#the q ryu scene made me cry

[moutheyes]

the rebound is batshit excellence

i just need to yell about episode 8 of the rebound. this was one of the wildest hours of television i've seen in a very long time. sure, we had love confessions, flirtatious tickling, and a brief attempt at going to school and one's part-time job, but there was also uncertainty about the basketball team's future because all of the school's funding has gone to science instead of sports (you cannot make this up!), a poignant inter-generational conversation about success and dreams, sad jerking-off to an unrequited crush, (another) kidnapping, the world's worst attempt at infiltrating a criminal lair, pistol-whipping, probably a few broken ribs and at least one grade-three concussion, all culminating in a SEPTUPLE MANSLAUGHTER, AN EMOTIONALLY DEVASTATING PARTING SCENE BETWEEN THE GUY WHO KILLED ALL THOSE PEOPLE AND THE 16-YEAR-OLD HE'S IN LOVE WITH/KILLED ALL THOSE PEOPLE FOR, and then the 16-year-old tells his middle school sweetheart who he almost got killed in a dispute over streetball betting that life is too short and they should bone because you just don't know if you'll live to play your next high school basketball game.

in case you thought this show couldn't possibly pack more drama, next week the the basketball team will host a dunk tank to raise money. :) so they can play their [checks notes] third game of the season. :')

perfect series, no notes, tens across the board. i cannot possibly imagine what the final four episodes have in store for us. we're on track to find out, in episode 11, at halftime of the championship game, that the final boss of the show is actually pipo, or maybe his dad. P'GOLF COOKED, SERVED, AND ATE.