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HELLOOOOOOOOOOOO EVERYONE!!!!!!!!! welcome back to mi channel! in today's video we are going to be talking about the Hulu original show little fires everywhere!!!!!! I am so excited because this was good as hell honest to god! so ya if that interests you just keep on watching!!!!!! I hope you guys are staying healthy and safe I love you all - xoxo that bitch
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this show was a win when it has reese witherspoon and kerry washington as the main characters. it was such a win.
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Yesss I wish the series would continue, but they ended it perfectly if that makes sense. I just miss it 😭😂
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I just need a SEASON 2 😩😩😩
The family tries so hard not be racist that it ends up being racist did anyone else get that vibe??
Yep
Thebiggerissue Having grown up in the 90s that type of behavior was super common. Now i know it’s Micro aggressions and white privilege.
yeah its called microaggressions white ppl be on that shit
Thebiggerissue I think the show captures modern day white moderates so perfectly
alicia austin They mentioned how Elena’s mother helped integrate the town on the show. That still doesn’t take away from their racist undertones.
"Little Microaggressions Everywhere"
All I was thinking after I finished it
😂
The real title
Yeah every second it was that particularly with Elena's character. I think they did great to show that
@@Noumm and Lexie
The quote "You didn't make good choices, you HAD good choices"...LISTEN.
lonetruthseeker I was like ouuuuup Mia....
this gave me chillllllss
Can you explain?
Faica Sparks In this scene, Mia was making a point that some of the privileges of being born white, female and affluent in this country provide you with a plethora of options, resources, support and access that you wouldn’t otherwise have and using that status to fuel a false sense of martyrdom is very destructive and invalid.
When Mia said that I SCREECHED and got goosebumps. That line was powerful.
Reese Witherspoon acted her ass OFF! Give her all the things. One of the few white women I STAN!
Lmao “all the things” love that 😂
her in big little lies, cannot stan harder!
Kris Be Knowin’ period
Kris Be Knowin’ ion stan her. But she made me wan stomp her face in so that’s good acting.
@@Starriaaa yeah lol
When Izzy stated her mother would never be in NYC Times 😭😭😭😭🤯
Sydney Williams THAT WAS A READ
imlikeTTjustlikeTT poll POP pop please po poop was my birthday iiio po
She really ate her UP!!
Sydney Williams Izzy ate lmao
It got real
I think that Lexie’s behavior became undeniably apparent to Brian once Pearl came. He had seen racist behavior from Elena, but I don’t think he realized how much Lexie was just like her mother until there was another black person in their circle for her to show her true colors. I liked his character a lot.
Yea I agree I think he really but her in check a lot throughout the series had her questioning what was okay and etc
I think he was slightly ok like I liked when he tried to question her but the fact he would give up and forgive her for sex.... no maam, he should've stopped her and continued with the conversation and completely checked her him giving up for that showed signs of weakness and really made it seem like he was being played with.
Sadie Dixson IKR I got more and more bothered every time he forgave her. So glad he dumped her lmao
He was so bothered by her essay she did to get into Yale about Pearl I wonder how he would’ve reacted once he found out how she lied about Her name at the clinic? Hahahahaha I was like you think that essay is bad wait till you find out you slept with “Pearl Warren” and she was pregnant 💀😑🤣
Sadie Dixson I think that spoke to the essence of a teenage guy though. It’s a pretty accurate portrayal of boys thinking with the wrong head, of you know what I mean.
I just wanna talk about how predatory Mia’s professor was. I knew when she did coke with her student that she wasn’t all the way right. She knew that Mia’s life was chaotic and took advantage of that.
for real!! that really rubbed me the wrong way!!
Right, it had me wondering if it was more a lust based relationship or if it was really romantic, but I get that they didn’t have a lot of time to go into depth with their relationship
I thought it was gross and predatory.
Every interaction Mia had in ny was predatory!
Thank you!! I was watching it and was like, Mia is like maybe 18/19, and this woman is at least in her 30's, this does not sit well with me
When the husband said “ ppl like them never win” wowww it shows that they KNOW
Right, like they knew but ignored it. EVERYONE KNOWS THATS WHY THEY TRY TO NOT MAKE IT A BIG DEAL (bribes) but like I laugh after the case when they said “we believe in the system” BRO THE SYSTEM WAS MADE FOR YOU ONLY THATS WHY BOO BOO
I mean he knew
I gasped out loud when he said that. It is so sad because it is true.
@HalF Apparently you missed the point.
@@clairiam3227 that's what i said too
So much about Mia’s parenting style got me mad like your daughter is literally yelling at you about how unstable her life has been and how she just wants stability and you her only response was “what kid has had a life like you?” Girl what? Or when pearl couldn’t get into a class that she deserves to be in because she has been moved around so much and because she was a black girl with a single mother she asked her mom for help and her Mia was like “you can handle it yourself” 😒 then got mad when Pearl went to Elena for help.
symonew33 same that ticked me off soooo mcuh
I think one thing to note was that Mia & Elena were good parents for the other person’s kids. Mia was great at caring for Izzy & giving her what she needed & Elena was great at providing for Pearl. And at the same time both were very problematic. But Kerry & Reese we’re superb!
when Pearl gives her back talk and she responds by threatening to move again...that was flat out manipulative
Mia’s parenting style has me baffled. There’s no way I wouldn’t have went to the school to get my daughter in the proper class. She could’ve hide and moved less. Her art was amazing but her daughter deserved to have a stable life
I was so angered by that, and she pokes her self into other ppl business... when ur child is there... this just shows the narrative that black women like to treat their girl child like grown ass women..
Cut to Moody 25 yrs later running a youtube channel complaining about how women never want the “nice guys”.
Right! There's no such thing as a " nice guy" and the ones that say they are, are usually douche bags that hide the fact that they are douche bags and feel very entitled to women. Only being a "nice guy" when they get what they want.
@@marketaharris7713 Moody was a nice guy tho 🤷
Its shitty that she blew him off, took his brother to his spot its shitty. I mean add on top his brother ia always shitty to him too then 🤷🤷 I dont blame him ♥️
@@ENTERTAINMENT-tc3uq It's shitty to not be attracted to someone just because they're attracted to you and they're being nice? That's fucking stupid to say.
@@ENTERTAINMENT-tc3uq She doesn't owe him anything. She made it quite clear on that "movie date" that she wasn't into him. It was shitty of her to date his brother but her reciprocating his friendship doesn't him entitled to her or her time. She didn't even wanna be friends with him at one point so if he didn't get it before he sure asf should have got it then
Right... so sad for him.
Anyone else get the vibe that pearl is sort of a white people pleaser?? Like when Brian made that joke about having stuff in common she literally just stared at him... like girl... you good?
Yes and easily bought by nice things
exactly she wanted white people's approval so bad.
I mean sometimes it be like that.
I thought that's the reason she was named Pearl.....
@Cynthia Zavala agreed!!
this show is so good, and i feel like it’s so realistic with all the micro aggression and blatant racism in the late 1900’s.
isra You mean the 90’s?? LOL
treacherous tea i didn’t want to google when it was, and late 1900’s was a correct and safe wording, so..
