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jess-rewatches-prodigalson · 4 years

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Episode 6: All Souls and Sadists

My thoughts are heading your way.

SPOILERS AHEAD

0:40 - “No as a white man. We’re terrible.” hahaha I hate Martin on principle but that’s hilarious - and somewhat truthful.

1:00 - Notice how Ainsley and Malcolm have similar facial expressions when talking to their father? They both do this thing where they sort of smile and look at the ground in a “Dad’s crazy” kind of way. It’s almost like they think their Dad is endearing in a very frustrating and dysfunctional kind of way? They also both shake their heads and close their eyes a lot when talking to Martin. Even the tones of voice that they use with Martin is similar. They start speaking to him calmly and softly but they end the conversation angry, frustrated and desperate. You can really tell that they’re siblings.

2:32 - “It’s not the right one.” How did the car salesman know Malcolm was looking for a specific car? If I were the salesman I would’ve interpreted that as “It’s not the right car for me. What else can you show me?”...and then show Malcolm a used Honda Civic or something.

3:50 - Malcolm is completely losing it. He’s so desperate. You can see how much pain he’s in during this scene. Look how sad his eyes are. You can tell how close to the edge he is. Also - is this foreshadowing? Is this why Malcolm looks so broken in the 1x19 promo pics? Is he going to revert back to his mute, scared 11 year old self?

6:35 - Despite how broken Malcolm looks in Gabrielle’s office, he looks and acts remarkably put together in this scene. He’s calm, rational, and professional. He’s also subdued.

6:43 - There’s a look that Dani gives Malcolm right here. She’s concerned about him. Rightfully so. His behaviour is wildly out of character. This is maybe the calmest, most serious he’s ever been at a crime scene.

7:30 - Dang. This woman is OCD and very numb to her husband’s murder. Did she even care about her husband? I mean I know they were getting a divorce but I would be more upset than she is if my neighbour died - and I don’t even talk to him.

8:20 - Right here. Malcolm just stopped profiling. He’s trapped inside his head. Overwhelmed with empathy for the little boy who just lost his father. Overwhelmed with the realization that this woman and his own mother feels the same way about their children. He and Ainsley are Jessica’s everything.

8:30 - See this look in Malcolm’s eyes? That sadness and empathy? That’s a good man right there. That’s not a killer.

9:00 - You know, right off the bat, this kid is off. No child who has been through trauma that recently is comfortable talking that openly and calmly about how they feel (or how their rabbits feel) because they haven’t had time to process how they feel yet.

9:15 - You know. I feel like the fact that Martin appeared to be such a good dad to Malcolm during the first 10 years of his life really compounded Malcolm’s trauma. It ruined Malcolm’s ability to trust. It ruined Malcolm’s ability to look fondly at his early childhood memories.

9:46 - Again. This kid is weird. “I think she’s not that sad.” What? What child talks like this less than 24 hours of the death of a parent? He’s calm and articulate in a way children in emotional pain rarely are. It’s strange.

10:35 - I love how Malcolm is interacting with this kid the same way that Gil interacted with him as a kid. Because Gil made Malcolm feel safe when his whole world fell apart and Malcolm wants Isaac to feel safe. It warms my cold, dead heart.

10:55 - Malcolm’s self-deprecating humour is really heartbreaking.

11:28 - Tell me I’m not the only one whose heart breaks when Malcolm asks Ainsley if she’s okay. It’s something about the way his eyes widen. He looks so concerned for his little sister and I love it.

11:45 - I love Ainsley BUT the severity of her ambition is a little concerning. However, I don’t blame her. Chances are the only time Jessica ever showed Ainsley any attention (between her alcoholism and worrying about Malcolm) was when Ainsley achieved something extraordinary. Makes me wonder what kind of a student Ainsley was like in school. What kind of extracurriculars did she do as a child?

12:00 - Jessica’s behaviour in this scene is wildly inappropriate but also completely understandable. She’s so concerned with her children’s well-being. She always is. It’s why she meddles in their lives and tries to order around her adult children as if they’re 10 years old. Her personality in general is a little extreme, cold, and controlling. I’ll say it again - Jessica lost everything except her children when Martin was arrested. If Jess had some true friends who stuck by her then (or now) I bet she would’ve been less of a controlling force in her children’s lives.

