Kevin Can F**k Himself

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Broken is currently available to stream onAMC+; its broadcast premiere on AMC is July 25, 2021.

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Well-meaning but clumsy, gregarious but embarrassed, self-effacing with a big old smile.

Which Allison has been bursting into tears all over town?

Which Allison is experiencing, perhaps for the first time, regret, even as she remains resolute?

But life is shades of gray, and theyre swirling all around Allison now.

Whats harder, the waiting or the pretending?

Broken is as tricksy about that as it is about who actually gets shot in the McRoberts home.

Does this mean Kevin got shot?

I dont think so, and certainly no one speaks as if Kevin is dead.

Could Kevin be in another room, being questioned about whether someone might want to attack Allison?

And, are we even sure that Nick broke in?

Whatever the answers to these questions, we have to wait until next week to get them.

Throughout both timelines, Annie Murphy does standout work balancing atop various emotional tightropes.

Allison does have family, which I wondered about in a previous episode!)

for a regularly scheduled annual trip.

The four-days-later scenes are pretty straightforward: Allison is being questioned by the detectives.

The four-days-previously scenes are more interesting, and capture the shifting relationships of which Allison is the center point.

You gotta be smarter than this.

Is the way Allison acts after Pattys dictate actually her being smarter?

Suddenly Im more than happy to never do this again because I dont know when you got so broken.

And does she inspire Sam to leave his wife?

If someone were to look at Allisons life, shes leaving a trail of damage behind her.Classic Allison.

Re: the gorgonzola on the steak that Nick was told to send back cheeseisdairy, right?

Or have I been doing lactose intolerance wrong my whole life?

There has never been a gun introduction on a TV show that didnt end in something tragic.

Those are just the rules of narrative storytelling.

Who did Nick call after getting fired and before the hit on Kevin?

Does that person know the whole plan involving Allison and Patty?