Olive except that it’s a vague statement, and i didn’t say the entire 1900’s as a whole, just the late 1900’s. what’s the issue here...
i think it’s just that referring to the 90’s as the late 1900’s sounds odd because we hardly ever use that language to refer to that time period, but she isn’t wrong. the late 1900’s includes the 90’s. lay off her please.
@@sav9373 My thoughts exactly.
When Moody begged Izzy to stay, and she said, "it's okay, I have to go," I cried so much. Also, If you liked this show, you will really like the first season on Big Little Lies!
but only the first! second one fell flat for me
That was the exact moment I started to cry. My heart broke for Izzy.
pinky95530 This scene was kinda weird to me. I couldn’t remember seeing any heartfelt moments between Moody and Izzy so I didn’t buy this scene.
Marilyn M there wasn’t many heartfelt moments between the family in general. I just took it as him reaching out once the siblings all finally saw just how much disdain their mom held for Izzy. I think that type of thing can bring people together. Especially since they were all kinda against their mom at that point.
@@gingerbreadgreeneyes yeah i agree but izzy was definitely the closest to moody in the family
One of the most telling moments was when Lexi goes “I’m not perfect” and Elena screams back “YES YOU ARE” and runs off.
Ngl that moment kind of scared me
Ivy Souter right!
It was her desire to see herself and the life she cultivated as perfect
it kind of showed the lunatic side of elena, the desire for perfection and planning driving her to insanity!
The audio literally peaked in that scene it was weird. It was
so loud it like blew out the mic
Can we talk about how the actresses played young Mia and young Elena so well!
When I realized it was Leslie from bridge to terabithia I was shook
Young Mia, the actress from "The Chi" was sooooo geeked.
Young Mia literally NAILED Kerry's little quirks and mannerisms!!!
i was so surprised by how much young elena’s voice sounded like reese witherspoon’s. like i closed my eyes and i saw reese
@@kyliemckessa2596 Right!!! At first for some reason i thought it wasn't her, but after seeing the mannerisms I was like, "Yup that's definitely her". The tone, her mouth movements. She mimicked her really well.
What really hurt me about Elena’s treatment of Izzy was how she literally cut her out of the family Christmas card. That was so cold. That in my opinion was the turning point in their relationship, there was no going back. I loved the way bill looked at her in disgust when he saw what she had done. Izzy came back to see it and you could tell she was hurt.
+Nana Yaa: Well, in Elena's defense (although I never, ever want to defend that character), Izzy should have never stuck her middle finger up in that photo to begin with. So it was either trash all the cards altogether and not send them out at all, or cut Izzy and her middle finger out of the picture, literally.
Anansi the Spider I would have put a sticker over the hand or cut the card horizontally to get the middle finger out. I believe the photographer also said that the kids could be added in post.
@@AnansitheSpider8 the reason she stuck a middle finger was idk exactly but something she didn't whant to wear something but yeah her stupid mom didn't really gave her a choice🙃 wat a kind of mother is she.... a monster🤔
For me their turner point of their relationship started way earlier. I just understand that she never wanted a 4th child. And was so painful to watch bc for me it started since she knew she was pregnant or the flashback when she litteraly dropped her bc Izzy can't stop crying. She should do an abortion if really she didn't have any sort of love for her.
But I think that is more complex and that actually deep in her she loved Izzy the end of the scene when she kept this feather in the cage all this time was a metaphor of how despite she don't understand her she loves her.
Anansi the Spider or...don’t force your kids to do things they don’t want to do because you’re a neurotic control freak.
I agree with you when you say Moody didn’t have a right to Pearl or Pearls body. However, if she really cared about Moody she would have told him the truth. Plus it was grimey of her to go after his brother knowing what position it would put Trip and Moody in. I think that’s why she decided to forgive her mother because she started to realize being honest isn’t always easy and she is/can be just as selfish as her mother. Also side note Young Mia was preyed on by EVERY adult in her life...predatory adults run RAMPANT in this series.
Sh should've told him the truth as a friend but that's the only thing she might've owed him. She can be with whoever she wants to be with. Tripp should've felt grimey for going after Pesrl knowing how his brother felt. As far as Pearl was concerned, Moody was the FRIEND he presented himself as.
I agree that Mia was preyed upon by her art professor; that was super creepy. Who else would you say she was preyed upon by?
The last sentence>>>>> Mia's relationship with her professor was sooo wrong. Even her brother commented on it.. idk why ppl keep overlooking the entire relationship.
Her professor wasn’t predatory in the book!! She was much older and had an established partner who was very kind and helpful to Mia and served as a really healthy mother figure that believed in her. That was the change that bothered me the most!!
Maybe they wanted to make Mia feel extra alone. But to sacrifice the character who supported her the most is weird.
I definitely hated the “nice guy” behavior from Moody but I didn’t ship Pearl and Tripp at ALL. To me it came out of nowhere. Like Pearl was giving him sly glances and Tripp didn’t even pay any attention to her until she got dolled up at homecoming and even then still didn’t really show like he liked her much at all. I really didn’t see any chemistry between them and I was rooting for Moody at first.
SarcasticallyMy yeah the first time I saw Tripp pay attention to her was when his brother was like “you could never get a girl like pearl” then all of a sudden he liked her 🙄
FOR REALLL
Outside of that one scene, which people are just eating up, there was no nice guy behavior. He didn’t act like he owned Pearl. He didn’t act like he deserved her. He was a 15 year old boy with a crush and acted normally. He was actually interested in her as a person and her interests and hobbies and hung out with her before he even developed a crush; whereas Trip, only liked her when she got dolled up and after his brother said she was better than he could ever hope for. I think Amanda got that wrong.
Yeah, I thought that too. :/
Girl I skipped those scenes. Like sis randomly is feeling the most basic ass white boy she could find, who barely acknowledged her existence. If you are gonna swing that way, at least get someone with a little more texture, a little more interesting. But no, we got Tripp instead because Pearl has no taste.
video idea: talking about all of the reunions that have been happening recently, and how they are selling on nostalgia and it’s working.
srybuddy YES
YESSSSSS
but they’re not making any money from what i’ve seen? it seems to just be a fun thing. like yes it’s a trend they’re all hopping on for publicity but it‘s perfectly harmless imo.
PHH i didn’t say it was harmless i just noticed it was happening a lot
srybuddy yeah but you implied they were using nostalgia to profit. i just meant they weren’t making money from it.
This show depicted racism in the suburbs, the trials and tribulations of motherhood and survival in such a real and authentic way. THE ACTING.... amazing
That last scene with Izzy daydreaming about Mia and pearl coming to pick her up literally had me in tearssss
@@samanthal5184 that was a daydream? I thought they did really pick her up!
Izzy was the realest on the show foreal
Veronica Brown that didn’t actually happen?😭
@@samanthal5184 oh my got that scene wasn’t real? I wish they had stated that explicitly 😫😫 bro that hurts so much
I think pearl was way outta pocket for bringing trip to Moody’s secret hideout knowing he brung her there because he trusted her she didn’t have respect for him at all nor did trip
My mouth dropped when I saw she did that! I was like nahhh pearl you outta line 💀🤦🏽♀️
I was soooo hooooooootttttttt
That’s true though
@@jasiahgipson7377 wtf?
