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hydrate. For Faye, also gonna hydrate for
little Mung's audacity. Yeah.
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All right, let's let's get into episode 2.
So episode 2 picks up exactly where episode one left off with
a little little nun, big big mad, and she has the confidence
and the audacity to remind Chet she explicitly told him to leave
big Nun alone 'cause she caught them in the elevator.
That's where we left off. And she's like, what the fuck
are you doing here? I told you no.
I mean, like the audacity of this girl, like just she has no
perceptive that like she's not in the right to like tell people
they can't do something, but she.
Does not give a fuck. I kind of love that about her
anyway. She doesn't give a flag fuck.
She's just like hands off that's mine.
And he's like isn't this the kid from yesterday?
Why is she here? Which is a valid.
Question. It is valid you're he's just
like when did you have a child? Right.
Yeah. Also, like, this is your
apartment. What does this child do here?
Valid, but big gun very classically doesn't answer
anybody. She just like, sits there and is
like all shifty eyed, kind of like she was caught doing
something wrong, which she's an adult having a conversation with
another adult. So like, and this kid is mad at
her. So really like, you're fine.
But she's like oh fuck. But like I I was, I was
wondering that one of the first times I watched this, like why
is Chet here? Like why did Nam let him into
her apartment complex? Like it was weird that he was
here, like in her, like her home, which I thought was kind
of weird, I feel. Like he invited himself over
there and then probably does what everyone else does and was
like, I'll bring food. I I maybe he does kind of know
her, but I'm wondering if it's like more than that.
I I. Cause like at this point.
It's it's pretty obvious even early on that like Nung carries
a bunch of guilt that's unresolved coming from like her
runaway bride moment. Cause like, that's what led to
like the falling outs in her family basically and ruined a
bunch of relationships like her grandmother.
And then, like, you know, Sam got put in the middle of all
this bullshit and yes, no one's like, hey, that was the right
thing for me to do. But, you know, there's
consequences to that. And one of them was like hurting
Chet. Like, I mean, she didn't like
love him, but like, she wasn't trying to be malicious and like,
hurt him, you know? So I wonder if she agreed to see
him as a way to, like, make make amends basically because she
feels like you should because she was bringing this up where
she's like, why aren't you angry at you?
Should be, you should hate me. And he's like, whatever, you're
an opportunity for me. I'm not going to be mad because
he's, you know, ulterior motives.
But for Nung, I think she's like, she's got that self
deprecating streak. So I wonder if she's like, it
would hurt more to bring like a reminder of her pass into her
apartment, like one of those kind of things.
Sense that she would feel still feel guilty because like she's
not running away from the people, she's running away from
the expectations. Right.
Yeah, exactly. And like, I mean, it was really
funny to watch her run away from Chet because she's.
Like you can't catch me. Even though he should have
caught her when she was running away.
It's the ride. But anyway, she wasn't being
malicious towards him. That was more like a middle
finger to the grand man. But he would just happen to,
like, be part of the collateral damage, you know?
And not try hard enough. Yeah, And I think maybe he he
took this as encouragement if she like let him into her
apartment because he's an opportunist.
He's he's here to like get the ultimate trophy wife.
So he looks good on the political stage kind of thing.
So anyway the. It's ridiculous.
Yeah, little mug's like, that's mine.
Hands off. So in a jealous rage, she
basically invites herself into Big Nung's apartment, which was
hilarious, and she like, forces herself in.
It's so fucking funny. Anyway, because who's this man?
So she's like, who is this man? Why is he here?
I'm your, I'm your girlfriend. I need to know who that man is.
I'm sorry. Her delusion is hilarious.
To be fair, she says this and then Big Nung does not correct
her. So like it's partially Big
Nung's fault that like this keeps spiraling out of control.
It's because like little Nug will say shit like this and then
Big Nung never corrects her so then she just keeps going with
the you're my girlfriend. She doesn't correct her the
first time when she keeps saying it following this she says
you're delusional but she never said no.
No, I'm not. Exactly.
She never says no. So there's subtext encouragement
happening here coming from Nung, Big Nung.
So instead of correcting her and being like, we're not dating,
Big Nung is honest and tells Little Nung that I almost
married that man. And Little Nung's reaction is
the funniest fucking thing on the planet where she like turns
up the drama and she's like, she caves forward and she's like
clutching her trash. She's like, oh, Oh my God.
And then Big Nung gets worried. She's like, Oh my God, are you
OK? What's going on?
And the Nung's like my heart's. It's so funny.
It's it's the way she looks up at her and says it, though,
because that's what makes it because you're like, oh, no, she
looks like something's really wrong And right, poor big nun
has this with her grandmother, right, Right.
She's seen this. She's like oh shit, everyone
around me having heart issues. Right.
So this is real and the little
one's just like. I My heart's breaking.
She's like little little asshole, but I I appreciate the
fact that she's trying to like use her humor to mask her paint
because like when because in written big nun gets mad, she's
like whatever and walks away. And then when she walks away,
you see like us at the end, a second of like little mugs start
to panic because she is genuinely worried.
And I think she's using her childish behavior kind of as a
defense mechanism here to like mask the fact that she is
concerned about this. But I think part of it, too, is
a lot, a lot of her behavior. She's trying to see what big
nuns gonna like, what her reaction is, which was to get
worried immediately. So that's like a win in a way
for her. Yeah, for her, she's like a
child. Children are like very like, I
don't know the right way to say this.
Like they have such an open mind, like nothing can really.
You can't hurt them easily like you can with an adult because
like they're delusional, basically.
Like they're resilient and they're delusional.
Yeah. That they're they have
confidence, man, that like, I don't know why we lose that
confidence, but. The world sets us down.
She's definitely using the child regression as the coping
mechanism and making sure to protect herself in vulnerable
situations. Yeah, and that is why we get
this all the time with Big Nog. Yeah, it starts going away
later, but yeah, at this stage we're like yeah.
It starts going away when Big Nog starts reciprocating and
like she the security is there more.
Agreed. They're they're on polar
opposites of the spectrum right now in terms of like, not just
not age, I mean, yes, but like, like, I guess openness is the
best way to put it. Like little dog is very open
with the way she feels all the time.
And Big Nung is very like regressed in her own way and
very closed off all the time. So like it takes the water
dripping on the stone a million times to get her to open up.
So that's kind of what's happening here until eventually,
like the everybody's walls start coming down and then they start
talking to each other like quote, like adults, I guess in a
way. But right now we just get these
hilarious interactions where like a little nun has to keep
like poking the bear until the bear does something.
That's what keeps happening here.
It's so funny. I feel like this is a this is a
way of I again, I don't know anything about flirting.
I don't know anything about relationship.
You're right, it is. I feel like this is definitely a
form of flirt. It just be like, look at me, I'm
cute, yes. That is 100% what she's doing.
How? Can I push your buttons like I'm
still here? Don't forget about me.
It's very obvious once they get inside the apartment that is
exactly what she's doing, 'cause you'll like, you'll go do these
faces like these trying to be like, seductive and like nuns,
like big nuns, like, get the fuck out of here.
What are you doing? But anyway, we'll get there
like, two seats. OK, So, yeah.
Speaking of the apartment. So Little Nung again invites
herself inside Big Nung's apartment, which Big Nung's
like, absolutely not. You're not coming into my
apartment. That's crossing a line.
You're just bad enough you know where I live and can track me
down at will. But Little Nung's like bags of
food, bags of food. I brought you snacks.
And no, big nog is like, wait a minute, reconsider, reconsider
because food equals affection. And also she's broke, so she
instantly caves when she sees the food.
She's like, you brought me food. All right, fine, you can come
in. And I love, I love little Nung's
triumphant face when she gets on the other side of the door
because she like, she just figured out her girl's love
language. So that's another thing she will
file away forever and always use to get whatever she wants out of
Big Nung. So good job girl.
Big Nung's weakness is food. Absolutely.
I feel like that's how she would get murdered.
They would lure her in with. Food.
Yeah, just just the, you're just speaking facts.
So inside the apartment, they first of all, they clear up the
fact that Big Nung is not dating Chet and he did not spend the
night, which is the other thing Little Nung was worried about.
She was like, how could you do that to me?
How could you spend the night with him?
She's like, he just showed up at my apartment and I sent him
away. Like what do you mean?
It's fine? And Lil Nung's like, OK, great.
And then she starts snooping around because she's in Big
Nung's house. She has to Snoop.
Like, that's just what you do. And she ends up like looking at
all the paintings and she's like, wow, you did all this.
You're so good at be at art or whatever.
And Big Nung who's taking takes the flattery always.
She's like, that's right. I'm great.
And she's like laying out the food.
I love this thing where like little Nung brings the food, but
then big Nung has to put the effort into prepare to prepare
it. I think it's objectively funny.
All right. And then we get this hilarious
exchange, which to your point, Caitlin, is overt flirting,
right? That's happening.
And it reminds me of an actual like, conversation these two
had, like, off screen. You sent me the TikTok where it
sounds a lot like this exchange. Yeah.
Yeah, it does. Yeah, OK.
Nung's like big Nung's like finishes preparing the food.
Little Nug is in the room with the paintings.
And then she calls her, she says, says come here and eat.
And Little Nug sings around and she's like, really?
And then like, saunters into the room and she comes up to her and
she's like, eat what? And then like proceeds to check
out Big Nug like overtly. And then like the confidence and
the audacity. Like Big Nug's tagline is no
one's worthy of me. And then Little Nug's confidence
and audacity. That's just her brand.
I don't know if they're like purposefully acting like the
characters in like fan event stuff it's but if they aren't
like they are the exact same in real life and it's right.
They literally have this conversation in real life and
then when big nun calls her out, she's like what the hell Like
what do you mean I'm just talking about food.
Why are you gonna make it sexual and the.
Little nun. Now it's like damn I my flirting
didn't work. This is so funny.
She's like children, man. Yeah.
I mean, like, she made that. She opened up to be like that.
So it's really big men's fault. It is it is absolutely is OK, So
big Nog is like all right, we're teetering to flirting territory
and sexual innuendos. Absolutely not.
So she tries to shut the shit down by like clearing up the age
gap of all because she's like, how old do you think I am?
You're setting you're oogling me and trying to like make sexual
jokes that they. Yeah, this whole scene is
hilarious. OK, so now I'm getting their
names, real names. And because we don't typically,
like, research the actors when we talk about things, but we I
know a little too much about these two at this point.
So now I almost said Yoko. So little Nung.
Little Nung starts by guessing that Big Nung is 26, which
valid. I also said that.
And then big nuns like no. And then little nun guess is 28.
And I was like, this is the same trajectory of my bring one when
I was like 2628 like that. That's it, right?
And then big nuns like I'm not that fond of flattery.
And then she's like, I'm 36, little numb drops what she was
eating. And it's so funny, 'cause like
the shock. But then I was like, I need to
look up their real ages because I don't believe that Phase 36,
She's not Phase 30. And she was like 29 when filming
this. So I was like, OK, that makes
sense. My brain isn't that broken.
And then all for purposes, Yoko just turned 23 yesterday when we
were filming this and so she was probably 21 or 22 when filming.
So basically the gap age gap. Yeah, the gap.
Age gap. Yeah.
In summary, Big Nung is a 36 year old who looks 10 years
younger. And just you know what, to quote
Lucille Bluth. Good for her.
She's she's an ageless millennial.
No one knows how old she is. That's just part of the
generation. It's like if you look at Taylor.
Swift. You wouldn't know how old she
is. Either you're like, no, no, I
don't, I don't know. Right.
Taylor Swift. I would say mage is Taylor
Swift. Like she doesn't like we just
look younger than we actually are.
It's just classic. So like, but like this whole
thing explains a lot of why like later, later they get into
conversations where big nun's like, why don't you like speak
to me like you're elder and it's because this bitch thought you
were 20. 6 So she wasn't ever using formal language with you.
She's like, oh, she's just a few.
Years older than me, that's fine.
So can't blame her. Also again, big nun, you never
correct her. So like, we are where we are.
OK. But yeah, I love that the the
actors are pretty close to the ages, which is it just
hilarious. Anyway, Big Nun's 36, Little
Nung is 21 or 20. I love her too.
And she's like, I'm 21. I mean, I'm 20 going on 21.
So I'm very good. She's so funny.
And then Big Nung's like, wait a minute, why are you in high
school? You're supposed to be in
college. I don't understand.
And then we get the the explanation they give.
OK, and I'll explain. I think this is fine.
But like, the explanation they give is that she's like, well,
you know, I was a premature baby.
She spent a lot of time in the NICU.
So she had a bunch of health problems.
So because when she was younger, she had a bunch of health
problems, they held her. She didn't start school.
She was like 3 years behind when she actually started school.
She should be, I guess she should be 21.
So I guess that kind of fits. So the, the, the, the setup that
bothered me for a while when I was watching the show is that
she's mentally a child in an adult body.
And it's like, what? And that's hella problematic on
the surface, truly. But like, if you if you see the
rest of it, she really. Isn't, though, I know.
Like I, I find this whole situation very suspicious and I
don't think I think it's man made.
It's definitely. Oh, it is.
The control over her because I think she would have been fine.
I think so I. Mean was she maybe just in like
hospitals or something as a child too much 'cause I know
they translated as fill up on medicine.
But yeah, I don't know this whole I need more back story for
this three-year delay. I think so too, cause like later
on we talked to her when we meet her mother and her mother's
like, you know, long, long spent a long time in the NICU like the
ICU for in like newborns. Like I I'm I'm curious what the
degree of her health problems really were 'cause now she
doesn't seem to have any, which is the weird part.
You would, yeah. Because if you have that much
health as she's growing up, you're going to have like,
continued care, correct? Right there.
If it was that bad, it wouldn't it to me, it wouldn't be
something she grew out of, you know?
