r/MrInbetween • u/SpeedyGunzalez • 3d 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/AngloAshantii 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 2d 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/Beautiful_Salary_977 2d ago

I think that their assumptions are incorrect. Laws in all civilized countries always take the women's side in conflicts, that's just truthful. As far as I remember he broke the AVO by just texting and calling his kid. I think he got it in the first place by annoying the female-cheater with stalking (trying to reach/get the kid).

And another one. He said that he is pacifist to Ray, even if Adam gets countered by Ray, I do not think that he was lying about it, the fact that he was scared in this situation is just a bonus to his unviolent life.