@@fart63 hot as in mad
The kids setting their own house on fire redeemed them to me.
And as someone who only knows Reese's comedic works, this was just jaw dropping. Amazing performance. When she yelled back at Lexie in the last episode about her being perfect, I felt that.
That screech got me. I've never heard anything like that before.
I didn’t buy all of the kids except Izzy burning the house. Just Lexie seemed realistic.
@@mkim6945 I agree. It wasn't believable to me that in the last 5 or so minutes of the finale, all 3 of Izzy's siblings agreed to set fire to their own house. It would have made sense if Izzy had done it, since she had had that conversation with Mia about the scorched Earth and starting over, but why would Izzy's siblings choose to set the fire? I could see them all agreeing to run away together, but to torch their own huge house? I wasn't buying it.
@@AnansitheSpider8 Omg me too. It made absolutely ZERO sense. None.
Anansi the Spider that’s how it happened in the book but I guess they wanted to redeem the kids
When Mia drove in the rain 🌧 and screamed “ GET IN THE CARRRR” whew 😂
+ZeeBee -Arting: Now how many times did Mia have to tell Pearl to stay away from those white people? But every chance Pearl got, she ran back to them.
Well Mia was a pretty awful mum
@@sexyblackcharlery She did the best with her options. She knew if she settled down somewhere, the surrogate parents would find her
Word, too over dramatic lol
That scene really hit different for me. Now that’s what I call acting! So much excellent acting in this show!
Pearl wasn't even that kind. It bothered me the most that Pearl was so naive, despite the fact that her mother was clearly this radical, non-traditional mother figure. Like how could you be so dumb...it really was baffling to me in the most frustrating yet hilarious way.
Omg thank you ...I feel like she was just being super rebellious towards her mother for moving her so much especially wen she had her lil feelings for trip and got sum white girl friends ...such a disappointing outcome for Mia to see from her daughter
yeah I felt like the extremely naivety from Pearl just didnt make any sense seeing as Mia was her only role model as they moved around a lot you would thing Mia raising her would impact the way she thinks in some way
I felt like she was so dumb for trusting Elena more than her own mother. Like sis Elena doesn’t give a crap about you!
Umm Mia’s mothering skills were trash. Of course she would like Elena. Elena is a woman that represent the kind of stability that Pearl has never had access to. Pearl had to resort to washing her kitty and ass in a gas station bathroom bc her mom wouldn’t sell a painting for her comfort! She lied about her father and took Pearl for granted. Mia grew up having a roof over her head and a room and demeaned Pearl for wanting the same.
@@daishaw9819 I felt that Mia more didn't sell the print because she waiting to sell it so only Pearl could benefit form it. Like when Pearl would be going to college or buying a house. Like Mia didn't sell it to buy a house that is her property and make her life easy. While the logic might be flawed, but once you know what she had to do stay in college, you can kinda see it.
THIS SHOW IS SOO GOOD. The acting, the storyline, UGH just everything. This show deserves all the awards!!!!!
Naomi Bilesanmi is this one of those shows that have a bunch of sex in it? Warn me before I watch
@@KiaraWilliamsX I can think of 6 scenes, none of which show any bits or parts.
Kiara Williams yea a few, only watch if you feel comfortable
If people are mad about spoilers then why do they watch the whole video?? Leave in the first spoiler 🤦🏾♀️
Imara Walker why do they even click!
Or just say there’s spoilers in the video 😂 you can review a show without spoilers
35:15 LITERALLY, it sent me when Bill was literally ignoring her and started smoking in front of her IN THE HOUSE and she was just like ‘ I just heard that Pearl had an abortion.’ And he was like ‘okay, and?’ Like sis your marriage is falling apart and you’re trying to kiki about someone else’s daughter.
Your comments are so anti feminist, I could barf
@@kestkest2598 ...ok?
Bebe stealing her baby back was cute for the show but we are not going to act like it was not irresponsible and selfish.
Your King exactly she cant provide for the baby, i couldnt root for her like the writers wanted me to
Guys, she goes back to china in the book. They changed that in the series and left that impression that everything is going to go wrong.
I have faith that she’ll be alright
I am a strong believer that mother should be with her child no matter the situation. But I agree when she took her illegally that was irresponsible. But then I can’t really not feel for her character because the pain of having your child ripped away from her. I strongly believe she should have gained custody once she became a citizen or if she returned to China.
i’m sorry, but bebe is not mentally stable and can’t provide for her child. i felt bad for her, but wasn’t rooting for her. she abandoned her, and you don’t just deserve to get your child back after that. especially since she already had adoptive parents that loved her. and then KIDNAPPING the baby at the end? she is unhinged.
I don't agree with Mia about the dress situation but I see where she's coming from. Accepting gifts from someone as horrible as Lexi, which Mia already didn't like her, can lead to Lexi using Pearl (again)
"I bought you a dress and you can't do this for me??"
Lexi bought a dress as an excuse for using her story.
True. It reminded of me that scene at the clinic when Elena was asking her doctor friend to look up BeBe's (I guess) "medical records" and just brought she's the reason she even got the job. I was like-?? You decided to help a friend and now you're acting like she owes you smth. The apple surely doesn't fall far from the tree.
This show popped tf off. Case closed.
Izzy was the only person I could care about in this series. I sometimes didn’t hate her father tho
Agreed
I liked the father + her random journalist ex
aiemii i One day we’re going to have a conversation about these series that examine white womanhood while letting white manhood skate by scot free because that dad was horrible and absent, but didn’t get nearly as many critiques, if any, as Reese’s character. The same for the sons of the family.
Izzy was horrible. I hated her character. I liked Elena the most out of all the main characters (but still disliked her too)
Storm Bey yeah. He did let her wreak a shit ton of havoc and he called her out on it but put no action behind his words, like he was just saying it to clear his conscience but, if u don’t mind me asking, .............what did you like about Elena?
Pearl got on my MF NERVES.
Okay, nevermind I get your point about her desire for stability...but she truly irked me.
Sadly same. When she was being mean to her mother I was thinking STOP WHINING! HOW UNGRATEFUL CAN YOU BE?
Deadass she was perfectly fine her whole life till she met rich white people. Then she wanted that.
And the fact that she just let everyone be racist towards her irked me
sis was serving stacey dash the whole series I was not impressed lol
The only thing I learned from this show is “hurt people, hurt people”. There’s no one to praise. this isn’t about a black woman being right and a white woman being wrong. If that’s what you got from the show you clearly weren’t paying attention.
Agree. I feel like everyone in this show was so flawed. For me, nobody was in the right, it’s not all black and white, it’s so grey
Exactly!! I’m seeing so many people complaining about one character from the show and hyping up another...but I feel like one of the points being made was that they are all flawed. That fact made the show very interesting and kept me thinking the entire way through. I loved simultaneously liking and disliking so many of the characters throughout the show.
sadly this didn't get more likes
Lol. "Hurt people hurt people" is the thinnest, most useless message ever. YOU really weren't paying attention if that's what you got.
JamMastaJeremy well share the wisdom?
Hanging out in junkyards isn’t a 90’s thing, I think teens just happen to make places like that the spot. One of the “secret” hangouts in my town is an abandoned mall & the sewers...