So that's, that's weird. Also, I have to note that they
wrote this was a change in the show only to change the age, the
ages of the actors. Because in the book Lil Nung is
18. There is no holding her back.
She just was a senior in high school.
She's 18. And then Nung was big.
Nung was I think 34. The gap was the same.
It's just they were two years younger.
I. Don't know.
I don't know if that's a big change.
I don't really care. I.
Think yeah, I don't either. She's still an adult either way,
they were just. Like put it two in there so it
doesn't look like it's a 20 year age gap with the numbers.
Or they're like, you can't be like, she's a teenager there for
a child. I think they're trying to like,
skirt the pedophilia. They're like, they knew like
this shit was gonna happen and they were trying to mitigate it
as much as possible, but like, it wasn't gonna work.
Like you were always gonna get this.
Just yeah, this was just weird. But anyway, like sure, the only
evidence that she had health problems was glasses, which is
not evidence of a health. Which I don't understand why we
keep. Why don't we keep harping on
that? It's so weird.
That maybe she just sat in front of the TV to close right she
just. Her grandmother's obsessed with
her studying and she burnt her eyes out from reading too much.
Like that also happens. You don't need to be prematurely
bored for that to happen anyway. As you can see, another
conversation. Oh my God, Unfortunately,
unfortunately, we'll get to that.
Damn, OK, but before we get there, a little piece of fuckery
that we have to like we're brought to our attention now.
OK, when when little mug is like, oh, you're this, you're
she's like, oh shit, you're really old.
Big Nug's like offended. She's 36.
Little Nug makes the comment. She's like, you're the same age
as my mom, so put a pin in that that.
So with that Nung, Big Nung asks about her mother.
She and and she's like, wow, your, your mother must have had
you when she was like your age when she was young.
And once big Nung mentions that little Nung starts to shrink in
on herself, which and she doesn't say anything.
And and big Nung notices that like this behavior and she's
like, did I did that just make you feel uncomfortable?
What I just asked you? And This is why I love Big Nung
so much, because she's treating Little Nung like a human being
and, and nobody else does this. And for the most part, she's
most like most of the time in the show, she's very conscious
of Little Mung's feelings and observes her behavior enough to
notice when she's upset or uncomfortable and she
communicates with her. And to me, it's that's one of
the reasons I like this show in general, because a lot of times
in shows that just that doesn't happen.
And then it creates these like misunderstandings that could
easily be dealt with with one conversation and that's the
drama. Whereas like that's not the
drama with these two, the the drama with these two is a lot
more grounded and less misunderstandings kind of thing.
It's outside forces. Yeah, exactly.
And and the drama is these two dealing with with that stuff and
and they communicate with each other very directly most of the
time in the show, unless they're like intentionally, like big non
really intentionally in omitting information to like in her mind,
protect the other character. But that's the only time there's
ever like quote misunderstandings.
It's like omission by design kind of thing.
And what I like about this particular conversation where
big nuns like, are you uncomfortable with this
question? And they keep talking about it
and Lil Nun like it does open up about her mother.
This is probably the first one of the first time they have like
a real conversation with each other.
And Lil Nung tells Big Nung that her mother, the reason her
mother's not in her life is because she was shipped overseas
by her grandmother. OK, so this wasn't like her
mom's choice. Like the grandmother sent her
abroad because she was trying to avoid the social scandal of
having a daughter who's an unwed teenage mother.
So to avoid the shame, she literally ships her mother away,
robbing both Little Nung's mom and little Nung of their mother
daughter relationship. And by default, the grandmother
is in in like the sole custody owner of Little Nung.
And then little Nung is like I've never met my mother, which
like how I guess like the the grandmother, like banish her and
she's like you can never come back to Thailand.
Like what the fuck? I.
Really don't understand this like she because she says at
some point like she calls every once in a while so like so I
just like. Talk to.
Her, but I feel like that's weirder to like talk to a person
you don't know. You're like, oh, you're my mom,
but I can't ever see you right? And the grandmother, like she's
the reason for all so many issues.
Agreed and because of that now Little Monk has major mommy
issues which I recognize is one way to absolutely read her
fixation on big Dong because this girl has mommy issues but
really they both have mommy issues cause big nun was an
orphan. So anyway, and like the whole
this whole thing, sorry, go ahead.
No, I was just gonna say, like, we've talked about how their
trauma is very similar and that's why they have to heal
together. And it's a very actually a
beautiful journey. I, I, I agree.
And, but like, remember the root of this is all the, her
grandmother did all this damage because she was trying to avoid
a scandal. And then it's just, it's just.
We're about to create an even bigger one, right?
But back to the Nung, so Big Nung hears all of this and and
takes it in and is very empathetic towards Little Nung's
story, which again is this all new behavior that big little
Nung is receiving right? Because Big Nung doesn't dismiss
her or preach. You need to love your parents no
matter what or how fucking terrible they are.
Cause like familial loyalty and all that bullshit.
Like big Nung listens to her, treats her like a person and is
like genuinely like empathizes with her in this moment.
And that's I feel like that meant everything to little non
because she never gets that. She's always dismissed or just
ignored, you know? Yeah.
I just, I hate, I hate how people treat her.
Me too, I hate it. So bad.
And like you see the huge difference between Chet and Big
Numb because like Chet immediately infantiles, her
infantilizes. Infantilizes.
Thank you. He oh absolutely until he's like
my daughter and then he suddenly treats her better like he's such
a Dick to her like. Yes, but he still treats her
like the same. Absolutely no.
He treats her like property but like he is very dismissive of
her until somehow she's connected to him.
He's a Dick to her. I can't.
Stand him. I can't stand him either.
He's just he's everything that's wrong with patriarchal
societies. That's why he's in here.
It's true. He just he's that is very.
True. He's very controlling of
everybody and it's just I love that Nung out big Nung outranks
him because she's she puts him in his place.
She's like, shut the fuck up Jed and he can't argue with her.
That's great. Anyway, enough about Jed cuz
he's the worst. So all right, after they eat the
snacks, big nun's like all right, get out of my apartment
and she goes to like open the door so the little nun can leave
and little nug like ambushes and like hugs her from behind like a
little koala and big Nung was not expecting that.
So she just like freezes for a minute and is like OK, what do I
do? I know get the fuck off me.
What? I can't breathe.
I love. And she's like, I can't breathe.
No what the fuck girl anyway and little nung is so sad and just
like can you please let me hug you?
Just like it's heartbreaking cause again what we have here is
2 touch starved human beings that are very desperate for
affection. And I who knows when the last
time Big Nung had a hug was, Let's be honest.
Did she ever have? Maybe it was Sam.
I think Sam. Just Sam.
We don't know about song, but this is Sam for sure.
Yeah, very. Touchy feely but yeah she
definitely has not had a hug. She probably doesn't even like
want them. I mean she wants them I feel
like but she pulls away because of all the trauma and issues
going on. But there's nothing like a nice
hug. And yeah, so I think that's why
she initially like, hesitates and like, hangs her head 'cause
like she kinda, and she likes it because touch starve.
But it's just like the chaos of this relationship, just like Lil
Nung's family, the family scandals and all that stuff.
It's just too much. And she's way more aware of it
than Lil Nung is because Lil Nung is very much like instant
gratification. I just want to hug.
And big Nung's like, oh, the scandals this will bring, you
know? So she she pulls away.
And then when she does like, and Lenong's like, fine, I let go.
She just looks so dejected and sad.
And big Nung doesn't have the heart to like kick the puppy
while it's sad. So she indulges little Nung and
herself with like the little head pat that she does.
And it's really cute. She's like kind of like she does
like don't be cry like from 30 Rock where she's like, kind of
like petting her. And then when little Nung looks
at her, then she like really like caresses her head, like in
an actually affectionate way. It's the first time that like
big Nung initiates physical contact with her.
And it's leaves a lasting impression on little Nung.
We'll just say that. All right.
So with little Nung, the, the minute you give her a scrap of
affection, she runs with that shit.
So little Nung's like, are you going to work?
I'm coming with you. And this is one of their
funniest exchanges where they're in the hallway, Little Nung just
wears Big Nung down until she says, yes, you can come to work
with me. And two, allows a little Nung to
cling to her. And this is like the funniest
thing because it's classic 30 year old because Big Nung
doesn't have the energy for this.
And it's so relatable and hilarious.
And she's just like, even if I say no, you're just gonna come
with me anyway, right? And she's like, Yep, she's.
Like she's like, I've seen this film before.
Every single time I say no. You keep following me like a
little puppy. So.
It's like this film is stuck on repeat and I just love that
she's just she's let's be clear, though, this behavior is like
not healthy coming from a little nun where she's like, even if
you say no, I'm gonna do it anyway, like that's not great,
but big nun very is very half heartedly like putting up fights
here. And truly, I think she likes
having someone that challenges her in the same way in gap that
like Mon challenging her was what Sam was into initially.
Like that was their attraction in the beginning.
So it's like kind of the same thing in a way.
And I think Big Nun likes the fact that, like, Little Nun
keeps fighting over and over and over, no matter how many times
she says no, like Little Nun just keeps going, 'cause she
just gave her a head patch. She's not gonna say no.
She's like, absolutely not. You just showed me your hand, so
I'm gonna keep doing this. That's also what Little Nun
promised her. And she's keeping the promise.
She's keeping the promise. And what I love in the scene is
at the end where where Big Nun's like, fine, I guess you're
coming with me. And she like, pushes her away
and she sighs. And like as she's trying to pull
her arm back, Little Man launches herself at Big Nun's
arm. Like it's like she can't escape
her. And it's the funniest, like,
choreography I've ever seen. Just if tears have ever go back
and watch just Little Monk in the scene.
It's so funny the way she lunges and she's like, Nope, you're not
escaping me. Like it's so funny.
She's a stage five Klingon. And I fucking think it's
hilarious. She's like.
Either a koala or a sloth. Well, I mean, she's.
Fast, so koala. She's a koala on caffeine.
So the nuns go off to work, which in this instance is an art
gallery. Like a legit gallery, OK.
Because remember, nuns? Like, I'm going to sell a big
painting. Here we are.
So she's selling a painting to essentially the art gallery,
which good for her, you know? And at the gallery, she has a
heart to heart with little Nung, who's, like, seeing her
girlfriend in action, like selling art to the big gallery.
And she's just, like, throwing the praise onto Big Nung.
She's like, you're number one, You're the best artist in the
world. And Big Nung is just soaking in
all that praise because that's her kink, let's be real.
Yeah, let's not lie to ourselves.
Food and praise, that's her thing.
Yes, that is, that is fully just all of that makes her happy.
Yep. And Lola's clocking all these
things, so she knows. And yeah.
And Big Nug was like preening. And she's like, obviously I'm
number one. I can't be ordinary like
everybody else. I'm exceptional and like it
seems like an arrogant thing to say because it is, but it's
unsurprising 'cause she was raised basically in an
environment where she was taught to be better than everyone else
because of the way the the grand man treated her.
And on some level, I think she she also like does expect that
that changed her behavior. She expects to be better than
everyone else. And I think was probably used to
just everybody always treating her differently.
But here like again, why is little Nung saying this?
Little Nung is saying this not because she's royalty.
She has no fucking idea. She's saying this praise because
she genuinely believes these things.
She's like, I genuinely think you're talented.
I I'm very proud of you like this is a big deal like good for
you kind of thing. You know, I love that because
she she's treating them like a person, not a Princess.
And I think that that's why their relationship like
solidifies so well because it is very organic.
It's just at the heart of it, the beginning, it's just it's
just two people that happened to meet and just get along.
And yeah, I think that's very meaningful to Big Nung.
Well, just me or you know, one person looking from afar and
like you. You, you are my person.
Now I shall get you to like me. Yep, no, that's that's Lil
Nung's MO. All right, so let me
unfortunately leave that and transition to the uncomfortable
part of this conversation where little Nog is pondering.
She's like, I don't understand. Like you're so great and you're
the best person on the planet. Why are you still single?
And big Nog's like, well, I don't like anybody.
And she's like, well, I know why you want to know why you haven't
fallen in love with anybody. And she's like, no.
And she's like, well, it's because you, you were waiting
for me to be born, obviously. And now that I'm here, you can't
escape me, which it's such a weird sentence to say.
Weird thing to say out loud in public like you're waiting for
me to be born. That is weird.
And then you can't escape me. Also not great, not great.
But the sentiment is like it's the sentiment is their
execution. Very weird, Very weird.
And what's, And she again launches herself at big Nung and
like pulls her into a hug because she can't escape, right?
And there's this like for like good 2 seconds there's this look
on Big Nung's face like where she's thinking about this.
She's like, oh fuck is that why? Is that why I've never had
feelings before? Because think about big Nung.
The other thing about Big Nung what's happening with her is the
best comparison I can come up with is Villanelle from Killing
Eve. So if you've ever seen that
show, the premise of that character is that this is a
character who basically doesn't doesn't really feel emotions
until this one person comes into her life and then suddenly she's
feeling all these emotions and doesn't know how to handle it.
And that's basically what's happening with Big Nung, OK.
She spent her entire life with her feelings on mute, and then
suddenly Little Nung comes in and now the feelings are on Max
volume. And she doesn't fully know how
to, like, handle this a lot of the time because she's never
been in this situation before. And I think with this show, it's
really obvious watching it that. Like.
This is Little Nung's first time falling in love because she's
20, right? This is when you're supposed to
fall in love with the first time normally.
But this is also Big Nung's first time falling in love at
36. So she really doesn't know
what's going on 'cause this has never happened to her before.
So it's like they're both on the same journey at similar time
periods. And so it's just fascinating to
watch them both handle it cause like, Big Nung has never had
feelings for anybody like this before.
So she also has no idea what she's doing and doesn't always
know how to handle it. So she just does what she always
does. Like from her trauma, she just
tries to shut it down and be like, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Stop the feelings. The feelings are weird.
