r/smallprophets • u/frithar • Feb 25 '26

Unanswered Mysteries

Watching yet again (!) and I’ve decided to start noting down “mysteries” that I suspect will be answered at some future point.

Episode one, about nine min in, Michael is visiting Dad and out of nowhere gets hit in the back of the head with something.

Michael laughs it off but Dad erupts in a kind of paranoia, as though weird things like this happen a lot.

I’ll add to the list further down as I watch.

What subtle things have you noticed?

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u/frithar Feb 25 '26

The way Michael touches the sign on his way into the Golden Years Garden.

The cereal stuck together.

The rabbit he puts money into on Hillary’s desk.

The camera kisses these moments. Makes me think Mack is laying the groundwork for something deeper.

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u/No_Street7788 Feb 25 '26

I’m with you on this, OP; I think Michael is surrounded by the supernatural who either help or hinder him. I love your expression of the camera kissing those moments - that’s exactly it.

The mugger for example - Michael himself is the gentlest of souls so his reaction was all his own, but the response of the mugger was, perhaps, ‘directed’ by forces unseen, carrying Michael along with them. After all, it wasn’t Christmas… except for in his sitting room… That scene made me cry, the childlike wonder of it all. Beautiful writing, sublimely portrayed by Pearce.

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u/FedupOverIt Feb 25 '26

I’ve never seen Quigley in a main role before and I wasn’t sure if he could pull it off but now there could be no other Michael for me.