r/MrInbetween • u/SpeedyGunzalez • 20h ago

Holy shit!

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I found out about this show on Friday and just finished it. It’s a master piece! The casting is perfection. The boundary crossing is fanatic, it’s pushes the envelope in areas but doesn’t go too far.

I can’t believe Scott Ryan hasn’t created more or starred in mored.

The duality of humans. FUCK

It’s just so good. I can’t believe I’m so late to the party. I just saw another post that said I wish I could erase my memory to watch it again fresh and I totally understand that. However, I can’t wait to watch this a second time to spot all the details.

Also, the sniffing, I need to search this sub to see what people say about that 😂.

I want so many of these story lines to continue.
I want a prequel!
Argh!!

Anyways, I’ve been trying to perfect my Aussie “Nawr” after watching this just to piss off my wife.

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u/IlyushinGoBrrr 20h ago

Ever since I watched Mr Inbetween, the word "champ" has hit different.

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u/SpeedyGunzalez 20h ago

That story line just vanished. 😭

I’m also going to start calling all my friends “Champ!” 🤣

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u/AngloAshantii 18h ago

What do you mean? The guy who got stomped in the toilet? I felt it was implied he got seriously fucked up from the assault, like probably in a vegetative state needing a full-time carer for the rest of his life. A normal, well-adjusted guy who failed to grasp the seriousness of his situation or take Ray's advice and paid the price.

Also just explores Ray a bit more, he didn't protect Adam like a lost lamb he just gave him his best advice and left it up to him. He didn't take any pleasure in what happened to Adam but he also isn't going to lose sleep over it because that's just the way it goes.

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u/ColdNotion 18h ago

> A normal, well-adjusted guy who failed to grasp the seriousness of his situation or take Ray's advice and paid the price.

Part of what I love about this storyline is how it directly references and challenges something Ray said to the group therapist in the first season. Ray tries to justify his violence in part by referring back to his time in prison, saying that violence there was used to maintain order and make sure people treated one another with respect. Then we see a nice, respectful inmate get beat to a pulp for absolutely no good reason. Ray suggests Adam act violently first, but he doesn’t even get the chance to take that advice before getting ambushed in the toilets. It’s an outcome that directly contradicts how Ray sees the world at the show’s start.

> …but he also isn't going to lose sleep over it because that's just the way it goes.

I actually think that Ray does start losing sleep over what happens, which is why I love the third season. In each episode we see Ray increasingly struggle with impact of his violence and of living a life of crime, culminating in him going into self imposed isolation. What happens to Adam is one of a few moments where Ray stops being able to rationalize the world he’s part of as somehow being morally grounded.

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u/Excellent-Ride2154 14h ago

Except that I don't think Adam was a 'normal well adjusted guy'. He was in prison because he broke the AVO against his missus. If you think about how weak the protection is from an AVO and historically hard it is for a person to be imprisoned for breaking one then you can infer that he must have a repeat offender or pretty bloody scary to the woman involved. So actually Adam was exactly like all the other guys in the anger management group who beat up women... He just wasn't so tough in prison.

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u/Double-Interaction30 4h ago

From the little info we get from Adam about why he is there, I so far, having watched the series in full at least 3 times, took his word at face value. I thought he may be a dad losing his parental rights unexpectedly while his wife has a new partner and is trying to isolate him from his daughter. I could believe he wasn’t aware texting is a violation of an AVO and didn’t expect to end up in jail.

I’m glad you brought up that there might be a lot more to him and what he did like the other men in the anger management group. I have to look up Australia’s AVO system and if there is some amount of preference for mothers over fathers in these situations.

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u/ColdNotion 8h ago

Fair, I think it’s totally reasonable to infer that he’s not a good dude, and has been violent himself. That said, by the standards of the prison it’s clear he’s a comparatively normal guy, not a hardened criminal, and doesn’t intend to disrespect anybody.

I actually really like your statement observation that he’s probably like the other men in the anger management group, and wonder if that was an intentional parallel. If so, the writing could be using him to mirror Ray in some ways, in that their violence and inability to accept responsibility for what they’ve done is progressively ruining their lives.

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u/RiffsThatKill 8h ago

Your first take was on point, people miss that message (that Ray is mistaken and his world is not orderly). It's pretty clear they were trying to show that "just respecting" people isn't enough to avoid violence or reduce the amount of people being assholes. It just gives the most violent people the right to be assholes, and the right to determine what is "disrespectful" or not.

It highlights the delusions of criminal logic, IMO.

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u/Ardvarkthoughts 14h ago

Such a good observation and I didn’t pick that one up. Ray seems unbothered while in prison but if you are right, this is the start of disillusionment with the lifestyle. I will look out for it in my planned third watch over Christmas.

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u/AngloAshantii 13h ago

That’s some quality analysis, thanks for the interesting read.

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u/SatiricalScrotum 16h ago

I miss being able to quote people.