There's too many feelings. We have to stop this.
But, well, none can't be stopped
'cause she can't escape her. That's why there's a great
comparison and contrast between the two of them because although
there's the age gap there, stories and situations are so
similar. Like their journeys are the same
but you get to see the differences based on like small
little factors and how brains are different.
Yeah, I agree. It their relationship is so
fascinating and at the root it's actually grounded in real
things, which is, I just love it.
It's just so fascinating. You're right, 'cause they are so
similar, it's just they're at different time periods but like
they're still converging. It's yeah, it's great.
I love it. But big nun can't stop thinking
about all of this. So big.
No big nose. What?
OK, I got. I understand what this it was
Big nun goes. Oh my God.
Yeah, went too fast. Did that speak correctly?
Let's consider big nung. Big Nung goes over to Sam's
house because she's having big. Thoughts.
And she has to meet with Sam, but doesn't end up saying
anything. Instead she's just deflecting
and trying to do other things. And she helps Sam cook instead.
And because Sam is trying to bake a pie for Mon, which Mon
never eats by the way. No, if you watch the scene,
nobody eats the pie. It's so fucked up and like what
a classic. Sam move to be like they just.
Serve it and they don't even need.
It they don't eat it, Yeah, 'cause Mon's she's like, I'm
making this for Mon. And then Mon never gets the it's
classic Sam. Like Sam, something's never
changed. Well, I mean, there's probably
leftovers at the end, but like, she's serving it when Mon's not
even there. We'll get there when we get
there. But yes, OK.
What's really cute though, at the beginning of the pie scene,
Sam comments that like makes the comments specifically that Big
Nung doesn't look like herself. Because at this point Sam knows
her the best, right, 'cause she's the only like close family
she has at this point. And so it's a good indicator
coming from Sam that Nung is changing, right?
And so obviously that Sam can see it and she makes the comment
multiple times that like, my sister seems to care about a
human, which is weird, right? That's weird behavior coming
from Nung, who never cares about anybody ever.
Except Sam, you know? Yeah, and so during the scene,
Sam wants to make a pie for Mon, and she says it's because it
means more than just buying it, which she was doing in the
beginning of Gap. Which she was like, I'll try to
buy everything for you. And so now she's like, it's
really cute to see that she's learning to just like, do things
and like the actions instead of just using money.
She does that in Gap 2 where she makes her breakfast and stuff.
So like, it's a continuation of that where like Sam was like,
I'm gonna do stuff for you. But Sam tells Big Nung that she
will understand if she ever is in love with someone.
And the pause from Big Nung is all you need to know about her
feelings. She's like, there's, there's
something there. Oh yeah, She definitely files
this less in a way that like, there's a major difference
between purchasing and like, putting effort into something.
And like, she's seeing her sister who's super happy in her
marriage, like doing that. So she's like, OK.
But you know, works for big Nung considering she has no money.
Absolutely. I know.
Well, I mean, think about it like, what was she doing to,
like when her and Lil Nung first met, she was drawing portraits.
So like, again, the difference between like, taking a photo of
you and like, putting all that effort in the drawing.
So she's kind of already doing it without realizing it.
Yeah. Just saying.
OK, so Big Nung deflects this and deflects her feelings by
telling Sam to not add any more sugar to the pie because it's
already too sweet, talking about the Mon and Sam's relationship,
and then Mon enters the scene. It's like sugar me.
Like sweet. No one could be sweet without me
here, right? No.
That's not actually, that's not her personality, but.
That's not at all. Marissa, who plays Mon in this
universe in this series really does nail Mon's characteristics.
That was played by Becky and Theora pointed that out to me.
And I'm just surprised that they wanted the character to seem
that similar because it is a different production of Company.
And I would just assume that they wanted to differentiate it
from GAP to prevent like direct comparisons, even though it's
the same characters. And then another little tangent.
I don't know if it was both of us or just me, but I remember
when we heard there's going to be a different actress playing
Nung in Blank that I at least wasn't happy having the actor
replaced. I was like, no, you can't just
replace this actor, but Big Nung, I'm completely happy with
the choice of casting face. So thank you.
Thank you very much. I am very grateful.
Hashtag, that's my nung. So yeah, no, there is no, there
is no, there is no. There is no in every universe no
one could ever recast. None of it.
It has to be Faye. Or I don't want it?
Nope, I don't want it I. Don't want it.
I don't want it. But I totally agree about
Marissa. Marissa nails Mon.
Like she really, really, really like encapsulates that bubble.
She even does the little sham sham thing.
She like, yeah, see it. She like, I was like, that's all
the mannerisms. Like she does all of them.
It's really great. And to be fair, Ice does a good
job of playing Sam 'cause I think that I've had this
conversation with other people. Personally, I would love to see
Freen and Fey act alongside each other 'cause I just think they
would be amazing. Cause Freen is hilarious and
like I just think they're dynamic, would be really funny
no matter what they're doing. So it would have been
interesting to see her play Sam. But I think that Ice is a better
choice because Freen has a has too much stage presence and I
feel like would draw away from Fey acting as Nug.
And. And this is Nung's story not
Sam's story. So you needed a Sam that was
much more of a supportive role who is more toned down so that
Nung could shine because it's her story.
So honestly, the casting was great and Mon is a bigger
personality and Marissa Placer has a bigger personality, much
like Mon was in Gap when she was more of a star of the show.
And I think that worked because she there's less scenes with
Mon, you know what I mean? And it it more balances the Sam
that's more like toned down. And I also love that they they
did color code them, in case you forgot in this scene where Sam
is in the black and the Mon is in the pink.
So I love that they they kept the color coding with the two of
them, which is very cute, which is like a a gap continuation
thing, which is great. Oh that is cute, I didn't
notice. Of course Thiora will always
notice what colours that people are wearing and it's great.
OK, I didn't notice because this isn't the only reason she's
wearing the pink apron. Yeah.
And also like the rest of the dress is like tan, but like up
top it's black. And they think but also like,
yeah, I think I made the comment later that like, and when you
see them in the bedroom scene and a couple, I think the next
episode, Mon is very consistently always in pink
unless it's the funeral because you can't wear pink to a
funeral. That would be bad.
I don't care who you are. I mean, if anyone could do it,
it'd be Mon but. Yeah, I know This would be fine.
They're like, that's my wife, It's fine.
But Sam, Sam deviates a lot from the darker colors, which makes
sense because at the end of Gap, like again, the whole point was
that Mon opened up her worm world and I'm not the only one,
sorry, and brought color into it.
And so like you see that in Sam's wardrobe in Blank because
it's after Gap when she's had her life changed basically.
But Mon is true to form and always wearing pink.
So I do love that they kept their color coding at this stage
too, which I think is great. OK, so.
Back to my favorite my favorite moment in this whole scene.
Please continue. This is hilarious.
I just can't. You can't have Mon and Sam in
the same scene without them being ridiculously cute and
sweet, so Nung has to eat a lime to counteract the sweetness of
the two of them and I just. I didn't notice this at first
that This is why. She's so fucking funny.
She's like sour fruit. It's so funny.
This is so funny. And you see the like, the like,
Puckers bitter. Yeah, yeah, the tartness on her.
Face. Like I, I can't, I can't, I
can't. I feel like sometimes she's just
over it with the two of that she's.
Just she definitely is. There's there's a scene in in
season 2 where they're they start bantering and nunks like
back to me. I can't.
This is another one of those scenes.
Like this shit's about me. I'm gonna eat the lime.
What? This is so funny.
And like, yeah, the first time I watched this, I totally missed
it. And then I was like doing notes.
I was like, did she she did that shit on purpose.
It's so funny. 'Cause like.
Who would just eat a lime? I mean I like sour fruits but
she was doing she's that's way too sweet and then eats the lime
one like to kill the sweetness. So funny.
But I need NUM to take a good long look at Mom and Sam right
now. Now, remember that your sister
is Salmon. She's dating a woman or married
to a woman at this point, correct?
Yeah. It doesn't matter if you are
both women. Big numb.
No, it doesn't. But yeah, we keep forgetting
that they exist, as we've mentioned last episode.
But aside from all the hilarity that goes on in this, this this
particular scene, I I love in general.
Well, first of all, this is adorable.
But second of all, I love that Sam and Nung are at this stage
where they have such a good relationship with each other and
they're just, they're able, like Nung feels comfortable to come
to Sam when she's like, want wants to talk, even though she
doesn't talk. Like she's just like she's like,
I need, I need support. So she I like that she sees Sam
as that and Sam as the being the supportive sister.
And I also love that despite the lime wedge thing, which is
objectively hilarious, no one does see Mon as part of the
family. Like, you know, and, and she
treats Mon that way, which is also really sweet because like,
they just met not that long ago. And so I just love that like
they're their own little family unit, like the three of them.
And it's, it's really cute. I love that.
I mean, she asked her for money and they're bonded forever.
I mean, if that were true, she's bonded.
Technically not. But that was so funny.
It's so one of the funniest. Things OK so then man leaves the
sisters alone to talk hence why she doesn't get to eat the pie.
First of all I thought this pie was going to be like a surprise
for her but then like man walked into the kitchen as there may I
was. I was very confused about this
pie. Sam can't keep secrets for man.
You know this and I I I met so a lot of I thought this was weird
too and I'm like, what the fuck is Mon?
But I think that like Sam and Mon while well none was eating
more lime wedges. Sam and Mon went off screen and
I think that they had a conversation and Sam basically
mentioned that she's worried about her sister cuz she's like
she's acting weird and I don't know why.
And I think Mon being an empathetic person is like, I can
see her worried about your sister.
How about I just like disappear in the big palace we're in until
you're done talking to your sister and then I'll come eat
the pie or whatever. So I think that like that would
that seems like something Mon would do versus Sam being like,
leave Mon, fuck you, we're going to eat your pie.
But still justice for man. Just there's the fucking pie,
man. What the fuck?
Oh, she should have just taken a piece and went to a corner
somewhere else to read her. Oh my God, that would have been
so sad. If there's like one tiny sliver
missing and they're like Mon's eating her pie outside, I'm sure
Sam will make it up to her by eating other things.
So they're I'm sure they're fine.
No one has to leave though. They'll watch Animal Planet,
it'll be fine. OK, so Sam sits down and is like
all right girl, now tell me why you are actually here.
Really. Talk, talk, bitch.
Use your words. And Nung asks Sam if people
profess their love easily, to which Sam starts asking a bunch
of questions about who is it, does she know them?
Who like someone says that they are in love with you, What?
What is happening? What did I miss?
And I love the way Nung says this, like she's clearly
uncomfortable when she says this to to Sam, because I think this
is like this is her big insecurity.
It just in general, and especially with little Nung who
just like again, loudly and confidently with all the
audacity in the world is constantly saying, I love you.
And big one was like, OK, 'cause I think this is another
generational thing perhaps cause like, you know, their, their HF
doesn't. It's not that it's a bad thing.
Good thing either way. Like it doesn't matter what you
think about it. They're of different generations
either way, you know, Nung's a millennial and then Lil Nung is
like Gen. Z or whatever.
They're from different, you know, they grew up in different
environments. And I think that big Nung grew
up more in the environment, especially if you see the grand
man where like obviously affection was not something that
was just given out easily. It's like you said something
like I loved you at big moments very sparsely so that it it
meant something. So I think that that's her
mentality when it comes to like, because you'll see her react to
things later, like pet names and things where she's like, just
like, wow, OK, 'cause like she's never was never given that,
right? It was like you had to earn that
and it was more special. So like the fact that little no
one is constantly saying the L word.
She's like, does this word mean something different now?
It's basically what she's asking Sam.
She's like, does it not mean anything?
Like why do people toss this word around?
This is supposed to be a sacred word.
So I think this is like her insecurity showing when she's
asking Sam this question. And it's like, I kind of get
that, like, some people, you know, some people like view that
in relationships differently or like view sex differently where
it, like means something versus some people are like, it's just
something fun and biological. We do.
And that's nothing's right or wrong about either of those.
It's just like, I think that's big Nung's mentality versus
little Nung who's just like, I need to say this because I need
you to believe me. And big nuns like you say it so
often. I can't believe you.
And it's like this warring ideology between the two of
them. So she's trying to confide in
Sam. She's like, Sam, you're like me.
What does this mean? It's just a new.
Thing. What the hell?
I love that you pointed out that little Nung says it so often.
And for like big Nung who never hears it, you're like, OK, well,
if you're able to say this that much, there's no way that it's.
Real, right? I think that's why she struggles
with Little Nung in the beginning 'cause she's like and
she says it. Later there gets to an episode
where then she does say it out loud.
She's like, you say it so often. I don't know if I believe you.
Yeah. And it's just they think about
the that word and what it means. Not not what it means, but like,
she views it as sparse means it's more special versus like,
little Nung is like, I'm gonna say it over and over again until
you believe me. And it, like, has the opposite
effect, ironically. And here here's Nung kind of
admitting it. Yeah, so when Sam asks who it
is, Nung just says it's a child who has been following her
around. Which sounds terrible.
Yes, like. Let's.
Stop with the child at this OK no at this point I did find out
their ages, but like that that whole journey to like actually
finding out how old she was. I don't.
I said OK, anyway, that's a whole another conversation.
It is. And then she tells Sam that
Little Nung is 20. But we don't we we haven't used
gender yet. No.
So they are 20. And.
Sam is like 20. Are you trying to compete with
Mon and me? Which like what is their age
gap? Like 8-7 years, something like
that. Yeah.
And then no. One's like double it bitch,
double or nothing. Double it and pass it on to the
next person. OK.
And poor Big Nung is wincing and hearing someone else say the
number out loud because. And if Little Nung was a few
years older, I don't think Big Nung would be so hesitant about
this relationship, for she would be hesitant in the fact that she
doesn't know what love is in general.
