After Dennis Says Macs Ugly

💔 after Dennis says Mac’s ugly 💔

here’s another iconic™ dennis moment

Happily ending my late night enjoying Sunny, Charlie’s song for Paddy’s Pub came to mind and

I realized that there’s only been one episode at the actual bar this season 🤔

Ep 1: At Paddy’s and everyone’s apartments

Ep 2: Mac and Dennis’ apt and a hospital room

Ep 3: On an airplane and a baseball field in CA (not counting seeing the bar through Dee’s snapchat)

Ep 4: Entirely at the event area of a hotel

I think because any manner of s t u f f is going on behind closed doors, keeping it to themselves. Since Dennis showed that he’s only comfortable touching Mac, and maybe being touched to a degree, when they’re alone from the escape room.

Ex: (that I’m almost done making a post about)

Dennis says in his speech that “You’ve gotta stop kissing me” meaning he is actually kissing him; would you word it that way if you didn’t want someone to keep attempting to kiss you?

Also, as a side detail, I found that after saying that the tone Dennis spoke in was suddenly especially ‘gay’ stereotypically? Just my first observation and still felt that way after seeing it again just now as it aired.

Since Mac’s not hiding his sexuality anymore, he isn’t as stringent as Dennis would be with what they usually do at home, them being much more touchy?And Mac wouldn’t be as quick to catch on if he’s being manipulated at all by Dennis somehow into behaving differently in public verses in private to exactly how Dennis would like.

Dennis orchestrated all of it for that harassment seminar, so was it ALL at its core to make a declaration about Mac? (To throw any assumptions/questions about them off his case, or more sadly to make a public statement about what he considers a ‘vice’ he’s trying to quit, like how someone would make a public announcement for being sober/losing weight with a diet/etc, as an ultimatum for himself).

Um omg at what Dennis said to Mac I literally can’t go thru the scene

Yea I agree but also?? Watching them interact in the rest of the episode I’m like … boi actions speak louder than words. Like idk they still have that tension, and Dennis is very vocal about not the wanting closeness and shit from Mac but continues to be glued to his side? Mixed signals !

Anyways, I just want to make clear that woobification and sympathizing and acknowledging a character’s trauma are not synonymous.You can watch the new episode and acknowledge that Dennis is uncomfortable with Mac’s advances and agree that Mac was in the wrong here. But similarly, you should be able to turn around and say ‘ hey dennis set up this entire fucking seminar so he could continue raping women without getting caught’. It’s the dichotomy of sunny, the tenderness/vulnerably of it’s characters mixing with the staggering grotesquery of their morbid personas. if you couldn’t sympathize with the Gang then nobody would watch the show.