#want someone emotionally abusive to be around your kid? not to overshare but i’m glad like my abuela for example didn’t make me hang out

[thewingedwolf]

no fr i found the whole thing really bizarre. if during a convo with eddie or chim or bobby, they’d been like “well you seem closer with your family” and buck had been like “i’m happy they’re at least showing up now when i’m in trouble but i’ve realized i’ll never have the relationship i want with them, and i’m at peace with it bc i’ve always had maddie, and now i’ll always have the 118” i think i would have been fine with them having a minor role in his life still. buck’s whole story from season 1 has been about how he’s been searching for belonging and family and a purpose because his childhood was a gaping void of nothing, and him accepting that there are parts of life that you may always feel fall short, and you have to work to make that difference up - great. but instead they’re just kind of. here with him, to marvel at the baby and at buck when it’s easy, and dip the moment Maddie or Buck might need actual parental help.

I occasionally scroll through the 911 tag on Twitter (almost always to my immediate regret) and damn if this isn't just exactly what I wanted to express about 6x11. "Thematically confusing" and "actively wants to eat itself" are just spot on. It was such a whiplash of a episode that couldn't decide what it wanted to say and it would have been SO easy to make a minor tweak or two and the episode would have been easily one of the best ones ever.