Status Updates From Szépek és átkozottak

Imagine my surprise when Fitzgerald placed the emphasis on the “Damned” of the title. It’s a hollow victory for Anthony, and a morbid one for Gloria. I wasn’t exactly expecting just how we got there, though there was an inkling in the dropped plot thread.

Also props to Fitzgerald when his drunken antihero throws a racial slur at his one-time rival and Bloeckmann beats the SHIT out of him

Boy was I wrong about Anthony and the army. The dude had glimpses of wanting to do things to “make something of” himself but he keeps doing nothing, throwing parties, and dwindling their income. When his year of army is juxtaposed with Gloria’s faithfulness he feels utterly repellent and barely worthy of pathos, and I am totally with her when she harangues him.