But you can tell like this number, this age gap is like
what's really putting a gap in between them.
At least in her mind, little Nung does not care what.
Zerofugs. No.
No, she said. Mine.
That was the end of it. Yes, it's what I think your
title, an even bigger gap is a better title for this show.
Like I I just, I just love that title it.
Doesn't sound like a sequel though.
It's like gap is the gap and then an even bigger gap.
Yeah. Then we have like the whole the
biggest gap gap, the ultimate gap.
Gap and and game like Avengers on game that's like everyone
converges in that book. It'd be amazing.
We'll just keep going a different gap and then we get
like that's. Like the multiverse converges.
Right. The gap converges.
The Cap multiverse. I need I need someone to write
that all the like the Mons, the Sam's and all the nuns meeting
each other. That would be a wild.
Ride I would love that. I would love some big episode
where they did like soap opera switches where like they got all
the actors and then like you have one scene and then like
it's Faye and then the other nun comes on screen and there's no
explanation and you're just like, it's ice.
But then there's like three different OK, moving on.
Moving on. OK, so all the lines between Sam
and Big Nung in general in the series are hilarious so Sam
tells Big Nung that she has to be careful because children
these days are scary My. God, that line 'cause you know,
Sam is legitimately probably afraid of young people.
Yeah, she's like, they're scary, Nung.
I could just imagine if like a toddler came up too, Sam was
like, I lost my mommy. She'd be like, who is this child
somewhat? And like just holding it out of
arms rage like right until mom lost a child.
Mom, do something, do something 'cause you don't help.
Mom like picks. Up the child.
I was like, don't worry, we'll help you find your mommy.
And it's Jim's child and she's like, it's my child, Sam, can't
you get that through your head? That's actually probably why
she's scarred of children, cause Jim's child is probably unruly
as fuck. Like off screen, this is what
Jim's doing off screen. She's trying to expose Sam to
her child and it does not go well.
So Sam is afraid of children now?
It took an hour for us to get to Jim in this episode.
Or slacking. We are OK.
Then SIM asks if little well, as if the person who said that they
loved her knows that she's royalty because she's like well,
maybe this person is just trying to use you.
For your title. And then big nuns like, hey, to
like, look at me if I tell who will believe it?
And then she's like, no one knows.
Oh, she's just like, look at me. I do not look like royalty.
I don't live like royalty. No one even would believe me if
I said. Listen, Big Nong, in the eyes of
the beholder, OK? You look like royalty to us.
I don't. I don't know what they're
talking about. You're lesbian royalty.
But something we've been talking about through Gab and all the
Thai media really, because all that is based around royalty so
far that we've talked about fully.
So like Blank Gap and Loyal Pin is that no one knows who these
people are out in real life. And like there's no paparazzi
taking photos. So I wanted to look into it a
little bit more and see like what laws or rules are based
around this in Thailand. So I'll go through.
This as quick as possible. All right, so the Thai royal
family is generally not subjected to paparazzi and
tabloids in the same way as royal families or celebrities in
other countries due to Thailand's strict laws and
cultural reverence for the monarchy.
So here's some reasons why we don't get this like in other
countries. So I don't I meant to look up
how to say this. I don't know how to say it.
So Les may just I don't know what the little accents on the
ES I mean it looks. French.
It does look French, but that law.
We'll call it the LM law. So this law in Thailand makes it
illegal to defame, insult, or threaten the monarchy.
And so this law deters tabloids and paparazzi from publishing
any content that could be considered disrespectful or
intrusive to the royal family. And then there's media control
and censorship. The Thai government and royal
household have significant control over media content.
The control ensures that the portrayal of the family remains
positive and respectful. So they're not allowed to
publish anything that the family doesn't want them to publish.
And then also the culturally the Thai people have a deep respect
for the monarchy and it the the sorry the culture discourages
invasive or disrespectful behavior towards them which
makes sense 'cause like how do you please it that much?
Also anyone can provoke the LM law like so citizens can like
basically narc on another citizen and the government has
to look into it and you can be like in prison for like 15
years. Yeah, it's insane.
So. I feel like celebrities should
have these laws. People leave them the fuck
alone. Yeah, like maybe we should have
these laws across the board. Seriously.
People share what they want to share, you know, decency.
Just saying. Just saying, yeah, so basically,
official releases are the most how people get photos and news
updates about the family. Yeah, they so like, if they say
anything bad, they're going to go to prison, which is terrible.
And the monarchy tends to maintain a low profile in
general in the public. The private lives and then the
public appearances are formal and controlled, so it reduces
opportunities for people to even capture photos of them.
Which is why people don't know who Big Nung is 'cause she
probably stayed away even when she was in that world.
She definitely did. She mentions it I think in the
next episode where like, yeah, she, she'd stayed away from it
even when she was like her whole life.
She'd stayed very much out of the spotlight, which is really
interesting when you go to GAP. And like, the beginning of Gap,
the series is like Sam in the public eye, you know?
So like, I think Sam probably chose to do it more so than like
no one ever did. I also like, I mean, she was the
only one left by the time gap started as well.
So I feel like she knew that her sisters both didn't want to be
because we knew that Song was able to live a double life.
Yeah. Our Canon for song is the show
song, not the book song. Like her gang it up all over the
place. That is my Canon in my heart and
like living. Her Oh yeah, 'cause the book
was. She wasn't gay in the book,
right? Not that I'm aware of.
So, yes, so you are and I like to have our own.
We need to make sure that the audience knows that sometimes
'cause we create, we're aware, we like, pick and choose between
the book and the. Yes, agreed.
It's mostly what's on screen. Mostly.
It's mostly the screen because I don't always read the books
unless the OR tells me to. Awesome, what I'm?
Talking about shit, what was I saying?
Oh, the song like song was able to live a double life.
So Sam probably like they don't want to do it, so it's on me to
do it. Like someone has to take the
public role. I may as well, but she doesn't.
She doesn't want to be public either like I feel like.
I mean, not with the way that she posts on Facebook.
I'm just saying. Well like all of the all of the
stuff Sam put out there was bullshit anyway.
It was like T&K were. Right.
Oh yeah. She wasn't that into it.
I think that, yeah, the grandmother was forcing her,
although like, she probably needed it for her business and
she's a terrible business woman. And they're like, can you just
get out there? Some people invest in you.
I'm tired of bailing you out money wise.
What you said about Song is really interesting though,
because like if this was America, because remember a gap
where Song goes to a public place with her girlfriend and
bring Sam. If this was America, people
would have that would have been all over the Internet if like
song was out with her girlfriend in public and she would have got
publicly outed. But like nobody outs her, which
is kind of amazing actually, so good for her.
That yeah, I mean, these laws are pretty harsh and technically
bad in the fact that if it's true, like the defamation is
true, they should be able to right about it.
But. Yeah.
Privacy, man, we need to work on that for real.
We have no privacy. Also these actors.
They need these laws to protect them.
I'm just saying. Yeah, it it doesn't pertain to
them, unfortunately, but this these laws do pertain to the
world. So like, if we were to like
defame the monarchy that's currently going on, we could get
imprisoned. I'm pretty sure I didn't read
too much into it. This was quick research.
But yeah, it's it's pretty intense.
But there was so there, there there is something that was
going on in the media this year. I'll tell you off screen because
I'm not risking imprisonment. All right, let's go back to the
scene, Caitlin, so we don't get in trouble.
All right, so Sam assumes that it's a guy who professed his
love for Nung and she's like, are boys even serious?
Like they're just young. Like it's probably just for
shits and giggles. And Nung puts her head down and
her voice gets to like a whispery place and she says not
a guy. And Sam's relaxation is like
bitch you too. I love this conversation on
another level as well because Nung seems nervous to tell Sam
that it's not a guy who said he loved her even though she knows
that Sam is in a relationship with a woman.
Like again, she's she had to eat a lime because they're so cute.
And it just shows that no matter how well you know someone will
react, it's still terrifying to tell them.
And I hope one day it's not like that.
And I think it's getting better for some people.
We're going backwards, but that's a whole nother
conversation as well. I also love that when Sam's like
what none gets defensive and she's like what?
It's fine. Like like her first reaction is
to be demure about it and their next reaction is just anger,
which is very. Bad.
He's like, whatever, Sam, but from Sam's point of view, I
think that Sam is genuinely excited to find this out about
her sister. Like, Oh my God, my sister's
also queer. And like now she's in a position
where she gets to support Nung in something that she has
experiences experience in. And so it's like they can bond
over this. And it's it's really sweet on
that level also. And I think Sam kind of
recognizes this and she's like, oh, I've been through this.
I can actually help you with this.
Like I get to be the big sister in this role.
Like, I think it's very cute. Yeah, Sam's very much like to
take care of everybody, even though she's the little one.
Yeah, she does. But The thing is, Nung never
said that she liked little Nung back.
But like, Sam has eyes and could see how nervous Big Nung was
about everything and she also knows her sister.
Like she would not have brought this up if it wasn't a big deal
in her brain because that's not Big Nung.
Big Nung's not one to open up. Like something has to be really
going on if she's going to go to someone and ask.
Yeah, and I think I think Sam also knows Nung well enough to
recognize everything you just said, but also put together that
Nung is a little bit in denial about this.
So I like the rest of the conversation.
We're saying like Sam backs off though, and kind of stops
pushing. She's like, oh, OK, been there,
been there, girl. You don't recognize the feelings
yet. I can see the feelings as with
Jim and T, we're always talking about I can see them, but I
don't think you can see them yet.
So she's like, I like when she after that, she like backs off a
little bit. She's like, all right, I'm not
going to keep pushing you on this because I don't think
you're you're not there yet. You're not there yet.
I'll be here when you're there, but you're not there yet.
Been there, been there. You're not there yet.
Is Sam is really good at knowing when to back off.
She's like, I will push you to a point and then I know you have
to do the rest, but she knows like the perfect point to push
her to. And she's like, I'm just gonna
leave you with this little bit of info, like this thing to
think about. Look in the mirror.
Whatever you wanna do, do it. But this just think about it.
So numb tries to leave and Sam stops her and is like just think
about this. Why are you so worried if you
don't like her? And like she knows that you
can't tell. No one can tell Big Nung what to
do. Maybe little Nung now, but.
Absolutely. She absolutely can.
And like you, she knows she can't process it for her like
you were saying, but she's like, if and whenever you want to talk
about it, I will be here. And it's just, it's very, I love
seeing the sisters closer together in this show.
So sweet. And that's like for somebody
like Nung, Who, again, is emotionally immature and
therefore it takes her longer to like, understand what her
feelings mean. I love that Sam says this.
This is the perfect thing to say where she's like, OK, just I'm
here when you want to talk about it.
I'm not going to force you to talk about it.
Like perfect. 10 out of 10 perfect response.
Best sister ever award goes to Sam.
Oh, I. Sam is great.
Yeah. I mean, they're all great.
I gotta say this. I really like this show Theora.
I love this show so much, but what I don't love is that mine
never got her pie Sam. Nobody ate the pie, Sam.
No one ate the pie. Let's let's zoom in on that.
No, nobody ate it. She serves, She serves a piece
to Nong and then they Nong doesn't even get to eat it.
They just get into the conversation.
Nong runs away. They couldn't afford the spit
bucket on set, so they realized we don't actually want to make
that a real food. Yeah, that too.
Yeah. OK, so let's get some.
That's. Why don't eat it's?
Plastic. It's.
Plastic anyway. It's probably glue on the top to
like make it shiny. Shiny, yeah.
Neat way. Heading over to Little Nung, she
is spending her time daydreaming about being over at Big Nung's
apartment and getting closer to her 'cause you know, girls got
it. Bad.
And she's just sitting there hugging a pillow and thinking
about how she got a hug today. That's a big deal.
She got a hug and a head pad. It's a big deal when you don't
get any hugs in your life and you're like a person who loves
hugs. Like, she's definitely, I mean,
she's definitely giving a lot of unconsented hugs to big nums.
So a lot. Yeah.
She's, she needs that like, physical affection.
And she's definitely not getting it from her grandmother.
Yeah, no. Physical, physical touch is her
love language. Absolutely.
Meanwhile, Big Nung is also in her bed, thinking about the
prior day's events. And what I noticed rewatching it
was when she's thinking about Little Nung's love confession,
she puts her hand over her heart.
She's getting there, She's getting there.
Slip hair pattern. So I like that she took Sam's
advice and seems like think about it.
And so she is. She went and she goes
consciously trying to process like the why am I having these
feelings? What the fuck do they mean?
And she gets a little pitter patter and she thinks about it
and I thought her so she's coming to the conclusion here
that oh, my sister was right. And I think the the memories
that she reflects on are really interesting.
So the ones that go through her mind before she gets to the
pitter patter is little none calling her limited edition.
Because again, the ego. And then the part where she's
like, you haven't been in love before, 'cause you're waiting
for me, OK. And then we go back to the
bridge scene in the first episode where little Nung is
saying I love you and I'll be worthy of you one day, I
promise. And she's thinking about how she
felt in those moments when little Nung was saying those
things 'cause I think those are the trigger moments where she
was having big feelings and didn't like that she's never
experienced before and didn't know what to do with them in
that moment. But now she's like, it's just
the equivalent of open your diary and going, wow, I'm really
gay. That's what she's doing.
She's like thinking about these feelings.
She's like, oh, oh, I like her. Oh, shit.
And because like, I think these are such big moments for her
because I don't think anyone has ever told her any of these
things in sincerity before, like ever.
And like for literally to just again, say these things so
openly, honestly. And with all the confidence in
the world, I think she's starting to realize, oh shit,
like I'm responding to this. Oh no, Sam was right.
It's cute, yeah. I it's a process and even like
thinking back on things like once you come out, it's just
like a really weird moment to think like, well shit, that's
what that was. Right, that's what that was,
that is what she's doing. And she's like, I can feel my
heart racing. That's what that was.