Sewers?! 🤢🤮
Lol why sewers?
The abandoned mall sounds spooky
TheAngelinaSummer ours is the train tracks
ours is an abandoned house, an abandoned infirmary, and an abandoned amusement park lol
Can we talk about when Pearl and Tripp slept together? It was weird.
i think they said in the book it was more passionate
@@daviskj5488 Girl I don't care they were 15
rightttt
When Tripp justified himself by saying “why did YOU do that? I mean, I’m human, but you should know better” that made me lose respect for him
The whole scene was bizarre
Idk if anyone else is, but i'm from Shaker Heights, where the show is based in, and I can tell you rn that this show is accurate to the point of being scary. I mean obviously the writer of the book is from shaker, but still... I can tell you rn, shaker is cursed or something. 2 of my elementary teachers were murdered... like... I can talk at length about this. anyway enjoy the video!
We need a vid from you lol
I’m from the Cleveland area too and I didn’t know about it being cursed but... so much is accurate, and I really liked the smaller details showing it to be genuine. Shows are usually set in vague, anywhere towns and so to see accurate and careful details about the location just makes it that much more realistic. For example, in the beginning Lexie talking about Cedar Point, and them talking about kids from Cleveland going to schools in the suburbs. It makes sense the writer is from there, I definitely guessed that she was.
Max Golar uhm... we need a video on this
I use to live in shaker on Ingleside Rd and the accuracy is definitely on point
@max golar Really? Wow. I didn't realize it was a real place. You need to give us a video on THAT! 😂
I think you should’ve dissected pearls character a lot more. Your bias for liking her is preventing you from talking about the shitty things she has done. She completely drop moodie for Lexi to gain popularity and acceptance. She went along with anything Lexi said and basically kissed her ass. She was too desperate for acceptance.
exactlyyyyy!! but i can see why she was really desperate for the attention considering that shaker was the first place she was able to really stay at. i guess she wanted to fit in more and be like everyone else.
I agree
Yeah, she definitely played “pick me” when it came to them white folks
Pearl was sexually attracted to Tripp from the beginning. Moody was a friend, almost like a girlfriend. Should she have developed a sexual relationship with him just because he was nice to her? The Richardson family was the only ones that Mia introduced her to. If Mia wanted her daughter to have more choices, then why not engage with some of the black families in that town?
💯💯💯💯
My sis said “maybe that’s how life was in the 90’s, but I wouldn’t know” 😩😩😩 *cries in old millennial*
😂😂😂 Same 😩
I'm 30...and i had to pause and reflect on life... she literally wipe the smile off my face LMAO
I actually liked Bill’s character. He called Elena out on her bull crap and he was clearly an advocate for Izzy a lot of the time.
Ashley Alexandria I second that!
I agree.
He wasn’t no angel, like your wife is struggling with 4 kids (which she didn’t want) and you’re playing golf 🤔. He was an absent Dad, his display of manhood is also toxic AF
Jordan Didn’t say he was an angel. Each character had their flaws. But I’m not buying the whole Elena didn’t want kids narrative. Birth control was very much so a thing ... or at the very least use a damn condom. She was responsible for making sure she didn’t get pregnant if she didn’t want kids. And I don’t think he was an absent father ... he was working.
Kinda disagree , he was an enabler he "stuck his head down" he should've done way more to defend Izzy- like with the therapy that was clearly needed(not just her everyone) , he's not as bad as Elena but he enables her antics so it doesn't really make him any better
Izzy was honestly the best character.
I'm still shocked about what she did to her hair but I agree she was a freaking amazing
Joyful Warrior - Micha'l Cardwell was she? She was the character I hated the most. She was SO incredibly annoying and self-entitled
Storm Bey she went through a lot and that obviously doesn’t make someone a good character, but to me, the fact that she found a way through it all when her mom literally THREW HER AWAY, and everyone else did is amazing.
Omg she was one of my least faves. I found her to be really bratty and self-centered, (which I forgave because she’s a teenager) but imo it made her all the more like her mother
Amiya Hancock how is she the best? She disrespected the HELL out of her mom and her mom didn’t do shit. I don’t appreciate disrespectful children periodt
I was watching this show as it was releasing weekly, so the suspense feeing was real!! The title makes sense: every character had a fire brewing in the and then it finally engulfed them in the end. Small fires always make a bigger one. NOW, one thing I didn’t like about the flashback was Mia and her professor’s relationship. It was predatory behavior that I feel like it would’ve been side-eyed more if the professor was a man.
KEZA I agree with you! You can tell the moment the professor invited her to the party what her intentions were. On top of that she offered her drugs and then let her stop the night at her house. Very predatory behavior.
Bria Jewell Sis was basically grooming her. That’s why I think she felt confused about the relationship, not because the professor was a woman but because it was her teacher.
Just finished the show and omfg that finale. I cried like 10 times
Same! I'm trying to get over it now...
Izzy Deserved More. When Her GIRLFRIEND Was Bullying Her, Izzy Could’ve EASILY Exposed Her and She Chose Not To. I LOVED HER In This Series
I hate when people say she is annoying or ungrateful. She was a 14 year old girl, and her mother literally hated her, she never let her express herself and never cared how Izzy felt about anything. Instead of being accepting of Izzy’s sexuality Elena was just like “that’s not true right? Hahah, anyway in high school my friend had bigger boobs than me :(“ she got bullied by her own girlfriend and had to find another woman to be her mother figure because her own mother was such a privileged piece of shit lol. The best character for sure
I love how this show showed micro aggressions and white privilege! It showed it in a way I can never explain and how I have experienced it in my life. Very well done in my opinion.
Izzy was a bad bitch periodt loved her character on the show she gave me energy!😻👏🏾🔥
izzy and mias relationship is great. Mother/daughter
agreed that pearl didn’t show that she liked moody at all, but she should’ve known moody liked her from the jump, because it was obvious to everyone but her apparently, and told him she liked trip so he’d stop pining for her 🤷🏾♀️
Savannah Sky I understand your point of view but also consider the fact that pearl probably hasn’t had too many crushes since she never really stayed in one place for too long. How would she know the cues that somebody liked her unless it was in the situation with trip and it was super obvious and also how would she have the social skills to tell Moody what was going on. I think that context is very important when looking at pearls decisions in the way that she acts throughout the show.
She held his hand and was face to face when they smoked her moms weed. Pearl is a teen girl...she prob had multiple crushes. Trip is the unattainable hottie and moodie is the sensitive boy archetype in every 90s show. She of course is allowed to want to explore what she wants. She got to know moody and aa he was t her type socially, and Tripp was.
Not her responsibility. She made no effort to be romantic with him that's enough.
@@eliza9011 they were friends.
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Hannah Issa omg it’s sooooo good so sad it ended
SocialAnxietyDora wait it’s over???
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***spoilers*** but in the book bebe travels all the way back to china with may ling so atleast we know she probably doesnt get caught
Does the book give any closure on Izzy? That was the only thing I didnt enjoy about that last episode. If you think the book is worth it and I should just read it, you can just tell me that instead 😂
@@echobean5222 I didn't read but apparently in the book Izzy find the address that Mia and Pearl go to and meets them there
cloudsurfer999 how did she get out of the country with no paperwork on the child in the book?
