Are people really this damaged?
You won't tell your boyfriend his father is dead? If someone witheld that from me I'd put them through the God damn wall...
shareHave you been watching F is for family lol
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She didn't tell him immediately... but I'm pretty sure there's going to be more to that story coming soon. For goodness sake, show a little patience...
shareYou can't withhold that for any amount of time. You don't hide that in your pocket you hand it over...
shareThat's fine that you think so... but a lot of people think that timing and tact should be considered and it might be inconsiderate to "brute force" what most would call "delicate matters."
For example, my parents decided to get a divorce and probably thought long and hard about how they were going to break the news to their kids... maybe you would have thought they were wrong for that and preferred the method of your parents yelling it out to you the moment one of them decided. Maybe they weren't home at the time, so they left you a note on the fridge so that you would get that info. ASAP? Whatever the case, more power to you.
But still... ignoring the fact that you don't have a monopoly on determining what's "right and wrong" when it comes to other peoples' feelings.
This is a television show which DOES have horrible, damaged people in it. Pretending you're completely right and she's terrible (though we've not given the show ANY chance at all to deal with this yet and for all we know she immediately shows him in the next episode after taking the note to the bathroom to re-read it just to make sure she's not mistaken)... well, pretending she's just the worst thing ever... I guess the riddle to the show's title would be solved for your, right? I guess we would have figured out who's the actual worst.
Apples and oranges this is a grown man whose father passed away she's hiding it because she doesn't want to deal with his reaction(whatever that may be) it's a selfish mood but it's also a tired television trope. I expected more from this show...
shareWhat if Gretchen was trying to tell Jimmy when she broached the subject of whether Jimmy had talked to his family before Jimmy ran off celebrating his book proposal business? What if Gretchen's pained face as the episode ending was her trying to figure out the best way to tell Jimmy?
Honest question: since we haven't even seen what Gretchen's about to do (since the episode immediately ended), do you think the best way for her to handle this would be to tell Jimmy "you got a letter" and simply hand him that horrible letter which I don't remember what it said exactly but was pretty much: Hey, $#!**Y Jimmy - you're dad's dead!
Also, did you get upset at the show at the end of the last episode since it was throwing away so quickly what happened last season with Lindsay and Paul - since obviously they were no longer going to be a couple since she just freaking stabbed him?
I'm just saying... maybe you should chill out and not rile yourself up when terrible things haven't even happened yet (especially when these terrible things are on a show about terrible people doing... terrible things).
Because, seriously, the show's characters have already given you plenty of reasons to think they're not great people! If up to this point, you thought the characters were behaving like model citizens then maybe you have bigger issues you should be dealing with.
She didn't get the chance to tell him. He was in the other room when she opened the letter. The moment he came back to that room, he was ecstatic about his book proposal. She tried to say something about it when she asked about being in contact with his family and he said he'd blocked them all.
It was about a 20 second scene and we don't know what happened after 30 seconds. Most likely she didn't tell him, but we don't know yet.
It wasn't her being selfish, it was her not being sure how/when to tell him.
A few years back we found out that my son's best friend was moving out of state. We didn't tell him for a day or so. Not because we were being selfish, but because he had a couple of fun things scheduled and we wanted him to be able to enjoy them rather than being down because his best friend was moving.
OP I feel it ironic that you are talking about how damaged a person is. While you talk about violently overreacting. I mean god damn Jimmy could open his own mail. I would hate for that to be put on me.
She comes clean to him this week's episode anyways.
And to ask your original question. Yes absolutely that is why this show is so relatable and strikes such a chord with some.
OP, as others have pointed out, the episode immediately ended, once she read the note and saw the newspaper clipping; whether or not she immediately told him, is irrelevant, since again, the episode ended BEFORE WE SAW WHAT SHE DID. Is it safe to assume that she may have delayed the info? Possibly, since past behaivor helps support what you are saying; but again, we did NOT see what she did, after reading.
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