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Him breaking and saying im not fine and missing his dad, totally broke me. Made me tear up and cry thinking about my own dad.

I think the humor is less in the fact that Hughie is being abused and more in how ridiculous Tek Knight and his dungeon is.

All this aside...this episode convinced me that Hughie's actor would make an awesome Spider-Man

Ted Knight knew the whole time it wasn’t Webweaver. His perception demonstrated in Gen V is incredible, so he may have known immediately. Failing that, Webweaver’s suit has a hole, the whole reason Tek invited him. Hughie has his back turned in the library as Tek seems to look at the hole, and immediately after, he ‘invites’ Hughie to the Tek Cave. To double confirm, he follows Hughie into the elevator where we can all see his bare skin. Ashley gets a pass because she seems to understandably believe this is consensual, and pauses the first time it appears that it’s not, but Tek is toying with him from the start.

Hughie is quite simply the most scarred and tortured individual on the show. From the first 5 freaking minutes this poor lad had his entire life upended and it's been a damn roller coaster from there.

It reminds me of the Mythbusters episode where they strapped someone down and dripped water on their head. Even though they could get out any time they want and were surrounded by friendly people and no one was hurting them, just the act of being tied down and unable to move with this annoying drip of water hitting them was enough to make someone cry. We value our autonomy greatly.

The problem is that the writer Kripke saying it's hilarious is sickening. As someone who was abused as a child, it's never hilarious. If he said starlight being abused by the deep was hilarious, he would have been strung up and lost his job.

speaking as a guy who has been shamed of not liking a sexual touch from another and actually being shamed for it, I know what kinda thing Hughie was going through both during and after that incident cause yea that was pretty messed up. Abuse/assault on either gender on any person is plain not funny or very hard to make funny no matter how you approach it, but at least the show acknowledged how wrong it really was and actually showed some compassion to the victim.

After today’s episode too…. Hughie got assaulted. AGAIN. TWO EPISODES IN A ROW.

She got halfway there with male victims. We absolutely mock, degrade and gaslight them. As a result, it's only natural that they don't trust anyone with their feelings. The part she forgets is that we then flip the script and re-victimize them. We criticize them for being "toxic" or "stoic." We tell them we don't care what they went through, then we belittle them for not getting "help." We teach them to be one way to survive, then we mock them for using the only survival tool they have and call it "maladaptive". Instead of telling men to be vulnerable, society needs to actually prove they care. Until then vulnerability = stupidity.

At the end where he breaks down was the moment I realized that it wasn't funny. I think Jack Quaid did an amazing job showing how traumatizing that experience was. I felt genuine sadness and remorse

For me, abuse being the source of humor depends entirely on 2 factors. 1) Who's relating the abuse (if the victim is talking about it in humorous fashion, e.g. comedian Christopher Titus) 2) If the abuse is utterly fantastical and/or comically over-the-top (e.g. Doofenshmirtz's family, with their dog "Only Son", and his parents failing to come for his own birth)

The book Hughie does get assaulted in the book and it’s dealt with in a way most people would sadly imagine. After assaulted, Hughie hides it and never speaks of it to anyone, only having sudden flashes of it happen. Towards the end of the series, he tells the rest of The Boys about it only when the story needs him to tell them and their response was “woah that’s crazy… anyway, back to what’s happening.” So I do commend this series and characters talking about the trauma after it’s happened instead of it bottling it up.

8:00 - Tek Knight is actually completely aware that it's not Web Weaver under the suit for the majority of the episode. When they start talking up at the party, he notices that Web Weaver doesn't react to the musical note of his finger circling the glass. Then as Tek Knight enters the elevator behind Web Weaver, he looks down and can see there is no web shooter in the hole in the lower back of the suit.

Jack Quaid's characters are really having the worst times right now. Superman/Clark Kent and Hughie.

It made me very very uncomfortable. I'm glad Hughie at the end admitted he was not okay.

It started off as funny with the cake sitting and foot tickling but morphed into something sinister, I think this was quite a smart move because it changed the perspective of the same scenario. Almost like the way that SA on men isn’t always taken seriously until it got to a dangerous level. Whether or not that was the intention we can’t tell but I thought it was a powerful episode, especially with the final moment and admission that he isn’t ok.

I see a lot of reasons as to why people saw it as “funny”. I think the humor of the situation was the situational irony. The audience knew it was hughie as Webweaver but Tek Knight and Ashley didn’t so in their eyes it’s totally consensual. Once Tek figured out it was hughie and genuinely tried to assault him the tone shifted and was actually horrifying.

