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the-letter-horror-lover · 2 years

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Boruto Dies by Darkgaarafuker

Anime » Naruto Rated: M, English, Romance & Tragedy, [Kisame H., Kankuro] Boruto U., Words: 2k+, Favs: 1, Published: Aug 20, 2015

"I really have to take a shit" Kankuro said as he and kisame were walking through a ninja store one day shopping for food to keep in their apartment which they lived in together because they had met one day while they were out on separate missions but as soon as they met it was love at first sight and they began talking and they went out a lot and kankuro even bought a ninja message bird so he could talk to kisame on the fly.

"Don't worry kankuro we will be home soon enough and you will be able to shit then" kisame said as he browsed the vegetables, picking up a head of lettuce. Although kisame was a fish of course he still had to eat and because he was part human he ate vegetables and stuff like everyone else did

"Hehe" Kankuro said to Kisame as his lover was picking up vegetables and putting them in the cart. Kankuro came around the ninja cart full of ninja foods and he hugged kisame from behind chuckling and also smiling because he was happy he got to have some time with his beloved. He kiss kisames neck gently right there in the store.

"Kankuro! Not here at the store!" kisame moaned as kankuro kissed his neck but kankuro didn't care he chuckled yet again and kept kissing his fishy lover kisame all of a sudden someone ran past them "what the f was that" Kisame yelled

The person that ran past them stopped where he was and turned around and kisame kinda recognized him but only half recognized him like might guy only half recognized fake kisame. He had blond hair and blue eyes and he was really young but all of a sudden it hit kisame who it looked like it looked like Naruto uzumaki but kisame knew better than to think that this kid was Naruto it must be his son!

"I'm boruto!" The ugly kid that looked like an uglier Naruto said and kankuro let go of kisame but only because their was a kid not because he wanted to stop touching his sexy fish love. "Who are you guys?" Boruto asked the two of them he didn't look like he really cared but Kankuro figured that he would tell him anyway.

"I'm Kankuro from the sand village and this is my lover kisame he is one of the seven swordsmen. Pretty cool huh?" Kankuro said as he smirked, pointing a thumb at his cat ears with the sand village symbol on the cat ears helmet and Boruto shrugged like it wasn't really a big deal which kinda frustrated kankuro.

"Yeah, yeah. Whatever. Not as cool as my dad!" Boruto said and he stuck his tongue out at kankuro and kisame "Ill see you guys around later… you guys look gay anyway I don't have time for gays" Boruto said and kankuro was eally frustrated now.

"Why I shold go after him and beat the SHIT out of him!" Kankuro screamed and the whole store heard him but they let him be because they all knew kankuro and they knew he was prone to be a little lot and to act out a lot especially in the presence of his lover "come on kisame lets go!" Kankuro said to kisame but kisame looked a little hesitant "what is it baby" kankuro asked

"Well I cant really tell you now but when we finish shopping I will tell you at home.. no more excitement.." Kisame said shyly and he was blushing and kankuro shrugged he guessed it didn't really matter he wasn't the type to demand things right away anyway. "So I was thinking some fruits too, what do you think kanky? I love strawberries and all fruits and veggies and we should get some ninja crackers too and maybe some shrimpies" kisame was saying to kankuro as they were walking through the ninja store aisles

"Anything is fine with me kisame as long as you want it" kankuro said to his lover as they walked around and kisame puts lots of things into their cart like fruits and veggies and miscellaneous foods and whatnot and lots of all of that and some blood too because he is a shark and also some pills for kankuro because he needed them but kankuro could get almost anything becayse he was really loaded especially because hes brother gaara was the kazekage "pick out anything ya want" he said again to remind kisame to get anything and kisame slipped something into the cart that kankuro wouldn't find out about until later

Finally they went to the check out line and they paid for all of the things that they bought and it ended up being a LOT of ninja money but kankuro brought just enough and even if he had to pay for more, he had his ninja debit card so he could pay for it but anyway kisame and kankuro were on their way home.

