{"id":53636,"date":"2022-08-23T07:50:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T07:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kevin-can-fk-himself-recap-season-2-episode-1\/"},"modified":"2022-08-23T07:50:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T07:50:19","slug":"kevin-can-fk-himself-recap-season-2-episode-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kevin-can-fk-himself-recap-season-2-episode-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Can F**K Himself recap: season 2, episode 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kevin Can F**K Himself<\/em><\/span> <\/em>is wisely ending after two seasons on its own terms. I say wisely because, as much as I enjoy this perfectly weird little drama, I would hate for it to run out of steam without having anything valuable to add to its thematic and storytelling subversions. This tight narrative doesn’t need to be needlessly dragged out. Thankfully, based on the second season premiere, AMC’s genre-bending drama remains a mostly effective character study of Allison McRoberts (Annie Murphy) and inevitably of the audience that’s been programmed to laugh at her for decades. The aptly titled \u201cMrs. McRoberts Is Dead\u201d also provides an intriguing path to the show’s conclusion. <\/p>\n

Created by Valerie Armstrong, KCFH <\/em>picks apart the age-old trope of the redundant sitcom wife. You know the one: She’s hot, patient, and dutiful, baring with her oafish husband’s tantrums and the sexist entendre meant to belittle her. From Mary Kay And Johnny <\/em>to The King of Queens <\/em>to Kevin CanWait<\/em><\/span> (whose unceremonious firing of Erinn Hayes partially inspired KCFH), <\/em>sitcom wives are used to and swiftly move on from jokes targeted at them, stepping into the next 20-minute episode for a repeat telecast. This move empowers the husbands to feel like the world is theirs to own. So Allison decides to topple the game. She spends season one trying to kill her spouse, Kevin (Eric Petersen). It’s a violent, flawed, ridiculously executed plan. thigh KCFH <\/em>has never been about his death; it’s always been about her re-emergence.<\/p>\n

Allison is done with the charade of putting on a fake smile in Kevin’s brightly lit, multi-camera world where the laugh track never stops. KCFH <\/em>makes a strong case for why, despite desperately wanting to, it’s not easy for women to simply pack up and leave their toxic relationships. It only gets worse now that the titular dudebro is popular after his bid for Worcester, MA., city council hits its stride with a loud TV spot that Allison engineered. (It’s a play on The Troggs’ \u201cWild Things\u201d with Kevin positioned as the Wild Dude. It’s gross.) She hopes it will take him down. Instead, people love it. She does n’t she know by now that folks can <\/em>rally behind a noisy politician with bad hair and zero redeeming qualities?<\/p>\n