The first four episodes weren't really that engaging, but after watching the last one tonight, I suddenly felt that the story it told was complete. Childhood trauma alternated with drugs and alcohol tormenting his spirit. He didn't emerge from the shadows until he was in his late forties and fifties, when the last person in his parents' social circle died. He couldn't stand the high opinion of his parents' friends for his tyrannical father and weak mother. The adoration of his father that Nicholas said at his mother's funeral was about to suffocate him. The decadence and shadow of the first half of his life were all over caused by this idol.
But he has the epitome of his father - alcoholism, gaffe to his children after drinking, derailment, but the words he said to his father in the last episode when he was a child actually made his father cry, indicating that his father was also affected by his father when he was a child. Similar behavior, indirect projection of parents' behaviors and attitudes toward children affect children's life?
Another point is that when Patrick told his mother about sexual assault, his mother only replied me too. He wondered why his mother didn't protect him when he knew this. But looking forward to the conversation between his mother and his wife, the mother said that she did her best to take care of and protect Patrick, but the poor information Patrick did not know. It means that her mother is also a victim. Her mother has been doing her best to protect him, but she is also a victim and cannot change the situation. Then her mother went to help those in need, which was a kind of redemption in a sense, and the part where she gave up the house, she flashed back to the past, and patrick said that he wanted to leave here, indicating that even if she had dementia , subconsciously still wants to save Patrick.
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