"So what is it ya wanted to tell me?" Kankuro began but he was quickly cut off as he ran into someone as he and kisame were carrying their ninja groceries home. "What in the f?" Kankuro exclaimed

"What the?! You guys again!" Boruto said, it was boruto again!

"Listen kid… you gotta learn to stay outta peoples ways! This is getting really frustrating!" Kankuro yelled, starting to get a little angrey but he didn't see that kisame was getting really nervous holding all of his bags he was usually really tall but he now looked a little shorter

"Okay, pkay, well stay outta my way and maybe we wont have a problem!" Boruto yelled back at kankuro, they were like two really loud guys fighting back and forth at a bar or maybe like kiba and Naruto but either way they were really rowdy and noisy and they were drawing a lot of attention to themselves.

"Listen umm.. kanky? Theres a lot of people staring… and I still didn't tell you what I had to tell you yet…. If you love me… its really important…. You really need to know!" Kisame yelled out quietly and shyly but this got kankuro to look at him and he looked really confused and really concerned

"Huh? Are you all right?" Kankuro asked and when kisame nodded he turned back to boruto with the fire in his eyes gone, love for kisame replacing the fire. "Okay kid listen up… I gotta go home so I can make sure kisame is okay but we aren't done, ya hear me?! I still got a bone to pick with you" Kankuro said, frowning

"yeah yeah, whatever old man!" Boruto said, harrumphing and marching away from them sticking his butt out a kankuo which if it was kisame it would have turned kankuro on but it was boruto and instead it really turned kankuro off which provoked an "Ew" from the guy in the facepaint because he didn't like little boys

"Are you okay baby?" Kankuro asked kisame as soon as boruto was out of sight "you've been acting really weird today… you've got me really worried about you!" he exclaimed suddenly and blushed as he did because he wasn't really one to show a lot of emotion but this mustve been an exception for him. He always acted differently around those he loved!

"I promise I'm okay! This is just really important… I don't want you to be fighting around me right now because… well… we have to go home first. I'll tell you there, I promise! And while I get ready to tell you, you can take a shit!" Kisame said to kankuro, bending down like three feet to kiss his tiny lover which he loved so much and kankuro also loved him back he was just a little different with the way he loved

Kankuro kissed kisame more than kisame kissed him like he made the kiss deeper and started to make out with kisame but kisame quickly put an end to that

"kankuro!" kisame gasped "stop it, we're almost there!" he was blushing and when they got home he finally smiled because he could be a little more sexy with his lover

"Okay baby ill be right back im gonna go take a shit have what you were gonna tell me ready! Ill make it quick" kankuro said and he set all the groceries down on the counter and sexily kissed kisame, leaving him waiting and giving him a little time to tell kankuro what he had to tell him.

Kisame was blushing and he was really turned on by kankuro and he kinda wanted to have sex right away but in the mean time he had some really big and exciting news for kankuro so he hurried up and put all the ninja groceries away in their ninja cabinets in their apartment before he saw the thing he had slipped in the cart before.

While kankuro was in one bathroom in the master bedroom, kisame went to the other bathroom which was in front of their spare bedroom which they used for various things like storing stuff or having guests in.

He pulled something out of his pocket and stared down at it shyly before getting to work, using the bathroom himself. He already knew what was coming but he wanted to make sure before he told kankuro he wanted to make sure he was right because he didn't want to act like a fool in front of his lover

"Hey im done taking a shit what is it you needed to tell me?" Kankuro yelled as kisame stood meekly in side the bathroom he slipped the thing inside of his pocket and walked out

"Listen…. Come with me" kisame said shyly and quietly, blushing as he lead kankuro to the main master bedroom kankuro was really confused but he thought it must be really important if kisame was acting so weird about it because he was usually so charistmatic but now he seemed like a different man

Kisame sat kankuro down on the bed and sat next to him, blushing as he sat down with his hands in his lap.