Cuz she's never been in this position before.
You know, this is it's all if it's new, not just that, like
little wrong is a woman is younger than her.
It's just the love part is also just brand new.
And she's like, oh fuck, I have, I have I'm capable of having
feelings. Oh dear.
Now what? I keep, I keep stalling.
I wanna stay on this scene because the next one I know is
Chet sitting for a portrait with Big Nung.
He better paid her like 10 times the amount like this better be
1000 baht drawing to pay her. Rent.
You know what, I wouldn't put it past being to just tell that's
the price in general. 10 grand and he's like, OK, I'm just like
dumb bitch. Like he just paid her whole
rent. She would no shame.
She would do it no shame. And I love that about her.
Yeah. This is the scene where she's
like, aren't you angry as me? Why aren't you angry?
Like why don't you? And I feel like part of it's
like, why don't you care enough to be angry as well?
I think so and then also none was like I would be pissed.
Because I think the. Other thing is like, OK, so I
mentioned that like, no, never really had feelings really
before. I think the but the, that's not
entirely true. Like the, the only feeling she's
had for a very long time is her anger towards her grandmother,
right in that whole situation. And so she didn't have like
feelings outside of that. I think because she's been so
consumed by anger for such a long period of time that that is
an emotion she's well versed in. And she's like, you should be
angry with me the way that my grandmother is angry with me.
Why aren't you angry with me? Like that's that seems weird,
you know, but I agree with you, Caitlin.
She's like, you probably don't care because I she her anger is
coming from the fact that she loves her grandmother.
She's frustrated with her by the way, all the bullshit that they
go through, but she's like, why are this?
But also like, no, you don't give a fuck about him either.
He also doesn't give a fuck about you.
Like that was a mutual not giving a fuck that went on
between the two of you. You know why are you surprised?
I just, I really don't like him and his face is on my screen
right now and I don't wanna look at it so I'm gonna Scroll down.
Scroll up so you don't have to see him.
OK, so before the conversation can go too far, Little Nung
shows up very mopey because, you know, it's little Nug and
there's a guy around. And she says very like,
childlike to him. I told you not to come.
Why would you come? And like, the audacity she has.
This is the theme of the show, the audacity of Little Nung to
her to think that he would listen to her.
Like he's thinking of you as a child and you think he's gonna
listen to you. Wait a minute, that title is
Wait A. Minute The title of this
episode, The Lion. The witch and the audacity of
this bitch. The lion.
The witch. That's a little nug.
That's amazing. Theor's great at titles, so you
can't tell. I don't think I can put that on
the phone now, but you, it's between US and the listeners.
That's the title. OK, well maybe if you put like a
star in it, I don't know. We have to look at the
monetization thing, see if we're allowed because we can't have
the F word I believe. But anyway.
So for some reason Chet brings up that little Nung is wearing
the same uniform as big nuns old school and this makes the little
stalker so happy because she didn't know that big Nung used
to go to her school and she's just she like for completely
forgets that Chet's there and it's like you went to the same
school as me. Yeah, I love she like gets on,
gets on her knees and gets real close and it's like.
Oh, we, we, we. Have something in common Now
again, look at all these things we have in common and to me, I
like I never thought much of this and then I was like
thinking about I was like, there's no way in hell Nung
didn't notice that school uniform Like there's no way she
didn't see that badge and was like, because she went there and
all her sisters like there's no way like every school has the
distinct kind of badge to separate them.
So there's like there's no way. But I think that she her again,
Nung's big nuns, MO is lying by omission.
And I don't think she ever said anything because again, like
obviously little Nung would run with that in like dig, break
into the school headquarters and steal the records and like
figure out who she was in like 10 minutes.
Like she doesn't need the Internet like she would she
would literally break into the school to figure it out.
Anything that big Nung is really trying to preserve.
Not only that to keep the stalker at Bay, I think she was
also trying to preserve like her royal title, because if if
little Nung did any monochrome of digging, she'd figure that
shit out. And I think that Big Nung likes
the fact that, again, here's a person who's interested in her
without all of that shit. And that's really what I think
she really likes about her, like, relationship with Big
Nung. Little Nung, at this stage, it's
it's free of all that bullshit. You know, I'm like Chet.
He's he's snooping around now because of her title, not
because he actually gives a shit about her, you know?
I feel like Little Nung's the type of sucker to just like
wanna see her. I think she wants to learn about
Big Nung from her. I I think even if there was
stuff on the Internet, maybe she'd do like light, but she
wouldn't be like digging into it.
She more want to have a conversation with Big Numb.
She's not mug out. Yeah, no shit, man.
She, I mean she might have a board of photos that she took of
her from afar. My God her grandmother would
literally kill her if she saw that.
Whereas like man's parents are just like OK man this is weird
but sure it makes you happy I guess.
Whatever makes you happy, sweetheart.
Go walk the dog. Yeah, OK, alright.
Then we get to where little Nung is basically rude to Chet.
Oh no, wait. No, we're here.
Yeah. I wasn't sure.
Oh, OK. Thank you.
I we have to keep getting weird
with the scene. I'm trying to bypass Chet as
quick as possible. OK, so then the weirdest.
Part of this. Whole thing Chet is like your
face looks familiar. Who are your parents?
And like, OK so rewatching the show once you get to episode 4
makes a lot of scenes funnier. Absolutely.
But also I would never like look at someone's face be like, hey,
I might know your parents. Who are they?
Like the world is huge, dude. That's literally what she tells
him, which is so funny, but he's so weird.
Who says this to anybody? Like, your face looks familiar.
Who the fuck are you? Like, that's basically what he's
saying and what I love about this scene.
He's creepy and weird. And obviously we're setting up
episode 4. That's why he says this.
But it's weird and creepy. But what I do love about it is
that again, if you go back to the prior scene in Nung's
apartment, Big Nung knows that this topic, who her parents are,
makes Little Nung really uncomfortable.
So she shuts this shit down with Chet because Chet ignores
everything Little Nung says. Like he ignores her like she's
not even there. And until he's like, answer me,
child. Like I I adult, the adult, I'm
asking you a question. And so big Nung is like, well,
I'm the adult that outranks you and she's uncomfortable right
now. So what she does in this scene
is she uses her influence, her status and her social power to
stop his questioning. And I love this about Nung
because she she uses all of her cards and her deck basically to
and her power to benefit little Nung.
And this is just one example of her doing that.
She does it multiple times. And particularly in situations
where like quote, the adults are talking, where little Nung is
expected to be seen, not heard, and she can't talk unless
somebody addresses her. So like Nung, big Nung, the
proper adult in the conversation, it like right now
with Chet will speak on little Nung's behalf to benefit her
like, and that's consistent throughout their relationship.
Like Big Nung never uses her, her power or her status as the
adult to like influence little Nung or like wielded against her
like Sam did in gap in the beginning.
No Big Nun never never does that.
She in fact, she avoids using her power at all costs because
she's trying to run away from it.
And the only time she dips into it is when little nuns in
trouble and she's trying to help her.
And and to me that the fact that she only accesses her power to
benefit little nun really speaks to how much big Nun cares about
her because she doesn't want any of that power.
But he or she is like basically using her social power in this
conversation. Be like, shut the fuck up, Jet.
And he does. And he moves on to like, yeah,
which is great. She's basically using her power
to make people treat her like a human and like a person.
Like she's not this baby that everyone is treating her like.
It's really that's the most annoying part of about this show
and it's not the show. It's like meant to.
It's a meant to annoy you, Yeah. So it's not like a negative
against the show. It's.
Just no. Oh.
My. God, this is the the social
interactions and like you can see how problematic this like
hierarchy can really be where it's like you're robbing little
Nung of being a person in all of these conversations.
I'm just ignoring her. And then you're like, I you
wonder why she acts out and shit.
It's like everybody fucking ignores her.
It's very frustrating. You're right, it's on purpose.
You're correct. So then you shouldn't be
surprised by the way Little Nun treats Chet.
In fact, it's very justified. Yeah, yeah.
So she is, I guess rude to him. I think she's fully correct in
what she's saying but it tell it makes big Nung tell her to speak
to adults with twang and I don't really know what that means.
It means formal speak. So you notice when they speak,
she'll say like at the end, it's like a, it's respectful language
towards an elder or somebody in power.
And if you notice Lung, Lung never does it with like, rarely,
not, never, rarely does it with Big Nung.
And she's not doing it in this conversation 'cause she does not
respect Chet genuinely. But Big Nung's like he's an
adult. You're supposed to speak to him
like he's an adult. So what does she do?
My favorite thing she does in this series, which is she
starts, this is the birth of like little Nung, petty as fuck
little Nung. Like she does petty as fuck
behavior and it's so funny. So she starts engaging in
malicious compliance, which if you don't know what that means,
it means when there's a rule and like to point out the absurdity
of the rule, you like, comply with it and in such a manner
that shows it's absurd, right. So there's an example of this in
real life was in America with the abortion bans or whatever,
or they're trying to like, like prove that fetuses are people.
So this one woman got pulled over in the carpool lane and the
police officer's trying to give her a ticket and she's like, no,
I'm pregnant. Therefore there are two people
in this car, so I can drive in this lane.
Like challenging the rule that fetuses are people.
So that's a form of malicious compliance.
And the police officer's like, well, no, there's one person.
She's like, well, which is it? Is the fetus a person or are
they not? So that's a form of malicious
compliance. And that's what she does with
the formal speak. And it's so fucking funny.
And I think she's doing it A to show she does not respect Chet.
And it goes over Chet's head. He doesn't give a fuck, but
she's doing it really to get under big Nung's skin.
And it's if you watch them in the scene, it's hilarious.
Big nun's like son of a bitch. Like when she starts doing this
because what big Nung is expecting her to do is she's
like, hey, treat him with respect.
So she's expecting the little Nung to like rephrase what she
just said, but she doesn't. She says the exact same thing
but then just adds the cut at the end to be like I'm being
formal and she basically and. Pauses before the cut.
Right. To show that she does not
respect this man. She's like, no bitch, I'm not
gonna tell you. I'm doing this because I have
to. It's so funny.
I think no looks like size and
looks. Oh.
My. Gosh she's such a petty bitch.
I love how. Petty.
She's herself. She's so funny.
Her pettiness is hilarious. And like, again, Chuck just
proves that, you know, he doesn't deserve to be respected
because every time he talks about or too little Nung, it's
always something weird. And this time he tells big Nung
doesn't like include little Nung in the conversation.
No whatsoever. No, he's like, let's take this
little girl out to eat. First of all, she's not a little
girl. That's an adult.
That's. Ridiculous.
I mean they they OK, we. Just need to get out of high
school anyway. Little nung.
Little little nung's like no, no, I don't want to.
Dangerous. Stranger to say it out loud.
Yeah, but big nung, the only question was do I get to choose
the place? Right.
She's like, how? How much money are we to spend
at this place 'cause yeah. Don't worry about food leads,
Big nun will follow. Oh.
My God, no for real, she's just like food that neither of us
have to pay for. Come on little nun, let's do
this shit. It's like I'm gonna teach you
that you just do stuff for food and then dip.
Yeah, literally, this is how you use your power as a woman.
OK, let's go do this. All right, So, yeah, Speaking of
that. So anyway so they they check
does take them out for food and he then has to leave immediately
for reasons we don't care about. But before he leaves Nung
reminds him to pay the bill, which is so savage he doesn't
even get to say to eat. She's like you paid the bill
though. That's the only reason I agreed
to come here. Oh my God, that's so fucking
funny. I I love that part I.
Love it. It's savage, it's great.
That's how much he doesn't care about him, which I love.
But I mean it's kind of wrong to invite someone to have a meal
and then leave and like not pay for it when you said you were
going to anyway. So true.
I get it. True.
She's also broke. She can't.
She's like, I can't afford this shit.
Just pay for this. The food's already there, so
they can't back out anyway. It's just savage and funny.
All right, So once the nuns are alone, little nuns starts
putting together big nuns pass with Chet.
Like, kind of. So she realizes that.
OK, if you guys were almost married, that means that like
you were probably dating and big Nog's like, EW, no, I've never
you've seen him, right? Absolutely not.
A man? No.
Yeah. Little monks like, I get that
I've met him, but if if that's the case, why?
What do you mean? You?
Why would you? Why were you getting married to
him then? And the answer is the grand man.
I mean, crazy reasons, crazy reasons, little known because
like not everybody gets married for love, unfortunately.
And she's like, don't worry about it, sorry.
No, I just, I thought no one got married for I thought it was
like everyone gets married off. So here's the deal.
Like usually, like in traditionally speaking,
marriages were business contracts, right?
It was a way to consolidate wealth because wealth in
patriarchy is goes through the male lineage.
That was not always the case. But when we switched to
patriarchy, that's the consequence, right?
So in order for like women to live, they had to like, get
married to a man. So like a wealthy man who had a
daughter, the only way to consolidate his power was to
marry her to a wealthy man to keep his family and his legacy
going, right, And to consolidate all the properties.
So really marrying for status was for people who had status.
For people who don't have status, there's no property.
So they would marry for love or because somebody was pregnant
and things like that. So this is a upper class.
This is just champagne problem, right?
This whole not marrying for love thing, which is why like the
Green Man has conversations where like where love is brought
up and she's like, don't lower yourself because that was
something for the lower class, not the upper class.
In the upper class, you're expected to like stay in your
lane, marry somebody who's equal to you, consolidate more money,
consolidate more power. That's the expectation.
But if you're poor and you don't own property, it doesn't matter.
Like consolidate what? There's nothing.
You just do what you want. So that that's why So like, and
that's the point. And Lil Nung is putting together
like this is what rich people do.
And then she's like, he looks very wealthy.
He has a fancy car. Look at how he dresses.
