Malevolent Confessional Booth

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The booth is open~

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Malevolent challenge: when was the last time John had a relationship that had nothing to do with Arthur? Or we met someone who had no interest in Arthur but was just interested in John?

/checks arm notes

The cult in season o- oh, oh no, they were just interested in the King in Yellow. John. We're talking about John. Someone he'd met or dealt with or a plotline from before he-

Oh. Oh, never. Never, okay.

When did John have a conversation with anyone that didn't directly relate to Arthur?

Never? Never. Gotcha. Kay.

And Arthur- oh right, *pretty much everyone* kay kay kay.

I love my podcast about two people. /s

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I don't have a confession, I just want to know if there are any decent malevolent discord servers out there in this year of our king in yellow 2026

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Did for real John receive weird shit he didn't understand in the mail and Arthur Lester, whose entire story in Malevolent got kickstarted by receiving weird shit in the mail he didn't understand, didn't react petty much at all to the concept??

Arthur Lester, whose best friend that is now apparently a ghost that's following him around after getting killed by the weird shit he got in the mail, didn't feel like the situation needed to be looked into?????

Amazing.

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the gender roles sure are gender rolling this episode

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I would enjoy Arthur fucking up and 'cheating' on his friendship/partnership with John re: Parker in the new series a lot more if 1. there was any guarantee that Arthur is going to be held accountable for how fucked up this actually is 2. I had any faith that the show cared about John's needs, wants, or feelings beyond the bare bones to keep things rolling and 3. I believe *at all* that this narrative was ever going to give John the moral highground in any real manner without in some way undermining it five seconds later because John's clearly so much worse and Arthur deserves a medal for putting up with him. /s

Like... am I the only one wondering how this whole thing has even functioned for multiple months when clearly John no actual social outlets or 'friends' beyond Arthur? And, with Faroe around, Arthur *has* to ignore him more often because she doesn't know about him either. His writing and the letters is parasocial *at best* and given how lukewarm Arthur's been about it, I'm sure that was easy to get. And no one else knows he's there. He didn't make it a week before attempting murder during Season 4 and Arthur's just been functioning in society, ignoring him as needed for six months?

Yeah, okay, tell me you didn't actually think this through without telling me you didn't actually think this through, Mr. Guthrie.

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It suddenly occurred to me how 1. irritating and 2. stupid it is that in season six, they go to the Dark World, the place that John was for 'untold lifetimes' all by himself, and *somehow* only encounter people and places that either neither of them know about or that involve Arthur.

SOMEHOW, of the named characters they meet from the past in some sense, it's 3/4 of characters who only actually have any significance really to *Arthur*.

No one John knew.

No one John fucked over.

No place or thing or anything from John's past OTHER THAN the thing that was about Arthur.

The one 'John' thing there was a grave to a guy who had the same non-name as him that Arthur used to prod John into talking about himself.

But sure, yeah, this makes sense.

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Is it just me or does Arthur sound different? Not the accent but the way he talks doesn't line up with his dialogue from past episodes. Is it the creator leaning in on the Noir maybe? Whatever it is, it feels off and I'm curious if anyone else has noticed.

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It's funny how Jarthur actually feels more toxic now than when they were at each other's throats for the first 3ish seasons. Turns out it's not that cute to watch the odd couple stop fighting and start doing Joss Whedon banter if it feels like that shift only happened because one of them got lobotomized by the writer.

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Interesting thing I noticed today~

Professionally animated Threshold trailer: 18k views, 2.2k likes, 150 comments after four months

New generic stock footage Threshold trailer: 212k views (highest ever for this channel!), 569 likes, 46 comments after one month

The only explanation I can think of for nearly 12x the views with a fraction of the engagement is that Harlan ran the second trailer as a Youtube Ad (ad views count if the viewer doesn't skip for at least 30 seconds). Maybe someone can chime in if he said something that confirms my theory or if there's a better explanation, but it's what I'm gonna assume for now. Nothing inherently wrong with buying ads of course! Though I do think it's odd that he already had a visually engaging trailer that did relatively good numbers for his channel and seemingly chose to run a very bare bones one instead.