"Please don't be mad" kisame said to kankuro "I promise that im going to be here for you and with you and I would never leave something like this to you I love you so much and I would never…just please… I love you so much baby… im gonna be here so please be here and stay here with me…" kisame was giving a speech to kankuro but kankuro was really confused he didn't quite understand

"Im not sure I quite understand what youre getting at kisame" kankuro said "can you please just explain you know im a little slow"

"What im trying to say is… well… see for yourself" kisame said to kankuro. He handed kankuro what he had earlier and it was….. a pregnancy test with two bars!

"KISAME! YOUR PREGNANT?!" Kankuro yelled he couldn't believe it! His lover was pregnant! This was what he had wanted but he didn't know if it was possible but he sure as hell was glad its possible he had always wanted to have a family of his own because he loved gaara and temari but he wanted to start his own family and when he fell in love with kisame he knew he wouldn't be able to have children because he fell in love with a fish man

"But… how is it possible?" Kankuro shouted!

"Keep your voice down baby…" Kisame said and he was blushing looking down at his hands "well male fish can actually change gender and im half man and half fish so im kinda hermaphroditic and I well… its tough to explain but you and I will be having a beautiful baby and that's all I care about" kisame said to kankuro. Kankuro took kisames hands in his own excitedly he was ready to finally have a family of his own

"Listen kisame… I don't care how it happened. I don't care that everyone in the world will judge us. I just want to make sure that nothing happens to you or the baby. You mean the world to me both you and the little one growing inside you. I just love you so fucking much. No one has ever meant more to me ever…. I always wanted to have kids but I knew I couldn't once I got with you but now that youre pregnant i… well this is the happiest moment of my life!" kankuro had an outburst of emotion to kisame

"Kankuro… i!" Kisame couldn't say much. He launched himself on kankuro right away careful of the ginormous height and weight difference actually it wasn't really that much but he still didn't want to crush kankuro to death but he started kissing him a lot right away and he was already turned on from before and kankuro was also really turned on kisame was kissing him so much and he was kissing his neck and also kankuro was moaning and kisame was moaning too but they didn't care theywere so in love and kisame was pregnant and they were ready to start their new life together

"Kisame! We should mke dinner or something, theres still a lot of day left! We shouldn't be doing this now! What if the people outside here us!" Kankuro yelled in between sexy moans that kisame caused because he was kissing kankuro a lot

"Let them hear us." Kisame said without a care in the world.

He took off kankuro's onesie slowly but sexily and kissed all over his body and bit his nipples off with his sharp shark teeth which really turned kisame and kankuro both on. Kankuro was bleeding which even more turned kisame on

"Ninja art: regenerating nipple technique!" Kankuro said suddenly, doing a few hand signs including fingering his asshole but his nipples quickly grew back and althought kisame was really turned on by blood, the regenerating nipples didn't hinder how much he was turned on instead it turned him on even more which kankuro only knew because kisame started sucking his dick which was really tasty and probably better than kankuro sucking his dick because it would probably be really fishy and although kankuro does like the eat fish, he would go a little crazy on kisames monster fish cock

Soon though kisame had had enough of kankuros dick because it was tiny and instead decided he wanted something else so he pulled out xxxxxxl condoms suitable for large penis'd fishmen such as himself and put one on before fucking kankuro in the ass which he was ready for because he had already used asshole expansion jutsu.

"Yeah ohh yeah daddy" kankuro said to kisame as they had lots of gay ninja ass sex which was basically what it meant when kisame said he was one of the seven swordsmen because it really meant that he had a lot of sex and he was now certified as a professional Sex Master

After lots of hours maybe 48 hours or so of having lots of sex they finally finished and kisame was still pregnant and they were even more in love but basically they had just strengthened their bond a little

"Hey kisame…" Kankuro said timidly. He was very shy but he knew the answer all ready

"Yeah kanky? What is it?" Kisame was panting after all of that sex he had just had but it wasn't in a bad way, it was definitely in a good way because he had just had the time of his life.