12:46 - Holy crap. Is Malcolm sleeping with that photo? He’s pulling it out everywhere. The car dealership. His psychologist’s office. His Mom’s house. I know he’s in a fragile mental state right now but that level of obsession with a photograph is not healthy.

13:09 - Has anyone else been trying to figure out what time of year the Surgeon was arrested? So far the flashbacks look too warm to be between November - February (when there’s usually snow) but we’ve also had confirmation that Malcolm was in school. Therefore, it was during the school year. So it was either in September, October, or sometime between late March - early June? I’m thinking it’s probably closer to June because that’s when camping season generally starts? Anyone else have ideas?

14:20 - I’m genuinely surprised Jessica didn’t make Malcolm stay the night after that little outburst. He looks positively terrified. He’s clearly looking off into the distance because he’s hallucinating. You’d think she’d jump on that and keep him at her place for the night.

15:08 - Martin might be the most dangerous criminal in Claremont because he’s so manipulative. Watch him try to manipulate Stanley. Martin is clearly doing it deliberately. Martin is so desperate for attention that he’ll do and say anything to be the center of attention. He always has an ulterior plan. Ugh....actually it kind of reminds me of a much more extreme version of Ainsley....which is slightly concerning.

17:00 - UGH. Gil why did you have to walk in now? Dani was just about to get Malcolm to talk about what’s bothering him. She was so concerned about Malcolm you could see it on her face. It was beautiful.

17:21 - I love that JT says what we’re all thinking. Where do you get a stat like that?

18:25 - I wish we could’ve seen the scene where Malcolm has to convince Gil to let him get beat up for a potential sadist. That would’ve fuelled my heart for days....also Tom Payne looks super attractive in this gym outfit.

20:15 - You know, I don’t think Malcolm is a masochist. I think he’s so depressed and in so much constant emotional pain that sometimes he forgets that his life is important. He forgets that he matters to people. He subjects himself to physical pain because it numbs out the emotional pain. He’s not a masochist - he just needs an escape.

20:49 - There’s Papa Gil. Look how annoyed he is. He totally wants to give Jake a piece of his mind for trying to hurt Malcolm. You can see it. Too bad he won’t because it was technically consensual.

21:56 - Seriously? How fast is this woman and how quiet is she? Dani looked away for maybe 5 seconds and didn’t hear the woman book it toward her? Nah. I don’t buy it.

23:00 - Dani is a badass. JT is a total big brother look at how concerned he was for Dani. I love it all.

23:15 - Proud Gil is everything. <3

23:45 - This little pep talk that Gil gives Malcolm is precious. Gil is Malcolm’s Dad in all the ways that matter. Look at how concerned Gil is about Malcolm. Gil knows. He knows that Malcolm is spiralling. *sigh* My heart is breaking.

24:10 - Again. Where did JT go? Sometimes JT just disappears in the middle of an episode with no explanation.

25:15 - “It’s what you say to a kid.” Is it Gil? Because you’ve spent the past twenty years of your life trying to ensure that Malcolm is okay. Why do you think Malcolm is so cut up about Isaac’s current predicament? It’s because Malcolm is trying to be as good a man as you are and he thinks that he’s failing.

26:04 - Why is this dude always half-naked? Seriously. This whole episode he’s shirtless.

26:21 - Do you think Ainsley dated much in high school? Given the way Jessica is currently treating her boyfriends I can’t imagine that it would’ve been easy for Ainsley to date.

27:10 - THIS. I feel this. “Everything I know has been coloured by your resentment”. This is real. My Dad was abusive. He left (court-ordered, long story) when I was ten. Everything my brother and I know about our Dad and his past is coloured by our Mom’s resentment. Even though we know he was a bad guy, we still wish we could’ve met the guy that Mom fell in love with. We wish we could have happy stories about his past that aren’t coloured by his mistakes. Ainsley’s reaction here is totally justified. Sometimes you’ll do anything to find the one story that reassures you that your Dad wasn’t a total loser.

