I wish you'd been able to be unspoiled too! But it does mean that you get all the nuance in those scenes, which is also excellent. I really enjoyed the reveal, but I also really enjoyed watching with that knowledge and seeing how it informs the way that he reacts to things.
Brühl's puppy eyes are such a key part of the show, because Laszlo can be such a dick to the people he cares about, but Brühl does a marvelous job of letting you know that that's what it is--lashing out at the people in his life who matter most, dissecting other people as a distraction from himself. The scripts are admittedly sharp on that point, too, but the sheer tensed vulnerability is all Brühl. And I love when you get the physical outbursts from him, like throwing the chalk or kicking the ball at the wall.
Yes to all of this! He could so easily be completely unsympathetic, but instead I think the show - and Brühl - really does a great job of getting across why he's doing it. And those little moments after, when he's lashed out and then you can see that he regrets it and wants to apologize but just doesn't have the emotional tools for it, absolutely break me. The explosions of anger really hit home, too. He's just such a wonderful mess.
Totally shipping both Sara/John/Laszlo and Sara/John/Laszlo/Mary, at least as a bunch of loose poly relationships. And Laszlo & kids and Laszlo & his household of misfit sympathetic murderers.
Yeah, Sara/John/Laszlo in particular has that quality I go for, where all the characters have their own individual relationships and care about or are drawn to each other as a duo as well as having the overall group dynamic and hanging out as a group. I also have endless love for Laszlo and his group of weird misfit murderer ducklings.
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Brühl's puppy eyes are such a key part of the show, because Laszlo can be such a dick to the people he cares about, but Brühl does a marvelous job of letting you know that that's what it is--lashing out at the people in his life who matter most, dissecting other people as a distraction from himself. The scripts are admittedly sharp on that point, too, but the sheer tensed vulnerability is all Brühl. And I love when you get the physical outbursts from him, like throwing the chalk or kicking the ball at the wall.
Yes to all of this! He could so easily be completely unsympathetic, but instead I think the show - and Brühl - really does a great job of getting across why he's doing it. And those little moments after, when he's lashed out and then you can see that he regrets it and wants to apologize but just doesn't have the emotional tools for it, absolutely break me. The explosions of anger really hit home, too. He's just such a wonderful mess.
Totally shipping both Sara/John/Laszlo and Sara/John/Laszlo/Mary, at least as a bunch of loose poly relationships. And Laszlo & kids and Laszlo & his household of misfit sympathetic murderers.
Yeah, Sara/John/Laszlo in particular has that quality I go for, where all the characters have their own individual relationships and care about or are drawn to each other as a duo as well as having the overall group dynamic and hanging out as a group. I also have endless love for Laszlo and his group of weird misfit murderer ducklings.