Thanks for this video. That episode made me uncomfortable and not many people seem to acknowledge that Hughie went through something bad. So I'm grateful you dealt with this issue.

I am so disgusted by the director for saying that. Lost so much respect for this show. How can you handle Starlight, Becca, and even the Deep’s assault seriously but NOT Hughie’s??? What the hell is up with that? This shit was NOT funny. Male victims need to be treated with the same respect and dignity. I am so disgusted right now.

Part way through it's clear Tek Knight figured out it's a ruse and kept doing it for sadomasochistic torture pleasure at Hughie's expense. Thats non consensual

Brilliant analysis, Georgia. Thank you for so much care and sensitivity to the subject.

I love that we have Hughie as an emotional and empathic anchor in the show. I relate to him. Thanks for making this video about this serious topic.

Personally i think when tek night mentioned the safeword. It was a nod to the audience he knew it was hughie. He didnt care but ashley would

I think the real issue here is the double standard. Whether or not this is funny in isolation is entirely subjective, but the fact of the matter is that in the current socio-cultural paradigm, you could never get away with having a female character in this situation, regardless of the creative context and intent.

The worst abuse I can recall being played for laughs is Miss Piggy and Kermit in the Muppet show. I'm a little surprised because Disney went out of their way to put a warning message on some of the episodes and not others. Some of the ones without the warning message were the worst offenders with Miss Piggy literally beating Kermit into submission. It's not funny. I don't remember Miss Piggy abusing Kermit in the movies, so I think Henson realized this as well.

Whether or not Tek Knight knew it was Hughie from the start is not the only question. The fact was that Hughie didn't want to be in that situation, as he was trying different safe words, but because of the whole nature of BDSM being "consent is assumed until it is officially withdrawn via a safeword", it was as if the writers wanted to meticulously construct a "funny" abuse scene, in which they could always say "ahahah but it wasn't really abuse because Tek Knight and Ashley thought it was consensual." The horror for me is that Hughie was in a situation where no matter what he communicated, he couldn't stop what they were doing. Yes, Tek Knight being sadistic enough to try and cut into Hughie afterward is scary as well, but it's the victim's plight itself that is the most concerning, not just the mindset of the perpetrator.

I think a lot people blame the victim because if abuse is something outside of the victim's control then that opens the possibility that something horrible could happen to you outside of your control--and that's far too scary a concept for many people.😱 Instead it's easier to blame the victim.

I thankfully haven't gone through a traumatic event like Hughie, but as a cisgender male I see value is being able to not only see endure that abuse but also to cry from it. I have seen several comedy movies where men get S/A'd and the people around them laugh it off, or if they cry about it and try to talk about it they're called weak or that they aren't real men. it felt nice to finally see a piece of media that can take a dark situation, give it some comedic moments, but also let the character speak about how they feel. An added bonus for Annie being an S tier girlfriend for helping Hughie afterwards and not laughing.

Reasons to cover current set of Inside Out movies: -it’s movies about the mind -We need to look at as if each emotion was a real person, toxic positivity, anxiety attacks, they call her ennui when it should be apathy -the cosplay THE COSPLAY

Using a BDSM dungeon as a place to be assaulted is causing so many misfires in my head, because the reality of that community is that it’s based on communication, trust and consent although the activities they participate in come off as harmful and violent, they become harmful and violent when the communication and trust breaks down. I remember having a nervous laugh at Hue’s distress because haha random acts of violence, before my brain clocked all the little pieces and then it was just not fun I wasn’t watching a funny gag anymore. I didn’t need to get to his breakdown later to understand. He was already wasn’t coping well with his fathers death, threw himself into work hoping for a distraction just to be tortured, molested and almost killed by his childhood hero who’s toys was a bonding moment for him and his dad the memory of which was recently brought up in relation to his death. The man went though it and while it made me very uncomfortable it was depicted masterfully On a lighter note I think the gimp 100% helped The Boys out because Tek Knight broke SO MANY rules, not confirming safe word before the session and having a session with someone clearly not consenting. Tek was even explaining how it’s all about trust when they went down there so there’s plently of reasons to assume he usually was a trustworthy host. 😅Lastly I despite my knowledge of it, I don’t participate. Researched it for an ethics paper and I’ve had a healthy respect ever since. Enjoy playing responsibly😊

A lot of abuse is so absurd that if it weren’t so sad it probably would be funny. That’s part of why it’s such a mindf*ck. That doesn’t mean that the absurdity of abuse should at all take away from the amount of pain and trauma it causes though, or the actual real life gravity of it.