And then she's putting it together and she's like, who are
you then? If you almost married this
clearly elite man, right? Yeah, I mean that that's it is
weird. It is weird.
It's kind of telling and Big Nung tries to shut this down and
she's like, well, maybe I'm, you know, worth something.
And Little Nung's like absolutely.
I see that obviously who she doesn't know who she is and
she's like, I know you're worth something.
You're a limited edition, you're all that stuff.
And she's like the more importantly Big Nung, obviously
this man wasn't worthy of you. And like Big Nung's like
absolutely, that's correct. You know me well.
And I feel like that means a lot to Little Nung because again,
less competition then she's not to feel threatened by Chet And
she's so damn smug about it when she says that it's hilarious.
She's like, Yep, he's not worthy.
But I am like, basically is the implication there, which is OK,
kind of says well, blah, blah, blah, blah, already sell this
stuff. The other thing is to like big
nun has many opportunities to kind of come clean about who she
is and she chooses not to because again, she values the
freedom she has now. And I think unlike with chat, I
think that's why she's like doesn't love being around chat
cuz he's kind of like a reminder of her past, the things she's
trying to escape from and all the bullshit that comes with
that. But with little Nung, she's like
gets to be free of all that shit and be with somebody again who
like definitely likes her just for who she is.
So anyway, in this conversation, again, when they're talking
about chat, Big Nong is like, you speak when you're speaking
about him. Like, be respectful.
He's an adult and he's like an elite adult, basically.
Like you use the formal twang thing.
And again, Mnong's like, OK and does the malicious compliance
stuff. And I love every time she says
his name, she drags it out as a way to show that she does not
respect this man. And she's always like Archie and
she's such a petty bitch, like when she pauses to say his name.
She's such an asshole. And I just, I love when she does
this. It makes me laugh so hard every
time she does this 'cause she's just like, I don't like this
man. I'm letting you know.
My dad was around while I was rewatching this from my notes
and he he was like mimicking it 'cause like that's it's so
you're not, that's all you capture like in this
conversation and. I and.
Then so I pause and I'm like, oh, there's a reason why she's
doing this. And then I ended up like getting
into the whole dynamic of like Episode 4 with him and he was
just like, OK, and then went back to work.
You're never ready for Episode 4.
It's too much for people if you don't watch it as it's going.
All right. And then like, again, the, the
real root of this conversation is that like little Nung is on
to something and figuring out who big Nung is.
Because really they're, they're getting into points where
they're having like real conversations where they're like
real things, where they're actually revealing things about
themselves. And like, she was on the cusp of
something in this conversation before, like big Nung shut it
down. So she's like, she's even more
determined now to like figure out Nung.
She's like, well, who are you really?
Because you, maybe you're even more extraordinary than I
thought you were, which is cute and sweet and also true.
So after they end up eating the food because free food, and then
they go back to the blank bus stop and by this point it's
raining cats and dogs. So they kind of take cover there
for a hot minute. And of note, there's like this
scene, like a wide shot where they're like running to the bus
stop. And if you watch really closely,
like big Nung has her hands over a little Nung to try and shield
her from the rain, which is really cute but ineffective
because it's raining so fucking hard.
It doesn't work. It doesn't work.
But the gesture was there, which was really cute.
And I think Little Nung knew she was doing that for some reason.
Little nuns, like, I don't want to get on the bus.
Can I just go to your house? You live closer to this bus
stop. And big nuns, like, why do you
have to come to my house? Just go home.
Like the it's dark, it's raining, the night's over, go
home. And Little Nung has no argument
to this. So she just pretends to faint,
which she was putting a lot of trust in the fact that Big Nung
was going to catch her and that she wasn't going to fall onto
the sidewalk. And she was right.
Big Nung catches her, so big nuns like oh fuck, all right, I
got to get you home somehow. So we get this piggyback ride
scene which is really funny and cute and I love the bickering
where big nuns like what the fuck did?
You eat, why are? You so happy?
Oh yeah I was like what the hell is that comment?
She's cuz she's grumpy and she's tired of carrying her.
Just like why are you so happy? That's so funny.
Oh my God. It was just really funny, but
like a little nug can't say anything 'cause she's pretending
to be like passed out, which how did she get on her back if she's
fainted is a whole nother question, but movie magic.
I'm like pictures like a sack of potatoes of her just trying to
get her up right. Like you would have to carry
like. Little style, little just like
passed out. Yeah, she's like, she was
conscious enough to hold on, but not conscious enough to walk on
her own 2 feet. The audacity of those bitches.
Which continues when they get back to the apartment.
She lays her down. It's like, I know you're not
actually that, right? And then she walks away and then
she's like little Nung looks up. And then when big Nung comes
back into the room, immediately goes limp again.
My God. She's such a bitch, it's so
funny, she commenced. She's a cute bitch.
She's a cute bitch and, and when she finally like comes to, she's
like, oh, I'm afraid that you'll be mad at me for doing this.
And big nuns like she's like, you know what?
At this point I'm just worried you're going to get sick.
So like. We'll revisit this, like go
shower and change out of your wet clothes so you don't get
sick because we're here now. We did it.
So just just go do that. And I love it like when the
little nun goes into her room because that's where the that's
where the bathroom is. Nung makes little Nung tea,
which again, I love language. She's like unconsciously is
doing these things, which is really sweet.
And they basically will transition to a real
conversation when she comes out. But when little Nung goes into
her room, that's when she sees a photo of Sam.
So that's important. She sees like the photo on her
bed, on Nung's bedside table is her and Sam.
And it's like her arm around Sam.
So you don't know who Sam is. It kind of looks like it's Nung
and her girlfriend. So like, you can see where
little Nung's brain is going with this.
So we had to establish that 'cause we're about to meet,
she's about to meet Sam. But anyway, she gets out, she's
she's changed, she's all dry and shit.
And then they have this real conversation where Nung is like
big Nung is like, why? Why do you speak to me so
informally? You know, why do you do this?
And first of all, I, I think the beginning of this was that
little knowing had no idea how old you were.
She thought you were 26, which like she wouldn't need to speak
to you formally if she thought you were 26 years old.
So like, there's that. And you know.
Habits are hard to break. The age gap that you have to
speak formally to someone. I feel like it.
That's a good question. I actually don't know if you
know, because like Mon does it to Sam, but is it because of
their age gap or is it because Sam is royalty?
That I don't know. Because if you listen to Mon
talk, yeah, yeah. But even in the show, if you
listen when they're alone, if you listen to Ma and talk to
Sam, it's very formal. The way she speaks to Sam.
She does like the cod and things like that when they're alone
talking. So I don't know if you know the
rules of this, please, please put it below anyway.
So maybe there's there's that. That could be it.
And the But I think more importantly, the real reason
Little Nung doesn't do that is because Big Nung doesn't treat
her like a child. And I think that she feels
genuinely comfortable around Big Nung, and that's why she doesn't
like engage in that because almost like by using that
language, you're like distancing yourself from each other.
And I think that because Little Nung feels that they're close,
she just eliminates it because that's how she feels.
And her language and the way she chooses to speak to Big Nung is
reflecting, reflective of that. The bigger point of this is Big
Nung, you've never corrected her until right now.
Like you've known each other for a hot minute and you've never
once this never bothered you until now.
And I was like, why are you bringing this up now when she's
never used formal language with you?
And I think the reason she's bringing it up now is because
they're both aware of their actual ages.
And Big Nung is now aware 'cause remember, she was reflecting the
other night. She's aware that there's mutual
feelings here now and the fact that this relationship has so
many social consequences tied to it and could cause so much chaos
with like Little Nung and her family.
So I think that Big Nung is trying to enforce this now as a
way to keep her distance from Little Nung, like, and hopefully
to get Little Nung to realize that like, this situation is
impossible. Like the gap is too great for
the two of them. The greatest gap, The greatest.
Gap. Big nung, it's not going to
work. No it 100% does not work and
instead little Nung just engages in malicious compliance again
and then just constantly uses this formal twang just to tease
her and she does it in this moment or she'll say something
like just to piss her off. She's like this is what you want
it right? Like, do you see how absurd this
is? And Big Mom's like, for fuck's
sake, Like I get she has no energy to fight her ever.
And she's like, whatever, I guess if this is what you're
gonna do and then. She's.
Like looking at little no and like not really saying anything.
And little mom's like why are you looking at me like that?
Is it because I'm so pretty and you're in love with me and
stuff? Like I get it.
And Big Mom's like, I'm just wondering why.
Again, Little mug is not expecting this answer.
Like, I'm just wondering why you're wear such thick glasses.
Like I never really noticed. Like put that together.
Like, why do you wear them? And that's like, girl, why does
anybody wear glasses? This is a stupid question, but
OK, I get it. She's asking a personal
question. That's a good, we'll take the
win. And little mug explains it's
because she was born prematurely and her mother didn't want her.
And it's like, does nobody in the Gap universe understand how
pregnancy works? Look at you, Jim.
Like, does nobody understand this?
Like, that's not why you have poor eyesight.
That's not how that works at this.
Point Does the writer of the book know how it works?
Right. I think they're just like, I
need to justify her wearing glasses that I can then whip off
later to show that she's hot and that's what we're doing.
And I'm like, OK, this was ridiculous, but sure.
And no one understands pregnancy as a consequence of this, you
know, these plot points we have to have anyway.
All right, I've already talked about how she's a child trapped
in an adult's body, but whatever.
Let's move on to the most important part of this
conversation when Little Nung explains this, the reason why
she has to wear big glasses. Little Big Nung's reaction is
really important here because it's this like mixture of like
concern, fascination and self reflection a little bit because
she asks her like why? She's like, you've had such a
traumatic as fuck childhood like me, and yet you're still
optimistic and smiling like why is that?
And Little Monk's response is so perfect.
She's basically like, well, all that happened in the past, why
would I? Why do I need to feel bad about
it now? Like it already happened and
here I am. I'm strong and living my life.
That's such a healthy mindset. Yeah, a very healthy minds.
And I think that this was important for Big Nung to hear
because at this point, like we've mentioned over and around,
she hasn't fully processed her childhood trauma and like all
that collateral damage, like Song, the Grand man, all that
stuff. She gets there later, but not at
this point. So when she's asking little Nung
about this, like why are you still so cheery and optimistic,
I think she's genuinely curious how little Nung did not become a
closed off and cynical person like she did.
That's what she's really asking. She's like, why aren't you like
me? Like somebody who's closed off,
untrusting. You're like the complete
opposite, like why? And that's such an important
question. And then when little and then
she like sits there and kind of like this thinking this over,
like everything that little nun just said.
And that's when she starts kind of like shivering a little bit.
And little nuns like, oh, and she grabs her and like tries to
push her towards big nuns bedroom and big nuns like, what
are you doing? Like, why are you doing this?
And she says, well, you are still in the wet clothes.
You haven't changed your you know, you haven't changed yet.
I'm worried you're going to get sick.
So like, go do what I just did, go take a shower and change.
And Bignam kind of freezes and she's like, oh, that's what
you're doing. OK 'cause I think this is maybe
the first time in a very long time that somebody who wasn't
Sam took care of her without an ulterior motive.
Like when one's just like, I'm worried about you, please just
go. And, and Bignam tries to pull it
off, push it off. And just, I know, I know I need
to do that, whatever. And like, goes in the room.
But like, and this conversation between them is really, really
great. Like everything about it's
fantastic. But then but then we transition
into the we transition to the why are we here seeing?
OK, there's good moments in here, but oh, man, both of us
have an issue with the scene. OK, now that everybody's changed
and their hair is dry, we, we weighed out the rain in Nung's
like Big Nung's artist room and Big Nung's like, I'm gonna
sketch you while the rain keeps going.
And once it's done, I'll, I'll take you home kind of thing.
She was like, but you gotta sit there and be shut the fuck up
and be quiet and be still and stop causing trouble and stop
making me have feelings. Just sit there and be still and
I'll just draw you. I love that umbrellas don't
exist for some reason and like when rain happens you can't go
anywhere. Like that's what I'm getting
from. The show, I think it's like, so
they mentioned that a couple of times.
It's such, it's like tropical rain.
So if you've never lived in a climate with tropical rain,
tropical rain's horrible and it's just like parentally
downpouring and it seems like it's for hours here.
And the bigger problem is there's traffic jams and so
like, because there's car accidents and so like, that's
the. Bigger thing in a downpour in
Thailand. Like it's insane.
Yeah, so, and I lived in Florida for a very long time and it's
like it's a very dangerous time to be driving.
So the other reason is like, let's wait out the rain so I
don't have to get a car or a bus and risk getting into an
accident. That's the other reason she's
keeping her here. It's more of a safety thing than
just like a umbrellas are not going to stop that kind of rain.
It's just you just accept it honestly, you accept it.
But seriously though, little monk should have had a umbrella
in her backpack because it is rainy season.
But that's you know, then we don't get this scene.
So you know, good job blown doesn't matter for the power of
lesbian Jesus told her not to carry one.
OK, wait, so we get to the wire. We hear moment before they
begin, Little Nung sneezes and her glasses fall, falls off.
And then big nun's like, all right, I'll get it.
So she gets down on her knees, picks up the glasses and then
looks up at Little Nung. And then we get this she's hot
without her glasses moment, which I hate on principle.
Yeah, I hate it. It's not great.
It's not great.
I think the the read of this scene is that big Nung is seeing
little Nung as an adult. But I hate it.
I just hate it. I hate it the.
Glasses really should not change anything.
This is the classic superhero thing right now.
Right and like adults can wear glasses and it's also fine.
It's not a childish thing. It's also doesn't detract from
hotness. Like anyway, also like we find
out at the end that like Big Nung, the other thing that's
happening in the scene is that like Big Nog is really into
Little Nog's eyes and this is a heart stopping moment for her
too. That's the other reason.
