I also felt major greek tragedy vibes watching the rich finance dad find his dead son as he wakes up from a week of diazepam head in the sand denial. Now that I think of it it kind of reminds me of Agave discovering her son’s body in her hands as she comes to from her bacchic revelry. So yeah I think the tragic reversals happen beyond rick and Chelsea! (And I actually think strictly speaking it was crazy that the horrible father who was going to slaughter his family to prevent them from being poor didn’t get some kind of serious comeuppance…but maybe living with his non-dead family is punishment enough).
this is such a good point and such a good parallel!!!!! also HARD agree re feeling very unsatisfied that we didn't get to see the fallout from their financial ruin??
Carrie Coon’s monologue made me realize the three friends are the three Fates (the Moirai!), when she said, “I had this epiphany today. I don’t need religion or God to give my life meaning because time gives it meaning.”
And then they were all there at the scene where Rick shot his father and ended his life. The role of the Moirai is to ensure that every being lived out their destiny as it was assigned to them by the laws of the universe.
I also felt major greek tragedy vibes watching the rich finance dad find his dead son as he wakes up from a week of diazepam head in the sand denial. Now that I think of it it kind of reminds me of Agave discovering her son’s body in her hands as she comes to from her bacchic revelry. So yeah I think the tragic reversals happen beyond rick and Chelsea! (And I actually think strictly speaking it was crazy that the horrible father who was going to slaughter his family to prevent them from being poor didn’t get some kind of serious comeuppance…but maybe living with his non-dead family is punishment enough).
this is such a good point and such a good parallel!!!!! also HARD agree re feeling very unsatisfied that we didn't get to see the fallout from their financial ruin??
I will never remember all this, so I hope there's no quiz! This was worth the wait.
I’m so glad you think so! And there will be no test but a quiz could be fun 🤔🤔
A little Star Wars trope as well. We are though, missing an hero in all three WL.
Oh I totally missed the Star Wars connection!
Brilliant!!!
Thank you so much!
A great essay. If teleplays be theater, then I declare you are Melpomene to us decadent moderns.
Take it away, Jim Morrison:
“The killer awoke before dawn.
He put his boots on.
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall…
‘Father?’ ‘Yes, son’, ‘I want to kill you’.
‘Mother. I want to *#@&+}’”
More Dionysus than Apollo, but hubris is still an iron law.
kind and a joy to read as always Glenn <3
Carrie Coon’s monologue made me realize the three friends are the three Fates (the Moirai!), when she said, “I had this epiphany today. I don’t need religion or God to give my life meaning because time gives it meaning.”
And then they were all there at the scene where Rick shot his father and ended his life. The role of the Moirai is to ensure that every being lived out their destiny as it was assigned to them by the laws of the universe.