27:36 - “Did you love us?” That one hurt. The real answer is no. He didn’t. He’s a psychopath. He’s incapable. And deep down Ainsley knows that but look at her eyes. You can see how desperately she wants to believe her that her Dad loves her. Ugh. Martin is scum. He’s such a good manipulator. I hate it so much.

32:50 - This whole scene with Malcolm barging into the interrogation room is amazing. I mean I have nothing to point out that isn’t blatantly obvious but holy moly this is a good scene. Makes you wonder if Gil was ever worried about Malcolm becoming like Martin.

37:00 - A wild JT has reappeared.

38:00 - This scene is perfect. The juxtaposition between Bright and Isaac is beautiful. The insight to Malcolm’s childhood is heartbreaking. The empathy on Malcolm’s face is heartwarming. The concern on Gil’s face. You can really see who Malcolm might have become without Gil.

40:30 - This Gil and Malcolm conversation is perfect. “Not on my watch.” My heart is full.

42:00 - Does Malcolm have any sense of self-preservation? I know he’s desperate but hanging out at a junkyard in the middle of the night is a bad idea.

Thanks for hanging out. Catch you again soon.

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thefederalistfreestyle · 6 years

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Hamilton: how Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical rewrote the story of America (New Statesman):

[. . .] Because of the success of Hamilton – it has been sold out on Broadway since August 2015, won 11 Tony Awards and the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and is on tour in Chicago and Los Angeles – there is now an industry devoted to uncovering and explaining its references. Yet the sheer ebullience of the soundscape is not enough to explain why it became a hit. To understand that, we need to understand the scope of its ambition, which is nothing less than giving America a new origin story. “Every generation rewrites the founders in their own image,” says Nancy Isenberg, a professor of history at Louisiana State University and the author of a biography of Aaron Burr. “He [Miranda] rewrote the founders in the image of Obama, for the age of Obama.”

In doing so, Miranda created a fan base that mirrors the “Obama coalition” of Democrat voters: college-educated coastal liberals and mid-to-low-income minorities. (When the musical first hit Broadway in 2015, some tickets went for thousands of dollars; others were sold cheaply in a daily street lottery or given away to local schoolchildren.) He also gave his audiences another gift. Just as Obama did in his 2008 campaign, Hamilton’s post-racial view of history offers Americans absolution from the original sin of their country’s birth – slavery. It rescues the idea of the US from its tainted origins.

[. . .]

There is, of course, a great theatrical tradition of “patriotic myth-making”, and it explains another adjective that is frequently applied to Hamilton: Shakespearean. England’s national playwright was instrumental in smearing Richard III as a hunchbacked child-killer, portraying the French as our natural enemies and turning the villainous Banquo of Holinshed’s Chronicles into the noble figure claimed as an ancestor by the Stuarts, and therefore Shakespeare’s patron James VI and I.

James Shapiro, a professor of English literature at Columbia University, New York, and the author of several books on Shakespeare, first saw the musical during its early off-Broadway run. “It was the closest I’ve ever felt to experiencing what I imagine it must have been like to have attended an early performance of, say, Richard III, on the Elizabethan stage,” he tells me. “But this time, it was my own nation’s troubled history that I was witnessing.”

Shapiro says that Shakespeare’s first set of history plays deals with the recent past, ending with Richard III; he then went back further to create an English origin story through Richard II and Henry V. “Lin-Manuel Miranda was trying to grasp the fundamental problems underlying contemporary American culture,” he adds. “He might, like Shakespeare, have gone back a century and explored the civil war. But I suspect that he saw that to get at the deeper roots of what united and divided Americans meant going back even further, to the revolution. No American playwright has ever managed to explain the present by reimagining so inventively that distant past.” And where Shakespeare had Holinshed’s Chronicles, Miranda had Ron Chernow.

There are Shakespearean references throughout his play. In “Take a Break”, Hamilton writes to his sister-in-law, Angelica:

They think me Macbeth and ambition is my folly. I’m a polymath, a pain in the ass, a massive pain. Madison is Banquo, Jefferson’s Macduff And Birnam Wood is Congress on its way to Dunsinane.

