Post by sgev1977 on May 6, 2024 17:35:22 GMT
An interesting very negative review,
I don’t agreed that Martha is one note character. I think, it wasn’t just the actress who is indeed the best thing in it, he also tried to make her sympathetic but I agreed that the series is full of cliches and that most characters are also huge cliches. I really doubt that straight co-workers are instantly incapable of feeling some kind of empathy towards sexually abused men just because they are straight and the scene in which the father confesses that he was also sexually assaulted because he is Catholic was, indeed, pretty cringeworthy (I hope it’s not true, of course! But compare it to the very painful and complex “Me Too!” scene in Patrick Melrose. Here it was something casual and insignificant to the plot. Followed by some funny stuff!).
But it also catched my attention the comments below this tweet. I agreed with both, those saying he is very obvious full of self-loathing and not trying to refute his fails but also that he is just so obsessed with fame and the desire of being the center of attention that he seems kinda narcissistic and probably abusive towards others. Again, I don’t think he would negate this but it bothers me that the story is presented as something almost “educative” (the warnings before and after the episodes) when it’s mostly something masochist and sensationalist. I don’t expect positive messages in fiction but there is this feeling of amateurishness of someone trying to tell an “important” story but being just lurid.
TBH after this I watched the not very good documentary about Nickelodeon and it really reminds me to Baby Reindeer! Those parents fearing their kids could maybe been abused by Hollywood types but also worried that if they said something their kids career could had ended in Hollywood so they decided to wait or don’t say nothing! Even the only mother who actually did something and kinda saved her kid integrity felt guilty for years and her now adult son claims to be traumatized because she ended his Hollywood career!
I think that Baby Reindeer could had made an interesting comment to the apparently absolutely necessity of fame (he actually feels momentarily well after he gets some fame because his also kinda irreal confession to a comedy show audience. It’s something ephemeral but he doesn’t go deep with that) to such a degree that apparently some people permits humiliation, torture and abuse towards themselves and, worse, their kids just to get it. It’s suggested but that’s not the point. The point is that he hates himself for doing it but why fame is so important and why isn’t questionable that it actually is something THAT important? Because, it obviously is not!
I don’t agreed that Martha is one note character. I think, it wasn’t just the actress who is indeed the best thing in it, he also tried to make her sympathetic but I agreed that the series is full of cliches and that most characters are also huge cliches. I really doubt that straight co-workers are instantly incapable of feeling some kind of empathy towards sexually abused men just because they are straight and the scene in which the father confesses that he was also sexually assaulted because he is Catholic was, indeed, pretty cringeworthy (I hope it’s not true, of course! But compare it to the very painful and complex “Me Too!” scene in Patrick Melrose. Here it was something casual and insignificant to the plot. Followed by some funny stuff!).
But it also catched my attention the comments below this tweet. I agreed with both, those saying he is very obvious full of self-loathing and not trying to refute his fails but also that he is just so obsessed with fame and the desire of being the center of attention that he seems kinda narcissistic and probably abusive towards others. Again, I don’t think he would negate this but it bothers me that the story is presented as something almost “educative” (the warnings before and after the episodes) when it’s mostly something masochist and sensationalist. I don’t expect positive messages in fiction but there is this feeling of amateurishness of someone trying to tell an “important” story but being just lurid.
TBH after this I watched the not very good documentary about Nickelodeon and it really reminds me to Baby Reindeer! Those parents fearing their kids could maybe been abused by Hollywood types but also worried that if they said something their kids career could had ended in Hollywood so they decided to wait or don’t say nothing! Even the only mother who actually did something and kinda saved her kid integrity felt guilty for years and her now adult son claims to be traumatized because she ended his Hollywood career!
I think that Baby Reindeer could had made an interesting comment to the apparently absolutely necessity of fame (he actually feels momentarily well after he gets some fame because his also kinda irreal confession to a comedy show audience. It’s something ephemeral but he doesn’t go deep with that) to such a degree that apparently some people permits humiliation, torture and abuse towards themselves and, worse, their kids just to get it. It’s suggested but that’s not the point. The point is that he hates himself for doing it but why fame is so important and why isn’t questionable that it actually is something THAT important? Because, it obviously is not!