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the stickers on this box always make me want to cry. it's such a reminder of how young malcolm was when everything happened...like yeah of course he decorated the shoe box where he hid mementos and photos of his dad with stickers of suns and "you did it" HE WAS TEN 😭😭😭

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to the person who spent two whole days liking all of my prodigal son posts, i appreciate your dedication bro 😭🙏

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Malcolm Bright + symptoms of complex PTSD

We have consultants and experts in psychology, the BAU, the NYPD, and also for a medical examiner. We’re always using those guys, because they have great stories. The second part of it is, for us, we started from the place of, what would it look like from just a family drama perspective? And really the first thing we lasered into was complex PTSD. And that’s where we started, and we built from there. So we’re definitely interested in the amount of research of it all, but there’s so much to read that we just know that we’re going to be constantly learning. - Chris Fedak

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sometimes i get a little self conscious about what kind of art i post, because everyone here can clearly tell im not a very serious artist. but with how this show causes me and many others so much emotional turmoil, we deserve some goofy shit once in a while 😭

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They're hiding something.

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locked the fuck in finally

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Are they all right? She's fine. They're both fine.

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💽Lift your head up high, scream out to the world!

“I know I am someone!”

And let the truth unfurl!

I wanted to design clothes for an MJ that was maybe in his thriller era around the time that I was a little kid in 2005.

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sorry i know malcolm's going through it here but the sound he makes when he falls to the floor is killing me

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tossing this out there like a prime rib into a lion’s den

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Fiona Apple x Malcolm Bright & John Watkins

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this screen shot is killing me...it's not too late to give the prodigal son pilot an emmy!

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Is my sister still alive? You've been studying him your whole life. You know when he's telling the truth, don't you? Was that the truth?

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This week's headcanon is:

happy pride month to Malcolm Bright for being Transgender and Bisexual in my head and in my heart 🫀

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Thinking about the stabbing scene in Alone Time yet again. The way John pushes the knife to the hilt into Malcolm. The way he grabs onto Malcolm’s shoulder to keep him in place. The way he twists the knife inside him, which will cause permanent scarring inside and out. The way John smiles wide and makes eye contact, before pulling the knife out and letting Malcolm fall and pass out.

It’s interesting because, John’s hunting knife feels like an extension of himself. He plays with it while he talks to Malcolm, swinging it to and fro, dragging the blade across his neck, using it to point and direct. It’s all awfully intimate.

If the writers thought I was going to forget that they mentioned the stabbing = penetration metaphor in the episode right before this, they probably shouldn’t have put so much stabbing action involving Malcolm in this show.

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this not hate, I do enjoy JT but it's so clear the writers had no idea what to do with him...I think he was originally mostly written to just be a foil to malcolm and have some tension with him being brought on the team (even his original character description basically just talks about how he doesn't trust malcolm bc of his father and nothing else about his personality). but obviously you can't just do that for the entire show so once he and malcolm became friends/team mates by like episode 5 of the entire series I think the writers were at a loss for how to give him more storylines.

and the NYPD team, besides maybe gil, probably has the least development in general out of the 8 "main" characters, especially if we're talking about storylines/character traits/relationships outside of malcolm and his family. but edrisa and dani at least get a couple episodes focused on them, JT got like. the storyline about another cop assaulting him and tally having a baby??? and neither of those lasted long or had much impact in the overall plot. in fact, the first one mostly ended two episodes in to the second season and then JT has a son off screen and then that's really it. season one had even less of any kind of over arching story for him. I do think this, like a lot of issues, would have been greatly improved with more seasons or even a full length season 2 with no COVID filming restrictions (can't really blame prodigal son for not having scenes with a baby in 2021). but also I think it was kind of clear from the beginning that they wrote JT into the "not trusting malcolm is his only trait" corner and then when they couldn't do more with that he just got pushed to the sidelines.

and we never even found out what JT stands for :(

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i was talking to my friend about brightwell and it made me think about something and now i'm pissed off and have to talk about it

dani was always going to end up as malcolm's love interest. we can see it from the way that they write her from the very beginning. and that PISSES ME OFF, because it makes her character so much WORSE than what we could've gotten. even ignoring the fact that malcolm deserves to have a genuinely healthy friendship with SOMEONE and dani totally should've filled that role, dani barely can stand as a character by herself when she isn't in a scene with anyone (i don't think she even gets that iirc) and it completely tanks her character when her whole being is totally centered around malcolm (taking care of him in the trip, looking for him in alone time, there are so many examples that i'm blanking on but i promise you that's most of her character's actions on screen)

and even the small bit that we do get of her life (examples that i genuinely had to look on her fandom wiki page for because they're so sparce: her history with estime and drugs, how strongly she feels about where she grew up, the fact that her dad died when she was 16) its VERY few and far between and they really don't give us anything else about her character unless it's related to malcolm

also don't even get me started on jt and how he's only used for 2 things. 1, to dislike malcolm at first but grow fonder of him, and 2, as shameless copaganda covering genuinely important real topics that they resolve in two episodes and then never bring up ever again. it's interesting how the two prominently featured black characters aren't allowed to exist as characters outside of the white male lead......... hm........