Shapiro says that these “casual echoes of famous lines” are less important than the lessons that Miranda has taken about how to write history. “Another way of putting it is that anyone can quote Shakespeare; very few can illuminate so brilliantly a nation’s past and, through that, its present.”

[. . .]

I love Hamilton – I think the level of my nerdery about it so far has probably made that clear – but I find it fascinating that its overtly political agenda has been so little discussed, beyond noting the radicalism of casting black actors as white founders. Surely this is the “Obama play”, in the way that David Hare’s Stuff Happens became the “Bush play” or The Crucible became the theatre’s response to McCarthyism. It’s just unusual, in that its response to the contemporary mood is a positive one, rather than sceptical or scathing. (And it has an extra resonance now that a white nationalist is in the White House. One of the first acts of dissent against the Trump regime was when his vice-president, Mike Pence, attended the musical in November 2016 and received a polite post-curtain speech from the cast about tolerance. “The cast and producers of Hamilton, which I hear is highly overrated, should immediately apologise to Mike Pence for their terrible behaviour,” tweeted Trump, inevitably.)

Hamilton tries to make its audience feel OK about patriotism and the idealism of early America. It has, as the British theatre director Robert Icke put it to me this summer, “a kind of moral evangelism” that is hard for British audiences to swallow. In order to achieve this, we are allowed to see Hamilton’s personal moral shortcomings, but the uglier aspects of the early days of America still have to be tidied away.

There’s a brief mention, for instance, of Jefferson’s relationship with his slave Sally Hemings – whom he systematically raped over many years. But the casting of black and Hispanic actors makes it hard for the musical to deal directly with slavery, and so the issue only drips into the narrative rather than being confronted. There’s a moment after the battle of Yorktown when “black and white soldiers wonder alike if this really means freedom – not yet”. Another sour note is struck in one of the cabinet rap battles between Hamilton and Jefferson, in which the former notes acidly, “Your debts are paid cos you don’t pay for labour.”

In early workshops, there was a third cabinet battle over slavery – and the song is available on The Hamilton Mixtape, a series of reworkings and offcuts from the musical. When a proposal is brought before Washington to abolish slavery, Hamilton tells the cabinet:

This is the stain on our soul and democracy A land of the free? No, it’s not. It’s hypocrisy To subjugate, dehumanise a race, call ’em property And say that we are powerless to stop it. Can you not foresee?

Ultimately, though, the song was cut. “No one knew what to do about it, and [the founding fathers] all kicked it down the field,” Miranda explained to Billboard in July 2015. “And while, yeah, Hamilton was anti-slavery and never owned slaves, between choosing his financial plan and going all in on opposition to slavery, he chose his financial plan. So it was tough to justify keeping that rap battle in the show, because none of them did enough.”

***

In March 2016, Lin-Manuel Miranda returned to the White House. This time, one of the numbers he performed was a duet from the musical called “One Last Time”, sung with the original cast member Christopher Jackson playing George Washington. After Alexander Hamilton tells the first US president that two of his cabinet have resigned to run against him, Washington announces that he will step down to leave the field open.

It is the political heart of the play’s myth-making, comparable to Nelson Mandela leaving Robben Island. The decorated Virginian veteran was the only man who could unite the fractious revolutionaries after they defeated the British. Washington could have become dictator for life; instead, he chose to create a true democracy. “If I say goodbye, the nation learns to move on./It outlives me when I’m gone.”

For a nation just beginning to think that Trump could really, actually become its president, seeing the incumbent acknowledge that his time was nearly over was a powerful moment. For Obama watching it in the audience, it must have felt like his narrative had come full circle.

Towards the end of the song, Hamilton begins to read out the words of the farewell address he has written, and Washington joins in, singing over the top of them. It was a technique cribbed from Will.i.am’s 2008 Obama campaign video, in which musicians and actors sing and speak along to the candidate’s “Yes, we can” speech.

In his memoir, Dreams from My Father, Obama had written, “I learnt to slip back and forth between my black and white worlds, understanding that each possessed its own language and customs and structures of meaning, convinced that with a bit of translation on my part the two worlds would eventually cohere.”

