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[wesandresons]

Animal Kingdom - Season 4, Episode 1 - Janine

[ofhouseadama]

"put them in a time loop" ohh i am thinking mohabbot thoughts. samira is planning to leave/leaving for jersey and jack keeps getting it wrong until he doesn't.

awwww fuck, now I'm gonna have to write it. you know how I love to put jack abbot in the torment vortex.

[alexromero]

bitch did you just put normero on my dash in 2025 who do you think you are

[hatosyscurls]

okay two things: #Andrew is happy healthy and alive actually!!! #none of this stuff ever happened!!! that's true actually he's doing great I just saw him it's his and Amy's wedding anniversary soon they're very happy #love that they got scott speedman to come back for this #some arachnid ghostly apparition crouching in the corner I was drinking coffee when I read this and quite literally spit it out with laughter, so. thanks for that.

Yes, he runs a youth centre/skate park for wayward teens and he smiles once a week!

My sincere apologies for making you spit out your coffee. ❤️ Scott Speedman is no laughing matter and should be taken seriously.

[iwouldlovetoeatyourtoast]

highly underrated deb/lundy moment: her yelling at his boss to defend his honor. debra morgan: president of the frank lundy fan club, bullying anyone who’s mean to him

tbh i want to see that extrapolated to different circumstances where she just fucking goes to bat for him over things he’d usually let slide, an outcome he absolutely didn’t expect when he got involved with her

[septembersghost]

I'm so scared it feels like the only thing left for them is kim visiting jimmy in prison and there's no peace there, there's no victory in that no matter how the show tries to spin it. I don't want to seem like I'm dragging the writers because it's such good writing but it's all so so so far removed from what I want for these characters I adore so much.

yeah. i have close to zero hope for this to end any other way now, my expectations are in the basement. i'm silly and cling hard to more redemptive ideas, but that's impossible here. everyone is dead. everyone is too far gone. i actually have trouble even picturing her visiting him in prison (why would she want to? there's no triumph there, there's no love there, and even if there is, it's not enough, it's not doing the right thing, it's just punishment. i wish it didn't feel so stringently moralistic). she's living in hell every day. the only hope i have is that she gets out of florida, but that would mean yet again having to build her life anew and does she even have the fortitude to do that? some people don't get to start over. some people just have to live with themselves.

now feeling that i didn't appreciate the breakup enough because it was so suffused with love. nothing beside remains.

it's not what i wanted for the characters i cherish and adore so much either, and i'm trying to come to grips with the fact that we saw them die - when lalo killed howard, when they exchanged broken i love yous that could never change anything - it was just in slow motion, so it took a while to hear the shot.

[rheaseahorn]

"#in my opinion the am i bad for you scene belongs in a different category of kim reacting to jimmy questioning their relationship#in this essay i will" tell me more!

okay. here goes

the "if you go to howard, you and i, we're done" "so, we're not done now" scene and the "come on. this guy?" scene are about jimmy doubting himself. he is worried that his actions are irredeemable, especially in the face of someone as ~virtuous as kim. he doesn't see himself on the same level as kim, knows that she is so far out of his league that he just doesn't understand why she would hang around, why she doesn't just pack it in and leave him. he pushes himself to be a better person for her and when he inevitably falls off course, in both of these instances specifically, he can't wrap his head around the fact that she still cares for him, loves him enough to stay, or, in rhea's own words, loves him "...not in spite of everything...she knows who he is and she loves him."

the "am i bad for you" "are you bad for me" scene is less about jimmy doubting himself but more about him doubting kim. the subtext, in my opinion, is not "wow i can't believe this amazing woman loves me and is choosing to stay" it's more "kim, should you really be letting me do this to you? should you really be with me?" her reaction, the crinkle in her brow, is not the sweet and tender disbelief of the first two scenes mentioned. it is not "jimmy how can you not see how good you are? how can you not see how much i love you?" it is kim's surprise and maybe even a bit of betrayal that, of all people, jimmy is now questioning her choices.

and isn't asking "am i bad for you" not another way of questioning kim's agency as well? after every other man on the show makes their opinion known of kim's choices—often implying that she doesn't know what she's doing, that she is somehow under jimmy's spell and he is driving her to ruin, that no woman like her in their right mind would make the decisions she is making and therefore she needs saving, needs to be shown the light—jimmy, her jimmy, the one person she thought understood her, is now doing the same thing. every person in her life has questioned her like this about jimmy (and probably countless other things too). everyone has their own idea about who kim is and what she should be doing.

she is not touched by this question. i think she is taken aback by it. how could he think that? how could he imply he is bad for her when she is the one making the choice to stay. why can't anyone trust her to know what's best for herself? why can't anyone see that she knows who jimmy is and loves him because of that?

the question "am i bad for you" gives jimmy all the power and agency in the relationship and implies that kim is somehow incapable of choosing things for herself. it implies that kim is participating in scams for jimmy and not because she wants to, not for herself or her own reasons. it takes away her ability to be an active participant in the relationship and in her life and i think that kim is sick to death of people doing that to her.

[actuallylorelaigilmore]

I'm so sorry for what you're going though. There's nothing harder than the decision you had to make for Kinnie- I'm sure you did the right thing for her sake, but I know that doesn't make it any easier on you and the rest of her family. Be kind to yourself, and allow yourself whatever time you need. It probably doesn't feel like it, but you will be okay <3

Thank you. <3 <3 I was very grateful to receive this, despite what you could assume to the contrary because I just never replied. You're forever in that category of people that I still can't believe is a friend of mine, so this meant a lot.

I think one of the hardest parts of grieving Kinnie, beyond the first two weeks that were the worst, is that I do know, intellectually, that I will be okay. I've lost a lot of people in my life, I've lost a lot of cats, and while Kinnie's only the second cat who's died (and the first I'd known for more than a decade) I'm well aware that grief evolves, and that I can live through it.

But that feels so disloyal, on some level. Even knowing that Kinnie would want me to be okay, I hate the fact that I will be. Because I miss her, and nothing should be okay about a world without Kinnie in it, you know?

I'm trying to be kind to myself, but also just to keep busy. I hope things are good where you are.