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What do you do when you simply cannot deal?
You faint, or you throw yourself in the trash.
Which is to say, in both cases: lol, it me.
and there we see Forky comfort her and promise shell learn that she, too, is not trash.
Hes arelatable icon.Move aside, Mandy Moores old-age wig,Forky is us.
In the first season, Amabella got bit during class.
Her boots sticking out of the closet are little, metallic metaphors for living in 2019,Esquirewrites.
We know the terror Amabella feels, but we dont know how to talk about it directly.
Its weird to watch the panicked feeling of the moment seep into the major forms of entertainment we watch.
It feels like the concerns ofthe sad-comas expressed inYoure the WorstandBoJack Horsemanhave leached into the soil.
Anxiety icons are everywhere.
Stare into the void and popular culture sells the void back to you.
Its worth noting that most of these characters are very young.
Maybe teens are just boring and angry and sad.
Forky learns to value himself.
Their funny and yet-relatable moments of terror build to little.
I greatly admiredCrazy Ex-Girlfriends attempts toreckon full onwith mental illness and how hard it is to recover.
Which is to say, maybe just give me a movie where Forky never stops screaming.
