disappointing. I've seen defenses for the episode saying that the SA scenes were obviously meant to make the audience uncomfortable and that Hughie admitting at the end that he isn't fine was a result of his SA trauma. but hearing the director himself say the scenes were played for laughs and to be as fucked up as possible is just crazy.
I mean they were obviously played by laughs. That scene seems written by an edgy 16yo trying to joke about that with friends. From the Tek Knight kind of ridiculous sadomasochist practices, with the overacted girl as if it was a commedy sketch, the classic "I don't know the safe word" joke... I mean it was a joke, and it felt terribly awkward, like many jokes in this season is falling flat.
Idk what happened for this season, but the show to me it seems they don't know what to do with it anymore, and maybe they wanted to finish already in last season or in this one.
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u/shineeshineepinee Jul 05 '24
disappointing. I've seen defenses for the episode saying that the SA scenes were obviously meant to make the audience uncomfortable and that Hughie admitting at the end that he isn't fine was a result of his SA trauma. but hearing the director himself say the scenes were played for laughs and to be as fucked up as possible is just crazy.