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The Flash: Fast Lane (2016)
Grieving a mother
Up until the end I was thinking this is just a standard episode of The Flash.
But Wally's monologue about how he loves to race because it reminds him of how he used to have these long drives with his mum and how happy they were? How stopping racing is saying goodbye to those moments? That got to me, and got my own grief in a way I've never quite seen replicated.
I lost my mum when I was 11. My safe space up until that point was in her car going on drives. To mundane tasks like shopping or roadtrips to holidays (we drove to France once) I always felt at home in the passenger seat of her car, splitting a wispa chocolate bar with her and just talking and singing along to the radio (living on a prayer always sticks out in my mind.) When she passed we sold the car and with that it was almost like my last hope of doing anything with her again. So hearing him express his grief of his mum in a similar way to how I felt/feel mine literally made me cry.
My Family: Droit de Seigneur Ben (2000)
SA Plot done right.
I felt compelled to write a review for this one as to how it handled the assault plotline.
It was very refreshing to only see the aftermath and reactions, so often with modern media they make it horrificly violent (as if SA isn't bad enough on its own.) And it can be a tough thing to handle in sitcom format as you run the risk of making a joke out of it or having a far too serious episode which is out of place tonally with the rest of the episodes.
The fact that we saw the denial (I. E: Janey thinking it was her fault and not a big deal) and the reassurance from her mum that it was not her fault and a big deal was interesting, and I think it was a good message to send to people who have experienced SA (or attempt of) as so often its easier to put the blame on yourself then try and understand how a human could behave that way of their own accord.
Also the fact she mentions what self defense move she used could provide helpful in encouroging people to take up self defense (or at least take note of her move which could provide useful if anything were to happen.)
I like that it still manages to keep the comedy, by putting the jokes around mistaken identities and how the dad reacts, the ending when the assistant is horrified as to how he could have set his daughter up with the Lords son even though she was the one to set them up was great and added a lot to their tense relationship which would be played up a lot. Also, when the Lords son comes in and refers to losing a tooth on "biting into a nasty piece of chicken bone" and having Ben assume he's talking about his daughter (who knocked out the guys tooth when defending herself) leading him and his assistant to enact revenge by trying to take it out whilst spraying Novocaine all over his face (essentially waterboarding him with it) to then find out it was the wrong son who has been disowned for being gay was great piece of writing.
Also the fact that the gay son wasn't made a joke out of for being gay was surprisingly open minded for the time.
Tldr: The handling of the assault plot was tasteful without showing anything/being overly dramatic and hasn't been replicated in such a way since. Surprisingly LGBTQ+ friendly for time is came out in.