#theyre my tragic found family while the podcast trio is my seratonin found family

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holy shit that omitb finale..

was right about some things, wrong about others and god saw me say tim kono could get it and laughed in my face by making me watch That elevator scene, but overall that was such a BANGER episode and this is one of the best shows out this year

i can’t stop thinking about the hardy boys and tim’s death, though - with all that we know now, there’s something so deliciously tragic about the complete story of those four. the impact of zoe's death is obvious. she dies, oscar is framed - and tim is stuck between betrayal and protecting himself and - more importantly - mabel. he can't tell mabel, either. he ruins years and years of friendship to keep her safe. mabel, as far as she knows, has lost three of her closest friends for reasons she won't ever properly understand, and won't find closure for another 10 years. she still doesn't know it was to protect her. we're even told it turns her to a shell of her former self.

and we know, in those ten years, tim is filled with so much guilt he works to bring down the dimases in secret, and continues to isolate himself to do it. he doesn't have friends, not anymore - less and less by choice. we see on the tox report he's on antidepressants and anti-anxiety meds.

and that's the thing: it's the loneliness that leads him to jan - who yes, turns out to be insane, but even then, doesn't know about the jewels or the dimases or zoe. it's the loneliness he thinks he has to have, to protect mabel and to pull this off for the friends he still cares deeply about, if his actions and hardy boys novels say anything. it's the loneliness that sets off that domino effect that leads to his death.

the tragedy is that he's killed just before he gets everything he worked for - atonement for the past ten years. the ring, evidence to convict the dimases, justice for oscar, everything: but more importantly, being able to connect with mabel and oscar, make amends, connect again finally who he was before, explain everything. i don't think it was a coincidence he broke up with jan, implied to be shortly after he found the ring. jan is that loneliness. the hardy boys were the ones she was infuriated at being second to, even if she didn't know it. he was so close, only for the object that finally lets him try to fix everything, lets him reconnect to be the thing that gets him killed.

and i think mabel understands that, somehow: but it hurts. after zoe's death, after ten years, after oscar's out of prison, there might have been a glimmer of hope to rebuild the hardy boys, heal as best as they could. they never got to do that. but maybe, they were close.

#only murders in the building spoilers #only murders in the building #omitb #im sorry yall its hardy boys angst hours #theyre my tragic found family while the podcast trio is my seratonin found family #mabel mora #tim kono #oscar torres #i think the way tim died plays really well into the theme of needing connection vs loneliness - poor guy just never got connection #fearing it would hurt Mabel and others #it haunts me mabel's never going to know it was to protect her - i think jan deleted any mention of it off his phone - not being 2nd n all