@@ToniOne03 probably the same way she managed to get in
@@malaysha1773 lol this made me giggle
I honestly wanted Bebe to win, but just looking at how drastic she was when it came to her daughter it was low key hard to justify her. I honestly never understood why nobody could seem to understand why she left her child at the fire station, but low key there probably was a better way of going about that. The main thing that tripped me up though was her going into the house and just screaming, and her taking her daughter back. Like everything was so extreme and poorly done with her.
Like she left her outside a fire station in the cold she could'nt leave her in a hospital lobby at least
Shady Saint exactly. I couldn’t agree with Bebe at all through the whole thing. We learnt why that couple were fighting for that child so much and what they went through. If you can’t get pregnant it’s hard and takes a toll and the fact she didn’t break after so many attempts I credit her. Once you leave your child and relinquish your rights even for a good reason. It’s not your child anymore until they choose to later in life find you or if she went about it in a better way she could have at least visited her often and still been in her life the right way. She blew it all out instead of talking to the family. Like the screaming at the child’s birthday? The embarrassment the family must have felt when all of their friends and family after their million attempts the child’s birth mother runs in acting like you snatched the baby from her hands??? I could not agree with her. There is a lot of things that I seem to be the opposite of the popular opinion but whatever 🤷🏽♀️
No she isn't a suitable mother. Mia was in the same situation. She had nothing but did what she had to for her and her child's survival. Now Bebe is in the same predicament as before except worse. She is now also a wanted criminal.
I was so happy when bebe kidnapped HER baby back
Rita Gomes yay, now the baby gets to live on scraps instead of a fulfilling life. Way better
Lexie’s boyfriend’s hair was soooooo wrong. People didn’t have kid n play hair in the mid 90s.
Yep, that was 80's
@Ashley Jones totally! Lol
Ashley Jones LMAO
Facts, low cut waves and baldies were in
Lol I actually loved it cuz I saw a little video about the history of that hairstyle and it made even more sense with his character.
I gotta defend Moody a little bit here. First let me say that Pearl absolutely did not owe him anything and the "nice guy" stuff is TRASH. However...
Pearl and Trip were still in the wrong for not telling him, knowing that it would hurt his feelings. Moody definitely reacted very badly (which is why I'm glad Izzy called him out on that) *BUT* Trip and Pearl were being pretty terrible to him. Moody was Pearl's first friend and he was a great friend, so she should have been honest and upfront with him. And Trip is a terrible brother for not even considering his brothers feelings about it. Teenagers are so inept on the concept of cause and effect. I feel like anyone would be mad in Moody's situation.
Also, he didn't call Pearl a slut. He called the "Jens" that Trip previously messed with sluts, which is not much better.
I feel the same way! And plus they were fucking in his damn hideout! It was just really messy and unnecessary when they could have just been honest with one another. If she could have all those heart to hearts with Trip, she could have had a sit down with Moody if they were really friends. I mean the boy was your very first friend man, why ya have to do him like that? I'm not she owes him his body but a communication doesn't hurt. Then it would be up to Moody if he decided to grow with that info or turn into a true incel.
no he called pearl a slut but yeah they definitely could've told him but how would you even start the conversation?
@@HeyoitsJay oh yeah that was definitely inexcusable and on some bs.
However, I think that once she and Trip finally solidified what was between them, she would get Moody on like a movie night in the living room. And just straight up say, "okay you're my closest FRIEND and I dont want to keep secrets from you. I really like your brother and he likes me too."
Then big heart to heart ensues and it would be up to Moody to act like a jealous lunatic or have a serious talk with his brother about his little superiority complex.
And also not fuck in his hideout....so messy
i agreeee. say it louder please 😩
Honestly I don’t think Moody was that good a friend. He seemed very pretentious and condescending sometimes and in my opinion he was projecting a personality onto Pearl and trying to get her to fit it
OMG I literally just finished this show like an hour ago. I'm commenting before I post this but WHAT A SHOW. I need more RIGHT NOW wth
only 8 episodes?! Where's my girl Izzie?! UGH
@@a_2502 ikr
i just finished too! SO GOOD! i’m so upset it’s over
Everyone says their favorite scene was the “you are perfect “ scene, but I disagree my favorite scene had to be when Izzy dreamed of Pearl and her mom picking her up when she was hitchhiking, that moment broke my heart, the feel of wanting something so bad even though you could never have it, 💔 that’s what got to me, she just wanted an accepting and loving family
i think you should watch ‘the act’ on hulu as well, it’s very good.
Oof
lonetruthseeker it’s very chilling that nearly everything about it was real. some was exaggerated, as expected from television, but it was so sad. and conflicting. the show is so good, the actors were amazing...i loved it.
Yess I would love her thoughts on the act
isra There’s a youtuber who explained the actual case as well if anyone is curious, th-cam.com/video/w9_D4zare38/w-d-xo.html. Her name is Eleanor Neale, she’s a true crime channel.
Agree
19:26 There’s no “probably” to it. You might’ve missed it but April DID have cabbage patch kids in high school. Izzy met up with April to borrow April’s cabbage patch kids for her statement at school. The fact that April said that when they were her dolls to begin with was cra-cray.
“What did he add except for chaos” lmao. I didn’t hate Bill and I liked when he called Elena out on her BS. I feel like he tried to stick up for Izzy at times but he aggravated me in the flashback. Him convincing Elena to have a baby she didn’t want and then not helping AT ALL.
Bill wasn’t the only one who said that Elena had to keep the baby. Elena’s mother also told Elena that she had to keep the baby because “they don’t do that(abortion)” despite them protesting for the right to do so.
@@ano898 Exactly. It was a class thing. Like abortions are synonymous with people who don't plan and don't have means.."That's not us."
I know in my head that it’s not real but I’m genuinely concerned about where Izzy went and if she’s okay
+Aubrey: Izzy's fine. She's somewhere setting something on fire. LOL
Anansi the Spider I- 💀💀💀
Same!
Right! I can only imagine.. A rebellious life, moving from state to state throughout her life trying to discover herself
I did some reaserching and turns out she allegedly went to Mia’s parents house a few days after pearl and Mia did
some of my thoughts (even though i’m not anyone special lol)
-the show was good but i feel like it made mia and elena into caricatures of people. in the book they were super complex characters, and you could see both perspectives. in this mia was selfish, and elena was just straight EVIL
-lexie didn’t do a lot of that racist shit in the book
(unfortunately she did put pearl’s name down which sucked ASS), and i was happy to see it give good commentary, but like the writers could’ve given her a LITTLE depth, you know? i was so done with her bullshit the whole time
-also the way they changed her relationship to the professor was a bit disturbing. in the book she had a girlfriend and was a mother figure to mia but in the show she, a woman with a clear power dynamic over this teenager, gives her drugs and dates her like ??
-mia in the book was basically asexual, and she had never had sex, but in this she’s literally fucking the boss while bebe’s having a crisis like omg
-sorry to keep referencing the book but moody was so much more likable in that! he was genuinely caring and he played guitar and wrote music, but watching this i was just like 0.0 “boy, chill tf out”
-and OMG didn’t april give her the cabbage patch dolls??