But anyway, she could have wore her glasses and we could have
still had this moment. That's the problem I have with
it. Maybe it's just that it it was a
change from the way that she originally met her and saw her.
Right. I mean, it still doesn't really
make sense, but no. Yeah, but.
Yeah, I agree. I think that's what it's
supposed to be, but like, I hate it anyway, whatever.
Either way, a big Nung's enchanted by her beauty.
And now that her glasses are off and does this thing where she
like, runs her fingers through Little Nung's hair without
saying anything. And the little Nung's like oh oh
oh oh this is way better than a head pat.
Like this is way better. And little Nung gets to ride
this high for approximately 3 seconds before her grandmother
comes, 'cause we can't have nice things.
This is why I have a keen head. Thanks.
OK. And that continues.
Because you break. Them.
Yes. Speaking of breaking things, the
grandmother is waiting for little Nung when she gets home,
and this is this poor girl. I I don't want her to go home.
I want her to stay with big, you know, and get this I.
Want her to U-Haul. Also I understand why she's
always like can I move in with you 'cause it's like this is her
where she's living. It's terrible.
Yeah, so Lil Nun tells the grandmother that she was waiting
for the rain to stop at this tutoring school, and at this
point I fully forgot that she's supposed to be at the tutoring
school every day after school. She's such a liar and I love it.
And the grandmother starts immediately hitting her with I'm
calling it a stick and tells her to take a taxi home next time.
Which I'm like, does she have money to pay the taxi right now?
Do they pay it at home? What I'm wondering if maybe she
was worried about would have would have been worried about
getting scolded for using a taxi when she.
Could have used the bus. Like there's so many things that
you don't know what she actually wants until you do something
wrong I guess. Right.
And I'm like what? Go ahead.
I was gonna say also, like if there's traffic jams, how would
that got her home any faster? Like she's been sitting in a
taxi with a fucking stranger. Like how is that better?
But also what good is hitting her in this situation?
Like I I just don't understand the.
Concept of hitting someone. It's just this is the
grandmother taking out all of her issues on to little Dong and
it's also like This is why she lies to you.
Like she's fucking terrified of you and so she lies constantly
because she's gets abused. It's ridiculous.
Yeah. That poor girl is always on edge
at home, and it's just, it's nice.
And that's why the childlike state comes out when she's gone,
too, because she can relax. Like she doesn't have the weight
of the expectations, I guess. Yeah.
The threat of violence, Yes, when she's not there.
Right. And then when she when Little
Numb goes away, the grandmother looks upset that she hit her.
And I'm just like, bitch. You just.
Oh my God, I don't like her. I do not like, I might like,
like despise her more than the grand Bam at this point.
Like, I understand if you keep telling me like they always
think that they're doing what's best, but it's obviously not
working and they need therapy. You know, I think that this
grandmother, at the very least, she's the one who needs the
therapy. Oh for sure, absolutely.
All the grandmothers need therapy in the show.
That's that's really what gap. No, it's grandma needs fucking
therapy. Grandma needs to get a grip.
The spin off show the grandmas get therapy.
Yeah, no, literally that would be amazing.
OK, so let's talk about this for a minute.
So like, obviously Lil Nung and her grandmother have a very
complicated relationship and it's mirroring the the
relationship that big Nong and the grand man had, right?
It's love mixed with fear, which not healthy, but that's what it
is, right? And I think part of the problem
just in general that I think these shows are trying to like
portray and that's why we keep having these age gaps, is that
this grandmother granddaughter age gap and the power imbalance
of it creates problems. OK, because it's a, and I
understand the principle of that.
It's very elder revering. It's like, you know, a with age
comes wisdom, with age comes authority and you're supposed to
subjugate to those with authority and the wisdom.
And like I understand that I'm not saying that that is
inherently wrong. What I'm saying is that a
consequence of that is it creates these power imbalances
between relatives where it could potentially turn toxic, which is
what's happening in these granddaughter grand grandmother
relationships in these shows. And for Little Nung, like you've
mentioned, Caitlyn, this is stunting her development into
adulthood. It's why we see her as a child.
It's because like she's spends time with Big Nung.
She was acting like an adult in the prior scene, having a normal
conversation with Big Nung, who's treating her like an
adult. Then she comes home and is
immediately beat down back into the box of being a child who
obeys her grandmother, right? So it's like that's confusing to
for for anybody who has to like, kind of like it's almost like a
double life in a way where she kind of has to like tow this
tightrope between like acting like a child and then like being
an adult when she's out. It's terrible.
Like it's so like it fucks with her behavior, right?
Which we've talked about a lot. Yeah.
And then to talk about the grandmother's point of view.
So like in defense of the grandmother, I'm not really
going to defend her a lot. But I think what's going on with
her because we get the scene where she like she lashes out
initially at little nun cuz she's afraid, OK, That her fear
is that little nun is going to be become get pregnant like her
mother did. That's why she's working.
So why don't you come home? Like, are you the man?
Like that's what she's worried about because she was a little
too trusting with her daughter or whatever.
And then there we are. So she sees that as a failure,
right? And she doesn't want history
repeating itself. So she's way too strict and way
too overbearing and like corporal punishment D with her
granddaughter, right? And we get this scene where
little one goes upstairs and then she like looks, drops the
stick and looks at her hands and starts crying.
Like, like this is all taking a toll on her too.
And if you think about it, she didn't ask to raise a second
child. Like she didn't ask to be in
this position. She didn't ask to, like, go
through motherhood basically all over again.
She technically did when she's sent the mom away.
But like, I mean, she did adopt the role, but like she didn't
ask for this. Like she didn't ask for her
daughter to like have a child. Like like she's in this, she was
in this position because she's trying to preserve the family
and she thinks that that's what's best.
But like she didn't ask to be in this position in in the same way
that little Mung's mother didn't ask to be, nobody asked to be in
this position, right? So like, that's a lot.
Raising a child is a lot. Raising a child when you're
older is taxing, right? So like, that's a lot, OK, Just
having children in general. And she's doing this a lot.
Like where's the grandfather? She's doing this alone, like for
20 years, like 20 extra years. So like 36 years, she's raising
children. That's a lot, OK, When you
didn't ask for it. So just there's that.
I'm not saying she's in the right, I'm not saying she's in
the wrong. I'm just saying that is a lot to
put on anybody. 36 years of child rearing.
That's a lot. Right, so she feels that like I
think part of her feels like this happened out of her control
cuz it did because her daughter went and did this thing she
couldn't control right? And she felt that she had to
take on the responsibility of raising little nuns so that she
can be raised the right way and she can like make amends for the
what happened to ping FA like her mother, you know, so when
she's looking at her hands, I think part of her is asking
herself, like, how did I get here?
Like this should be my daughter's job.
Like I shouldn't I shouldn't be in this position, but here we
all are. Like it just everything spiraled
out of control because of this. Like again, it's like that
societal like box that everybody has to be in because Lil Mung's
mom didn't fit the box. Like everything fucking fell
apart. And like this woman is just
trying her best to keep everything in the boxes, you
know, the traditional boxes and it's just not working And she
just is losing it part of it. And, and she's not, is she
handling it the right way? No, like she's not handling this
the right way. But I think she's at her wit's
end and, and she look at her, does she have a support system?
No, Perhaps all this isolation that people are in is not good
either cuz like she can't confide in people about this
because they'll look, she's one of those people who's like
obsessed with how how everybody else perceives her and like
gossip and all that shit. So she would never bring this up
to other people. In fact, I'm pretty sure she
never talks about her daughter because that would bring shame,
right? So she can't who, who you say
she needs therapy, but like, yeah, she does.
She needs somebody to talk to because I don't think she feels
like she can because then like that's admitting the shame.
And like, you know, like, I feel like this is all like shaming
people is such a bad thing because people end up like doing
everything in their power to hide what they're ashamed of.
It's why little none lies. And like the grandmother's kind
of doing a similar thing. And it's just, it's spiraling
out of control and it's like people get hurt in the process
when we're not, when we can't be honest about stuff.
I think that's, that's unfortunately the bad, the bad
side of things like this. Like people romanticize
traditionalism and stuff like that.
But it's like, here's what it actually looks like when you're
trying to, like, fit in those really rigid rules.
And it's just like, people can't.
People don't always fit in boxes.
And like, you know, the more you're trying to control it, and
Lil Mung says it later, she's like about her mother.
She's like, the more my mom tries to control me, the more I
hate her. And it's like, that's also
happening with the grandmother a little bit too.
Yeah. That's.
Definitely true. I I didn't read much into the
grandmother. I like to pretend she doesn't
exist. I know.
Her and Chet. It's fair, but all these, all
these characters play a role, you know?
So little man goes upstairs to hide in her own, her sanctuary.
And when she's alone in her room, she like knocks over the
novel that's sitting on her desk and picks it up to like read an
excerpt. And it's the book is Pluto,
which is also written by the same author as Blank, which is I
can't Chao plot. Noi, I think is how you say her
name. Good job, ma'am, in your
cinematic universe. Great product placement, by the
way, because Pluto keeps showing up in the later blank.
The novel shows up. So like good job, good on you.
And she the excerpt she reads I love.
And I feel like this is a theme in a lot of these books and
shows in general where she says love has no reason.
If you can find a reason, it's not love.
And so like Lil Nung is kind of like a hopeless romantic.
And then she has this like vision of like Nung looking at
her without the glasses. But I would argue that like her
and Big Nung actually have real reasons to like be into each
other. And it's not that it doesn't
have a reason. I think there are definitely
reasons. But anyway, can't wait to read
Pluto now because that line, that line comes up a lot.
All right, then the next morning, then we time jump to
the next morning and we see Lil Nung leaving her house and the
minute she gets outside the gate, you just her countenance
changes and you just see her like brighten up and just looks
relieved and she like skips away and it's like it's so sad that
like she's so repressed at home that like I hate it so much.
I just want to hug her and tell her it's all going to be OK.
Big Numb do that for us. Yes, big numb hug her.
She needs a hug for fuck's sake. Other important thing from the
scene is that when she's leaving we get the exterior shot of the
house next door. And I'm pretty sure I said this
in the reaction video. I'm 100% convinced the House
next Door is Sam's house from Gap the series.
Be hilarious if she actually lived next to the same and they
just didn't know it. That would be 100% on brand for
Sam. But they do establishing shots
of Sam's house in the show and it's a different house.
But it's the gap, the serious house.
I'm pretty confident. Like even the trees are the
same. Oh, it's OK.
I see. You see the other house.
Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's very interesting.
Yeah, I remember that window and I was like, I'm pretty sure it's
the same house. Yeah.
Looks legit. Yep.
Great job thay. So we're just, again, the houses
connect all the shows. That would be really funny if
Sam lived next door. Like for real?
Someone makes the universe with the houses in like The Sims or
something 'cause I think that'd be funny with like the big
palaces. Who lives in the Boom Palace?
Everybody. Everybody lives in the Bua
Palace then. Yes, I'm.
Just going to refer to that house as the Bua Palace, the
yellow one, because that's what it is.
Then who has the white one? Wasn't the white one the Gap
house? No, the Grand Man lived in the
Bua Palace in Gap. There was no White House.
There was. I mean, there's.
This house here that's. Sam's.
OK. I thought there was a white one.
I think I was just getting the yellow and white.
Oh, maybe Mon's little house. Oh no.
Inside with the white balcony is that.
Yeah, I think that's what's like throwing me off that.
Yeah, that's the inside of the Bua Palace.
Yeah, OK. Quote but like.
For some reason the outside has to match the inside.
I don't know. But also for it's also confusing
because in this show, the inside of the Blue Palace is a
different for it. Actually, no, we see that
staircase also like that's. The yeah, I know it's the same.
Yeah, it's the same. It's the same.
It's just for that actually. I think at one point we saw that
it the inside changed yeah cuz I feel like they use the interior
of two different. I think houses, I think that's
exactly what they did, yeah. Cuz we were confused at what we
were like. Wait a minute, now we're in gap.
I was also. There's also a confusing part
later where like they I think they switched the interiors for
sure because they do. There's a scene in season one
where Nung tries to steal the books and she like goes to the
bedrooms like her. And it's like different than
when later in season 2 when she takes little Nung on a tour.
She's like that's Sam's room, that's Song's room.
I think like they changed the interiors in season one and
season 2. Anyway, I could be wrong, but
I'm not. Well, well, little Nung is very
happy to leave the torture chamber.
The grandmother goes into her room because no privacy allowed
and finds all the drawings of Little known.
And then she makes an evil face. That's all I could describe it
as. This is why we can't have nice
things. Because you break.
Them. Don't have to burn them.
But here we are. OK, so then Little Nung thinks,
all right, how can I have an excuse to go see Big Nung?
First of all, you don't need one.
But she brings Big Nung food. And then Big Nung's like how did
you know I was hungry? And Little Nung says that I'm
your girlfriend, I have to know these things.
And then Big Nung calls her delusional.
But anyway, you will always accept food.
It's like it's not hard to figure out that food is the way
to get to. You it's.
Like you let her in because she had food once, you are always
getting food now, which isn't a bad thing.
I mean, you get food out of it, so and you get to see the face.
Exactly. And again, like little Nung
figured out and clocked the fact that food is her love language.
And so that's good girlfriend behavior to like learn that and
be like, OK, my girl likes food, I'm going to bring her food.
Wow. Big Nung calls her delusional
when she gets the food. There's this smile that slips on
her face because she's like, oh, you care enough about me to
bring me food? I mean, you didn't make it.
You're not Sam level yet, but like, you know, this is pretty
good. Like she's clearly pleased with
this, even though she's pretending like she's not.
She is because this this, this is her love language.
For her to make something, she'd have to live with Big Nun
because there's no way she can make something at her place and
then take it somewhere. Could you imagine?
