“The farther you go, the smaller you get.”
There can be no question as to whether or not Forrest’s journey to review life’s wonders and horrors is one of attrition. Piece by piece, bite by bite, Thursday by Thursday, Forrest MacNeil is dying before our eyes. The episode’s third act literally diminishes Forrest, first placing him among gigantic exaggerations of daily life and then pushing him to his knees even as real loss tears the structure of his childhood and family further apart. We’ve seen him scoring drugs with teenagers, pressuring women to make love in airplane bathrooms, destroying his marriage for no real reason, and now it appears that the momentum of his awful life is simply too great to escape. Not that he doesn’t try.
When Josh and Tina (full credit to Tina, presumably) frame him for burning down a sorority house and...
There can be no question as to whether or not Forrest’s journey to review life’s wonders and horrors is one of attrition. Piece by piece, bite by bite, Thursday by Thursday, Forrest MacNeil is dying before our eyes. The episode’s third act literally diminishes Forrest, first placing him among gigantic exaggerations of daily life and then pushing him to his knees even as real loss tears the structure of his childhood and family further apart. We’ve seen him scoring drugs with teenagers, pressuring women to make love in airplane bathrooms, destroying his marriage for no real reason, and now it appears that the momentum of his awful life is simply too great to escape. Not that he doesn’t try.
When Josh and Tina (full credit to Tina, presumably) frame him for burning down a sorority house and...
- 8/15/2015
- by Gretchen Felker-Martin
- Nerdly
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