Frank saying "please" really tears me up here because i think it's the first time he ever properly realised what Monica really was but didn't want to hear it because despite the pain he still loved her .
My heart always gets tugged at when Fiona shouts "I was NINE!" It's filled with such desperate exhaustion and frustration. And of course, that small trembling "Please" from Frank really strikes a chord. All in all, it's such a powerful performance from both of them.
I was eleven, when pretty much the same happend, I "only" have 3 younger siblings though, but this really is like listening to my younger self arguing and being angry/frustrated..
Those kids can say shit about Fiona, and think that Fiona is not worthy, but one thing for sure is that she is their mom, maybe not to Lip and Ian that much, but for the rest, and I hate how all of them, Debbie the most, gives her shit about the mistakes she has made, and not once think "Fiona did all she could for us, she put her life on stop so she could find multiple jobs to put food on the table, maybe she deserves a little respect" Edit. Im so glad 2K people think the same
@@no1reveluv when she was trying to become their legal guardian, she said the first time Monica and frank left her alone to go get drugs, with lip and ian and she had to walk 6 miles by foot holding both babies in her arms because ian had a fever. She was 6.
The fact that the amount of respect she has is so little. Why don’t she ever get “a good job Fiona , you did great” sentence. She deserves more thank she did for them
Yeah I dont understand how all of them can stand there listening to what Fiona did for them especially at such a young age and still treat her the way they did.
In real life, it really does. We the eldest who put our life on stop, get our childhood taken away, so we can help our parents or making sure our siblings can have a better life, not worrying about anything, not knowing what harms the family…… this child will never get the respect she deserve. I am that child. No matter how much I did, nobody will appreciate me. I understand Fiona. And I hope all children whom their childhood get taken away, will get the life they deserve.
My dad grew up in a family where you didn't just leave, you ran...I have an uncle who moved to California & the family merely communicated through letters...my uncle even went as far as to say if any of them came to visit him, he wouldn't answer the door...he died about four years ago & my cousin found that out by accidently stumbling across his obituary online...we never even met him
Frank's defeated "please" might be one of the realest moments in the whole series. He's deeply hurt, and he doesn't want to hear anymore because he knows Fiona is 100% right about everything.
I feel so bad for Frank. I mean he is finally realizing how much Monica fucked with him and how terrible she was to their kids. And Fiona, no words need to be said for her.
“ I’m glad she’s dead “ … when someone has really betrayed you you’re entire life , it’s a relief to know that they can no longer be around to do it . That’s the part I felt the most .. not bc u hate them but bc they are fucking dangerous to your soul . Loving them is a problem. When they die it’s the most disturbing and vile liberation u will ever feel in your life . I’ve been there .
Fiona never had a chance. Imagine someone being 9 years old and raising their siblings and taking care of their deadbeat father who never once helped them. If anything, he made their lives so much worse. She was never going to grow up into a well adjusted adult who made good choices. She needed serious help and instead she had to fight every single day to keep her and her family safe, alive, and loved (im excluding Frank from that). Her character is so well written and emotional and has so many layers to her personality.
“She was never here, She was never fuckin here! She left!” Gosh this scene hits so hard. She did absolutely amazing and all of the brothers and Debbie standing behind her watching. They’re all they had. This scene gets me every time I watch it. 🖤
You can see it in Franks eyes that he was broken...once I heard him say "please" it broke me. He noticed how much Fiona does for him and everyone else...I have a feeling Frank didn't want to believe that Monica died...I've always felt bad for Frank
Honestly, this is the defining scene of the entire series for me. There are great performances all throughout, but this gave the two pillars of the show the opportunity to just absolutely let it rip with their core motivations. No holds barred, just visceral, honest, ugly. Bravo.
"If she loved us so much, why wasn't she here?" That hits hard considering that my egg donor(she doesn't deserve to be called a mother) abandoned me. She steadily did the same thing to my younger sibling after she divorced my sibling's dad, but my sibling still has contact with her. I refuse to reach out anymore because she can't own up to her mistakes. She abandoned me after I was two. I didn't even know or meet her until I was eleven. Didn't start fully seeing her again until I was thirteen and it was always ME having to ask when/if she was getting me for the weekend because sometimes she "didn't have enough gas money", but that was because she'd either get a new tattoo or party with her friends that same weekend. She tried manipulating me into thinking my dad was a monster who took me away from her. She didn't take me to my sister's funeral(step sibling) or at the very least tell me when it was. She let my other stepsister beat me up(I was fifteen and stepsister was in her early twenties). I was sexually harrassed at sixteen because she threw a party on one of the weekends I was there. She left to go to a bar with everyone and left me alone with two people around my age and a dude in his forties, who would not leave me alone and kept following me into every room. After her divorce, at her new house, she made me sleep in the living room so her and her new bf's friend could have the spare bedroom. I first broke contact at eighteen, but I reached out after getting pregnant at nineteen because I thought maybe she could change. I had a miscarriage and she never showed up to comfort me ONCE. So I broke contact again and she somehow found my number. She sent me a picture of a tattoo she got representing MY child without my or my fiance's permission nonetheless. I blocked her, but ended up unblocking her after getting drunk one night to send a drunk text, letting out everything I felt. Next day she had texted me back and was pissed. I apologized for texting her, but refused to apologize for what I had said because it was how I felt. Haven't heard from her since and I prefer to keep it that way because everytime she came back into my life, my mental and emotional health paid the price.
The raw emotion is amazing but what gets me is when the mask comes back up to be the strong woman she had to craft herself into. “She didn’t love me and she didn’t love you.”
What always breaks my heart is even with all the fucked up shit Frank does he was and still is the better parent, like he was really messed up but he never left them and he did help them in his own little way
When frank said “please” rlly made my heart shatter because he knew it was true but he didn’t want to say it because he was still in love with her frank I’d the best person ever when Fiona was drunk and fighting with lip when frank said “I couldn’t have done it without her” shoes that frank cares about Fiona also what’s the song for this
My friend recommended me this show, as I needed a new comedy show to binge and this is was not what I was expecting at all, the show is fantastic and the family dynamic is both beautiful and heartbreaking.
I really do sympathise with both of them in this because he lost the love of his life, sure they were fucked up but they loved each other in their own messed up way he needed to hear what fiona was telling him but it was still really painful
Poor Frank ya do realize every time they talk about the past its always "Monica gave me my first hit of whatever". Monica destroyed Frank and destroyed her kids. So sad because at least Frank was around lol
