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i need helluva boss watchers to have some media literacy. the show is about blitz. it’s about his interpersonal relationships. it’s about how his Bad Choices and Traumatic Past are catching up to him in all aspects of his life. if you think this show was only meant to be about silly murder killing time, you’re a little goofball. “oh there’s too much focus on stolas,” “there’s not enough focus on millie,” etc. etc. dude. the show is about blitz. the content of the episodes will reflect what is on that fucker’s mind and what is affecting him most. anyway please learn how to consume media critically

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Just found out that Stolas drank more than one bottle of a absinthe after Blitzo turned him down.

Drinking one bottle whole of that stuff is bad already, especially when in medication, but two, all in one go is downright concerning...

Poor guy's mental health is really low, I really hope he'll heal. :(

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So. Stolas is an alcoholic. That much is very clear at this point in the show and has been for a while now. He binge-drinks to cope with depression and with his life problems at large.

What's interesting is that he's far from the only character in Blitzø's life who is an alcoholic. In fact, substance abuse seems to be a recurring theme in the show. At least three other people Blitzø was or is really close with (potentially four, if we count his father) were, or are, alcoholics/drug addicts: Verosika, Barbie, and Fizz.

And the show has made a very clear point that both Verosika and Barbie have been in rehab. Not just that, but it's also emphasised that they're both still struggling with addiction (Verosika still drinks at her concerts, "clutches onto Beelzejuice bottles like they're the last cock in hell", and writes magazine articles about binge drinking being sexy; Barbie still peddles heroine, though not H8). Clearly, for both of them, this is an ongoing issue presently in the show.

So, with all of that being said, I recently saw someone theorise that, in a future season, Stolas is going to go to rehab, too.

I thought it was certainly a possibility, and one that I would personally love to see explored. So I've been thinking about it... and I remembered this:

The beginning of Unhappy Campers, and Blitzø breaking into rehab to go visit Barbie.

Now, I think a lot of people (myself included) felt surprised and a bit disappointed the first time we watched this episode, because our initial assumption was that Blitzø was trying to visit Stolas. It just made sense! Stolas was hospitalised right at the end of the previous episode and texted Blitzø that he could visit if he wanted to. (At this point, we also didn't know Blitzø had trauma surrounding visiting loved ones at hospitals). And suddenly they hit us with Blitzø seeking out Barbie out of the blue? So many of us were left wondering... why? Yeah, people have mentioned that maybe feeling like he could've lost Stolas prompted Blitzø to try to mend a different broken relationship, one that he felt he had more chances of fixing. But the timing, as well as the non-immediate revelation that it's Barbie he's looking for, is still... strikingly suspicious, isn't it?

And just now, after all this time, it hit me.

What if this is foreshadowing?

What if, all along, they were telling us Blitzø will visit Stolas at the hospital in the future... when Stolas is in rehab?

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I don’t usually add on to posts but I am making an exception because yes, yes yes we are def on the same wavelength about this. To the point I have like scenes about it written out lol. I suspected because of the fake out from Western Energy to unHappy Campers and how out of place the Barbie storyline is in that season. She really doesn’t belong there. I would argue leaving her a mystery would have been more effective and impactful narrative wise than what we got in unHappy Campers but if the reason she’s included is to get the hospital fake out to setup a FUTURE parallel IT MAKES WAY MORE SENSE. Apology Tour really solidified that this is a likely possibility and I would FUCKING love it. Bonus points to Viv if we get canon Verbie from it.

In Apology Tour, where Stolas and Verosika are established to be friends now their drinking is still being visually (and for Stolas in dialogue as well) emphasized. Verosika is obviously drunk and had her bottle and Stolas makes almost the exact same gestures with his later. I believe they have a similar howling at the moon wolf motif but I have to check. They are very similar movements anyway. Not only that but Blitz is acknowledging it within the same character space as Verosika, who he knows, and is the one to point out to the audience, has a drinking problem.

Not to get spoilery for my own silly projects but it would be wonderful to have scenes of Blitz dealing and fighting with the nurse, not only a great character cameo but they would be so fun in additional scenes. Coming into see Stolas and his sister, maybe accidentally finding out Verosika is sleeping with his sister could be a fun mini conflict.

And the biggest thing that really sold it to me is : Blitz always sneaks into the Palace. Every time. He doesn’t use the front door and we’re like whhhhy, is it because of his self loathing? He feels he doesn’t deserve to use the front door and wants to pretend and keep up the illusion that Stolas is making him do that to keep up his delusion that he’s a dirty secret so he can protect his heart and not look too closely at the fact that Stolas has never acted ashamed of him or asked him to do that, he’s doing that to himself *deep breath* And to echo this we get a parallel of him walking into the rehab THROUGH THE FRONT DOOR to deliberately see him because he chose to AND because he’s healed his relationship with his sister to the point he can visit her without having to sneak in to do it, she wants him there.

I just want it okay? Like Stolas and Barbie and Verosika being besties and rehab buddies, and Blitz being there for them all and supporting them and healing people he thought he broke and doing it without having to sneak and keep all the love he has for them a secret is my Roman Empire.

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So. Stolas is an alcoholic. That much is very clear at this point in the show and has been for a while now. He binge-drinks to cope with depression and with his life problems at large.

What's interesting is that he's far from the only character in Blitzø's life who is an alcoholic. In fact, substance abuse seems to be a recurring theme in the show. At least three other people Blitzø was or is really close with (potentially four, if we count his father) were, or are, alcoholics/drug addicts: Verosika, Barbie, and Fizz.

And the show has made a very clear point that both Verosika and Barbie have been in rehab. Not just that, but it's also emphasised that they're both still struggling with addiction (Verosika still drinks at her concerts, "clutches onto Beelzejuice bottles like they're the last cock in hell", and writes magazine articles about binge drinking being sexy; Barbie still peddles heroine, though not H8). Clearly, for both of them, this is an ongoing issue presently in the show.

So, with all of that being said, I recently saw someone theorise that, in a future season, Stolas is going to go to rehab, too.

I thought it was certainly a possibility, and one that I would personally love to see explored. So I've been thinking about it... and I remembered this:

The beginning of Unhappy Campers, and Blitzø breaking into rehab to go visit Barbie.

Now, I think a lot of people (myself included) felt surprised and a bit disappointed the first time we watched this episode, because our initial assumption was that Blitzø was trying to visit Stolas. It just made sense! Stolas was hospitalised right at the end of the previous episode and texted Blitzø that he could visit if he wanted to. (At this point, we also didn't know Blitzø had trauma surrounding visiting loved ones at hospitals). And suddenly they hit us with Blitzø seeking out Barbie out of the blue? So many of us were left wondering... why? Yeah, people have mentioned that maybe feeling like he could've lost Stolas prompted Blitzø to try to mend a different broken relationship, one that he felt he had more chances of fixing. But the timing, as well as the non-immediate revelation that it's Barbie he's looking for, is still... strikingly suspicious, isn't it?

And just now, after all this time, it hit me.

What if this is foreshadowing?

What if, all along, they were telling us Blitzø will visit Stolas at the hospital in the future... when Stolas is in rehab?