

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ok but can we talk about morel Orel?? This may seem a bit random but I saw some random clip of it on YouTube and thought it looked interesting so I binged watched the show on my days off and wow

So let me start off by quickly explaining the show for anyone who doesn't know cause, I don't know I didn't hear anything about this show and knew nothing until that single clip on YouTube, so I genuinely don't know how well known it is, if it's popular or what

So to quickly and briefly explain the show, it's basically about this kid named Orel, the eldest son of the puppington family, who lives in a town names moralton (subtle I know) the town is extremely religious and try to teach Orel their ways, Orel is a people pleaser and wants to make everyone happy and wants to be the ultimate good Christian boy, but he often takes things to far and to literally in trying to follow what the town tells him. This always results in chaos and always ends with his father spanking him and then lecturing him at the end.

At first based on that description of the show you may think "ok? Just seems like your standard christian show" except the show is supposed to point out the flaws and hypocrisy of these people so I can already hear "ok? Again so what? Just a standard satire show on Christianity" except the show for the most part doesn't attack the religion. It attacks the people and a lot of the aspects it attacks isn't even their religious beliefs or the fact that they're religious.

Before we dive right in to exactly what the show is tackling and the message it wants to give, I just want to say my main praise for the show is the way it's structured. The way the show is structured is brilliant it's 3 seasons long, first season is very standard satire adult swim, crude humor whatever, until the season finale. So far up to this point we've been dealing with run of the mill shit, fantasy world crude humor shit. We've risen the dead, got some people to drink orel's pee whatever but the season finale grounds us into reality. After this point we don't see a bunch of unrealistic things anymore, and the tone shifts. It's no longer "lol what kooky goof ups is Orel gonna do this time" suddenly it's more serious. This starts with the season one finale where the first time we start seeing more of the parents. For the first time we see something actually serious happen. And while season one had these serious things that finally get addressed in this finale they were in the background and played more as jokes. But now they take a sudden turn to the forefront and played as a serious topic.

So now season 1 finale has established that we're getting deeper and more complex and more grounded in reality which is followed up by season 2. Season 2 we dive more into the people of moralton. Before the reverend was just the priest character who would give the sermon in the beginning of the episodes now he was a fleshed our character, with a life, with goals, with uncertainties, with flaws but with good parts of him too. The parents who before Orel's mom was just kind of background character and dad just the dad of the show now they had more personality, desires, hatred, etc.

While the formula was basically the same of Orel would misunderstand the lesson or take it to literally, there was a bit more nuance in it. While In season 1 Orel may raise the dead because of a misunderstanding of the sermon, now Orel is learning that his mother hates her father and hates her life

Season 1 we had Orel have his classmates drink his pee, now we have the town killing Orel's pet dog

Shit gets more serios and we slowly see Orel learn how fucked up everything is but while still thinking that maybe he just doesn't understand yet that one day it'll make sense. Until the season 2 finale. Season 2 all builds up to show the town, the people and how fucked up they all are and how despite it Orel still has hope and faith in all of them and trusts them, especially his father, which makes the season 2 finale all the more heartbreak.

Season 2 let's just say an...event happens that completely destroys Orel's faith and respect in his father and in the people around. After this point while Orel would just blindly believe and trust people in season 1 and 2 this point forward he'll start asking "why?" He'll start questioning all of them and he'll no longer have that respect and blind Faith he once did. In season 3 it's a lot of flashbacks. Season 2 finale is the big moment that forvever changes Orel so season 3 takes a step back to see how did this happen. What events happened to lead to this. Season 3 we flashback to see why the mother is the way she is. Why Orel's father is the way he is. Why a lot of the towns people are the way they are. Season 3 doesn't focus as much on Orel as Much as it focuses on "how did this happen to Orel. Why did it happen to Orel" and to understand that we need to understand the town and the people in this town and why they are the way they are.