You're straight killin it with the costumes along with the content and breakdowns

Thank you for touching on the subject with the care that it deserves

Even as a dark humor enjoyer, this was fucked up for me personally. Like I get it if it didn't actually traumatize Hughie that much and it would be a "funny" story to remember. I thought it was gonna be one when they saved Hughie and began to torture Tek Knight by donating his funds into movements he stood against, when Hughie seemed mostly unaffected by the shit that happened before. But when he remembered about this scene later when talking to Starlight, that was the problem. Like why, Kripke?

I'll be honest, after watching the episode of the show and this, I had a hard time afterwards processing my own trauma again. This helped me recognize a lot of the things I can't really put into words sometimes. Thank you for making this 😭

15:33 "Sometimes we can be hit of the severity of what we've gone through weeks, months, even years after that effect when it kind of all comes to us" Someone close to me, a good friend, passed away in November 15 of 2022. I cried a lot the day it happened, but it didn't fully hit me like a bullet train until a year later on the anniversary of their death. I didn't just cry when I woke up that day... I was whaled with pure emotional pain and agony, screaming my cries out because of how much it hurt, much unlike how I felt on the day they died. I still miss them tons. Rest in power, North.

In case anyone out there needs this: if you are processing a traumatic event, look into EMDR therapy. It is all about safely processing a traumatic event in small chunks and in a safe supportive environment. I am not a therapist, so excuse my very brief explanation. I personally have been using this therapy for my own traumas and it's working. I felt so scared to even try it thinking the discomfort of processing the trauma was worse than the relief I would feel, but I was wrong. It has been life changing. It does take time, like all good therapy does, but is so worth it. Georgia, thank you for this video. It's great, just like all the others.

i havent even seen the video completley and i can absolutely affirm this is a great great video, congrats, keep going!

The whole dad "I'm not ok" i felt that 😢😢i miss mine 1968-2018 RIP

Tbh, I wasn’t so concerned for the SA Hughie was experiencing on the first watch. I was more concerned with Kimiko, Starlight and MM getting in time to save him. But when Hughie broke down to Annie afterwards, I felt horrible that I overlooked the SA scene. On the second watch, it broke my heart

Thank you Georgia for the nuanced look at a topic not well dealt with in society. As you mentioned I think certain ways fiction can approach a subject are a great way to prompt discussions often avoided otherwise. Really appreciate driving home the point that different people process trauma or grief differently.

The way Hughie described it at first made me laugh, but the aftermath... shut me up real quick.

I think people find the humor not in the fact that Hughie is held hostage (the tide totally turns once Hughie is revealed as the impostor and there is an explicit threat), but the fact that it, for me personally, you find your self laughing in spite of yourself until then at the WTF of it all...And I think it's very important that Hughie is given the chance to break down and admit that he isn't OK in front of Starlight, who is very supportive...

Georgia, amazing video as always. I wanted to share a little knowledge nugget: as a member of the community, you learn about Sub-drop which is a term for post "play" where the 'bottom' feels very negative about themselves for the actions during play, words that were said, etc. and therefore aftercare is a super critical part of playing. (Btw Doms/Tops can experience "top-drop" which is when they feel guilty for saying or doing things in play and also require aftercare to connect with their partner and pull them out of that negative mindset.) The way I saw the "I'm not ok scene" was It jumps to Annie talking about the CCamps, and Hughie is by himself before he drops. They're both inexperienced with regards to the things in the cave, and both didn't know that aftercare might be important to talk out what Hugie went through and have Annie console him and help bring him up out of that pit. Which I thought was an extra facet of this heavier episode. And yes, this is trauma, not a consensual "bunny dog salamander mule" experience, but I think had Annie taken steps to take care of him after this experience he may not have dropped so hard so suddenly. I firmly believe if Frenchie was present he would have known the importance of aftercare since he's been in a slave to Little Nina, who I'm sure knows how to take care of a submissive to keep them under her thumb. Hugie may have rejected Frenchie trying to cuddle with him (lol) but I think he could have communicated to Annie the few things she could be doing differently to console Hugie after that event. Just remember, reader of this comment, you can have spicy fun, keep it safe, sane, and consentual. Talk boundaries before play, establish a safe word. Clean up and clean yourself when you're done. Reconnect during aftercare and talk about the good, if anything was bad, and you can turn what might be a scary scenario into a fun and enjoyable and healthy release.

