I didn't love this but I did like it. Serling obviously wasn't allowed to talk about child sexual abuse, so I kind of liked the weirdly clunky ways he managed to make it 100% clear in the subtext even when the text was actively working against it. The repetition of "your bedroom" starts sounding like a spy dropping a code word into a sentence that doesn't make much sense on its own. And "I had a crush on you" makes literally no sense in context unless he's a pedophile.
I also would have liked it better if the entire thing was a psychodrama inside her head. Still, I appreciate what Serling was going for enough to forgive the absurd stair fall (if only Markie had pushed him!), the nonsensical past plot, Helen's passivity, and "Weird."
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Date: 2023-02-17 03:33 am (UTC)I also would have liked it better if the entire thing was a psychodrama inside her head. Still, I appreciate what Serling was going for enough to forgive the absurd stair fall (if only Markie had pushed him!), the nonsensical past plot, Helen's passivity, and "Weird."