So the structure is amazing how it starts off goofy and crude until the finale where it makes a shift on tone the next season following up on this shift and having the lessons and what happens to Orel all be build up to this horrible and tragic event that changes who Orel is and how he views the world, and then season 3 going "now how did this happen." Beautiful

Now I just want to talk about two characters. Almost all the characters have impactful stories and characters arcs and changes in how we view them and they're all really well done in my opinion but this would be an entires book worth if I delved into every character I wanted to talk about lol

So for now I'm gonna talk about the main two

Of course we have orel the main character, a 12 year old boy just trying his best to be a good religious boy. When the show starts he is incredibly naive, takes things very literally, has a good heart and is a good kid and just trying to understand the world around him and trying his best to be a good person and he has a lot of faith in the people around him and trusts them. As the show progresses we see pretty awful things happen to him yet despite it he continues to try his best and to believe in the people around him and believe they always have his best interest at heart. Of course until season 3 where he realizes just how fucked up everything is. Despite this we do see him grow up still being religious because one of the things I like about the show is that it doesn't say "religion bad" none of the towns people are seen as bad by the show because of their religion, that's never demonized, and the show shows this by showing Orel as an adult at the end of the show as a good person, who is also religious, the religion was never the problem.

But anyway I digress Orel's progression from being stupidly and annoyingly naive to being kind of cynical and doubtful of the world around him was actually kind of heartbreaking

One of the most heartbreaking scenes in my opinion is towards the end of the show. It's an episode focused on the towns people and what they were doing while Orel had his.... incident at the end of season 2. They all had shitty ass weeks. They all saw some shitty stuff and all did shitty stuff including the reverend. Now the reverend is giving a sermon at the end of the episode and Hsi sermon was supposed to be on hope, he looks around the crowd of people in the town to see if he can find inspiration (since he forgot to write the sermon ahead of time) and finds a their miserable faces looking back at him, he's about to give up when he suddenly thinks "Orel!! Orel puppington is always filled with hope and happiness and faith" and he looks at Orel...only to find Orel's miserable face looking back at him and Orel then looks away in despair.

This is probably the only time In this show where Orel is at church and not happy since it's always emphasized that he's always happy at church and considers the church his safe space seeing him like this is all the more heartbreaking for the audience and the reverend who then looks at his paper and after looking at Orel one more time looks back down and adds "less" to the word hope at the top of his paper and the episode ends.

I think this does an amazing job of really showing the audience how much Orel has changed and how even the towns people are starting to realize how fucked up it is.

We then have clay puppington. Clay is the heart of the show in my opinion, clay is an awful awful person. But the show wouldn't be NEARLY as impactful if he wasn't. His awfulness and why he's awful are essential to the show. Clay puppington is Orel's father and main antagonist of the show, he starts off as just the normal cartoon dad his only is really to lecture Orel in a very monotone indifferent tone. Until the season 1 finale where he gets more of a personality and a bigger role. We learn clay is an alcoholic who never wanted to get married and was basically tricked into marriage by his wife who also didn't want to get married to him and just felt pressured to do so because of her toxic family and the toxic environment around her. He's a bisexual man who feels the need to repress that side of him and constantly push away the only person that actually likes him. He has a kid he hates, shapey, Orel's little brother, because he's the result of his wife cheating on him with the guy he has a crush on (whole telenovela there I know) he had a father who didn't love him and was very honest about he didn't love him and his father use to say he didn't think clay was "worth it" something that stuck with clay all these years later. He has a mother he accident killed as a kid. Lot of trauma is what I'm trying to say. And In season 2 we get to see him slowly progress into a worse and worse person, he was always a bad person but the show took place from Orel's pov and he never saw the guy as awful so the comments he made or things he did were played off as a joke and more of a background thing until season 2 where we get to see it come more to the forefront and then blowing up in the season 2 finale and we get to see a few episodes of backflash to explain how he became like this (not excuse mind you the show is very clear in that the show itself thinks clay is a awful person it's simply an explanation) and we get a few episodes of him in the present and see a even darker side to him then we knew and see him for what he truly is, a truly awful and pathetic man.

I simply love the show and loved how it was structured, how it developed it's characters, not even really developed just slowly revealed the person they always were and show how they came to be like this and show Orel's own progression I highly recommend 10/10 in my opinion

It's on HBO max it's only 3 seasons, each episode being 11 minute's long

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