The Rehearsal is deeply insane and deeply comforting. It's a show for people with social anxiety. People who are acutely aware that they've never been perceived as "normal". People who struggle to experience or express feelings in the same way as others. People who worry about what other people think. People who want to be vulnerable but don't know how. People who want to get inside others' heads in order to understand who they are, how they feel, how they will behave, how they will react. People who wish to manipulate and engineer situations because often it feels like the only way to succeed in a social landscape you don't quite understand is through careful thought, consideration, and design. People who feel lonely but don't want to feel alone. People who quietly, desperately want to find a place that feels like home.
I didn’t realize it at first, but do you feel like Allan could be a stand in for nonbinary people?
He’s not a Ken, He’s not a Barbie, he’s just Allan He’s the only Allan and he doesn’t really understand it. He moves more like the Barbies do, but he’s not brainwashed by the Kendom. His appearance is similar to the Kens, but he’s not a part of the Kendom. He’s something else, somewhere in the middle.
Also they kinda show Allan not fitting into a gender binary. We see femininity and masculinity represented in Barbie and Ken, both going through the extremes of them. We see this in every Ken and every Barbie, but not Allan. He even works with the Barbies when dismantling the Kendom since it effects him negatively too and he doesn’t like it. Like how the patriarchy also effects non binary people and people outside the gender binary negatively.
You could say he leans masc/is masc and that’s true, but the Kens don’t really seem to accept him or include him as one of them. He has Barbie-like mannerisms but he’s not included with the Barbies ever, he’s not invited to girls nights. He’s just, Allan.
so much gender envy
the disorders this movie gives me
They are canon
tom and shiv still not being able to move beyond their betrayals of each other vs tom immediately forgiving greg and still choosing to protect him and bring him along with him and even goes as far as to claim him as his. REALLY MAKES YOU THINK!
someone who doesn’t watch ted lasso wouldn’t understand why watching a man NOT spit at his reflection in the mirror for once is a deeply moving and personal thing to watch, but it is. it just is. 😭
THIS HEALED ME
Omg 😂😂😂
Interesting how he said he *was* a straight man in America ?! So not anymore? ;)
Here is my contribution to the fandom
I call it "The Bi Ted Thesis"
Sarah Snook and Kieran Culkin shaving Jeremy Strong hair after shooting their final scene for succession.
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