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Oct. 3rd, 2022 09:29 pmI’m still not over Kevin Can Fuck Himself. I may never be over Kevin Can Fuck Himself. I’ve seen excerpts from more horrifying stuff like Lolita or the visual novel Euphoria, but this is the most vomit-in-my-soul thing I’ve watched a full episode of.
There’s a bit in the first episode where Allison thinks about how Kevin always told her she was a bad driver. She’s never been in an accident, but she listened whenever Kevin said she was doing the wrong thing, and now Kevin is the only one who drives the car.
I looked on TV Tropes to see how bad it was gonna get, and in a later episode, sitcom antics result in a dead pig in the backyard. From Kevin’s viewpoint, the pig is never actually shown, because it’s just a fun joke for him. Allison is the one who has to get rid of the overripe pig carcass. Kevin lives in a world where cleanup doesn’t exist, because he doesn’t have to think about it when he can just make Allison do everything for him.
There’s this neighbor character who’s . . . probably mentally disabled? It’s unclear what his deal is, but there’s a “joke” that his sister changed his diapers even though he’s three years older than her. He doesn’t seem to have any friends outside of Kevin’s social circle, and he’s desperate for Kevin’s approval, even if that means playing along with Kevin’s sick games. TV Tropes says a character later tells him that Kevin “laughs when you bleed.”
Kevin feels real to me in a way a lot of fictional villains don’t. You know how some people say “you’re not the protagonist of real life”? Kevin feels like a plausible way someone could be the protagonist of real life. All he had to do was surround himself with vulnerable people, sabotage any chance they had of getting away, and give them just enough scraps of affection to keep them hanging on.
There’s a bit in the first episode where Allison thinks about how Kevin always told her she was a bad driver. She’s never been in an accident, but she listened whenever Kevin said she was doing the wrong thing, and now Kevin is the only one who drives the car.
I looked on TV Tropes to see how bad it was gonna get, and in a later episode, sitcom antics result in a dead pig in the backyard. From Kevin’s viewpoint, the pig is never actually shown, because it’s just a fun joke for him. Allison is the one who has to get rid of the overripe pig carcass. Kevin lives in a world where cleanup doesn’t exist, because he doesn’t have to think about it when he can just make Allison do everything for him.
There’s this neighbor character who’s . . . probably mentally disabled? It’s unclear what his deal is, but there’s a “joke” that his sister changed his diapers even though he’s three years older than her. He doesn’t seem to have any friends outside of Kevin’s social circle, and he’s desperate for Kevin’s approval, even if that means playing along with Kevin’s sick games. TV Tropes says a character later tells him that Kevin “laughs when you bleed.”
Kevin feels real to me in a way a lot of fictional villains don’t. You know how some people say “you’re not the protagonist of real life”? Kevin feels like a plausible way someone could be the protagonist of real life. All he had to do was surround himself with vulnerable people, sabotage any chance they had of getting away, and give them just enough scraps of affection to keep them hanging on.
