Mikey (It's not what you think)

Youthfully oblivious MY ASS. Hypnotizing your own FATHER into forgetting about your COMATOSE brother and brainwashing him to liking YOU more is not innocent in the LEAST! And using hypnotism to fire the hardworking, assbusting housekeeper was pretty *beep* heinous for a kid. I'm glad Mikey died and I hope he rot sin Hell... that's it!

"Blacka da berry- sweeta da wine!" - some idiot

The whole time I was thinking how similar Mikey was to Missy. But I do not think that Mikey was innocent or youthfully oblivious in any way. He was a spoiled, manipulative little brat just like Missy. They even had some similar facial expressions.

You guys are completely misunderstanding mhearn. He can't help the environment he was brought up in and how it's affected his personality. No, it's not right for anyone to think of someone else as less than themselves, but that's what the suburban lifestyle teaches. If you can blame someone for not realizing that what they've been taught all their life really isn't right, then you've missed the entire point of the movie. Besides that, the slurring is really unneccesary.

I didn't dislike Missy all that much, I thought she was the innocent and oblivious one, whereas Mikey was a spoiled bitch. My copy of Dollhouse did skip a lot though, maybe I missed something. The only point in the movie where Missy seemed in the wrong was when she pushed Dawn in the pool...

I don't get why someone would hate him either.

He's a little kid who feels like he has to hypnotize his father to get him to love him. Doesn't anyone think that's sad?

He was a child who lived a sheltered, priveleged life. That isn't his fault. It's not like he was an adult who'd been exposed to other things. In his eyes, Consuela could've easily seemed lazy.

I thought Mickey was an example of a kid that will grow up to be a typical extremely rich heartless businessman/CEO filth !
I also liked how the mother was arranging this whole charity thing and asking her friend to pay 1000$ for israel (which is one of the richest countries) while an extremely poor lady is rubbing off the floor in her house to get the monthly 400$ to support her 100 member-family !

That part about them being all "survivors" was classic aswell!

I just watched Storytelling a bit ago, and I'm surprised to see peoples reactions to the Mikey character here on IMDB. Do none of you have any experience with children? Kids can be unimaginably vicious. From a developmental standpoint, their prefrontal cortex, what we use to tell right from wrong, is very small and not very active. They are essentially amoral and do not have the ability to empathize hardly at all. When he's talking to Consuela about her dead grandson, I thought that was a perfect textbook example of it. He views the world in black and white and can't put himself in her shoes and relate to how bad she must feel. He also does it with his father, when he tries to sound hopeful about his brothers recovery. He even says it directly, that he was just trying to make his father feel better. He was just going through the motions, doing what he thought was appropriate.

Until adolescence, that's how empathy is done by kids. They don't feel it, they just do the motions they've seen others do in a bid to fit in. Adolescence comes on and with it rapid development of the prefrontal cortex... a source of a lot of the emotional turmoil in adolescence. Mikey was just being a kid, his feelings of entitlement and such like that that he got from his family were amplified in our eyes because he didn't know enough to hide it.