Episode 7 Question about D (spoiler)
Can someone explain who was abusing D? I missed it.
shareHe was abused by one of the child of the home, I don't know if he is his step brother, cousin or something like that by the way.
shareAnd by his stepfather.
So he was abused by his stepbrother and stepfather? So his father is dead?
shareNo--and this is where "Chance" is veering into "True Detective" incredulity. The latest baddie, Darius' dear old dad, not only knows about the rapes, but faults Darius for them. He wants Chance to assist him in institutionalizing his son, out of fear that Darius will kill him.
Anyone with a knowledge of sexual abuse within families, kept secret, will be aware of the extreme unreality of this plot point. Enablers or parents who look the other way while a molestor is destroying a child keep this torture private. They do not go to hospitals talking freely about it or try to bribe doctors into pretending something witnessed only by people now dead never happened.
And by his stepfatherAs I understood it, his stepfather did not abuse him directly but ignored Darius requests for help and let the abuse go on. Whether he was actively complicit in the abuse or simply didn't care enough to listen and help Darius is not clear yet. share
agreed. big d's mother is killed in a car accident. d goes to live with his paternal grandmother - at first because his father is so shaken, later because his father is busy with his new marriage to a much younger woman and with his new son.
big d is abused by the son of his grandmother's latest husband - therefore a step-uncle. the grandmother protects her stepson. father continues to leave big d occasionally with the grandmother in order to travel with the new wife and son. father looks the other way, and the abuse continues until big d gets big enough to beat his step-uncle (and perhaps grandmother &/or step-grandfather) severely, whereupon big d is sent to a psych hospital.
yes, it is not clear why his professor father is so controlling and malicious - perhaps he is guilty for not protecting big d from his grandmother's new family; perhaps he wants to rationalize caring for his new family rather than his first family (big d); perhaps it is too painful to think about the loss of his first wife and anyone associated with her. perhaps he wants to jump on any evidence that big d is disturbed in order to head-off accusations about the grandmother.
but how often in a thriller do we really understand why a villain is sociopathic? we don't understand why detective blackstone is bent, either; he just is. they are not point-of-view characters. chance, jacqueline, and big d are point-of-view characters, so we are gradually getting to understand where they are coming from.