This was the promise of his presidency: that there was not a black America or a white America, a liberal America or a conservative America, but, as he said in his breakthrough speech at the 2004 Democratic convention, “a United States of America”. The man who followed him clearly thinks no such thing, but nonetheless the nation must learn to move on.

In his farewell address in January 2017, Obama returned to the “Yes, we can” speech, using its words as the final statement on his presidency:

I am asking you to hold fast to that faith written into our founding documents; that idea whispered by slaves and abolitionists; that spirit sung by immigrants and homesteaders and those who marched for justice; that creed reaffirmed by those who planted flags from foreign battlefields to the surface of the moon; a creed at the core of every American whose story is not yet written: yes, we can. Yes, we did.

For the playwright JT Rogers, this is the true triumph of Hamilton – giving today’s multiracial America a founding myth in which minorities have as much right to be there as Wasps. It is political “in the sense of reclaiming the polis” – the body of citizens who make up a country. “The little village we live in outside the city, everyone in the middle school knows the score verbatim,” Rogers adds. “They recite it endlessly and at length, like Homer.”

the full long-read here!

#hamilton #meta #u.s. politics #obama #new statesman #history #shakespeare

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nitabooboo-blog1 · 7 years

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When I found out I was bisexual age 24

I have always thought I was attracted to males. And I never really consider to think I can be attracted to females as well. I mean I thought I was straight for the longest time and never thought I would be with a female or see myself with one. I know I have seen female that I thought they were gorgeous but never really thought of trying to date them.

When I was 18 and started to go clubbing with my friends I would hold their hands to make sure we stick together and I actually didn’t mind holding their hand for awhile because it felt normal to me, but some of my friends felt weirded out that I held their hand but I shook it off but I didn’t understand why I felt comfortable and they didn’t. I also hand my friends sit on my lap like we were a couple but we weren’t, it was because at parties or nightclubs there would not be enough spots to sit so I let them sit on my lap..

I always had moments of which I would like to date one of my homegirls because they were attractive but I never pursued it because I thought it was just me being open minded but not exploring my sexuality.

When I was 24, I was in a bad relationship with a male, he had no ambition and he was just obsessive, lazy, childish, and a bit crazy. It was not a healthy relationship. So I broke it off but yet he still thought that it was okay to still live in my home... I felt sorry for him so I waited for him to get on his feet to leave but yet he still had no intention of leaving. And I was not able to call law enforcement because they wouldn’t do shit because he had stayed there for almost a year... so I just had to deal with it. I was at my low point where I just wanted to give up and hoped that I died so he would leave... I would have to sneak around my own home to go clubbing or go out with my friends. I got a second job and went to the gym to be away from my home because he was there.

One day, I had 2 shifts on a Wednesday and my friend (JT) called me but I was not able call her back til I was off work. I called her back, she asked to hang out at Dutch Bros with her friend (NB) and so I told her that I had a long day at work and I smelt like food and sweat. But JT insisted for me to come because I haven’t hung out with her in a while. So I end up going and I meet NB and she was nice and seem chill. We talk about this girl that NB was talking to and so I try to give her some advice on the girl that she is talking to with her perspective... of why she was doing what she was doing. So we all get to talking and JT brings up my ex that I was dealing with and I mentioned that I told my ex what if I become gay and started dating girls will he just leave me alone but he said he would find a home girl and bet her ass for him (I rolled my eyes at him) because he has no friends. But NB would suggested that she could be the girl that I be dating. Me thinking she was joking and just told her that was sweet but rejected the offer thinking I am just “strictly dickly” little did I know I would start to grew fond of her and her personality. I didn’t understand why I felt like that and I was completely confused because I didn’t know if I was just curious or the fact that a female was actually attracted to me.

