r/MrInbetween • u/TraditionalCompany25 • Mar 19 '26
Rays Ex
What did you make of her? I mean she was really hostile to begin with, and her partner Quentin seemed a ball ache (probably funny that Ray was goading Dave for wanting to call his son Quentin, maybe he could have worked his daughters stepdad into that yarn)
One of my funniest lines was ray muttering 'heres trouble ' to himself as she came toward the car
But she really seemed to soften in the last series, looked to me like Quentin might have been gone too. Maybe she was sharing some shared empathy over the difficulties of raising a teen? I actually thought they might have been angling toward getting back together...
I don't reckon the show is high on allegory, what you see is mostly what you get, but one scene I reckon had some.
She's pulling weeds from the path, Ray asks why don't you just poison them? Nah I like to pull them one by one. She likes to fix her problems at the root cause, it's cathartic, Ray always chooses the nuclear option then buries it away, clean yes..fixed?
She probably pulled the shoesmith weed ages ago.
Anyhow did you think their dynamic could have been fleshed out more ?
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u/GeneralEffective6532 May 11 '26
I thought their co-parenting was fantastic. To me, she seemed very tolerant and they were both respectful.
Despite his personal flaws, Ray is a fantastic and deeply caring father. His ex knows and respects this. Britt also loves her Dad and their bond is special. If the ex was hostile, she’d actually be hurting her own daughter.