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What the Hell? No Consequences?
posted by Dali PartonSTAFFMOD on March 18, 2019 at 10:05 AM
About half-way through the show Tony purposely causes someone's death. Which is fine for the purpose of telling a story. Except he never has to deal with the consequences. Never takes any responsibility, if anything he denies what he did in order to escape the consequences. Sure, he walks around and feels kinda bad about it, but not that bad because he can't even make it to the guy's funeral on time. He never even tries to make amends or pay any penance. If anything his complicity ends up making him a happier guy. Not cool.
Reply by cpheonix
on June 7, 2019 at 3:59 PM
I liked the show and it's a return to form for Gervais but this scene still puzzles me. What was the point of it?
You're right, if there was some redemption like he gave money to his homeless friend's family, or even started working against drugs, that I could understand. But...nothing.
Hope you enjoyed the rest of the show though.
Reply by Dali Parton
on April 24, 2020 at 11:08 PM
2nd season is out. A friend watched and tells me that Gervais practically retconned the murder. If that's the case, it makes me highly suspicious of Gervais himself in real life. What kind of person presents an unrepentant murderer as a sympathetic character? Unless its a weird social experiment to see how many people he can sucker in to being OK with murder I think its a sign of sociopathy.
Reply by cpheonix
on May 9, 2020 at 5:20 AM
He doesn't retcon it directly, but you could say he did by not mentioning it all.
It was pretty much a retread of the 1st season, except this one had more unbearable bits. Although there were some nice emotional parts, I found it a lot more aware of itself and enhanced the characters to parody levels, such as the psychiatrist. For a show that was meant to be realistic in its representation of grief, it had a lot of completely unrealistic situations and characters.