"Will you… marry me?" Kankuro said as he took a little black ring case out of his onesie on the floor he actually asked as he was smoking a celebratory blunt after finding out that kisame was pregnant he was just really in love right now and it was getting more and more intense. Kisame gasped

"Yes baby of course I will marry you! God I want to live the rest of my life with you!" Kisame exclaimed but all of a sudden he heard a loud banging noise

"What the f is that?" Kisame asked and when he looked he saw it was boruto in their kitchen and he was really angry that boruto had broken into their apartment like what in the f was he doing there! he had no right nor a reason to ever be in their house ever! Especially after he and kankuro had just had sex!

"I GOT HIM!" Kanky yelled heroically as he took out a gun and shot boruto with a shotgun, killing him right away.

The end

#boruto fanfiction

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itsinkwell · 2 years

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Everyone: oh the disney movie luca is a metaphor for being gay and homophobia and—

Me: hehe fishy boy go brrrr

#pixar luca #gay #lgbtq #points at you says homo loudly and laughs #/lh

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myyoungroyalsblog · 2 years

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So the previous episode finished at an interesting moment soooooo

Episode 8

Why is he alone????

Even you better fuckin not

He's making breakfast....... No fucking way that is to domestic for my little gay heart

Oh and the roommate obviously sees how hot Even is lmao

God even Noora lmao

Awww he went straight (ha!) For a kiss

Poor boy is overwhelmed lmao

Okay this is too damn cute FUCK

THEY'RE IN LOVE YOUR HONOUR

Man of his dreams are you kidding me!?!?!? AHHHHHH SCREAMINGGGGG

Say it again. SAY IT AGAIIIIIIIIIIN

Now THIS song is spicy hehe

Omg him singing along to the song so cuteeeee

Now I'm wondering if the answer was A or D lmao

Hi shit he just straight up sent that okay

At least the dad is okay with it

Sana my beloved

Okay so Magnus and Mahdi and what's the others nameeeeeee I really like himmm

Magnus is hilarious I CANT OMFG

His friends are such little bastards I love them

Giving him a hug I can't hahahahaha

Mmmhh okay I think something fishy is going on here how Even says how Sonja is controling (which she might be) but idk

Okay that was weird

Ohh is that why he's asking those religious questions to Sana? Cause his mum is Christian? And might resent her for it or smt?

Yep had that fear

But also the Bible doesn't say that right?

The heart with the I was adorable

But ughhhh I have a bad feeling now

Radisson??? Holy shit

Oh no the weekend music now THIS is made for spicy times holy shit

Hehe spicy time that didn't trigger my repulsion YAS (also the music 10/10)

Our wedding!?!?!? Hello!?!?!?

Okay I would find it cute but now I'm just thinking he is going to fast or maybe controling? Idk I HOPE 'm wrong I just got a weird vibe now

Yeah cool it's one or your dreams sure but what about Isak? What about what HE wants?

Nope nope wait the music is making me nervous

Oh god what the fuck is he doing the in bathroom

Hahaha baby

What the fuck buy some McDonald's? Didn't he just leave naked? Wtf is going on I am so confused

My god poor Isak

Did he go to Sonja?

I am genuinely terrified NO ONE WARNED ME ABOUT THIS

Mhh does he a mental disorder? Cause I keep thinking about that convo in the lockers where Isak says he wants do distance himself from people who are mentally ill and Even reacted to it I think

I don't knowwww I need answerssssss

He's manic? What?

Omg Sonja don't be like that Isak's just a kid jfc

Stay away!? Oh fuck

I want to give Isak a hug

That was a fucking rollercoaster fffffffff

#skam #skam s3 #episode 8 #not yr #mine

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kittenp0ker · 3 years

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for @hawkinstigers (spoiler warning)

fear street super badly summed up:

pt1: 1994 mall, heather dies, shame she shoulda been in it longer anyways, skull mask ryan is all RAH RAH killing spree then…. sherif GOODe shoots him between the brows. gay angst, football game, afterwards on the way home mid speech from the brunette cheerleader “kill those preppy assholes” beautiful words, a red car begins pursuing the bus that has shadyside witches in, inside the car are sunnyvale devils wearing skull masks HEHE wowweeee the the… yk anygays…. lesbian fight turns car crash where sam touches the red lesbian moss, fLashY fLashY she sees the witch. everybody thinks shadyside is cursed cus there keeps being serial killers etc. sams got a jock boyfriend which deena is def not happy about, but after the car accident sam is in hospital. however at deenas house there’s a guy with a skull mask which she just assumes is sams boyfriend. he dissapears OoOo to the cheerleader and dorky guy, cus there’s blood on his shirt from when sam puked period. deena gets pissy and goes to see sam, they begin angsty lesbian fight when boyfriend turns up then gets stabbed; rip will not be missed. they find out the many serial killers are after sam/her blood, so many failed plans later a bread slicer, axe, and lobster tub kills off many of the crew. cus OoOo someone from the 1978 massacre survived Z burnham….Z….. anygays they have a lil rinG riNg, no answer; they find out she died and there’s a whole riddle or rhyme for the eViL witch sHeLl fOLlow YoU uNtIL yOurE dEad, so deena ends up drowning sam in the lobster tub^^ bUt oUu she comes back we think oh it’s all happy and dandy they get to see as house it’s all domestic then rInG rInG, z bUrNhAm? gOod tImInG iTs oVer “iTs nOt oVEr, iTs nEVeR oVeR” oOo deena gets stabbed by girlfriend with a broken drum stick :/

pt2: 1978 Z BURNHAM okay cool ziggy is getting tied up and whatever cus she’s possessed by the witch bla bla bla oOoO nicK gOoDe tO tHe rEsCUe, luv luv luv what is it gud for? AbSoLuTeLy nOtHiNg….. anyways crazy nurse lane tries to kill older sister nancy ripoff’s boyfriend, she fails, he becomes axe murderer. i can’t really remember much from this part but they find a hand to sarah fier (the witch) and try to assEmBle her to bring her peace or wtver, they get close but then there like 6 killers surrounding, kill both of the sisters BUT WAIT ziggy zig ahhh survived??? somehow……

pt3: 1666 not even discrete with that are they…. by the end of pt2 deena touches the lesbian moss and basically she’s having a vision from sarah….. it starts with the lesbians forbidden romance </3 daughter of the pastor and sarah fier, hey dancey dance in the woods then dANcEy dAnCe- *twig snaps* oh no someone saw them, turns out to be goode (not nick but his ancestor or whatever) and my hand is going numb from writing this omfg- but i’m pretty sure that mf was jealous of sarah???? idk but turns out he’s the satanist, but ofc before anything he must wreak havoc and it starts off with the first carving into rock is the pastors name OoOoO and he kills a bunch of kids or smth??? then ofc someone rattle tales about the lesbian shenanigans to which the town decides sarah has corrupted the pastors daughter and made deals with the devil etc, then sarah finds out that her pal is a satanist who then cuts off her hand… how rude, i mean his name is solomon… SOLOMON abahahah shoulda known smth was fishy- then sarah barely escapes but then she’s captured by the towns people who go to hang her, she accepts the accusations so her girlfriend can live, how sweet. then pOoOF deena is zapped back to her year and she’s like hOLy shiT iTs gOode then they have a whole plan in the mall with fluorescent paint and sams blood (to draw the serial killers) then they tip a bucket over goode so they go after him, deena ends up killing nick goode which rids the town of the devils spell, woo!!!!!!

