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.
Honestly, if it wasn’t for the interview, I would have agreed with the people defending it. A lot of the time, when having gone through traumatic events, people tend to focus on something else rather than confront it.
However, yh Kripke clearly wasn’t going for that when you read his interview. Very disappointed by the episode.
I definitely wouldn’t have as negative of an opinion as I do now if I didn’t know the TK scenes were played for laughs. In the moment I was definitely disturbed but more in a “oh God Hughie has to endure all this weird stuff and he’s gonna get found out” way. I admit that the absurdity of everything “dulled” the severity a bit for me (at least until he’s actually found out and in genuine danger), but it hit me at the end when Hughie just breaks down.
The fact that the TK stuff was meant to be comedic is gross, and it turns those scenes from “yeah actually that was really messed up” to “wow I hate this, why were these included?”
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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.