-the thing that just really made me mad about the custody battle was just that in the book it was really understandable to help bebe because she had been searching for may ling and found a pro bono lawyer, but in this she had conceded and was trying to move on, and mia called her to the house she was in so she could have a breakdown that would make her look crazy, and then paid for the lawyer just to justify to herself that she was right in taking pearl (which i understand but like....)
-i felt for linda AND bebe, but who i really felt for was may ling. it was really such an impossible situation because there was the issue of culture, but there was also the fact that she’d been raised for almost a year by mark and linda and even was calling linda mama. like may ling is going to be hurt in both situations, just in different ways
-the weird cop out of the adoptive father saying not to go check on may ling was so odd. in the book may ling didn’t even cry, which hurt linda even more because may ling was still super comfortable with bebe
-the pick up sequence was definitely a dream because she woke up on the bus
also love you queen, you always make such well thought out points
They always make lesbian relationships like professors and a young student in tv shows:/ like whyyyy
aiemii i ugh agree. I just want a fairytale lesbian movie where they don’t talk about coming out issues and they live happily ever after. 🙄 straight people have a thousand of those, why can’t we have one?? I know those kinds of movies are not “in” anymore but please 🥺 give me one with a happy ending
Amanda, you should watch this show called All American and do a video on it. It has a mainly all-black cast and it has a really good story and characters. It has many twists and drama, but I think you would really enjoy it! The first two seasons are on Netflix! Also, congrats on 100k!
I agree
I'm glad you noticed the mouth thing that Kerry does 😂😂 she also does this thing with her head and neck. 😂
Niagurl40 😂😂😂😂
I also like the kids that were cast are true to age and not 23 year olds playing 17 year olds
Bebe goes back to china in the book after getting the baby back. The change in the series made that choice seem so much worse because it clearly will go wrong and she will be arrested.
I LIVE IN SHAKER‼️‼️‼️ and yes, it is REALLY like this‼️ it’s super strict here‼️
wait that's a real place????
Paige Glass what do you mean strict? Is that slang 😅
I didn't think it was real...
Wait it is real!
Breana Magiya ohio
Elena said "your hair is actually your best feature" and she burned her hair literally the same day, what a queen
I DHSMWJWJKA IM SO HAPPY YOU’RE DOING THIS I NEED SOMEONE TO TALK ABOUT THEIR OPINIONS ON TNIS SHOW IM SO CONFUSED BUT INTRIGUED
I wish Bill could have tackled the whole cheating on him with Jamie thing more because I wanted to see the dynamic of how a woman cheating on a man instead of vice versa would pan out. I also deadass thought Bill had the hots for Mia for a second too and I wonder what that would have looked like.
I thought so too, especially when he came to her place and gave her a long stare.
@@JewelTalks25 and when his friend called him lucky for having her around at mirabelle's baby shower when he first saw her
Did she cheat? I thought they just had dinner together and she asked him to come back to her town to make her shitty life better....did they sleep together or something?
Naira Bee emotional cheating is cheating too me ESPECIALLY what she did....TWICE
YOOOO for a second I was thinking that Mia would hook up with Bill's dad to get a Elena at the beginning cuz I was so sold that Mia wanted to kill Elena or something. Especially when I saw her burn the picture of Elena 😹
I think moody had never really had a real love interest before so maybe he didn’t know how to treat pearl or convey emotions he had never felt before fr. He said those offensive remarks out of anger and I think he kind of did get to know pearl bc they were hanging out everyday he knew about her writing and tried to do nice things for her. He probably called her that bc Pearl lead moody on and wanted Trip instead but moody knows the type of girls Trip gets with and usually they probably are “easy” so I felt like pearl was in the wrong for lying to moody and leading him on by basically inviting him over and being under moody 24/7 then cutting him off. If someone had a crush and y’all hung out everyday and y’all flirted and was sweet back and forth and they get with your best friend how u gone feel? Mad af that’s how.
The thing is it's two-fold Moody isn't owned Pearl just because he had feelings for her or at all but Moody and his feeling for Pearl didn't come out of left field weren't completely unfounded(at least based on the info he had) it's not like Moody had no reason to think Pearl had no romantic feelings towards him when they spent presumably everyday for like months together like the rest of that summer. Daily talking and like getting to know each other and like they smoked weed and were holding hands staring into each other's eyes it did seem like Pearl had some feelings towards Moody( The secret spot before they got caught, homecoming) until she saw Tripp and wanted to have the quintessential High School experience she started to drift away from him to his other siblings. Even when you first hear her response to her mother after she had sex with Trip it wasn't like she fell head over heels she just assumed it would be easy to have sex with Trip she made it quite clear to both her mother and Trip that she knew that he had other sexual encounters that everyones knew about about the Jens. Moody's response to her was foul but he doesn't have the audiences perspective from his perspective Pearl got with Trip with Trip using the same methods he told Moody to use on Pearl which was to neg her. Most the scenes that showed Pearl being into Trip happened when Moody wasnt around like the you can watch tv and wait for Moody or the math class stuff. When they started actually dating they did it in secret from him specially since Mia knew and they had no reason to think they had to hid it from the Richardsons. How Moody reacted was awful and what Izzy said was right but based on what Moody knew, the girl he liked and thought liked him back got with his brother that knew he liked her by being awful and negging her ( he didnt Pearl initiated it and Trip seems to genuinely like her but Moody was specifically excluded from knowing that information )then they lied about it for a least a couple months and met up in the private place he showed her. He had a right to be mad but like 15% Pearl and 85% Trip.
I get what you mean but she didn’t flirt with him or lead him on in any way at all. If he didn’t have a crush on her you would think their relationship was completely platonic. His behaviour stemmed from the mindset that “because I like you and I’m nice to you, you should like me” which is very toxic and misogynistic. Treating pearl with respect and getting to genuinely know her is standard behaviour. Therefore he had no right to expect her love and affection in return. Plus she lied because who she’s sleeping with is none of his business especially when she’s always liked his brother and had every right to act on it. She lied to spare his feelings, which I wouldn’t necessarily advise but I understand
@@savannac6170 Their relationship wasn't platonic and if it was. She wouldn't have ignored him or was sneaking behind his back and if they meant nothing to each other why bring Trip to his secret place only for himself. Pearl knew what she was doing
i don’t understand how elena had the AUDACITY to comments on other people’s motherhood when she obviously didn’t even know what she was doing-
Chile, Miss Tiffany did the DAMN thang. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾She sounded like Kerry at times , I had to take a double take at times.
Yes, the same vocal inflections and mannerisms and all. I was like Okay, girl!!!
''You didn't made good choices , you hade good choices'' - LFE
César Charles A READ
It annoys me that she talks so much about hard work and not fulfilling a quota when her parents literally handed her a job, and a house upon graduating.
Chantal Ludeki she literally said some dumb shit to her daughter like “after all the SAT tutors and summers in wessleton, you EARNED this spot at Yale, no one handed it to you and you didn’t get it by fulfilling a quota”” uhmmmm,....ok. Maybe the team of professional prep and acess to unlimited resources might have had something to do with it but maybe not.
