Kevin Can F**k Himself
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This was a decision motivated by what exactly?
Her great friendship with Patty?
Her nice Aunt Diane?
Her affair with Sam?
She will simply point Kevin at her problems.
In Sitcom World, Allison sets Kevin on Tammy with ease.
She tells him Tammy is busy looking for the local arsonist and wont rest until hes behind bars.
Kevin, of course, is the dummy local arsonist, considering he was behind last weeks town blackout.
Hearing that he might be in trouble, Kevin gets to work.
What kind of work?
Well, he goes to the bar.
With Kevin on the case, her Tammy woes seem settled, but Allison still cant sleep.
Shes moody in Bleak World, and she makes herself some tea and sits on her porch.
So why cant Allison sleep?
She feels as though she forgot something.
As if theres a loose thread out there thats stopping her great plan for freedom from Kevin.
Patty, on the other hand, says, I havent slept since I watchedThe NeverEnding Story.
Clearly, Allison and Pattys friendship means something to her, but theyre remaining vague aboutwhyit matters so much.
At Dianes, Allison gets an answer to her late-night worries.
Allison runs straight to Pattys to tell her Neils running around letting of Worcester know theyre probably murderers.
But, ever the proverbial buzzkill, Tammy interrupts.
Tammy stops over at Kevins for a meeting.
Its the bright light of Sitcom World, but its an ugly scene.
Allison heads over to the green lights of the Worcester View Suites, looking for Neil.
Outside the suites, Allison runs into Tammy, of course.
Allison knows she cant say anything to fix Tammys distrust, so she doesnt.
And after this confrontation, its Allison who finds Patty at Neils.
Shes worried he may blow everything up.
She reminds Patty that were criminals, but what does it matter if Allison is about to leave?
The truth comes out to her best friend: Allison doesnt want to leave.
But she offers to go if Patty wants her to.
Patty tells her to go home, sleep it off, and theyll figure it out.
(Note that Kevin needs his minion to do his work when it involves helping someone besides Kevin.)
Allison finds Neil at the bar with keno, drunk as a skunk.
He ropes her into driving him somewhere on a mission.
The tension is thick in Allisons car.
She tries to apologize to him, but should she?
He tried to kill her.
They end up at the ice rink, where Neil is attempting to have his lifetime ban revoked.
He hits her dashboard hard.
But being Mrs. McRoberts pulls some weight, and Allison solves the problem.
She just drops Kevins name at the rink because he knows the guy who drives the Zamboni.
Allison tells Neil he can go ice skate, but he stalks out of the place.
He thinks someoneshould do something nice for her.
Since you started coming around, its been different, Neil says.
Before Allison, his sister never physically hurt him or tried to murder someone.
But before Allison, Patty was miserable, dealing drugs, and verbally abused every day.
Neils a sad-sack pitbull.
He tells Allison hes been telling everybody they tried to kill Kevin.
He even told Kevin, and Kevin just laughed.
Neils been blabbing because nobody actually takes him seriously.
So nothing matters, and he drinks.
Patty goes to the packy to tell Diane Neils back.
She warns Diane, kind of, that Neil will do these kinds of things.
He goes on benders.
And theres not always a difference.
So is Diane a version of Allison thats not going to pursue freedom and change?
Is she someone who will be consistently beaten down by whatever Worcester has to offer?
It feels like that.
Shes a parallel to Allisons journey but also a warning of sorts.
At Pattys, Tammy is waiting for her, ready to drop a bomb (I guess).
Tammy cant have Patty move in with her, and she gives her the Vermont cam video.
The videos dividing them in two.
Patty like Allison earlier cant respond.
Tammy leaves and says, Good luck, Patty.
Allison is trying to sleep on her couch, ruminating on whats next.
Hes solved the Tammy problem.
Hes got an affidavit for Allison to sign that says she saw Tammy plant evidence.
Youre not telling a lie; youre just writing your name near one, he says.
The sitcom lighting stays on Allison as she decides what to do next.
When she throws the affidavit on the ground, unsigned, it switches over to Bleak World.
Allison runs to Patty.
Allison and Patty have a long hug full of emotion as Patty tells her Tammy knows everything.
Tammy remains a problem, and Allison promises Patty shell fix it.
Patty comes in, asking for Allison, and Kevin responds fondly that Allison always laughs at his jokes.
Pete thought Allison was on a fancy walk, or a hike.
But that was yesterday.
Police officers knock at the door, holding Allisons backpack.
They ask Kevin if hes seen her in the past 24 hours (of course he hasnt).
They think theres been an accident.
Patty goes to Sams diner and asks him if he knows where Allison is.
He says he doesnt know, but he gives her an envelope.
Allison left Patty a note: Im sorry.
But youre better off.
The screen cuts to white something like death or rebirth.
Allison has a one-word reply.
Shes going to sleep.
Starbucks??
It does not go as planned.
This was interesting to find out: Mary Hollis Inboden, who plays Patty, is a school-shooting survivor.
She wrotea moving op-edabout her experience in 2018.
Kevins smell is described as pungent with strange notes of vanilla.
The lighting on the show is fascinating.
The details at Aunt Dianes house show how stuck she feels.
Even the coffee cup has her husbands name all over it, chuck chuck chuck everywhere.