#fear street #shadyside #sunnyvale #1666 #1978 #1994 #sarah fier #deena johnson #sam fraser #sam and deena #hannah miller

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suga-kookiemonster · 4 years

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im sorry if i sound like a weirdo but u make me feel like its ok to ask u these things bc of the way i see u interact with anyone who sends u an ask. u make it comfortable so i appreciate u for that:( ANYWAYS. i was just wondering. do u ship any of the boys tgt? it doesnt have to be that deep but i was just curious heh. personally, i think jikook does fishy af stuff. taejin has mad sexual tension going on idk wtf goes on. im not a hardcore shipper but i still wanted to ask u yr opinion hehe

hey babe. i actually don’t believe in shipping irl members because they are real people and we really know nothing about them, or their relationships with each other. me pretending that i know their relationships on any real level, as well as pretending that i fully understand the cultural place where all their “fishy” or “sexual” behavior comes from does a complete disservice to their friendships and to them as (korean) humans. it also helps perpetuate the toxic idea that men being affectionate with each other is automatically gay.

absolutely nothing wrong with enjoying reading member x member fics, so long as you’re fully aware that they are fiction. i find irl shipping to be invasive, and it is frankly not our place to speculate on any of their sexualities.

tl;dr the only things i ship are kimline x me and yoongi x wine, thank you for your time

#anonymous #asks

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guylty · 4 years

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My annual social media Lent is coming up. From Ash Wednesday I will abstain from Twitter for the next 6 and a half weeks (until Easter Sunday), allowing me to recalibrate a little and concentrate on other things. Such as my blog – or RAnet. That means I need blog fodder. Almost four weeks have passed since The Stranger launched on Netflix. Enough time to assume that most fans and readers have watched the show and will not be spoiled by the discussion of the show. Moreover, some more in-depth discussions have already started in the comments. Last weekend, for instance, we got into the intracacies of the “bar scene” in episode 4 of TS, talking about the casting, costuming and directing of that particular scene and how we, as women of a particular age reacted to that scene.

However, it would probably make more sense to start at the beginning. So anyone who’d like to discuss TS with me, you are welcome to write your observations, reactions and opinions in the comments. I know I am kind of launching into this without announcement. But by doing this episode by episode, I hope you can follow along and catch up with individual episode if need be. I’ll also try and summarise every episode at the beginning of each review post so we know what we are talking about. Hm, I may need to rewatch the show for that. The hardship!!! However, the discussion will probably focus on the plot… eh… Adam. Anyhow, I hope you’ll join me and share your thoughts either here – or your own blog, if you are blogging, too.

The Stranger – Episode 1 Recap

Prior to the trailer, TS starts with teenagers at a bonfire party, culminating in a naked boy escaping through the dark forest. The plot then begins with the Price boys driving in the car to the football club where younger son Ryan is trying out for the A team. While at the club, daddy Adam briefly speaks with his wife Corinne on the phone. She is away at a teachers’ conference while Adam looks after their sons. In the clubhouse, Adam is approached by “a stranger” who reveals a devastating secret to him: His wife faked her pregnancy a couple of years ago. He is shocked and disturbed.

Once back home after football training, Adam can’t resist checking the details the stranger passed on to him, and sure enough, his suspicions are confirmed – there is a credit card payment for a fishy website called Novelty Funsy, and the ultrasound scan of the miscarried baby does not quite match the ones of his two sons. Meanwhile, Adam’s elder son Thomas heads out to the bonfire party with his friends.

The next morning, police woman Johanna investigates a bizarre crime scene of a decapitated alpaca in the city centre. With her DS, she drives to a nearby alpaca farm to confirm where the animal came from. On their return trip their attention is attracted by some pieces of clothing in the forest. They follow the trail of clothes and find a naked body. The young man is still alive.

Adam meanwhile looks after his day job – he is the legal advisor to an obstinate tenant who refuses to move out of a house that has been earmarked for demolition. Upon his return, Corinne arrives back from her conference and Adam receives confirmation that the mysterious credit card payments are for a website that provides fake pregnancy products. He immediately confronts Corinne. She does neither deny nor explain why or what she did, only hinting that there is more to it than he thinks. The Prices spend the night in separate bedrooms.

The next morning Adam observes Corinne taking a phone call outside the house. She later suggests to Adam that they talk later that day after a school awards ceremony where she will explain all. However, Corinne never shows to the event. Adam receives a text message asking for some time apart.

The episode ends with Thomas revealing the decapitated alpaca head in his cupboard.

