#kevin can f himself

[carrymelikeimcute]

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.

[susiemyersonislifegoals]

[figjelly]

I love that Allison is anti gone girl. She's a mess. Whereas Amy was like genius and meticulous and a long term planner and careful, Allison does everything on impulse. Her biggest strength is her weaponized ignorance. Amy has all the strings around her fingers and pulling like an expert puppeteer. Allison has a skein of yarn that's 85% knots. I love her so much.

[swearphil]

@pscentral​ members’ choice — event 33: underrated tv & film

Kevin Can F**k Himself (2021-2022) Fed up with the constraints of her sitcom wife life, a woman steps out the door and off the rails into a darker reality — the one she's always wanted.

[officialempressofhell]

Tammy getting so angry at Neil comparing him to their father is resonating with me. She is every woman who is realizing that her male relatives are the same danger to women as the strangers who have been harassing her all her life

[tyler-is-hot]

some kcfh text posts bc its my new hyperfixation

[emo-clarence]

what am i supposed to do now. How am I ever supposed to be normal again.

[biblicalhorror]

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!!!

[eto-bee]

One thing about Kevin can fuck himself is that this show is SO throughly thought out.

I’m thinking specifically of the episode with the blackout in season 2. Kevin was being Kevin here- Shenangians, jokes, bullshit, etc. and while there was still a laugh track & the normal “plot” of the sitcom world, the lack of lighting in these scenes made a difference to how the characters reacted to him. They were much quicker to call him out- and not in the jokey sitcom world “stingers” that usually happen when the lighting is on. characters (especially Sam) were just done with his behavior. This even escalates right until the moment the power comes back on and the sitcom world (with its sitcom lighting) is violently re-established. Suddenly they find the generator, and though the characters are still grumbling, it is in a much milder, pacified way. Kevin is the star again.

Wondering if the drop of the lighting is supposed to highlight how much more powerful the *framing* of Kevin’s behavior is than the laughter. (The lighting representing the framing). People are dicks all the time & laugh at shitty behavior, but it’s the subtle bending of reality that really alters our culture

Brb going to write a 10 page essay on this show

[haunted-calathea]

I decided to rewatch Kevin Can Fuck Himself & UHUUGHHHH I LOVE THIS SHOW

the way it subtly shows the intricacies & capacity for abuse within the Trad Wife ideologies without outright showing Kevin hurting Allison. The way she sighs with relief whenever he leaves, the way she has to prepare herself to be around him, her desperation for something that will make him happy so he stops hurting her, then the realization that nothing has that power. That she has to leave or get rid of Kevin. And if she leaves, he just ends up hurting someone else. So there's only one real option.

I think we need more media made for survivors by survivors bc this shit is masterfully done & I adore it

[sazwritesstuff]

so i've been watching Kevin Can Fuck Himself and i know a lot of people have mentioned/talked about how light, saturation, camera angle, Alison's roots growing out, her arm in a sling/not a sling, etc changes in Kevin's POV vs reality but one thing i've noticed that i've not seen anyone talk about is how Alison's voice/accent changes

Alison's accent becomes thicker, as does Paddy's, and exaggerated when we're in the sitcom world and i just think it's an interesting little detail and also plays on how sitcoms so often exaggerate how characters talk like some of the lines that they say in the sitcom world you would never catch yourself actually saying in day-to-day life

the change in how Alison speaks really helps to emphasize how fake that would is because it sounds unnatural and forced just like a lot of sitcoms where it is a caricature of reality and it just shows how Kevin distorts the reality that we see and hear when we are pulled into his world

[anoles]

Bro it was crazy when they revealed that Kevin pressured Allison to move in with him after only 2 months of dating but it was even crazier when they revealed that Kevin and Allison met on the night of her father’s funeral!!!!! So essentially Kevin preyed on this woman that was grieving and she ended up in a horrible emotionally abusive marriage. A cautionary tale indeed.

[susiemyersonislifegoals]

I love the detail of Tammy trying to make Patty like vodka, how it's there at the beginning of their relationship and doesn't go away.

And of course this is one way the show tells us that in the end Allison knows Patty better and loves her for who she is - real food, menthols, staying in the home she's always known, and no vodka.

But what I really love about it is that Tammy can be controlling sometimes without being Kevin.

Sam, too, pulls occasional power plays on Allison and (unintentionally, for the most part) gaslights her about Kevin. They both have their shitty moments (as do Allison and Patty), but occasional shitty moments or even an ongoing not-so-subtle wish for a partner to be different than who they really are does not make someone an abuser.

Allison and Tammy both ignore Patty's instruction to not go look for Neil, and we see this as care for her on both their parts. (Even though we know it's also got a selfish motivation for Allison, btw.)

Even though at some point or another everyone uses one or more of Kevin's tactics, they don't do it in the all-encompassing, self-serving, total control of the narrative way that Kevin does. There's no sitcom world where Tammy's the lovable if bossy cop (Brooklyn Nine Nine, Barney Miller, the Naked Gun franchise, so many copaganda examples) or Sam is the good-hearted hapless recovering alcoholic boss in a relationship with his employee (Cheers). And yes, because of aspects of their identities relative to a Kevin, it is harder for them to control the narrative in that totalizing way (Sam says as much early in the series), but also they are simply not trying to. They are just flawed people who fuck up sometimes.

I love that I bristled at what I saw as Tammy's red flags early on but came to see her genuine care for Patty. And when she broke up with Patty for virtually the same reason Kurt did, I didn't hate her the way I hated him. Tammy deserves to be with someone who considers Tammy their favorite person.

[crowzenyogurt]

yall hear about that new animated sitcom?

[leepontocom]

Never a better feeling than when a show you already like turns out to have queer characters

[the-real-hank-green]

The most unrealistic part of Kevin can fuck himself is a man from Worcester having that much whimsy for life