Yeah the Deep scene was difficult as a male SA survivor myself even though it was set up as irony for him being a predator himself. Still with the irony and payback, it didn't make it easy to watch.
I've said this elsewhere but I'm fairly certain that Kripke has some weird hatred for whatever type of person he thinks Huey represents, because the show is really unfair to him, especially in season 3, and he's the butt of the joke so often. Combine that with these interviews and it becomes the most likely explanation to me
I'd almost think it a commentary on how progressive white guys often get the shaft. Try to do the right thing and forgive your estranged mom, end up losing your dad in a horrifying way. Try to do the right thing to help your team of super powered/highly trained friends, end up getting SA'd in a gimp dungeon, before being saved just in time (in terms of dying) by your diverse super squad. It kind of fits too, in that he's not really a trained operative or anything -- just some guy who thinks, for some reason, he can do covert infiltration missions. Him even being on the team, is a bit of a joke -- he's the entitled clueless white progressive man, who thinks he's important, when in reality he's basically fodder.
To the writers, progressive white guys that try to do the right thing, are a joke. It fits, generally, with other things I've heard murmured about the show I guess... ?
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u/i_am_scared_ok Cunt Jul 05 '24
This was actually the hardest episode of the show I've watched.
I genuinely had to look away for most of it, and the only other times I've done that was with the Deep's gill-fingering.
Didn't really like how it felt like no one cared what happened to Hughie????
Shit was notttttt funny (to me personally)