u/iceandfireman

I can’t wait for the rest of the series, but this was a big fail. Yes, we all know how with all that intense screaming and fighting, one human being would’ve easily walked in within those 20 minutes. And it had an odd, dreamlike feel, but it’s deeper than that. It was lazy writing.

To have the protagonist of the story be involved in a very serious head on collision is a huge deal, but then to use that as a vehicle for him just to have a big giant fight with his nemesis/hero is absurd .

If you’re going to have your protagonist be involved into a serious accident it should really serve a much higher purpose. For example, I thought maybe he would become so injured that he would become even weaker when Ruben is around. That collision honestly needed to serve a better purpose.

Which brings us to the obvious point that their big giant argument could have simply taken place anywhere else under normal circumstances.

Unless we learn later on,,for example, that the injuries Niall sustained from that car accident become part of his character arc or the storyline, it was just pointless and lazy.

There has been a considerable amount of conversation regarding this topic, but after really thinking about it, I can’t think of anybody else.

There has been conversation about Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet presenting, and while that’s a genuinely awesome idea that would work great, I still say Spielberg all by himself should be the one.

Another phenomenal presenting duo would be Anthony Hopkins, and Jodie Foster, but I think that ship has sailed.

At the end of the day, nobody out there really personifies the grandeur of cinema and the quest for artistic achievement and commercial Hollywood success as Spielberg himself.

What are your thoughts?

He wasn’t REALLY doing it from the kindness of his heart or any kind of moral high ground.

The attorney begins to bring up the topic of Alby’s sexuality. This is when all of a sudden he has his morality attack and retracts his lie.

First he asks Niall about how he knew that Alby was gay, and then he asks him if he considered Alby to be a deviant.

The conversation is uncomfortably close to having to realistically talk about his own gayness and that’s when he just realizes that he’s not only making terrible things up for Ruben, but committing a crime.

It wasn’t really only some sort of great love for Alby or his conscience magically appearing, but the panic of perhaps having to talk about himself and his sexuality.

And I really lost some respect for him here.

To be clear, I have no doubt that he does love Alby, as he obviously marries him many years later, but with this spectacle played out in court for everyone to see, Alby should be having second thoughts about marrying this man.

I’m not nit picking, but being painfully honest. I certainly want Niall to succeed at the end of the series, but he was just a real coward that notorious day.

By definition, I think it’s fair to say this is accurate. Ruben bringing in that woman in that awful room to coerce Niall into penetrating her and the two of of them following through - or Niall following orders - was Ruben’s way of raping his quasi step brother without literally doing so.

I definitely think Ruben does have homosexual tendencies and his sociopathic personality and behavior only allow him to engage in sex with a man by proxy and through rape.

We obviously don’t know what’s going to happen in the next three episodes, but I see *Half Man* as an exploration by Richard of male homosexuality in both the best of ways - Niall and Alby loving each other despite what happened and even getting married -and the absolute worst.

Richard Gadd is the absolute best thing that could have happened to television, men’s issues, writing, acting and complex social issues and I can’t wait to see what he comes up with next! God bless him.