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If you say so.

I have family in town until Wednesday, which means brunches and other non-standard things, so stuff may be delayed a bit.

Impressions:

That was certainly different, though by the middle where it was revealed that he was the one drunk girl’s dad, things re-took their turn back to nonsense. Almost kind of a shame since it was actually a pretty decently harrowing demonstration of enochlophobia (fear of crowds). Then again, it was twenty two straight minutes of monologue, and any seriousness of the first half was completely ruined when it was revealed that the entire stalker thing from the last two episodes was just a ‘silly’ misunderstanding because her dad’s somewhere between socially dysfunctional and a complete imbecile. Also, him falling in love with some girl who refuses to look up from her phone because she refuses to look up from her phone feels like it was meant as social commentary, but hell if I can tell what. There’s also a bit of confusion I think between how much was his condition and how much is from his hero-ness forcing him to be silent, but I kind of suspect they’ve more forgotten about that despite it being the whole center of Nice’s arc. 

At the end of it, I’m left wondering what the point was. I always prefer to see characters actually doing something, rather than morosely reciting their origin story, and the reveals here really seem like things that could’ve had some impact or purpose but instead got used for a few cheap gags which also undermines the previous episodes since everything turns out to have been absolutely nothing. And yet, this goofy moron having trouble relating to his daughter is also a remorseless murderer for a crime boss, so I’m not really feeling super on board with the whole bumbling dad routine. The show is, as ever, a land of nonsensical contrasts.