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shallowness) wrote2019-03-16 09:53 am
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MotherFatherSon – episode 2
Yikes. I’d been warned by a review of the first episode by someone who had seen the second that Something Shocking would happen, and they’d been using the word ‘Freudian’ a lot, and that element was definitely more present to me in this episode. In fact, I’ve been taxing my tired brain to remember terms about child development, how children are meant to turn from their parents so that they can form other relationships, which it seemed Caden failed at.
I was tempted to call Caden ‘Talin’ after Moya’s ship, but he has fewer actual weapons, and is played by an actor who will now have ‘playing someone getting disabled’ on his resume.
It all started with flashbacks (handy hairstyle/hair colouring change) and the revelation that there was another child, lost to miscarriage (is there a revelation to come about how there?) We were introduced to the Binders of Great Significance favoured by Nick. After they talked of divorce, we saw Karolyn being really unhappy at their tenth anniversary, which chronologically preceded it.
All this business in the past made them seem relatively good at being Caden’s parents now that he was recovering from a stroke. Karolyn seemed genuinely warm around Nick’s new wife, who may be carrying a replacement for Nick’s adult son.
But the clues for the final moment were there, intriguingly laid out. Nick was worried that Karolyn was pandering to Caden, and it seemed like he had a point (even if he was a bit ‘my schmoozing stuff is the most important’). Caden seemed to think his dyad with his mother was more, and we knew already that she wouldn’t be able to fulfil her promise to stay with him because we’d seen Nick dominate divorce proceedings. There was a grab of the calf, which changed how you thought young Caden had taken Karolyn’s sensuality around him – which played as therapeutic when he hadn’t waken up post surgery. There was him going to his mother and then jumping between his parents in the bed…
And then there were his pictures, and the possibility that he wasn’t just drawing how he saw their relationship as a family, but how he wanted it to be – attempting to manipulate things so he could have all his mother’s attention? At the same time, there were all the reasons for siding against Nick and his desire for power and terrible morals.
But then came that Roscharch picture of the final scene, where Karolyn’s decision to undo Caden’s restraints boomeranged on her, and what he then proceeded to do: was he trying to bite her at the nearest part of her body to stop her attempts to slow down the bleeding? Or was it purely sexual?
At the least, Nick blames his son somewhat for ending the marriage, among all the other reasons, and all the other things he’s screwed up. (He’d probably have respected Caden more if he’d gone in his own direction…as he did, away from his factory-owning father.)
Nick’s deputy is Scary (the cake was absurd; it looked like something you’d bake for a fete or fundraising), and of course Nick used the PM’s confidence about his own son. I did not quite get how Angela could be voted leader of her party or what strand of political thought she was really meant to represent.
Caden confessed to phonehacking, yes? No wonder Nick is so worried he’s lost his filter that he’s SPYING ON HIM. But now Karolyn is starting to realise what it means that Caden’s lost his filter.
Oh, and Scott’s temper at Karolyn using him was shocking/telling. Does she have a type? There was the foreshadowing of Caden’s action. I’m intrigued about Scott’s past, because it surely links with this dynasty, so I don’t expect her to stay away from him.
It is all a bit bonkers.
To come, a post about Comic Relief 2019.
MotherFatherSon – episode 2
Yikes. I’d been warned by a review of the first episode by someone who had seen the second that Something Shocking would happen, and they’d been using the word ‘Freudian’ a lot, and that element was definitely more present to me in this episode. In fact, I’ve been taxing my tired brain to remember terms about child development, how children are meant to turn from their parents so that they can form other relationships, which it seemed Caden failed at.
I was tempted to call Caden ‘Talin’ after Moya’s ship, but he has fewer actual weapons, and is played by an actor who will now have ‘playing someone getting disabled’ on his resume.
It all started with flashbacks (handy hairstyle/hair colouring change) and the revelation that there was another child, lost to miscarriage (is there a revelation to come about how there?) We were introduced to the Binders of Great Significance favoured by Nick. After they talked of divorce, we saw Karolyn being really unhappy at their tenth anniversary, which chronologically preceded it.
All this business in the past made them seem relatively good at being Caden’s parents now that he was recovering from a stroke. Karolyn seemed genuinely warm around Nick’s new wife, who may be carrying a replacement for Nick’s adult son.
But the clues for the final moment were there, intriguingly laid out. Nick was worried that Karolyn was pandering to Caden, and it seemed like he had a point (even if he was a bit ‘my schmoozing stuff is the most important’). Caden seemed to think his dyad with his mother was more, and we knew already that she wouldn’t be able to fulfil her promise to stay with him because we’d seen Nick dominate divorce proceedings. There was a grab of the calf, which changed how you thought young Caden had taken Karolyn’s sensuality around him – which played as therapeutic when he hadn’t waken up post surgery. There was him going to his mother and then jumping between his parents in the bed…
And then there were his pictures, and the possibility that he wasn’t just drawing how he saw their relationship as a family, but how he wanted it to be – attempting to manipulate things so he could have all his mother’s attention? At the same time, there were all the reasons for siding against Nick and his desire for power and terrible morals.
But then came that Roscharch picture of the final scene, where Karolyn’s decision to undo Caden’s restraints boomeranged on her, and what he then proceeded to do: was he trying to bite her at the nearest part of her body to stop her attempts to slow down the bleeding? Or was it purely sexual?
At the least, Nick blames his son somewhat for ending the marriage, among all the other reasons, and all the other things he’s screwed up. (He’d probably have respected Caden more if he’d gone in his own direction…as he did, away from his factory-owning father.)
Nick’s deputy is Scary (the cake was absurd; it looked like something you’d bake for a fete or fundraising), and of course Nick used the PM’s confidence about his own son. I did not quite get how Angela could be voted leader of her party or what strand of political thought she was really meant to represent.
Caden confessed to phonehacking, yes? No wonder Nick is so worried he’s lost his filter that he’s SPYING ON HIM. But now Karolyn is starting to realise what it means that Caden’s lost his filter.
Oh, and Scott’s temper at Karolyn using him was shocking/telling. Does she have a type? There was the foreshadowing of Caden’s action. I’m intrigued about Scott’s past, because it surely links with this dynasty, so I don’t expect her to stay away from him.
It is all a bit bonkers.
To come, a post about Comic Relief 2019.