Anyways, she ended up dropping the girl she was talking to because she was kind of obsessive and crazy. After a week of meeting NB, I actually wanted to try to see if I am just curious or if I am actually attracted to females. So one night we were hanging out at Dutch Bros, I sent a text “you look cold over there, do you want to use me as a blanket” now I wasn’t able to say out loud because there were ppl around and I didn’t know if I should have said out loud at that appropriate time. But when I sent that she got super excited and and gave me a kiss on the check and with a huge smile said “are you serious??” I replied umm I don’t know but we can go talk somewhere. So we went off and talked but she could not stop hugging me and kissing me on the cheek. She was excited and kept saying this is a dream come true. I told her that we should take our time because I have never been with a female and I didn’t want to lead her on if I am just curious but she said she is willing to wait for me because I was worth it. That made my heart flutter. That night I had my first kiss with a female and it felt completely comfortable it was not a big deal that I kissed a female but she did make me happy. We said we would take things slow but we didn’t we went for the home run and from then on we was moving even quickly. But we were on the same page. I never felt more happy being with her than anybody I have ever been with. I eventually realized that it wasn’t me being curious because I was completely in love with this lady. She was everything to me and I am BISEXUAL. I am very committed to the relationship and deeply in love with her and supported her in every way.

This realization was not dramatic but actually finding myself and identifying who I really am and just made me more happy to be able share it with someone who loved me back. I honestly thought I found my happily ever after.

However, I think because we had moved so rapidly in our relationship that it made her lost interest into the relationship. This broke my heart but I know it will heal but I hope one day she will get those feelings of love for me back and we will be happy again. I can't force someone to love me.

This is when I identify myself as a bisexual. I never felt more whole in my life.

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jess-rewatches-prodigalson · 4 years

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Episode 4: Designer Complicity

My thoughts are coming your way.

SPOILERS AHEAD

0:15 - I feel like this is a false memory. Jessica is very dressed up to be hanging out in the basement. I don’t strike her as a woman who willingly went into the basement a lot. Seems out of character for her. I mean maybe she was looking for Malcolm when she didn’t find him in bed? But then I figure Martin would’ve stopped her.

0:36 - Yo. Gabrielle is underpaid. She’s trying to help Malcolm but Malcolm is a mess. He’s passively suicidal and desperate for answers. He. Needs. Help. He. Is. In. So. Much. Pain.

2:20 - awww. Is Gil one of those people who have no idea how technology works? Now I really want to read a fic about how Gil calls Malcolm/Dani/JT every time he can’t figure out how to work his phone/computer.

2:30 - That blue bath is kind of beautiful. In a very disturbing way.

2:41 - Does that mean JT was born and/or raised in Harlem?

2:55 - Gil putting his hand on JT’s shoulder is adorable. He really is Papa Gil to the whole team. Gil is the best.

3:00 - “If you’re lucky.” - Am I the only one who does not understand that joke? It makes absolutely no sense to me. But Malcolm’s facial reaction to it is cute.

3:32 - I find it mildly disturbing and very endearing that JT, our physically imposing man with a military background, knows sooo much about this fashion lady.

4:45 - Is this how social influencers really live? With a posse following them everywhere?! If it is - I’d rather be a poor nobody.

5:00 - If these people follow Axel everywhere - I presume they hung out with Tatiana, Axel’s girlfriend, too. Assuming that’s true, why is it that Axel is the only one who seems even remotely upset?

5:10 - What is Axel’s accent? It’s so bizarre.

5:48 - I see that Malcolm has boarded the manic train again. Thank God Gil is talking to him.

6:38 - I love this. Gil doesn’t want to give Malcolm the tapes. He doesn’t want Malcolm to suspect his mother of doing anything (legally) wrong. He’s acting like Jessica’s co-parent. Protecting her from her manic son’s desperate attempts to piece together his fragmented memories. Also - I love the “I’ll take you home” line. It’s said in a way that implies that this isn’t the first time Gil has taken Malcolm home when he’s getting too worked up about his past.

7:12 - Wow. This conversation is not going to go well in Malcolm’s current mental state.

8:10 - Malcolm. No. She loves you. She didn’t do anything wrong. Sweetheart just go to sleep. Stop interrogating your mother.

9:00 - Honestly - I would’ve hit him too. He crossed the line there. She shouldn’t hit her son but I won’t pretend that her actions weren’t justified.

9:45 - “I don’t need you to love me Malcolm. I just need you alive.” I feel like every parent has thought that at some point when they were disciplining their child.