@@nairabee245 you said it 🤣‼
I saw someone say that Reese and Kerry's upper lip should be nominated for award season 💀
I'm commenting as a watch lol as much as elena needed to mind her business so did mia. Mia shouldn't have told bebe about her daughter in the manner she should, especially since she was only doing it do basically justify HER own actions (taking Pearl).. because she had only known bebe for a few months so the whole "she's a good mother" (bc like how does she really know that truly) thing had no weight imo. Edited: I see you discussed it lol but i disagree with the idea they only lost the case bc of the system, as much as Linda may have been ignorant to the child's culture, Bebe ABANDONED her daughter and left her outside as an infant and almost died from frostbite, she would have never won.
Totally agree. Is Linda ignorant? Yes. But she can learn with time, especially now that she got called out. By the end of the day, her and Mark can give May a much better life than BeBe. I mean, wasn't this the reason why she left her child at the firehouse in the first place? So she wouldn't die due her poor conditions? But now that May has finally found a family, she thinks she's in the right to just take her back? BeBe's life conditions are slightly better now, but in no way she can fully provide for her child with her poor income and the threat of being deported at any moment due still being an illegal immigrant in the country. Mia was extremely selfish to instigate such idea to BeBe which will now surely lead to her downfall.
I have so much resentment to Mia for alot of things like lying to a family that their child died etc, the Bebe situation was the height of it. That's why I understood Elena's revenge telling Pearl her secret. It made Mia feel the pain others were feeling and yes I know two wrongs don't make a right but Mia got served. I also expected Bebe to lose the case BECAUSE SHE ABANDONED HER CHILD, THAT CANNOT BE TOLERATED. If she had come for a plea for visitation rights, that I would have been happy about but MIA was just so MISLEADING. It's why I'm always so careful about letting people talk me into things everybody has where they are coming from in their own right that doesn't align with your situation.
Ayodele Bello I’m sympathetic to Bebe more than the couple that could’ve bought any other kid they wanted out of their plight. Like the show said you can’t really make good choices if you never had them in the first place, and when you’re treated as subhuman in a new country where you have nothing to your name and nothing but your child, I’m curious to see what people who have all this smoke would’ve done if they genuinely loved their child and had to leave them somewhere else so they could survive. I don’t blame her for wanting her child back or giving her away so she could survive. Both sides should’ve been empathetic to each other and granted Bebe visitation rights.
Linda ignoring the baby's Chinese roots is a crime but leaving the baby with frostbite is not? Baby can still survive without their culture but without money and legal citizenship what life are you choosing for your baby
Couldnt agree more. The baby would have died. There should have been gratitude for having sheltered the baby and looking after it! I wanted the baby to not be with bebe. I was sad that she stole her baby back that's not justice!... And it is "not because of the system"! It's because sometimes a wealthy family comes with privileges that are worth more than just th romantic notion of "mother's love". Because everyone screws up thier child. But it's better to not be literally dying of hunger and being screwed up as well.
I agree with absolutely everything you said in this video and I thought the way the show handled all these sensitive topics was phenomenal. However, the only thing I disagree with you on is your stance on the character of April. As a gay man, growing up in the closet is very difficult, trying to mask your feelings and hide who you truly are becomes second nature to us and when we feel like all our secrets are about to be exposed we do things we have to to survive. While the way April treated Izzy was atrocious, as a 15 year old girl growing up in the 90’s scared about being outed, I can only empathise with her. She may seem like a coward but I feel like at that stage of her life and seeing how brave and strong Izzy was, I reckon she was just extremely confused and scared to be shunned by her friends and family for something as primal as loving somebody. I agree that her character handled the situation wrong but I have to empathise with her feeling trapped. I love your channel btw :)
James Johnson well said dude
just because you have problems doesn't mean you should give me to
The Ellen posters and all the extra stuff she did was unseeded...her secret would’ve perfectly been kept without her constantly torturing Izzy!
Pearl used Moody to get with Trip... Lexie was a hot mess....Poor Izzy was the only decent one. The mom made me wanna smack her every episode...mia (pearl’s mom) was so lost. Overall an entertaining show!
Bill went to go get a pacifier after reading Elena for filth.
+Daydreem Johnson: Bill's putting his pacifier in another woman's mouth as we speak. Wait, what? Who said that? LOL
@@AnansitheSpider8 lol
Am I the only one who thinks Bebe was in the wrong for trying to take back May Ling/Mirabelle? I know she regrets her decision and she's her biological mother, but I feel she has to live with the decision she made to give her daughter a better life. Regardless of how you feel about the adoptive parents, it's not fair to them. Just my opinion.
I agree.
agree 10000%
Nope.
Omg the thing with the panda teddy bear is much worse in the book. Linda says the baby’s favorite food is rice, so she thinks she’s naturally connected to the Chinese culture.
Omg they should put it on the show, bc this so a typical example of how some adoptive parents didn't connect with the culture of their adpotive children and can even say racist statements 😨
Not finished yet but THANK YOU for the analysis on the Pearl/Trip/Moody triangle! Lol I really enjoyed Pearl & Trip and honestly couldn’t understand why so many people were hating on her for not falling for Moody. Other than being a friend to her..what else did he do that would’ve even made her fall in love with him?? He had a righteous attitude about everything and never even made a move. Trip should’ve been held responsible for knowing his brother liked Pearl and going with her anyway but imo, Pearl really didn’t owe Moody a relationship.
exactly like you can’t help who you fall for lmao
yeah she don’t belong to nobody, but banging my brother in my secret hideout knowing I like you?? That’s grimey af. Morally, Anybody can see that
I feel like the "Pearl didn't owe Moody anything" line is a strawman. If anybody told me in person the they felt someone owed them a relationship I'd be certain they were having a breakdown. No one is saying she owed him. But that's just completely letting Pearl off the hook for sleeping with his brother at his secret spot and Trip off the hook for sleeping with a girl he knew damn well his brother liked.
Moody has every right to be upset. Just because someone doesn't owe you a relationship doesn't take away from your right to be heartbroken because that is tough. And that's your big brother and your special place which will no longer have the meaning it once had to him. People are completely projecting modern feminist ideas onto this kid and he's only 15 and has zero idea of how the word or relationships actually work.
The reason that I have a problem with Pearl, is because she became the stereotypical black girl who hung out with to many white people and then starts treating her mom with disrespect. I know not all white kids do that and I know not all black moms would beat their child because of it but I don’t like how she was like yelling her mom and feeding into Alanas bs. When I watched the commercial for this before it came out I got the impression that Izzy wanted to be Mia’s child and Pearl wanted to be with Alana. The show definitely gave me those vibes. Another thing I hate is Kerry Washington’s facial expressions 😂 this is my first time seeing her in anything so I was so confused also I hated Reece Witherspoons character in this which I guess means she did a damn good job. Also I do think the part with Izzy at the end was a dream at first I was so excited I was like OOOH SHIIIIIIIT ROADTRIP! But then when she woke up I was like dang. All kids were really good actors and I thought it was sweet how they all got upset not only when they found out pearl and Mia were gone but when Alana told Izzy she never wanted her. Even Lexi knew when to draw the line and that girl is a mess. Speaking of that when Alana screamed at her saying she was perfect it just showed how much she was living through her. Overall a good show I definitely wanna check out the book even though I should have read it first 😂
I didn’t like Kerry Washington’s facial expressions either. Some scenes it was kinda too much. Like she was trying to hard to ugly cry you know? But I didnt care because the storyline was too good.
