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It’s absolutely insane to me how people didn’t clock Kevin as abusive when he literally reported the car as stolen even though he knew Allison had it!! All because she didn’t answer the phone when he called. He did it as revenge for her not being constantly at his beck and call.

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Also im glad Neil doesnt get a happy ending. Fuck him too

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One of the things I keep coming back to about the Kevin Can Fuck Himself finale is that the switch happens as the laugh track starts to cheer for Allison. Like yes it's representative of Kevin losing control but it's also representative of Allison having support. Since Kevin is in charge every time he's on screen, you can certainly read it as Kevin using the framing to remove Allison's support - like he always does

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I was watching Kevin Gan Fuck Himself with my Dad and he kept getting annoyed and saying Kevin was 'so stupid' or 'what a fucking moron' or words to that effect. And when we got to Kevin reporting the car stolen I actually snapped and said 'he's not STUPID he's doing this on purpose'.

My Dad saw a man call his wife 60 odd times while she was on a girls trip and then report the car stolen to cause issues for her/prevent her from getting away from him and saw that as him being 'an idiot' instead of as the calculated act of abuse it was.

And I realised that as a woman I was watching a drama with occasional sitcom-ified scenes. And my Dad, as a man was watching a sitcom that sometimes went grey.

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Thinking about how Pete used to be a priest and Kevin's (unnamed) mom was a nun. The fact that Pete was clearly stripped of his title. And we don't hear anything about Kevin's mother beyond the fact that she's dead. Thinking about how Diane says that she thinks of Pete as her "creepy uncle" and hates him. Thinking about how Kevin being born was likely a huge scandal for Pete and his mother and led to him being kicked out of the church. Thinking about how Pete doesn't seem to have any remorse at all for the potential abuse of power that occurred which led to Kevin's conception. Thinking about how Pete was the one most likely to make jokes objectifying women with Kevin. Thinking about how Kevin was likely raised believing he was some sort of miracle or chosen one, destined for great things solely because acknowledgment of the shame surrounding the circumstances of his birth would require Pete admitting fault. Thinking about how normalized it must have been in his childhood to see women being talked down to, objectified, sexualized and made into nothing more than plot devices to powerful men. Thinking about the sense of entitlement he must have had baked into him, and the deep fear hiding underneath all of it that one day everyone is going to realize he's his father's biggest skeleton in the closet. Thinking about this show having one of the most nuanced and complex portrayals of the cycle of abuse and patriarchal violence that I've ever seen!!!

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Kevin Can Fuck Himself is the only show I've ever seen that acknowledges the immense STRESS I feel while watching comedy, particularly 90s comedy. I would literally rather go to the ER than watch a sitcom, and usually the only place I watch them is in fact in the ER. I hate them. Cannot stand them. The unpredictability and disproportionate levity and misogyny are just too much for me.

But in Kevin Can Fuck Himself, the fact that I hate it is the point. The fact that I'm disgusted is the point. Because the moments of emotional relief come from the drama portions, from commiserating with Allison's own disgust and hatred. Yes, they're really intense and I often need to watch in two parts, but it's nice to feel what I'm supposed to feel, instead of unexplained dissonance.

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I watched the first episode of Kevin Can F**k Himself and I already pretty much love it. I think the thing that really did it for me is how Allison's bandage disappears during all the sitcom parts but is there outside of them. With the sitcom world being Kevin's it shows from the start that he doesn't even care enought about her to realize she got hurt or if he did it didn't fit his sitcom world.

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literally still thinking about this one scene in kevin can fuck himself at the end where it finally switches to real life and how fucking scary he is all of a sudden and you realize he was like this all along

it really makes me think about these misogynist sitcoms husbands and how they’re supposed to be exaggerated and funny but it’s actually just the scary truth…men do be like that

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what's so cool about "kevin can fuck himself" is the way it forces you to reframe what are otherwise painted as harmless sitcom antics. it makes you really think about it.

for example, the sarcastic asides typical of a sitcom are actually cruel and abusive when rooted in reality. while you're watching the scene, set up in saturated colors and a laugh track, you have to force yourself not to slip into the banter.

it's a depiction of how abusers manipulate perceptions and get everyone else to go along with it. how it's normalized as "harmless" and laughed away.

it's a really good show.

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It would've been super neat if at that moment, in the final confrontation, they remade some of the sitcom scenes with the real abuse happening.

"Kevin isn't that bad it's not like he beats her, why does she need to kill him or fake her death, just get divorced" you are the point of the show, you are missing the crucial reveal. Allison sees Kevin in every single scene as she does their last scene together, but we as the audience aren't privy to that and we only see sitcom Kevin which is Kevin's self perception. He is not suddenly becoming scary and threatening to her. He was like that the whole time. We only see Allison's feelings about Kevin and the aftermath of her interactions with Kevin -- this is the ONLY time we see Kevin from her POV except for the brief initial breaking of the sitcom cam. Every other time we see Kevin on screen it's from Kevin's POV. Even after she cuts her hand we only see the bandage in her singular pov when she is away from kevin, but when it shifts back to sitcom Kevin it's gone.... We do not see the reality of her interactions with Kevin, that's the point of the show!!! Because when Kevin is on screen, it's Kevin's world! We only see Kevin from anyone else's lens in ONE scene at the end, which is when Allison decides to leave, so yes the sitcom cam "softens his abuse" but it also just fully acts as an unreliable narration because we never literally see Kevin from anyone else's POV until the series finale so every time Kevin is on screen it isn't even an accurate portrayal of what's happening, it's Kevin's perception of what's happening. Allison has viewed him like that the entire show, we as the audience just did not get to witness that POV until the end

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Season 13 sam's hair was so beautiful and fluffy.

Mother's new hairstyle fits her face so well

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i liked this movie a lot

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SEBASTIAN STAN for 2025’s May issue of Vanity Fair.

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wild cats are awesome because they range from “that’s just a cat”

to “are you sure that’s a cat”

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The Dabous Giraffes - neolithic petroglyphs found in Saharan Niger estimated to be 6,000 to 8,000 years old. The bigger of the two giraffes is 5.4 meters long and is the largest known petroglyph in the world.