10:25 - I hate this. I hate that Martin is acting like he’s being a good father. I hate that he’s playing with Malcolm’s psyche. This conversation is haunting. Malcolm’s eyes....he just looks broken. ALSO. Martin isn’t chained to the wall in this scene. Is he only chained to the wall when he has company?

12:20 - Dani’s gentle concern for Malcolm is heartwarming. She’s the friend he deserves.

13:22 - The way that Gil is looking at Malcolm here. It’s like Gil isn’t even listening to what Malcolm is saying. Gil is just looking at Malcolm with concern. It’s breaking my heart. Malcolm’s mental state is breaking my heart.

13:34 - “Is this a profile or an intervention for JT?” ICONIC. hahaha and JT’s facial expression reacting to that line. *chef’s kiss*

14:00 - “Or are we surfing the internet?” hahaha honestly I swear Gil feels like a total Dad half the time he’s at work.

14:05 - Why do I love JT in a T-shirt so much. It’s his arms. I don’t know why but I think they’re so nice. He has amazing arms. I can’t stop staring at them. There is something profoundly wrong with me.

14:12 - hahaha this look.The one JT is giving Bright when Bright takes his phone. Freaking hilarious. This whole interaction between Bright and JT is hilarious.

14:21 - Sure JT. You’re only going to keep an eye on him because he has your phone. It’s definitely not because you care about our shaky-handed lunatic.

15:15 - Again. I will ask. What branch of the military was JT in?!?

15:35 - It’s really sweet that, despite how much pain Malcolm is currently in, he still has the capacity to care about JT to the point that he puts his hand on JT’s shoulder.

16:10 - How stupid is this guy? He just ran straight into a pile of garbage?!? THE REST OF THE STREET IS COMPLETELY EMPTY.

16:33 - awww the boys are working together. I’m so disgustingly proud of them.

17:00 - Malcolm taking pictures of the paparazzi is so amazing. The social commentary is incredible. Also it looks like Malcolm is using an iPhone again.

18:33 - Again. I will ask. Is Malcolm talking to Roger or verbalizing an internal revelation about his current predicament with his Mom?

18:53 - Is that a France flag in Gil’s office? There are two flags. One is the US flag. The other looks like the France flag. My question is why.

20:00 - Gil deserves a medal. You can tell how restrained he is with Malcolm. Our boy is out of line this episode.

20:33 - She’s very rich. Why has she kept the same dress for 20 years? I thought rich people got new wardrobes every year or two.

21:20 - I feel like Martin and Jessica are talking about different things here. Even without the context that Jessica thought Martin was having an affair. I feel like they’re not on the same page.

23:40 - Dang. Getting run over by a car seems a little extreme.

24:40 - Oh no. Malcolm - what are you doing?!? Do not say that to Roger. He’s a creep but you are being really cruel.

26:40 - I feel really bad for Ainsley. She really is the third wheel in this family. They need to pay more attention to her.

27:40 - How does Jessica know that Martin watches Ainsley’s newscasts? She’s visited him once in the past 20 years.

28:08 - I know that look. That’s the look someone gets when you can hear the parental lecture running in your head even though your parental figure has only given you the look.

29:00 - That’s a really sweet story. I wish Gil would talk about Jackie more.

31:00 - I love it when Malcolm acts like a protective big brother. It’s really endearing. Also Ainsley’s ambition is a little bit scary.

34:00 - That fact that Malcolm is so calm when there is a gun pointed at his face really speaks to his passive suicidal mentality. Not good.

34:55 - That Dani/Malcolm interaction is really cute.

35:17 - Does everyone come into Malcolm’s house unannounced and uninvited?

36:00 - Loving the number of Gil/Malcolm conversations in this episode. They are fuelling my soul.

37:30 - Watching Malcolm’s face as he reacts to his mother’s video is heartbreaking. I’m so upset. This whole freaking family needs a hug. Gil included.

40:32 - Malcolm is a good person. He acknowledges when he’s wrong and sincerely apologizes to his mother. That’s a good person right there.

41:25 - Pretty sure Jessica is still drunk. Her alcoholism should really be addressed.

42:40 - FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD. AINSLEY NO. DON’T DO THIS.

There’s another one in the barrel. Thanks for hanging out. Up next: The Trip.

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