This is one of the rougher watches in this catalog! There is graphic violence, blood, murder, suicide (via train accident, hanging, and pills, all graphic), and multiple instances of sexual violence which are not graphic but still deeply upsetting. There's also intense professional pressure to succeed, psychological collapse, and various characters cracking up under the force of realities they cannot deal with. Many characters get unhappy endings! Of special mention:
There is an outright multi character in the "Double Lips" episode, where two headmates are locked in seemingly eternal combat. They don't seem to ever get it together, and its their refusal to do so that gains them a visit from Lil Slugger.
There is a girl who's being preyed upon by her father. After Lil Slugger's whack upside her head gives her amnesia, her father avoids all consequences. Every time the two of them appear for the rest of the show, they are sitting together, smiling foolishly. On the surface, it appears to be a "happy" ending where all conflict is avoided, but it's a total illusion, and I found that unhappy ending unexpectedly satisfying.
Finally, the episode "Happy Family Planning" is content warnings all the way down, because the premise is three people who meet on the Internet, make a suicide pact, and meet in person, only to discover that one of those three people is a literal child. The two adults do everything they can to escape her, only to fail, and the bleakest of gallows humor ensues as they continuously try (and seemingly fail) to commit suicide, only to discover they actually succeeded unknowingly at the start of the episode. One of us found the episode fucking hilarious but it made another one collapse in tears.
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Date: 2023-06-18 04:49 am (UTC)There is an outright multi character in the "Double Lips" episode, where two headmates are locked in seemingly eternal combat. They don't seem to ever get it together, and its their refusal to do so that gains them a visit from Lil Slugger.
There is a girl who's being preyed upon by her father. After Lil Slugger's whack upside her head gives her amnesia, her father avoids all consequences. Every time the two of them appear for the rest of the show, they are sitting together, smiling foolishly. On the surface, it appears to be a "happy" ending where all conflict is avoided, but it's a total illusion, and I found that unhappy ending unexpectedly satisfying.
Finally, the episode "Happy Family Planning" is content warnings all the way down, because the premise is three people who meet on the Internet, make a suicide pact, and meet in person, only to discover that one of those three people is a literal child. The two adults do everything they can to escape her, only to fail, and the bleakest of gallows humor ensues as they continuously try (and seemingly fail) to commit suicide, only to discover they actually succeeded unknowingly at the start of the episode. One of us found the episode fucking hilarious but it made another one collapse in tears.