"Even though I'll be missing a few weeks, my grades are so good, this girl gets to graduate!" It's official. These writers don't know anything about college. Last we saw, Tara was getting ready for her midterms. Meaning, she never actually took them. Imagine being able to pass your classes without taking the midterms AND the finals AND whatever homework/participation/projects/etc she'll be missing while away. What absolute horse crap.
WTF kind of finale was that? I mean, at least we finally get to see Max say what's really on his mind, but still, WTF? This entire season seemed to only exist to make everyone miserable. We didn't even get a "5 years later" or anything. It just ends with everyone seeming ready to kill themselves. I stand by what I said prior. Every child in this show deserves better. I'm sorry, but Kate and Marshall should have been put in foster care years ago. No child should have to grow up in an environment where they don't feel safe around their own mother.
That's one of my biggest gripes with this show. Tara tries to believe that she's a good mother and blames her mother for temporarily putting her and Charmaine in foster care. Well, guess what, Tara? Sometimes, that's what you've gotta do to be an actually good mother. Literally every one of her alters has abused her kids, her husband, or her sister except Shoshana and Chicken. Even Alice assaulted Kate in season one (canonically 3 years ago). Tara has endangered her family time and time again. She should have sought professional help long before this. The moment she had kids and knew she had DID, she should have sought help and kept seeking it until she was better. It'd be one thing if her only alters were Shoshana, Chicken, and Alice. But Buck, who has a stash of weapons in their home and verbally abuses her family? T, who encouraged Kate to do drugs and steal and picks fights with any stranger she doesn't try to sleep with? Bryce and Gimme who are active threats to both Tara and those around her? Tara had every opportunity to take getting help seriously before now (and not just harassing her mom until she discovered the truth but ACTUAL professional help). She chose not to. She made the CHOICE not to. Instead, she spent money going back to college and snorted her medication. It's not like she's the breadwinner in the family. It's not going to financial hurt them if she's not around. Max is the only one with a stable income. If they can afford to send her back to college, they could've afforded to get her professional help at ANY TIME before now. Out of all her alters, Tara is the worst. She actually has the power to do something and chooses not to at the risk of her own family. And then has the nerve to say she's doing all she can, and she tries to be a good mother, and she just needs her family to support HER as though they haven't already given up their own lives, happiness, and sanity for her time and time again...
Review by SophieFilo16BlockedParentSpoilers2021-01-24T01:44:39Z
"Even though I'll be missing a few weeks, my grades are so good, this girl gets to graduate!"
It's official. These writers don't know anything about college. Last we saw, Tara was getting ready for her midterms. Meaning, she never actually took them. Imagine being able to pass your classes without taking the midterms AND the finals AND whatever homework/participation/projects/etc she'll be missing while away. What absolute horse crap.
WTF kind of finale was that? I mean, at least we finally get to see Max say what's really on his mind, but still, WTF? This entire season seemed to only exist to make everyone miserable. We didn't even get a "5 years later" or anything. It just ends with everyone seeming ready to kill themselves. I stand by what I said prior. Every child in this show deserves better. I'm sorry, but Kate and Marshall should have been put in foster care years ago. No child should have to grow up in an environment where they don't feel safe around their own mother.
That's one of my biggest gripes with this show. Tara tries to believe that she's a good mother and blames her mother for temporarily putting her and Charmaine in foster care. Well, guess what, Tara? Sometimes, that's what you've gotta do to be an actually good mother. Literally every one of her alters has abused her kids, her husband, or her sister except Shoshana and Chicken. Even Alice assaulted Kate in season one (canonically 3 years ago). Tara has endangered her family time and time again. She should have sought professional help long before this. The moment she had kids and knew she had DID, she should have sought help and kept seeking it until she was better. It'd be one thing if her only alters were Shoshana, Chicken, and Alice. But Buck, who has a stash of weapons in their home and verbally abuses her family? T, who encouraged Kate to do drugs and steal and picks fights with any stranger she doesn't try to sleep with? Bryce and Gimme who are active threats to both Tara and those around her? Tara had every opportunity to take getting help seriously before now (and not just harassing her mom until she discovered the truth but ACTUAL professional help). She chose not to. She made the CHOICE not to. Instead, she spent money going back to college and snorted her medication. It's not like she's the breadwinner in the family. It's not going to financial hurt them if she's not around. Max is the only one with a stable income. If they can afford to send her back to college, they could've afforded to get her professional help at ANY TIME before now. Out of all her alters, Tara is the worst. She actually has the power to do something and chooses not to at the risk of her own family. And then has the nerve to say she's doing all she can, and she tries to be a good mother, and she just needs her family to support HER as though they haven't already given up their own lives, happiness, and sanity for her time and time again...
Signed:
~SophieFilo16~