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Michael Tate was introduced in Greater Boston as someone mourning his best friend; his grief after Leon's death is a key part of his character arc. Four seasons later, in his farewell letter to Louisa, we hear him thinking of himself as a best friend who someone else would mourn - a kind of tragic role reversal. In that letter, Michael refers to both Leon and Louisa as his "best friend". As he faced the prospect of death, he thought about how it felt for him to lose Leon and he used that experience to empathise with the grief and anger and regret that Louisa would feel at losing him. He tried to ease the pain that Louisa would feel at his death while knowing that he couldn't. There's something so powerful to me about that potential cycle of loss. Michael, whose narrative has been so shaped by grief, had to confront the idea of someone grieving for him with a similar intensity…
#Greater Boston#Greater Boston podcast#I'm still feeling shrimp emotions about Michael's letter to Louisa#as I knew I would#I don't really know how to express the shrimp emotions but this is a partial attempt#Greater Boston is very good at releasing a short mini-episode that then takes up my brain for the rest of the week#I listened to it on my lunch break like a fool#then I spent my afternoon trying to write emails in an emotionally stable way#while thinking about 'It will be that look that welcomes me to whatever’s next' on a loop#greater boston spoilers#Michael Tate#Louisa Alvarez#Louisa & Michael#the empty man posteth#Btw if anyone wants to talk to me about Greater Boston. feel free to reach out#i have a lot of feelings
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