It’s likely because he is reading The Great Gatsby to him instead of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, but Joe thinks it is because this seven-month-old can gaze into his dad’s soul and see the sociopath within. That your once-exciting life is now a constant spray of bodily fluids on top of sleep deprivation is not exactly a shocking or insightful revelation about this stage of life … also I get that the baby wailing every time Joe touches him is supposed to be ~meaningful~, but it’s still a lot of a baby screaming, which, no thank you!! Please skip to the serial killing.Īnyway, Joe can’t connect with Henry. I get that any semi-accurate portrayal of new parenthood has to show how boring and exhausting it is, but depictions of drudgery don’t make for thrilling television. I hope this does not offend the young parents in our readership, but I have to say the first two-thirds of this episode are a real struggle for me. Also: For someone obsessed with classic literature who feels suffocated by the “white picket fence” purgatory in which he finds himself, you’d think Joe would spend a little less time with Fitzgerald and more time with Cheever, no? He certainly did not think it would involve having a BOY baby named Henry Forty, as in Forty, the twin who ID’ed Love and Joe as full-on psychopaths and was killed by the cops for his troubles. He has a dumb son instead of a sacred daughter his soulmate has killed multiple people with her bare hands (that’s a whole pots-and-kettles situation to unpack another day!) and also, he is realizing now that he never actually gave much thought to what happens after the boy meets the girl. Nothing in poor Joe’s life is going the way he dreamed it would. (Of course, this fake place is Spanish for “cute mom,” smh.) It’s a half-hour from a condo owned by grandma (“Glamma,” ew) Dottie. So the Quinn-Goldberg family settles down in what Joe describes as a “soulless, wealthy suburb outside San Francisco,” Madre Linda. Los Angeles didn’t work out the way Joe hoped - several homicides, plus he never vibed with the people - and he and Love look to make a fresh start where the grass is green and the public schools are competitive.
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