Thanks for making psychology understandable through media!

your dedication to your work is exceptional thank you for spreading the awareness

I think it was great of you to discuss the nuance of humor/ laughing as just a part of a trauma response or background while hold firm that it is not ok to mock or laugh at someones abuse *for funsies*

I truly appreciate you talking about these things

this is the most insightful take I've seen on this episode and the issue of abuse depictions on tv in general! you made me realize sometimes the conversation isn't about abuse itself, it's about how different people deal with abuse and other things like humor and trauma. nuance and empathy are important so that we don't have the typical internet "black and white" or right vs wrong argument.

Thank you for a nuanced and supportive look at a problematic issue via a troubling episode of television.

I liked how the episode did it. The way that the kind of stuff tek knight starts apparently silly (like farting on a cake) and then the scene starts to shift tone gradually to a more serious one made me go from "lol thats weird" to a "omg please someone help him" and then finally at his breakdown I was feeling bad for even laughing at the cake scene. Like as if the show did the first scene on tek knights pov (as he saw everything as kinky foreplay) and gradualy switched to hughie pov. At least that's how I interpreted this subplot.

nooooo not that suit😭😭

This was a profoundly hard episoide for me to watch. I was not ok after watching it. I did NOT sleep well that night.

Aw you said it. It is okay to not be okay. That is one of the gems of wisdom I found along the way.

i went though a lot of BS in m y childhood, and joking about it is def a way for me to cope. I know if i got all serious and stuck up about it then i would have never dealt with it properly. Therapy never worked for me because the therapists just treated me like a normal "text book" example of a child who was molested by a trusted family member. not everyone is the same and psychology is great, but if the therapist isn't willing to learn the patient and treat the patient and care more about treating the situation, then it fails. Watching hughey go through that and then seeing his final reaction was great and in my opinion realistic. Him having someone like Starlight to trust and comfort him is key, she knows "HIM". the real him. If they would have just played this scene off as a joke and never referenced it again, then it would be in poor taste.. but just like Starlight's first season abuse (which wasn't funny nor meant to be), the abuse had a story line effect and wasn't just in the show for kicks. And i can see that the humor wasn't directly focused on "lol man gets sex'd against his will" and more at how absurd Tek Knight's kinks are. But i also know that not everybody deals with trauma the same. i try not to judge people when they are triggered by things i find funny. They were obviously able to deal with their trauma in a different way than i did. I had to rely on myself to make myself feel safe again and humor was their for me. Hell i was even told by another family member that i should just listen to my therapist and let him brainwash me so i could deal with it better- cause they didn't like my humor. and that stuck with me and is probably the reason why i distrust opinions from people "just because they have a degree in something" one of the smartest people i know told me that i should just get brainwashed instead of being myself....

Love how you handled this topic! 👏🤍

Your the best, I didn’t know I needed this video, also your costumes are awesome ,

Amazing analysis on a super heavy subject. Consent during any type of “sec” is always important, whether it’s before or during. Hughie actor is great. Also when the ad for “The Getaway” popped up and I saw you “ I was like that Leo Decaprio meme

i love their relationship so much. there’s been a few subtle but big moments where they’ve leaned on each other this season, like with this episode or with firecracker disclosing annie’s abortion. i didn’t expect to cry over them this morning lmao

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I want to THANK YOU! You probably won't see this but you have made some great things for everyone else. Some of your videos helped me a lot, to see my own demons and to have more courage to confront them. People can get very-needed advice on many mental health topics for free. You create amazing content, make it even more enjoyable and relatable, and even make some money from the channel. Perfection.

That quote from the showrunner is particularly baffling because in interviews about Starlight's S1 assault, he talked about trying to make sure they approached it the correct way and got it right.... and when the same thing happens to Hughie, it suddenly becomes, "Lulz, we thought this was Grade A humor!"?

I think anything can be funny, but I think people are also right to have a problem with a show portraying sexual abuse of a woman as straightforwardly terrible and traumatic and the abuse of a male as a joke.

Perfect acting🙌🏾

Being vornable to the wrong people to the wrong people can make things 10x worse

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All I’m going to say is that if the gender roles were reversed and it was Annie who got SAed instead of Huey, there would be MASS outrage. I get the impression from our culture that when men get…attacked, it’s not to be taken seriously. And let me tell you, growing up as a male with pressure from society to never allow myself to be vulnerable has led to some unhealthy coping mechanisms such as stress eating and chronic depression. Maybe it’s just a me problem, but it always felt wrong to pretend like everything is fine, not just to myself, but to the few people who genuinely cared about my wellbeing. If I ever have a son, I don’t want him to feel as though he’s never allowed to be himself, and must always pretend to be stoic 100% of the time. Maybe it works for some people, but certainly not for everyone.

