a real-life squiggy thing I can play with and bully
I've come down with an unflattering cold and am miserable and bed-ridden. To add insult to injury, my television is broken so I can't just plop down in front of it screaming "PANDER TO ME".
SIRENS. AUGH. HOW DID THIS SHALLOW MISADVENTURE OF MINE TURN INTO A LEGIT SHOW I HAVE LEGIT FEELINGS ABOUT. Ever since they followed up on Ashley's racist sexual kink from the pilot in the second episode or whatever this show defied my (low) expectations for it. IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A TERRIBLE SITCOM WITH ANNOYING OVER-THE-TOP WITTY BANTER THAT I ONLY WATCHED FOR RICHARD MADDEN'S THICK ACCENT, GINGER STUBBLE, AND CURLS. Despite all of it's flaws, I love it. It does a decent job at conveying how you can be cynical and an unapologetic asshole but ultimately, no matter how much you try to deny and repress them, you do have feelings. No matter how many walls you build around yourself, you aren't as dead inside as you pretend to be/want to be. This finale could have been a sappy DISASTER because at its heart this show has been about Stuart's daddy issues. If they'd handled Stuart's epiphanies differently the entire thing would have dissolved into sentiment but mercifully that didn't happen. I mean, Maxine didn't buy his speech; instead she ripped him a new asshole at how unfair that was of him. When Stuart climbed onto the ambulance I worried that oh fuck we were in for some stupid Garden State-type bullshit here where he screams out his frustrations and emotions into the infinite abyss~~~. Stripping and then lying down on the roof of an ambulance to have a cry isn't much better than that but still, it could have been worse. a;dakdkf;sfk how Ashley's nester looked at Ashley's life from an outside perspective and saw it as fucked up and saw Ashley as this vulnerable, lonely figure stranded in the middle of a pathetic, empty life. That hit a nerve on some emotional level for me because oh god it's my fear that I could easily be perceived as pitifully lonely. I want Ryan and Ashley to be bffs just so Ryan can continue laying truth bombs on him. MINI-STUART. I hope we see more of him because his interactions with Stuart and Ashley were gr8. Ashley looking legit sullen when Stuart defended Mini-Stuart's lunch; "you mean you're actually going to bring this mini-human on board and I can't even bully him what? Unfair!" UGH, I'M GOING TO MISS THESE ASSHOLES. I'm going to miss this show.
SIRENS. AUGH. HOW DID THIS SHALLOW MISADVENTURE OF MINE TURN INTO A LEGIT SHOW I HAVE LEGIT FEELINGS ABOUT. Ever since they followed up on Ashley's racist sexual kink from the pilot in the second episode or whatever this show defied my (low) expectations for it. IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A TERRIBLE SITCOM WITH ANNOYING OVER-THE-TOP WITTY BANTER THAT I ONLY WATCHED FOR RICHARD MADDEN'S THICK ACCENT, GINGER STUBBLE, AND CURLS. Despite all of it's flaws, I love it. It does a decent job at conveying how you can be cynical and an unapologetic asshole but ultimately, no matter how much you try to deny and repress them, you do have feelings. No matter how many walls you build around yourself, you aren't as dead inside as you pretend to be/want to be. This finale could have been a sappy DISASTER because at its heart this show has been about Stuart's daddy issues. If they'd handled Stuart's epiphanies differently the entire thing would have dissolved into sentiment but mercifully that didn't happen. I mean, Maxine didn't buy his speech; instead she ripped him a new asshole at how unfair that was of him. When Stuart climbed onto the ambulance I worried that oh fuck we were in for some stupid Garden State-type bullshit here where he screams out his frustrations and emotions into the infinite abyss~~~. Stripping and then lying down on the roof of an ambulance to have a cry isn't much better than that but still, it could have been worse. a;dakdkf;sfk how Ashley's nester looked at Ashley's life from an outside perspective and saw it as fucked up and saw Ashley as this vulnerable, lonely figure stranded in the middle of a pathetic, empty life. That hit a nerve on some emotional level for me because oh god it's my fear that I could easily be perceived as pitifully lonely. I want Ryan and Ashley to be bffs just so Ryan can continue laying truth bombs on him. MINI-STUART. I hope we see more of him because his interactions with Stuart and Ashley were gr8. Ashley looking legit sullen when Stuart defended Mini-Stuart's lunch; "you mean you're actually going to bring this mini-human on board and I can't even bully him what? Unfair!" UGH, I'M GOING TO MISS THESE ASSHOLES. I'm going to miss this show.