What is up with teen dramas and cheating? First Maeve, now Eric. Also the fact that a 17 year old went gallivanting around a strange city with an adult he just met is messed up. I know they didn't hook up, but the fact that the show made us think for a minute there that they did is gross. Like, sir, that is a literal minor, please go to jail.
The headmistress is evil evil. What she did to Adam, Lily and Cal was horrible. The students need to riot right now and get her removed.
Loved the simple moment of Adam's dad recreating the joy he felt cooking with his mom as a child. Very touching scene.
Come on, Eric cheating on Adam was so unnecessary.
They're still trying to make their relationship work and this whole season just showed all the effort Adam puts into it (improving his grades, writing poetry, having open conversations, managing his anger issues). Meanwhile Eric gets upset when Adam doesn't want sex or when he's worried about Eric in Nigeria? And now Eric cheats on him? I'm all for multi-dimensional characters, but would be great to see some effort or good side of Eric in this season.
"I don't think I feel that emotion"
"Very often, Michael, when children are bullied by a parent, they falsely learn that emotions are a sign of vulnerability, and so they shut them off"
that hits hard..
- Ah, the first time a son/daughter is mature enough to call their parents out on their flaws, well done Otis
- That Nigerian accent is really testing my English comprehension tonight, as a foreigner as well lol
- Mmm that photographer is not saying it all, careful Eric...
- Here he is - Michael/Anton Ego
- Phew
- No Eric, come on, poor Adam
Okay Hope is just comically evil at this point, this is ridiculous. Would make a great Classic Disney villain I'll give her that. Evil for the sake of being evil. Also can everybody STOP CHEATING FOR ONE SECOND.
This episode had some very beautiful moments. First the flashback to Michael's mother cooking. The atmosphere, the composition, the aspect ratio change - it was very warm. I could really tell that it was his good memory, with the sharp contrast of his father that inhibited him so much and caused him to grow up as a stone cold man. I love that the scene of him cooking replicated his mother's so well. Truly touching.
And Eric's story with his mother, I love to see good parenting in action. I loved that the show didn't try to say "no" to Eric and his identity but instead acknowledged his mother's weakness and therefore Eric's strength as a gay man. This show is really, uniquely, good and this episode had some very hard hitting feel good scenes.
Meanwhile, the main story with Maeve and Otis is really getting gummed up. No one is clear with what they want and so everyone is just a toss up - I understand that they are all kids but damn...they really tossed Ruby aside.
Oof... what Hope just did. There are teachers who will do whatever it takes to maintain 'control'. I felt so bad for them. Especially Lily. This is the sort of shit that will break a person. I hope we get to see her get her spark back!
Why why why must the writers toy with our hearts so much! I was so nervous when Eric was in Nigeria! and I'm so mad he kissed Oba! Adam is back home trying to think of ways to express how much he cares for Eric and truly making an effort. It's crazy how much I started to love Adam!
Wow. That school is getting more and more f:asterisk_symbol:d up by the episode. These are… medieval methods, I’m appalled. It’s ridiculous. And that not more students stood up? It’s obviously wrong. I’m guessing she went through similar things in her youth (although, at the same facility?)
But reigning in fear… and the manipulation...
In her office I thought "Woah, Viv should record this", but then she left the office and... f yeah.
Interesting that Eric's granny said "they", if she were as stuck up/backwards, she'd just have stuck with "she" :thinking:
Laughable. When I think back to how good this was at times in s01, it's not even a shadow of the same show. And just when I thought it couldn't get worse, they wheeled out the oldest trick in the book with the recording.
The cardinal sins: the characters act to service the plot rather than convincingly or true to the characters. And worse, it's all just really very boring.
I liked that they were giving the headmistress a sort of ambiguity in whether she did things because she really wanted to make the school a better place by all means necessary or if she really just wanted to impose some of her own more traditional and conservative ideas for the sake of it, but in this ep she was just plain mean, borderline cartoony. Why would she say all those awful things she thought about the students to ANOTHER STUDENT, specially given the fact that they have been portraying her as a very meticulous and demure person?
