the entire stupid piece of shit episode becuz i hadn’t seen my personal experience of the depression inner monologue in a show before.

But also the entire times arrow episode(as many others have said) I spent the series till that point hating his mom for obvious reasons even tho you know something fucked happened to her. But then it forces you to face the generational trauma inflicted on her in such a visceral way and it just recontextualizes the whole thing. And like bojack I wanted to irredeemably hate her but from then on you can’t stop thinking about that little girl, who just wanted love, just wanted her mom, brother and dolly. It forced me to reckon with the generational trauma of my own life and fully acknowledge how the horrors of being orphaned in war led my dad to treat me the way he did—even if that wasn’t okay. He was impoverished in Africa sent from house to house and he too grew into a hardened and cruel man. But considering him an irredeemable monster was just a coping mechanism that took the easy way out. At the end of the day we’re all human, searching for something missing. After realizing this I was able to make more room for healing between us