Panel 1: Well, it looks like the bullshit session wrapped up because we're at the Tiny Train House. In yet another gratuitous exterior shot, we read dialog that tells us that a) Elly is calling April to the dinner table and b) April will be there as soon as possible.
Panel 2: We see the reason April isn't rushing off to Pattersnarf: she's doing the homework her idiot mother probably doesn't think she has and doesn't want the flow to be interrupted. A worthy goal deserving of praise in any other household but this.
Panel 3: As proof of that, Elly insists on trying to disrupt her daughter's studying by proffering her a little food and pulling on the chair as a means of reminding her she needs to come to the table and listen to more praise of Anthony Caine. Naturally, having the chair halfway pulled out from under her makes our hero yell out. I can picture the ill-informed jerks on Kool-Aid Mountain telling April to 'deal' already.
Panel 4: She then proceeds to tell her in an understandably-to-everyone-who-isn't-a-K
Panel 5: Elly's disproportionate response, namely to bellow that she's done with being a mother, is made all the worse by forcing us to ask ourselves "Didn't she say she was done last year?" (Not to mention "When did she start?") I guess this disproves the ranting she was doing about being loving and forgiving, doesn't it? Not to mention tough, practical and all those other things she ain't. A tough, loving forgiving mother would have put her kid's meal in the micro or reminded her that if she wanted a plate of cold food, that was her problem.
Summary: "Bulletin: Elly Patterson is a Hypocritical, Shrieking Old Bitch! Film at 11."
Hypothesis: The Johnston compound is being saturated with e-mails expressing sympathy for ELLY'S plight.
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