Episode 1 – Discuss

So, first of all – I have watched the first episode about three and a half times. Twice on my own, once with hubster, and finally today a quick run-through for the sake of the recap where I fast forwarded through a lot of scenes, focussing on Adam mostly. I couldn’t help it… My first response to the show at the very first viewing was – WOW! I remember that I was fully engaged during every minute of it – even the scenes and story lines that Richard did not feature in. Granted, I was most interested with the “grown-up” arcs, not least because anything involving drugs and other goings-on with teenagers makes *this* mama really worried. But having said that, I think the first episode was very effective in establishing the storylines and the characters. Hence the show spends most time following Adam (Richard Armitage) – as a father, as a lawyer and as a husband. Then there are the two police officers who also are presented as round characters – the middle-aged senior officer Johanna (Siobhan Finneran) approaching retirement who has just decided to split from her husband, and her much younger partner, a gay black man. Adam’s son Thomas also gets a good bit of screen time with his friends, making him more than just secondary. Other secondary characters include first and foremost Dervla Kirwan as Corinne, Stephen Rea as obstinate tenant Martin, and Jennifer Saunders as Johanna’s BFF Heidi.

So, the first watch was highly exciting and addictive, so much so that I basically binged the whole show. On second and subsequent views, I found the episode not quite as fast and exciting anymore – only natural, as a lot of time was actually spent setting up the characters and the various story lines: Johanna waking up in bed to her snoring husband; Johanna meeting Heidi in her café; observing the teenagers at their bonfire party; visiting Dante in hospital…

RA is the natural focal point from the get-go. Not only for fangirls, I might add. The show is really good at setting him up as the perfect family man who obviously has great rapport with his sons, both the “difficult” almost grown-up older son, but also the younger lad who needs a different kind of care than a young adult. I found the casting really great, with Thomas definitely matching the tall, dark, handsome vibes of TV-dad Richard, and younger boy Ryan more a mirror of his blond, curly-haired TV-mum. They all have great chemistry together, and found Misha Handley (Ryan) very natural and convincing. Jacob Dudman as Thomas was also great.

… really aged well… hehe

RA really shines in the confrontation scenes, both with the stranger and with his wife, when he has to convey both suppressed anger and outright fury at having been deceived. Both his major scenes with Corinne are very convincing, and I appreciated the decision to make Adam extremely angry, on the verge of volatile, when Corinne refuses to explain her actions. Adam’s anger is immediate, raw and confused and Armitage really draws the viewer on his side with his emotional outburst. So much so that I basically missed Dervla Kirwan’s nuanced acting in that scene. On second and subsequent viewings, once you know how the show ends and why she doesn’t want to talk immediately, you start to notice the little things: her refusal to talk has more to do with fear than with anger or denial. She is afraid of actually addressing the fact that the reason for her faked pregnancy will also bring another secret out in the open, and the subsequent discussion (which she had successfully avoided by faking the pregnancy in the first place) will now have to take place. What might have looked as callous or dismissive at first viewing, conveys much more detail the second time round: there is a sadness to Corinne that Kirwan expresses very subtly – in a slight pause, or the tiniest glance into the mid-distance. The same applies to their second and much calmer confrontation the next morning. What might have looked almost callous on first viewing, gains much more weight when you watch it with prior knowledge of the plot. When Adam says he has lost trust in her, Corinne replies “it hurts, doesn’t it?“. The question tag really stood out to me on first viewing. It confused me. Why is she phrasing it like that? It of course became clear in episode 4, but again, Kirwan really gave it a spin by loading it with subtle sadness that doesn’t only confuse the viewer but also Adam. Armitage here kept his response at just the right level of confusion without giving away how much Adam really recognises or understands what she was hinting at. RA reacts with great detail expressions. No words are needed. And in hindsight you can see how he begins to wonder whether she knows about his affair. Loved it.

Let’s talk a bit about Armitage’s look in this show. Such a spectacle!

