POINT ZERO WORLD

How to begin this article ? Maybe with the urge to explode and explore myself more. Yes it’s going to be a BIT dramatical and personal. Through this year, I have had the chance to watch some exceptional TV productions, TV shows that gave me the strength to keep pushing my limits, and by their realism,make me believe that everything is temporary. And both the skies and universe know that we all need this affirmation, especially in 2023. The Bear (2022-), Fleabag (2016-2019) or my second watching of Insecure (2016-2021) and Atlanta (2016-2022).I don’t know where you are sitting right now reading those words, but I hope that this article, and these fictional stories, will somehow soothe you and birth a glimpse of hope !

THE RESURGENCE OF THE REAL POST TEEN ADULT

Let’s clap for this improvement, allowing us 23-33 ish year olds to feel best depicted. The joy that I felt when I saw Sidney in The Bear, trying to navigate her fears and her desire to succeed, to build her career as a chef/cook as a young gifted black woman from Chicago. Or when I watched, I mean devoured Fleabag, thanks to my sister’s pressure, where we are following the « trashy » yet normal life of the nameless character « Fleabag” messing everything around her and trying to follow her passion, not without trial and error. The 2020 years have blessed us with contemporary representations of what being a young but affirmed adult means. Yes we can still live with our parents and struggle or pursue the diploma of our dreams until we are faced with some realities, how all of our expectations crumbled and how our lifes’ inspirations were fed to us by social constructs.

Being a young but confirmed adult is all and nothing at the same time. We are able to do everything, in the limits of legality of course, a certain freedom that we had been waiting for for so long without really knowing what it will mean. But now we see ! And everyday a new struggle appears : financial, romantic or professional. We are facing our own smaller selves and throwing them out there, to one day catch back someone new, that is mentally and professionally able to live in and understand this world. The young adult trope is vivid and finally being explored with more depth in television.

TO EXPLODE AND EXPLORE

The main subject : let’s explore and explode or vice versa. Stuck in this « in-between », 20 or 30 even 40, because the reinvention of oneself is universal, the hopelessness is gigantic. I have loved every crisis of every character in The Bear, where each person, can make us feel the appetite to try and comprehend through their lenses.

Did I tolerate Fleabag’s secret affair with her best friend’s boyfriend, hell no, yet the show has wonderfully managed to make viewers find a tiny bit of sympathy for her back story and for where she is going. Every character in The Bear, Insecure, Fleabag or even Atlanta has fallen off, succeeded and started again. Not that far from that American dream, it’s a feeling of hope, mixed to scariness and loneliness but it seems to always be worth it at the end. Let that kitchen burn a little bit Carmy if it can compensate your PTSD, exhaustion and grief. Yes Molly, say no to situationships and fake love and advocate for something better. To explode also means to stop some relationships, whatever their nature. They have to go for us to free ourselves. It’s painful and difficult but as we are maturing, we are seeing our traumatic patterns and archetypes right in front of us and the battle that will begin is one of a lifetime.

Those patterns somehow lead us to the explosion but as soon as we understand them, the freedom is soon to come. Say goodbye to the bullshit job only paying the bills, that lover that is half-energy eater half-I will never commit, say goodbye to members of your family, even your parents sometimes.

The explosion is inevitable but the path is scarily good and exciting. The Bear can be toxic and raise our tension, but it can also teach us communion and solidarity. Not without fights around the love for the art of cooking. Fleabag is everyone of us, but especially the « quirky » or « instable » women who just appear to not live by society’s and family’s expectations, rejecting the diktats of being the perfect woman. And finally Insecure, where Issa has had the biggest glow up, not without cries and disturbances, yes I’m talking about men. She fought hard to reach her final goal and her dream life. As we say no to bullshit and are guided, loved and supported by the right ones, I think the explosions can have the right effect ! I hope it will for me tough.

Try, explode, and restart !

Lunaticharlie.

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