This confession was brought to you by Autism™

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ok wait I am so curious.

People keep saying hgs writing is bad. And oh man does it have some bits that were really really weird and some not-so-great writing choices (although some of them were or could be turned around) but I always thought that the way the show was generally written saved those bits.

Why are people calling his writing bad?? Even people like me who like the show but still have criticisms of it? Am I missing something please tell me

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sad that the malevolent war has calmed. I miss the days when everyone was saying everyone else was an asshole for their opinions on this podcast.

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"my favorite malevolent character is arthur—"

cool, now what's your opinion on women?

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I come to the malevolent shop for toxic men hating and loving each other and I leave as a satisfied customer every time

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must media be good, is it not enough that it is stupid

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Was planning to try and get back into Malevolent again at about mid s5 but what with whatever the fandom and the source material is, I don't think I'll bother anymore. bye malevolent

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when i was listening to malevolent season 6, i already knew how bad season 5 was, but i was at the point where i was too invested to stop listening. and when part 56 happened, it felt as if i was rewarded for my waiting and yearning. i was excited! all ive ever wanted was for arthur to fucking die! for john to get some of the spotlight! for charlie to be a character! i remember back in season 4, i thought we’d be getting charlie and john stuck together trying to find arthur in the waylay, just anything like that. i remember in season 6, i was waiting and yearning for any mentions of oscar, of charlie and the butcher, and for an episode we got the butcher at least! but then he was killed off again. okay cool. whatever. every single side character gets killed off so it’s just arthur and john. even thoughvthats what the fans love, what i love, these side characters who have the potential to be amazing. but no. harlan has no respect for his fans i guess.

and then part 56 happened, and my love for the show my hope reignited. arthur is finally dead. i waited for a month for part 57 to come out. over a month of waiting. do you know what we got? you obviously do. bullshit. fucking bullshit. harlan slapped us silly spat in our faces and went ‘oh you thought you were getting a break from arthur? you thought the other MAIN CHARACTER would actually have multiple episodes dedicated to him and his character and development outside of arthur? you fool! you fucking idiot! this is THE ARTHUR SHOW, EVERY CHARACTER IS MEANT TO BE SUBSERVIENT TO ARTHUR TO FAWN OVER HIM OR DIE.’

part 57 is wildly misogynistic and actually disgusting. ive never been more enraged by a single episode in my life. its been MONTHS. ive made my new years resolution to forget malevolent, and yet im still here. i fucking hate this show im sorry. i cant forgive it after season 5, after season 6, after completely retconning the best season (season 3) and yellow. hey? wasnt the entire point of season 3 to show how flawed arthur is to show him at his lowest point? that yellow was treated wholly unfairly and that we shouldnt view her as fully evil because it was arthur who raised her in hatred? that evil can be redeemed? why is it then that lillith is made as the new yellow. that arthur told john that ‘shes just like yellow.’ hello. can anyone hear me. im fucking dead.

yeah sure lets have the only voiced female character that has genuine plot relevance be a character in the final 3 episodes and then told to shut the fuck up and stay out of the way. sure let’s have her be placed in solitary confinement. lets have her be a vessel of the criticism the show faces, and then have arthur be sooo sad about it, and have the canner go ‘oh just shut her up, ignore her’ like okay harlan OKAY fuck you too i guess??? part 57 is probably the worst thing ive ever seen

anyway yeah fuck malevolent it was bad when it started and it got good for like a season or two and then it became worse. what fucking ever. not like i spent a whole year dedicated to this show, drawing fanart and writing fanfic and engaging with the fandom. its so disrespectful i cant believe harlan can like look at his writing for season 5 and 6 and still think of himself above criticism. what fucking ever

forgive me for any mistakes im severely sleep deprived and very angry (story of my life)

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