Yes, I like details like that. The jury is still out on whether this is a prescription that Armitage wrote into the script himself 😂, or whether we just had a costume department that is on the ball. Yes, it’s time for the presbyopic lenses. Happens to most of us at around middle age. 🤓 I found it a lovely detail that makes Adam more relatable. Because – a dad bod he has not.

Even if he claims he does. I find this a rather attractive package for a middle aged family man. Also:

Bonus WRP. Needs no further elaboration

But to get back to the look and style – I enjoyed the casual style of Adam. Once again, it felt right – nothing too fancy, with windbreaker, jeans and shirts, and even a tracksuit at home, the perfect attire for a father of two (pre-) teen sons. I was surprised how good RA looked in other colours than just black and blue. The red polo shirt was very nice on him.

I can’t say I am as convinced of the costumes provided for Corinne. In fact, I think there were some rather sledge-hammer style decisions going on there, putting the wife and mother into rather dowdy, pale pink mom trousers and giving her a hole-pattern, fluffy knit jumper. Then there was that turquoise dress that went slightly longer than her knees – apparently the work wear for female teachers in English private schools, judging by an equally frumpy outfit for Corinne’s colleague and friend Vicky? (This observation I will come back to in a later post once we get to episode 4.) It just kind of made me think that Corinne was made to look older and less casual than her husband who even attends to his client in jeans and shirt…

Police officer Johanna Griffin OTOH looked *real* and great. (I kept double-taking because O’Brien’s severe look kept coming back to me.) And I loved Heidi’s funky style – very much the slightly crazy café-owner with a café as stylish as herself… And can we also mention the Price’s residence here? There were only quick first glimpses of their house – but oh, that stylist made it a gorgeous family home. The garden was beautiful but I can take it or leave it. Too much work – I don’t like to get my fingers dirty. But the dining area with the floor-to-ceiling windows and the sleek white kitchen? Big win, especially because it doesn’t look like a showroom but has photos on the fridge and a mess on the counters.

So episode 1 gets a big thumbs up from me – for introducing us to almost all the characters (some held back for more surprise later on) and establishing the plot. Yes, there is a lot going on here, which I haven’t even all mentioned in the recap: the stranger dropping her first bomb, the Price family life, the secret in Corinne’s past, the tenant who refuses to move out of his home, the colleague who has trouble with her pre-teen daughter, the teenagers who are partying under the influence of drugs, the mystery of the boy who was hunted through the forest, the curious story of the decapitated alpaca, an almost-comic police duo, a police officer who is splitting up with her hubby, her friend, the funky café owner, the gregarious neighbour, the busybody football trainer… Too much? I’d say a lot of it is deliberate overload to distract us, yet give us some extra info about the characters, their work, their life and their environment.

The strategy definitely works when you watch the show for the first time. You are busy dealing with Richard Armitage’s overwhelming handsomeness taking it all in. The questions only really pop up when you watch again. Such as: When stoned Mike takes the alpaca for a walk into the city centre, why is there no CCTV footage? I mean, nowadays there is hardly *any* urban area that does *not* have CCTV on shops and banks or traffic spots. How come no one saw him decapitating the alpaca, in a city centre? And how did he manage to decapitate it anyway`- it’s hardly a one-chop job?Likewise and with hindsight we know now that Corinne’s text message was not sent by her at all: But how did the sender actually know the password to Corinne’s phone to send that message? I mean, don’t all people lock their phone with a password these days? Possibly nit-picking questions, but that’s the fun of it, isn’t it? You can enjoy a show immensely – and still want to pick a few holes into the plot just to see whether you are cleverer than the writer 😉.

There is probably so much more to discuss, but for the sake of getting the discussion started, here is the post. What is your take on the first episode of TS? Any agreements with me, or disagree? Other points of interest? Let me know in the comments!

Let’s Talk About… #TheStranger – Episode 1 My annual social media Lent is coming up. From Ash Wednesday I will abstain from Twitter for the next 6 and a half weeks (until Easter Sunday), allowing me to recalibrate a little and concentrate on other things.

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