I love that you share this. Thank you
Shout out to your grandparents. And I love that you have conversations with him. 🧡
Franklin
2025-05-12 19:05:06 +0000 UTC
100% agree
Franklin
2025-05-12 19:03:27 +0000 UTC
This is literally my favourite show, the characters and their dynamics are so brilliant. I'm so glad you've been enjoying it so far!
Anya Smith
2025-05-12 18:57:20 +0000 UTC
Frank, your commentary just makes this show ten times better.
I'm laughing and crying and smiling all the time!
Losing family is so hard. My mom lost her dad when she was a teenager too, and my grandmother went through such a similar experience. She didn't talk about it at all. She only told me when she was about 90 years old that she felt that she would crumble if she talked about him. She said she spent years angry at the world for losing him (he died at 49, she lived to 100).
My mom did tell me stories about the grandfather I didn't get to meet, but we realized some of my younger cousins had never heard mention of him and had never even seen a picture of him at all in their whole lives!
People can be complicated. My grandma took away all his pictures and all his books, because she couldn't stand looking at them, but she kept all his neckties in the closet forever, arranged so that she had to smooth them with her hand every day or the closet door wouldn't close. The only reminder of him was kept private.
But I do have imaginary conversations with my grandpa, I think what he would have liked to know and I tell him. One of my cousins is studying to become an architect, like he was. I think he would have liked it.
Lola Lirola
2025-05-12 17:54:17 +0000 UTC
OOO Frank, I love when people talk about art affects and relates to them, the way you do. Cuz art is to talk about the things of the soul, the things we dont properly get to say with words. So no matters how simple a thing can be, if it touchs you in that place in your heart, ohh… then it’s everything.
Bernardo Gabriel
2025-05-12 13:59:06 +0000 UTC
Yuussssssssss!!!!!!
Raefyn
2025-05-12 05:00:21 +0000 UTC
its working, praise the tv gods (and all your efforts Frank!) 🙌🏻 I can't stress this enough but i am so so SO glad youre watching this, i just finished my rewatch and im loving your commentary on this, you approach every show with such an open heart and really thoughtful discussion and it makes me laugh and cry in equal measure ❤️
Lauren O'Loughlin
2025-05-12 02:17:26 +0000 UTC
This fucking show man. The amount of times I cried watching this episode for the first time? The amount of times I cried watching it now? 😭
While seeing Anne stand up for herself on the station I used to be a tiny bit annoyed, but now? Realising my own abandonment issues I understand that she literally wouldn't mentally survive if she was letting herself get attached. The life made her get used to disappointment and rejection and rewatching it now, I think, if Matthew didn't find her - she would definitely try living on the streets by herself 😭
Remember "A daughter is a girl who grows up to be friend" from the first ep? I think the way Anne managed to pull so much emotion out of Cuthberts in a week not only speaks for how desperately she tries to belong while staying her true self, but also how much feelings both Marilla and Matthew were holding in. The way Matthew was the talkative one in that awkward breakfast scene? 😂😭
No fr I cried like five times in this hour, that hurt, I wanted to burn this whole picnic to the ground, fuck these people. Running to watch the next two eps with you, much love 💚