Has This Been Done Yet?

“hi, dad.” throw me in a wood chipper next time.

life is so much better when you have a work of fiction to obsess over

THIS EXACTLY THIS

I believe that the S&B series is an alternative grishaverse universe. Where the crows are a little older, and where Alina has brown hair. The show doesn't have to resemble the book WORD BY WORD, that is why it was so good to watch, it had different plots from the books, yet mostly the same actions. We should stop hating on it. Let's hate on netlfix instead, for cancelling it

ugh wylan van eck's tale of self-discovery and growth, of fighting your parent inside your head, of being forced into a certain kind of life by things you can't control, of having religion used against you and finding the strength to mock it, of finding something to motivate you, of realizing that you're more than what you've been told, of finding someone to tell you to stop being ashamed, of finding that you aren't ashamed or afraid anymore, of being told that you're impossibly weak and realizing that really you aren't weak at all. man.

love when jesper asked wylan "shouldn't you be in university" my brother in christ shouldn't YOU be in university

me, real

The last line never fails to give me chills. Like Jesper, honey, are you alright? 😢

Also, this part is one of the reasons why I believe that Jesper might suffer from symptoms of depression, as one of the side effects of addiction.

I can't fully explain it, but maybe that's because I can personally relate. 😬

"You say that you're hurting / I know it ain't so"

i've been thinking about the swap to handheld camera near the end of I am the one

i love it so much as a cinematic choice. it kinda puts us into a forced 1st person perspective, like as an audience, briefly we are in the kitchen with them, especially with caissie clocking the camera. it just really drives home how out of control she feels in this moment within her lashing out against gabe and dan

and seeing them scurry away from her from this perspective is just so emotive and i think really captures the feeling of lashing out through fear as much as anger when struggling with mental health and pushing away those who are trying trying to help

its crazy to me that they didn't use this type of shot anywhere else in the show (ifrc?) but i guess its exclusivity to this moment solidifies both the power and vulnerability to diana at this moment.

anyways im very next to normal about this show xo

The PBS proshot of the West End production of Next to Normal has had me spiraling for the last few days.

Why tf this didn't win any Olivier awards or transfer to Broadway for a limited run is BEYOND ME. For a creative team that had taken SUCH CARE with the sensitive themes, it should've gotten way more recognition.

Thank god it's been recorded and preserved for people to watch but my god. All the little details of this production are so brilliant which makes it all the more devastating to watch these characters struggle.

No Broadway transfer? No cast recording? At least we have a proshot. These performers worked so hard and they deserve to have their work captured.

the three laws of tragedies (insp)