Definitely took a dark turn which I wasn't quite ready for. Makes it all make more sense now though.
Ok so this episode turned the show 180 degrees. I feel no sorry or empathy for the guy, he is mentally ill and sexually depraved. And to know that HE is the actual real man it make this show very very sick.
The narration is way to much after the first episode.
I heard a few blurbs about this show and decided to try an episode and see if it hooked me. It hooked me.
I headed into episode 4 thinking, am I really going to stay up until 3AM binging the whole series in one sitting? Then...episode 4 happened.
This episode wasn't necessarily bad, but the words "bad trip" come to mind. I was breezing along, enjoying the hypnotic and fun ride, then things got extremely intense and dark. I was not prepared, at all, for this episode.
However, like a bad trip, it can be seen as an experience to draw meaning from. In this case, we now understand on a whole new level why the main character is the way he is, why he treats people the way he does, and why he seeks out the types of relationships he does.
I'll have to let this digest before finishing the series. I fully intend on finishing it, but I can imagine some viewers stopping here. It's tragic knowing this is a true story.
There's almost a dark humor looking back at my experience with the first three episodes. I even thought about which friends I might recommend the show to, like the setup to one of the main character's antithesis jokes. "So anyway, episode 4". This will be one of those shows that I appreciate the experience, but would never recommend.
Let's update the trigger warning for really, really hard stuff, this was absolutely devastating :sob:
Shout by cutecruelBlockedParentSpoilers2024-04-23T08:23:42Z
Nothing could have prepared me for episode 4. It is extremely dark and upsetting. That episode was hard to watch knowing that really happened to author in real life. Episode 4 left me emotionally drained. My brain needed a break.
I have to say up to this moment I was really frustrated with watching Donny making bad decisions with regards to the Martha situation, Donny’s insane lack of boundaries got on my nerves. But in this episode he finally admitted Martha was giving him the attention that he craved, as he said, “Martha saw me the way I wanted to be seen.”