#gil arroyo/malcolm bright

[brightmalcolm]

You're used to being the smartest person in the room. Not today.

[renegadesstuff]

TV SHOWS' ANNIVERSARY 🩷

PRODIGAL SON (2019 - 2021)

FIVE YEARS OF PRODIGAL SON 🤍

[balesdoesart]

I'm alive actually you guys...

[emotinalsupportturtle]

sum up Prodigal Son (2019) in one sentence

this is it, that's the entire plot

[aceofwhump]

Prodigal Son 1x02

[loumandivorce]

trans malcolm is so. imagine if the person the most accepting of you was your serial killer dad

[incorrectprodigalsonquotes]

Gil: Bright? Bright!

Edrisa: Where could he be?

Dani: [Whistles for him]

JT: ….Dani, we’re looking for Bright, not Marmaduke.

Malcolm: [Appears out of nowhere] You whistled?

[guinevereslancelot]

PRODIGAL SON | 1.01

I worked the Upper East Side in ‘98, not far from here. One night we get a call. Some kid, a prank. They send me to sort it out, apologize to the owners and all that. The doctor who lived there couldn’t figure out who made the call. Still, he invited me in, even offered me a cup of tea. That’s how The Surgeon tranquilized his victims. Tea laced with ketamine.

Bright called the cops on his dad?

[kat-rose-griffith]

Jokes on you, I’ll NEVER give up hope that Prodigal Son can be renewed. NEVER.

[brightmalcolm]

Okay, that came out worse than I meant, but I'm fine.

[balesdoesart]

He's learning to drive at his whole 31 years of age 🫶

(Thanks to my super cool and awesome boyfriend @miivrs for the idea)

[friendlynbhddevil]

Yes!!! Prodigal son was soooo good! Malcolm Bright deserved better. And Ainsley too. The dynamics were so good I’m actually getting irritated again because I had heard the show could have been picked up by Netflix but it never happened😭 so much unresolved plot😭 I’m heartbroken again lol

IT WAS GOING TO BE PICKED UP??? WHAT HAPPENED???😭😭😭

I want my unhinged boi backkk😭

Gil stepping up as a parental figure, like I can't even begin to describe how much I adore found family or in this case the family that chooses you and you love them back. And the dynamic that he shares with his team, especially Edrisa, is very veryyy dear to me like I would fight for them. They are just sooo *incoherent mumbling and crying*

I think this is one of those shows where I genuinely loved the mother, because Jessica Whitly is not a plain character. She has her fears and yet she's just as unhinged if it's about her children or anyone she genuinely cares for. She's sassy too, I love that. I think being sassy and unhinged is a genetic thing in the Whitly family.

As I'm writing about them now, I miss them more. I remember watching it daily when it aired. What made it stand out from most shows, for me, is that it has a protagonist who is utterly haunted but it does not stop him from being absolutely hilarious. In fact, any other show would've made him stoic and something stereotypical. Distanced, so to speak. But everytime he's on screen, it feels like he's alive; we are not mere spectators. We feel his grief, his desperation to be his own person, his love, friendship, everything.

This makes him and every character on this show special.

I'm sooo happy that you decided to talk about this showww😭😭💖💖💖

[miivrs]

WE ARE SO BACK !!!!! ^_^

[bountyofus]

Malcolm Bright, a man desperately pursuing his own destruction merely because he was born

Tw: Needle, Suicide, Grooming and Prodigal Son Spoilers (and it's related triggers)

Malcolm Bright kneeling himself in front of a serial killer who is mimicking his father, the man who tried to groom him into a being just like him, haunting him even after ten years of no contact, and offering himself to be killed. Malcolm Bright, kneeling in front of a serial, confessing his parentage in front of someone who has so far had an untainted opinion of him.

The moment he admits to being The Surgeon's son, Martin's son, how it hurts him to say.

Malcolm Bright, hoping to kill two birds with one stone, get rid of himself, ending all the torment at the hands of the closest thing to his father, and saving a life while doing it. Holding a needle to his wrist, all but begging this killer to kill him instead.

His disappointment is palpable, so very clear when he isn't killed, painfully, excruciatingly. The serum had been perfected, the most painful way to die, and Malcolm was on his knees for it. And Gil saw it, Gil knew, seeing that face. How many times had Gil seen that face? How many times had Malcolm tried something similar? How many times had he felt that same fear? Gil has known Malcolm for 20 years, through the worst times in his life, how many times had he seen Malcolm like this?

Malcolm Bright is one of the most self-destructive characters I have ever seen, from moments like these where he intentionally puts his life in danger, hoping for a moment where it ends, disappointed when it doesn't end with him dead. To moments where he sabotages his own relationships, pushing people away, lying and making himself out to be this horrible burden to everyone, to be this danger to be around.

Malcolm Bright has always been afraid of himself, of being what his father tried to groom him into, so deeply into that belief that his father succeeded and that he’s such a terrible person, merely for existing, for being the son of the surgeon. Malcolm is fully under the belief that he deserves pain and even death for what his father did, he’s so afraid of hurting people, of being like his father. Everything he does is penance of being alive, hoping to make up for the risk of him still being around. He’s so scared, even of death itself. Malcolm, generally speaking, tends to be passively suicidal, having shown fear of death and being hurt, but it’s moments like these that you really see how far he’s willing to go to keep everyone else safe, and how deeply this fear goes. How ready he is to lay down his life.  But that's just my two cents

[incorrectprodigalsonquotes]

Gil: I'd take a bullet for you, you know that. Right between the eyes. I would slit my throat rather than say something to someone that you didn't want me to say!

Malcolm: That's not necessary, Gil. But that is comforting.