Appreciate the time and video! I just recently started watching your videos and find them super informative and helpful. I don't know if you keep up with video game media but have you seen God of War 2018 and Ragnarok? There is a fantastic Father/son dynamic that I think would be an interesting topic

@Georgia Dow : Post ASD/ADHD meltdown (or burnout) clarity is one of the most sobering things I've ever felt. The clarity is unreal. Everything you misread or missed comes into view. I often think ASD's are very logical people, but they often miss pieces of the puzzle. So large mistakes aren't necessarily any kind of delusion. They are a misconception or mistranslation.

Given his character, I think the 'lesser' assault would have more of an impact on Hughie. Hughie is the kind of person that focuses well in dangerous survival situations and packs the trauma away for later. From day one Butcher saw this in him and has been grooming Hughie ever since. He's been forcing Hughie to do things that would result in his instant death if he were caught, prepping him and numbing him to it. He threw Hughie in the deep end and watched to see if he could swim. And it turned out that Hughie was a natural swimmer in those waters, so Butcher kept applying the pressure until Hughie was used to it. The episode before showed this aspect of his character. While everyone one else was screaming and running around when his dad started showing super powers, Hughie was calm and did what needed to be done. He can focus down to the moment in situations like that, even when it's deeply personal. What was a natural talent has been honed over the last few years until he's completely numb to it. But during the 'lesser' assault he was in safer waters, everyone thought he was someone else. Due to the nature of the s*x scene, he'd have to really mess up to give the game away. Unless he said the safe word he could squirm and act weird all he wanted - that's what's expected of him. And because he was safer, he actually experienced everything that was happening to him. The lack of control, the physical abuse, the things Ashley was saying. He's out of his numb mental zone and taking it all in, so it would effect him more. The stuff with Tek Knight afterwards would put him back into that numb space, that space he goes to when he needs to focus on surviving. Where part of him isn't Hughie at all. His brain has been trained to make a space for this type of fear, then to bag it up in a place where Hughie won't touch or return to. In the 'lesser' assault he is all Hughie, in the Tek Knight assault, he is only partially there. As someone who naturally does this when in dangerous situations and then has to sit down and unpack it later, I see Hughie very clearly in these moments. One day, if he makes it out, the numb part of his brain will come and cash its cheques and he'll spend years in therapy unpacking it all, but right now his mind is doing its best to protect him.

Am I the only one who thinks that the scenes after Hughie is revealed aren't even MEANT to be funny? Like ok, conceptually Tek Knight playing such upbeat music while preparing something terrible is kinda funny. But those screams and sobs of Hughie's are so raw that I don't think anything afterwards is even trying to be particularly funny. It's one thing to find the humour in Hughie going so deep undercover that he needs to feign consent in light BDSM, but I don't actually see much suggesting that the show was trying to get laughs out of Hughie's distress of being SA'd and mutilated.

I know it would be a lot of work but I recommend making playlists on Nebula, like how you have playlists on youtube. I assuming it's coming but I don't see this video on Nebula yet.

Commenting before the next episode comes out and I do want to say it will depend on where they go with it next. It seems like he is actually traumatised so it isn't making light of it but showing the damage it has caused him. I also do want to point out consent by fraud is a crime which is actually what he was doing here albeit not knowingly, stuff like this has actually happened where someone has consented to have sex with one person only for that person to swap with someone else. Clearly Tech Knight had spent a lot of time talking to this person and learning what they like and there had been a discussion beforehand about safe words, hard limits and other preferences. Hughie showed up pretending to be that person. Also here is a quote I learned in High School that applies here: The safeword is the word you use in S/M sex that means "stop"; ... it's something innocuous, like "red", "blue", "tree", "table", whatever, so I said to my friend Bucky, who was teaching me about safewords, "But Bucky, what happens if you forget the safeword? Red, blue, green, yellow, onomatopoeia, front-loading dishwasher, what?!" She said, "Maggie, you say 'I forgot the safeword, you idiot!'

I would love to see a video of Georgia talking about Guts from Berserk

😭 the web weaver suit noooooo!