But at the same time this is most the fault of Lexie, she's the embody of the white privileged girl that use her power to steal work of the disvantaged's ones. She shouldn't stole Pearl's essay. Yet, she did it. Why ? Bc she reproduced the same behavior of her mother. She internalized racism bc she heard her parents said it. Remember the discussion they had in a dinner table when they asked why she should doing an essay bc they pay Yale.
So why just also blaming Pearl ?
I agree with you the series really stresses on the embody of how black girls got manipulated and alienated by white women and they became the followers, but also stressed on the dynamic of power in races espicieally when it comes to black women and white women. IRL a lot of black women experienced that.
For the most part, when pearl fought with her mom it was over valid concerns she’s never had a stable home or her own room and she knows nothing about where she came from and that is information and privileges her mom purposefully kept from her she just wanted to feel normal and fit in somewhere.
@@placeholder9462 there were many times where Pearl jabbed at her mom for not being rich like what she said about the car and you can tell she was kind of embarassed that her mom was like a maid in the Richardson's house
Pearl wanted a seat at the table period and it came back to bite her
You should talk about the show “The Fosters” and/or the spin-off series for the show called “Good Trouble” IM TELLING YOU, YOU WILL LOVE ITTT PLEASE DO A VIDEO ON THIS!! Congrats on 100k🎉❤️😩
i think she's actually watched good trouble before
I love both those shows
"Three is NOT four!....I'm going to get a pacifier" i felt that, i don't even have kids
But then she left to have a fling lmaoooooooooooooo.
This show was so aware and I loved it. Elena was crazy, like she was obsessed. Pearl yelling at her mom was a bit crazy because Mia looked scared. I hope Izzy was okay. Also, I feel like her husband is going to divorce her, and he will most likely take everything. But he’ll also probably have to support Elena because I’m pretty sure he makes more as a lawyer. But he isn’t a good parent either he’s absent and at work a lot and what he said to Izzy was really backwards, because he ignore how she’s treated. Micheal (I’m not calling him moody) needs help and so does Lexi. (Who’s clearly the favorite) Tripp is the middle child so of course he’s ignored, he needs help too before he catches something.
as a brown native girl who grew up with a white mom obsessed with the idea of the perfect family... I related so hard to izzy's character. It's so common for narcissistic parents to only see their kids as an extension to themselves and as a psychology student I know where is steams from but it is the most ANNOYING thing to go through. Elena represents all the women out there that only want to be mom's to ESPECIFIC kind of kids. *ignore any English mistakes, it is actually my third language*
I think she set her hair on fire because her mother said it was her best feature.
You should do euphoria, Star, good girls, all American, on my block, the elite, outer banks...
i just finished the series. honestly? i don't think that they meant for *any* of the characters to be likable. i feel as though it's meant to show their imperfections. obviously some characters are worse than others, but ultimately, to me? you were not meant to root for bebe, or like pearl, or agree with mia's parenting style. i feel as though everything was meant to be imperfect, and unfair. frustratingly so. characters will be shown to have problems, to have so many flaws, to do the wrong thing- and that's the point, to make you uncomfortable, and to make you think.
Show is IMMACULATE PERIODT
Elena schedules her and Bill’s sex life cuz she’s avoiding that next baby. Lol
lmao i didnt think about it like that
When you can tell Pearl clearly understands when something is wrong but doesn’t have the words for it (understanding a micro aggression) but doesn’t say anything I want to slap her upside her head. Also if the lady doing the procedure and was Lexie’s mom’s friend would they not cross paths in the future and recognize each other? So many things not clicking.
The lady that did the procedure wasn't her mom's friend. Her mom's friend worked there but she wasn't the one who gave Lexie the abortion.
Sis hit a 100k!
bill was iconic idc. can you imagine being married to elena???? cut him some slack 😭
kayla m I second that
Plus it’s JOSHUA JACKSON 😜
+kayla m. Yep. Poor Pacey. LOL
Hell yeah
Same the only time the "idc act" made me kinda upset was when Elena or whatever her name is, was screaming at him over the phone because of the water so she couldn't make izzys food and she was basically throwing stuff-
I loved the book, and I love this show. I was nervous because a lot of films and shows that are based on books I love tend to disappoint me, feel lifeless compared to the text, or have major changes that make it super separate from the book, but this show brought this book and its characters to LIFE. I can’t wait to see what happens if there ever is a Season 2, because they’ve already covered the plot of the book and it would be interesting to see what happens to the characters next. Side note, I love your videos and they have really been getting me through this quarantine! Things you did: That. ✨✨✨
Wow I have a completely diff perspective about moody ... I feel like Pearl used him to get to his Brother. Pay attention to the signs
I want to agree but, remember. Moody approached her first at her house. They hung out for weeks before she actually met the rest of the family. Their relationship was very platonic.
i don’t think she used Moody to get to Trip.
He approached her in her yards and they became friends before she even knew of trip so how
My personal opinions on the show:
Moody wasn’t a nice guy trope. He was actually a decent guy. I didn’t see anything that he did wrong. Like was he wrong for liking Pearl? No, I don’t think so. Besides she never really gave any indication that she wasn’t into him. It was pretty much a hit or miss scenario.
The Asian woman (forgot her name sorry) was wrong for taking her daughter out of that healthy household where she would’ve been cared for properly. They didn’t win the case because they were white. They won the case because it was the ethical thing to do and made the most sense. If it had been any other scenario than I probably would’ve been like “yes it’s because they’re White” but not this time. The court made the right decision for once.
Mia is not a good mother but Elena is far worse. I would also argue that neither one of them were likable throughout the whole series. Mia came off as always being mad about something. And Elena was so hell bent on perfection and an unaware racist (hence her daughter Lexie).
Pearl was also irritating and honestly I felt like she picked the wrong brother but then again it’s a tv show written by middle age adults who still think every teen girl is drooling over the jock( more specifically a basic looking white jock) Every teen movie anyone?🥱
Last for not least: Pearl’s biological father and his wife deserved justice. Forget how Mia felt what she did to them was wrong. Yes they should’ve had her sign a contract but if you’re going to agree to something make sure you can handle it. When I first heard what she did to them, I really couldn’t sympathize with her character after that. That was low, just as low as meiling’s mother stealing her from that nice family.
Loved this, Zeniah. Agree totally.
Tsumekuroable he didn’t call pearl a slut, he called the girls his brother previously banged sluts. Moody had every right to be mad. yeah pearl don’t belong to nobody, but banging my brother in my secret hideout knowing I like you?? That’s grimey af
@@patrickj.8429 yeah it's grimy but moody had zero business slut shaming those other girls. pearl, moody & tripp were all in the wrong.
The show is really good and gets deep. I love the juxtaposition between the two mothers and how each tried to make each other seem like a bad mom not realizing how they were one themselves. Then the psychological damage done to their families because of it. And how everything added up in the end. 🔥🔥🔥
Elena is what would have happened with Regina George had she not found a healthy outlet for her anger.
Her liking Trip is immediately introduced in the book, for people saying it wasn’t so obvious