Maybe you won't know until it's all written.
The first episode is really good, with four sets of clues appearing side by side: a young couple Jack and Rebecca about to have triplets, a pretentious second-rate soap opera actor Kevin, a girl suffering from overweight problems, Kate, a perfect Family and career black man Randall. On the same day, they each faced perhaps the biggest problem and challenge in their lives. Fortunately, they all survived and solved it well. Then the four threads come together and twist into a single rope, and the first episode is over. At this time, you have time to say "wow".
That's right, the screenwriter of the first episode was quite dazzling, but nowadays it's rare to win people's hearts and word of mouth just by dazzling skills. In the winter, everyone still needs some touching things to warm up. This is us is all about the trivial things around us: trivial frustration, trivial anger, trivial fear, but in the end, there will be a warm bag to collect them and give them to everyone to keep them properly.
Kate - Big Girl
Among them, my favorite is Kate, who is called "big girl" because of being overweight. The weight problem has always plagued her. She was ridiculed and isolated by her friends since she was a child, and she was asked to eat "healthy food" by her mother. When she grew up, she still strictly controlled her calorie intake, but she never lost weight, so she kept going from time to time. Overeating, or taking medication for emotional problems, resulted in even more weight. Her life and ideals have become the only thing to lose weight. The 36-year-old birthday cake was posted by her as Don't touch the cake! 's sticky note. She met a very interesting man, Toby, at a mutual aid meeting, and they both had a crush on each other, but she still said: I can't date fat people now because I'm losing weight. Toby, who originally planned to participate once and then leave, said, well, it looks like I have to start too. But Toby lost 7 pounds casually. She strictly followed the dietary standards and increased the amount of exercise, but she only lost 1 pound and 2 taels.
Quite lonely, that feeling should be like being abandoned by God, the kind of panic and loneliness that cannot surface no matter how hard you try.
Obesity is Kate's problem, but weight problems, it seems that every girl has. You replace obesity with other problems: marriage and love, age, appearance, family...all are established.
But Kate is not a loser. She is intelligent, independent, has decent dignity and confidence, and is capable of working. In one episode, Toby is going out on a date with her, and she says, no tonight, it's rugby night on Sunday. Toby said, let's watch it together. Kate said, no, I want to see it myself, It's my thing.
"Your thing...is sad."
“Not to me. This is something that I do alone.”
Although she has struggled with her weight for 30 years and panicked after meeting Toby's slender, tasteful ex-wife, her ego has never collapsed. This is the real BIG GIRL.
Kevin - the life of an overlooked second-rate soap opera actor
Kevin is the eldest son of the Jack family and the head of the Big Three, but he doesn't look like a big brother: he has never been able to truly accept his younger brother, and relies on his younger sister to take care of him from his personal career to his private life.
He looks like the most eye-catching one: a standard Hollywood dude face with a bicep line clearly visible under the T-shirt, a household name for starring in a popular second-rate sitcom, Walking in Everyone on the street knew him and could call out his character's name and take a photo with him. Everyone loves him.
But the truth is, for 36 years, Kevin has lived a life of neglect.
The fourth episode is about an ordinary summer where the whole family goes to the swimming pool to enjoy the cool air. It is very good. It is a drama-level script presentation, which establishes the main line of fate and character tone of each character in the play. In that episode, little Kevin slowly slides into the deep water alone in a crowded pool, but no one notices a little boy struggling silently and desperately, including his parents. He didn't call for help because he had shouted "Dad, watch!" countless times before, but he never received the expected look.
In the end he succeeded. 8-year-old Kevin rolled on the edge of death and finally returned to the safe zone. He first lay on the edge of the pool and rested for a while out of breath. Then he climbed ashore alone and finally broke out to his parents for a long time. question:
"I almost drowned, did you care? I'm sinking to the bottom, but you never look at me! You're too busy trying not to let Kate eat too much and Randall to feel adopted, but Meanwhile, what about Kevin? Oh, he's dead!"
"Do you even care?" is the question that runs through Kevin's 36-year-old life. He wants to communicate with the people around him, but the girls just want to make out with him; he wants to take acting seriously, but the director just wants him to take off his shirt and face the camera; he wants the audience to understand why he left second-rate soap operas, but people Only keen to retweet the video of him going crazy on the set to watch the fun; he ran from the west coast to the east coast to prove that he was a real actor with drama, but the producer just wanted to use the popularity he accumulated on second-rate soap operas to sell a few more tickets.
Kevin's life (at least up to the tenth episode so far) has been frozen in the poolside on that hot summer day - loudly asking the crowd around him: Do you even care? !
No one pays attention to him.
This kind of loneliness among the crowd is what we ordinary people experience most often. It runs through everyone's life from beginning to end, and appears in different faces in each person's life according to the level of each person's feelings of vitality. Some people are completely unaware of its existence, some struggle to deny it, and some can accept it.
[Speaking of this, if you are interested, you can go to Weibo Soso to see an interview of Louis C.K on "Conan Show", which is about "embracing loneliness". After reading it, you will understand why he can make high-level comedy. 】
But just as he didn't drown in a swimming pool 28 years ago, Kevin didn't drown in a crowd as an adult, probably mostly because he was forgiving. By the pool, he forgave his father, and although he also complained about his mother's partiality, he was the only one of the three children who did not have a quarrel with his mother. The stage director hired him because of his most hated label, and the Tony-nominated British actress he co-founded looked down on him, but that didn't stop him from giving his best every day for the role.
For example, on Thanksgiving, he heard that Olivia never missed Thanksgiving, not because she was British, but because of the sad memories of a broken family in her childhood, so he invited her to go home for the holiday, the reason is: my father died, my mother and he The best buddy is married, I have a severely overweight twin sister, and I have an adopted black brother who just recently found his biological father, but his father is dying. Don't you want to come and see how interesting my family is?
Ah, the wise and foolish foolish white sweet. It's so endearing.
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