I can't believe nobody is really rebelling against muggle Umbridge. Loved the moments of Adam and Adam's dad. HATED that the doctor cheated on Adam.
They should have recorded that assembly because it was illegal and public bullying
So this now is making all the main characters dixk? I feel so bad for Ruby and Aimee still:(
What an episode! So many revelations!
Poor Lily doesn't have it easy... That flashback to when she was young and the mess she's in now :o
Aimee telling Jean about Otis and Maeve was priceless xD
Jean: "How was he an asshole?"
Hope is going full Dolores Umbridge now. Jackson standing up and then Rahim was nice! I cannot believe that all others just stood by though. This was just insane! Being shamed in front of the whole school, having to wear those signs, and having to hand over their phones. That isn't (or at least shouldn't) be legal, completely unethical, and just beyond humane. It did make a point but it also was too unrealistic to be believable!
Maeve riding with Otis on his bike was nice :D Isaac and Otis were super entertaining! Poor Maeve though...
Michael Groff returning the book to Jean was quite a twist. I would've never seen that coming! He's still a bad person but he's changing for the better and this could cause another potentially cool story twist. I'd like it if he'd eventually return as headmaster (probably not in this season though) in a very different way. He cannot make up for his past behaviour but he could become better. It was quite interesting too get a few into his traumatic childhood but that's of course no excuse for doing something similar to Adam (he very likely didn't mean too but he basically bullied Adam as well).
Viv's recording was awesome!
Hope: "Of course it is." :D
I really hope that Hope doesn't find out about Viv's plans before her presentation! :)
Rahim: "I'm a cat person."
Adam: "Of course you are."
The two of them are really quite something :D
I was super scared for Eric at the end... :o That taxi driver was really unsettling! I'm still a bit scared for Eric and hope that he'll go strait back to England without any surprises.
It was very nice to see that he's not alone in that country but it doesn't feel and very likely isn't safe.
It was nice though how he told his grandmother about Adam ("they") at the end.
Leaned a bit hard into the drama of an evil headteacher. Also, Why is Eric in Nigeria, this is a stupid arc.
My God some comments here are so prude... enough with this cheating obsession, it's just kisses (I mean Jean's, Maeve's, Eric's). People's emotions are not always clear and one-dimensional. Let's try to dism4ntle these patri@rchal schemes such as the concept of couple and (inexistent) age gap...
My God some comments here are so prude... enough with this cheating obsession, it's just kisses (I mean Jean's, Maeve's, Eric's). People's emotions are not always clear and one-dimensional. Let's try to dism4ntle these patri@rchal schemes such as the concept of couple and (inexistent) age gap...
My God some comments here are so prude... enough with this cheating obsession, it's just kisses (I mean Jean's, Maeve's, Eric's). People's emotions are not always clear and one-dimensional. Let's try to dism4ntle these patri@rchal schemes such as the concept of couple and (inexistent) age gap...
My God some comments here are so prude... enough with this cheating obsession, it's just kisses (I mean Jean's, Maeve's, Eric's). People's emotions are not always clear and one-dimensional. Let's try to dism4ntle these patri@rchal schemes such as the concept of couple and (inexistent) age gap...
My God some comments here are so prude... enough with this cheating obsession, it's just kisses (I mean Jean's, Maeve's, Eric's). People's emotions are not always clear and one-dimensional. Let's try to dism4ntle these patriarchal schemes such as the concept of couple and (inexistent) age gap...
My God some comments here are so prude... enough with this cheating obsession, it's just kisses (I mean Jean's, Maeve's, Eric's). People's emotions are not always clear and one-dimensional. Let's try to dismantle these patriarchal schemes such as the concept of couple and (inexistent) age gap...
My God some comments here are so prude... enough with this cheating obsession, it's just kisses (I mean Jean's, Maeve's, Eric's). People's emotions are not always clear and one-dimensional. Let's try to dismantle these patriarchal schemes such as the concept of couple and (inexistent) age gap...
Shout by Imme van GorpBlockedParent2023-06-02T23:32:01Z
Eric just keeps on making me so angry.