Honestly, this episode was the final straw for me. I love a lot of things about this show, I'm not afraid of gore or violence or whatever, and I don't have some major ethical objection to the material. It just feels ugly to watch and makes me unhappy watching it. So... yeah. I was really hoping, earlier in the season, that they were letting up on the grossout/violent/juvenile stuff. The scene in the lab seemed appropriate to the narrative. This? enh.

I went into this thinking "Here we go with the 'this episode bad, no more the boys', and yet you articulated everything I said and felt in a much more professional and impressive manner

NAAAAAW NOT THE WEB WEAVER OUTFIT

I hated the abuse stuff

Abuse to men happens on screen Society: 😂 lmao man up Abuse to women on screen Society: whoa whoa this is wrong!

I was hoping you would talk about this episode. I’m reminded of the excellent video by Pop Culture Detective on the same subject. A must watch for anybody interested in the analysis of how media treats the SA of men.

is there a way i can see your anti anxiety vids without joining nebula? as i think it may help me however i'm just reluctant to dive into another subscription for reasons, probably better of booking a therapy session i guess

Please do A-train and the deep next

Abuse in my eyes is NEVER funny I feel like in this show in much as I love this show when it comes to stuff like this I do not think they treated hughie the same when it comes with starlight and her SA I think it all kinda stems from the issue that it’s serious when it’s a woman victim versus funny when it happens to a dude

In the newest game of Yakuza "Like a Dragon" the main character is SA'd like three times & played as a joke but after the first event happened I looked up the others to avoid them because it made me so uncomfortable. Luckily a lot of people on Reddit had already made an entire discussion & list for people who wanted to avoid it.

This show from s1e1 could have had a warning at the beginning of each episode, by season 4 only dark humor types are likely watching. Like Georgia's breakdown as always. Is a good idea to deal with your demons before you like playing with them and become one.

Thank you.

Where did you get that web weaver costume?

The boys "writers" probably slap their knees each time Hughie gets abused or insulted by someone. Its the only reason they though it was funny, because Hughie is The Boys' punching bag, for whatever reason. I like the series but there are times when I really want to ask what the heck is wrong with them

Imo its funny because Tek Knight is a satire of Batman, the real ways his family made money, his black Alfred, and his questionable relationship with Robin and Nightwing

Thanks Georgia for covering this. I gotta give it to the fans too for calling out that writer for that comment that the scene “hilarious”. People might have laughed at the situation. But many fans were horrified for Hughie at every turn of that scene.

The humor came from having how big of freaks tek knight and Ashley are suddenly dropped on us, only to see it escalate. We hear about the "infamous" tek cave expecting to see something on par with the batcave, only to be hit with one chair covered in phalluses, a gimp tied up in a corner, and one laptop. Even when Tek knight is about to kill Hughie, it was written to be as true to his character as possible in the most shocking way imaginable. I think it was actually really interesting how they balanced the tone. The tone of the episode itself at first DOES come off as silly, perfectly paralleling how Hughie is suppressing his own emotions regarding his current situation and his recent loss. Idk, i guess it could have been done more respectfully, but at the same time its rare something like this is attempted

Damn i have not seen the episode yet. Got to wait on vid.

They totally negated the scene where Annie consoles him in the last episode of S4. He gets his consent violated again in a big way and Annie blames him for it, the show runners don't correct him and Hughie fist pumps over being "forgiven" for the violation to his consent. Really frustrating.

I really stuggled to watch this part of the episode. Poor Hughie, hes been through enough shit as it is and his truma is just getting worse. I hope he gets a happy ending, he bloody deserves it

Can you make a video about Todd and the scene where he meets his hero Homelander? Breaking down that scene would be amazing

Also, please cover some House of the Dragon material....pretty please, Georgia? I want to se you do the period cosplay just to see you do Rhaenyra...i think you'd be spot on 😂 Could you cover Aemond and his Machiavellian strategies?

I'm someone that whatever I've experienced, I look for it in media. I want to see similar stories told. What I wouldn't want to see is cruelty in itself, like writing that targets real world vulnerabilities. I understand that people can get triggered whatever the intent, but a lot of the time when horrible stuff happens to a character, you are them, and you're meant to tag along as he overcomes it. It can backfire when they don't take it seriously enough or when they do it more for shock value. The other thing hate is when the writers are douchebags and they write the characters to be casually cruel and it's unintended. I remember thinking that "Buffy" dialogue, I grew up with the reruns, fit this category of a show that didn't age well. Or "Friends" episodes that marginalize lgbt characters, etc.