I feel so conflicted about her because I sympathize with her situation and being in a cycle of abuse BUT this was her one opportunity to help her child and finally stand up for him and she failed again. I just felt so incredibly sad after this episode…like this is your moment to redeem yourself…but you didn’t, you failed him again.
Fuck Candy! What a horrible mother, yes you were a victim yourself but you had a chance to help your son and you didn't. He looked so hurt after that and I think it may have broken him even more than the abuse he suffered from Marlin. I'm so mad that this poor kid has suffered so much and so many people have let him down.
it was johnny at the end, suic1d3 is also a form of escaping. he almost broke his arm just to take that clip "just in case" the world failed with him again. and it did. i can't believe it's just the way that things are. being abused as a kid and just keep being dissapointed over and over. why are people so... i don't even know what word to choose. i would hope that danny and the system will be okay but there was a lot of blood. i guess it's just what the actors kept talking about the show: it is about asking for help. makes sense ending this way. i'm not happy with it, this show broke me so badly but i loved every single second of it.
I thought this was pretty clear especially during the car scene where Marlin first picks up Danny from school right before taking him to the barn to assault him. Adam is shown as sitting in the back seat but Marlin doesn't acknowledge him at all, at any point, until he offers that Marlin take him into the barn instead of Danny.
Too me it seems so obvious that Danny’s defense should have started questioning the mother about Adam, even when the prosecutor asked Rya if Danny had ever told her he’d been abused, she could have brought up Adam. I feel like this is a weakness in the writing. Rya and Stan are smart people, they would have known to use Adam, but the writers are just dragging it the drama.
Right? For me it's the same question. And I'm guessing whether the screenwriters are not-very-clever by themseves or do they consider their audience to be not-very-clever. I hope to find it out in the next episode 😅
Same, I've been so affected by every episode but I cried for an hour after this one. So much disappointment in his mom and the world. I had a traumatic childhood and I'm in therapy as an adult and I can relate to the world letting me down a bit too. My mom also made bad decisions but in the end made the right decisions. When she's getting all her stuff together I'm so excited and proud and I felt like I was seeing my mom in her and just so happy for her that she's finally getting away from that monster and taking a stand, and that let down at the end just broke my heart. Just so disgusted. Had me hating the world and everyone in it all over again.
His mom is a coward, and when she got a chance to redeem herself from being a coward, she double down on the cowardness, and decided to basically testify against her son, so she didn’t protect him when he needed her, and when he broke into all these pieces of people when she could’ve got up there and helped him she decided not to help him so she’s a coward twice and really, she should be in jail as well as his stepfather
So heartbroken at the end of the episode. TH’s performance in the last few minutes was probably one of his best, in my opinion. It made me feel so disappointed and hopeless in ways that I couldn’t explain. The ending scene when the song slowly faded as he lied down made me cry out loud for twenty minutes. I can feel his pain vividly. The world is such a disappointment to him in every way, and it made a stranger like me ache from the bottom of my heart. Great performance.
Hats off to Emily Rossum! She did a fantastic job at making me want to punch her in the face. Everyone’s talking about Tom Holland for an Emmy (and rightly so) but I hope she’s nominated for supporting actress, because damn, what a good performance! This was the most angering episode of the whole series, I was literally yelling at the TV at the end of it. Seriously, what a despicable and pathetic character, I literally can’t stop thinking about it and keep getting mad.
Danny knew... she would fail him. being victim of abuse and or neglect you just know in your bones your parent is not to be trusted. so he made sure "just in case" to take his life so to not go to prison. i think he will survive, and win the case... maybe not :( but... regardless, i STILL felt shock how a mother can do this. and yet... it doesn't surprise me at all. mothers like this exist. too scared to stand up to their oppressor and help their kid. so they deny. have anyone seen the show with benedict Cumberbatch - patrick melrose? it's kinda the same. a grown man completely lost to drugs and alcohol due to being molested by his father and when he finally tells his mother - she says she knew... but "he did it to me too so ..." "what can one do" she only cared about herself. what her child went through didn't matter, bc SHE suffered too, and to her, that is most important. the thought of leaving and protecting your son didn't enter her head. it is truly a heartbreaking show. i personally, have schizophrenia and i have been neglected a lot. so there are themes and mental situations with danny that i relate to a lot. really really an important and interesting show.
I was shouting at Candy toward the end of the episode.. Do we really think she believed that Marlin sexually assaulted Danny? I don't think Danny ever told her and obviously Marlin hid it very well from her. We all know she's battling her own demons but is there a possibility she did not want to lie? The way she told the lawyer "Do you know what you are asking of me" or something along those lines. As if he was asking her to lie under Oath to protect Danny.
My takeaway from the convo between candy and rya was that candy didn't want expose that she and danny are victims, and that even worse she did nothing/ignored the abuse danny suffered. I think she feared the way it would change her life, like marlin said in the elevator, he could end up in jail, she'd lose her home, job and be ostracized for being a bad mother for not protecting her child.
What’s also a problem is that Marlin works with children. Candy is a selfish person but what is worst is that her so loved husband is probably doing it to other children.. this people never change.
Yea this is my one gripe. His “twin” who he said was assaulted with barely any mention. Would have been a good line of questioning for the mother… I’m sure they’ll bring it out in the finale but annoying it’s been ignored so far.