Could you imagine her grandmother would literally kill
her? She'd be like, who is all this
for? You don't need to.
You don't know other people. I made sure of that.
You're using the food that I buy for someone else.
She'd probably make her be like, all right, sit down, serve it.
We'll have it together. Right.
No, exactly. And that'd be like the worst
date ever. Yeah, exactly.
So then little nun sits down and big nuns like where will my
customers sit if you sit there? And then little nun starts
looking around and he's like what customers?
That's so true also. Like why do you have only one
chair? Don't you have two chairs?
You were sitting and chat was sitting.
Don't you have two chairs anyway?
But then we get the next stalker of the series, who we will learn
about later. Yeah, So Nung notices this dude
creeping around a big Nung and she it's holding the food and is
like, looking like, that's really suspicious.
This dude is like, staring at us.
OK. And then Little Nung distracts
her because she takes the food out of her hands.
And then she like, tries to be cute.
She's like, OK, it's girlfriend mode.
I have to feed you because that's what girlfriends do,
right? You know, I got to let's do
this, right? And Big Nung's like, that's too
much. Like she tries to, like, put the
little dumpling towards her face and that's too much.
So Big Nung masterfully grabs her wrist and, like, feeds
Little Nung first. And it's really funny because
Little Nung makes this surprise noise.
And she's like, oh, and Big Nun looks really smug that she just
did this. And then she's like, was it
good? Because food equals affection.
And if this feels like flirting, back to the food flirting.
And Lil Nung's like, yeah, I love it.
And she's just like, I win. She fed me.
It's cute and funny. Yes, this.
Oh, I forget their last name. Anyway, this family is really
good at food flirting. Oh my God yes, food equals
sexual innuendo. That's what this felt like.
Fair. Yeah, that, yeah.
Mm. Hmm, Lil.
A big gun was playing along and Lil Long's like yay she's
flirting with me. Glad I bought these dumplings.
I'm buying a bulk now. But she brings a bunch of
dumplings home and the grandmother's like, what are you
doing? You know what the surprising I
remember in Gap where Sam and Mon do like the food kissing.
Oh, the grocery shopping food is.
Foreplay, No, with like the where Sam kept doing the thing
where she's like hold it Mon and then I'll kiss you.
And then it went horribly for a while.
That's what this feels like. Where it's like food flirting
but they catch. I was thinking if she gets a
bunch of. Oh my God, yeah, it's.
A bulk you end up like the groceries.
She bought the grocery. Store please don't buy us
anything else. Oh my gosh.
Anyway, after that, Little Nung invites Big Nung to the 100th
year celebration of the school being open and oh gosh, sorry,
Little Nung wants Big Nung to go with her.
But then Big Nung's like you have to go with your grandmother
and Little Nung's like, Oh yeah, I guess I do also.
Big Nung doesn't want to go to this.
She's like, am I that? School's already, but she's like
that school's already 100. What the fuck?
When did that happen? Yeah, she's so involved.
I love it. And then the stalker is still
stalking so Big Nung takes little Nung's hand and goes with
her on the bus. And this was really sweet.
She's like, I she's 'cause I think she's like, oh, she's in
danger. I'm gonna take her home 'cause
yeah, potentially dangerous. From the minute she met her,
she's like really protective of her.
She is. I wonder why?
It's not in like a weird possessive way.
She's like, it's very genuine the way she's protective of her
because she's like, if I send you home on the bus and this
dude follows you, like bad things can happen to you.
So I'm what's she doesn't tell her we're in danger.
She's just like, I'm taking you home.
She like, grabs her hand and gets her on the bus because she
doesn't like freak out little Nung at all.
Little Nung has no idea what's going on.
Lung's like yay, she's flirting with me and like, and big nuns
like we're in danger. It's very different.
Yeah, and then when they get back to Little Nung's house,
Little Nung tries to kiss Big Nung.
Before heading and she's just like just give me one kiss.
Well, she says like, I want to thank you because she thinks Big
Nung is just being a chivalrous out of nowhere, not that Big
Nung's like, there's a stalker. I'm trying to make sure you get
home safely. Like get behind the gate.
So little Nung's like enamored. She's like, Oh well, let me
thank you, my knight in shining armor kind of thing.
And Big Nung's like, absolutely not the the gap's too great.
Please get behind the gate. I'm afraid for you, but was a
little monk safer? But when she gets inside, no,
not, not, not. At all.
She is never safe when she get like 100 feet radius of this
place. Yeah.
So once again she is stopped by the grandmother as she walks
like as she walks in the door and like I it's just no wonder
she wants to doesn't want to go home.
And the grandmother's like, what guy drew all these photos of
you, pictures of you and little known says that it was just a
friend from school. And the grandmother calls her a
liar because who would draw that many photos, pictures of her?
And I'm just like maybe someone who's learning to draw and like
trying to perfect something like there's reasons, but not for
her. Because I, I mean, I understand
ideally like if someone's drawing this like obviously big
Nung is into her, that's why she is drawing all.
I mean also little Nung probably tells her to and gives her
money. She gave him money, yeah.
So the grandmother follows after the grandma's footsteps.
She doesn't. They don't know each other that
much, so she doesn't know that this is what she did, but this
is what it drove back to the Gap universe.
And she burns the drawings and really little dung could have
saved one of them. Like that was a slow fire, you
know, Right 'cause like think. About what she's drawing, what
she's burning like in there in there was probably the first
drawing that Nung Big Nung ever drew of her, like their first
meeting. You don't think this girl would
wanna save that forever? You know, I think, I think maybe
that just speaks to how terrified she is of her
grandmother, 'cause even if she saved that her, her grandmother
probably like kill her, You know, I think she's just that
scared. Cuz the grandmother walked away
after she like lit it on fire. So like she really could have
just like dumped it out, put it out the fire, like flipped it
over and like have the oxygen not go to the fire.
And then I know. I don't know if that would have
worked or not, but. I think it just speaks to how
fucking scared she was. And I do appreciate the fact
that they put this in here. It's basically that the
reenactment from Gap, the series with Big Nung and the Grand Man,
which was this was Big Nung's villain origin story and Gap.
And so it's interesting that this isn't Little Nung's villain
origin story. It's just like a moment of like
humiliation and demoralization for her because that is what
happens when she goes in this house.
And really, again, the root of all this is just she's worried
that some guy is trying to fuck her granddaughter.
That's why she's overreacting like this.
I mean she's not wrong. Like it's just not a guy.
Which means it's fine. It's fine, there is no
pregnancy. You should be into this anyway,
just benefits. I'm just saying.
So after that we find out that Big Nung did not leave because
she noticed that Folk was still around.
We don't know his name's Folk yet, but anyway Big Nung catches
Folk stalking. Like basically basically jumps
in from behind. She doesn't jump him but like
just get the shit out of him can.
We talk about hold on, can we talk about this, this CIA move
that she does to get him because basically she knew she figured
out he was still there at the house, which how did he did
that? Cuz he missed the bus.
I don't know how he got there so quickly, but he followed them.
He made-up time when she sees him lurking around the hedge
when she goes to leave. And So what she does is she does
like, throws this beeline away from the house and then like
double S back. So folk comes out of his hiding
spot and is like overhearing the grandmother berate little Nung.
And then Big Nung double S back gets behind him and it's like,
what the fuck are you doing here?
Like the way she did it was just like the CIA move.
I was just like, good job, good job, Big Nung.
That was masterful. I love it.
Folk is also the worst stalker though and like always made sure
he was seen so like he was he was not joining the CIA.
No, Oh no. Reject.
But then they go to a random place just so big nun can scold
him and figure out if he liked her.
Like I can't think it could have had this conversation in the
place where they were. Yeah, I don't know why they they
OK, so this this makes sense for a lot.
This doesn't make sense for a lot of reasons.
They put the conversation on pause until they're in the mall
because later on, Folk and Little Nung are at this exact
same Bobo place. So, like, they're the ball.
But the Folk is not smart. And he proves it in this moment
because Big Nung takes him to a second location.
Like dude, like cardinal rule #1 never go to a second location
with a stranger. She could have murdered you like
you don't know her and she could have killed you.
Like you don't go to a second location.
You say no and run away. Like this was just dangerous
from like she looked pissed like she was going to kill you.
And then you're like sure stranger take me to a second
location. OK not smart.
Just PSA. Never go to a second location
with a stranger. Lessons from Theora.
Lessons from like the series not even if they're I understand
she's a hot, attractive woman and you're like she what I mean.
If she murders me, you know what?
I. I deserve.
I feel like I would follow her. Blindly, right?
You know what? That's on me.
And that's fine. All right.
So in this conversation that they're having, for some reason
at the boba shop we can't have in front of Little Bug's house,
Folk admits that he likes Little Nun, but he doesn't mean to be
creepy about it. He's just like, I like her.
I don't have any confidence. I don't know how to talk to her.
And she's like, Big Nun's like, OK, well, if you're not
confident about this, then you don't stand a chance against the
competition for her. And he's like, what competition?
What do you mean? And Big Nung says nothing, but
the implication here is that she's the competition and she's
more confident and she's like, you can't compete with me.
Like, what is what is this creepy bullshit you're doing?
And he's like, what competition? There is no competition.
There's no competition. She's like, I don't ever fucking
see you stalking her again or I will kill you this time.
And then she walks away. Which hot little Nung Shin saw
that? Yeah.
Just in this screenshot you have I just you know it's really hard
when you have these screenshots in here because I just want to
stare at her I. Know this outfit is a kind of
it's really good and the hair is all of it.
It's going to hydrate for today. It's it's beautiful.
Let's do it. I understand why he went with
her to a second location. I do.
I'm just, I get it, you're the boss.
All right, but poor Little Nung is going through it and is
crying alone in bed, and she calls Big Nung, but Big Nung
doesn't pick. Up.
No, and if you look at her phone like she called Big Nung
multiple times and Big Nung is just like goes leaving her
unread, basically goes to her. And I was wondering why, why she
didn't pick up the phone because if you think about it, she just
went out of her way this whole night to make sure that little
Nung got home safely and then defend her against the stalker.
And yet she doesn't pick up the phone.
So I think that the reason Big Nung is being silent is because
she's again, very aware of the consequences of their
relationship. And I think she thinks that by
picking up the phone late at night, that's like crossing some
kind of line. So she's like, it's better for
her if I don't pick up the phone so I don't blur our relationship
even more than it's already blurring.
But by choosing this, she's hurting little Nung, who at this
moment really needs a metaphorical shoulder to cry on.
Because look at what just happened to her.
You know, she and here she is in her room by herself, completely
isolated, crying. And to me, it's like, it's a,
it's a direct reflection of how like Little Big Numb has felt
most of her life, like alone and isolated and very frustrated
with her, you know, her grandmother and her living
situation. But the one of the biggest
differences between the two of them is that Big Nung had Sam
and Song, OK? So even when she felt alone,
even now when she feels alone, she has Sam.
She can go to somebody. And when she was trapped in the
palace, she was trapped with her sisters.
So she had somebody to commiserate with and to lean on.
She had real shoulders to cry. Not that she was crying, but you
know what I mean. Whereas Lil Nung doesn't like
she is truly truly alone and by herself and.
I've said before that I think that what little Nung really
likes the most about big Nung is in Big Nung, she feels like she
has a companion that understands her and that's what bonds them
from her point of view. And, and the sad part is it's
true. Like Big Nung can relate to her
in a way that most people will never be able to relate to her
because of how similar their childhoods were, their six,
their situations. And so the irony here is that
because Big Nung is choosing not to comfort Little Nung by
picking up the phone, Big Nung then spends the entire night
worrying about her. She's like, why was she calling
me? Like, did the soccer get to her?
And and she's so worried that she reaches out to Sam the next
day because that's her. That's her shoulder to lean on.
And like, this whole thing could have been avoided if she just
picked up the fucking phone. What?
Yeah, just pick up the phone. You know you want to.
You know she wants you to just do it.
Another question. From the scene, when did they
exchange numbers? Why does she have her?
Number, you know, no, she definitely like stole Big Nung's
phone and then like face unlocked it like and Big Nung
knew it was happening too and she's just like whatever.
No, like, you're probably right. And the other thing too is if
you look at her phone, like Little Nung's phone, she has the
little heart next to Big Nung's name, which is really cute.
OK, so you mentioned that Big Nung meets with Sam the next
day. So they go to the mall and Big
Nung's like there's a pervert following Little Nung and and
they nuns like she's already warned the guy.
But Sam says OK but did you warn your girl?
Sam is fully on the Nung Nung train.
She is. She's embraced this.
Yeah, and Nung is like, that's when she's like, but I, I warned
the guy like, that's not that's all I had to do, right.
But Sam's like, you look very worried, which is suspicious.
And I just love how Sam, just like, I know what this is.
I just try to figure out ways to get her to see it.
And then Sam also asked Big Nung to go to the 100th year school
party thing as well. Everyone wants you to go Big
Nung. You know you're gonna end up
going, so just do it. OK, but I love to see.
I love when Nung's like Sam's like I'll buy you a dress like
I'll buy you clothes like cuz I got my and big nuns like do
whatever you want buy me a dress or not.
I don't even need to go shopping with you.
Whatever I wear, I will look beautiful in it no matter what
and sounds like somebody. I love Big Nung, I love her.
Too Her confidence, her confidence and her audacity also
matches little nuns like yeah, she just comes out of this
positive I. Need that confidence in the way
that she like just presents herself yes I need little nuns
confidence to be able to talk to people big nung in just the way
that she presents because like. Big nung.
That's what the show should be
called. Big Nung.
OK, so Little Nung is now waiting for Big Nung at her
apartment, but then she hides when she sees that Big Nung
arrives home with Sam. And of course, Little Nung
thinks that they're dating because of the photo that she
saw in Big Nung's room. Because you can't have a photo
with someone without dating them, or you can't even look at
someone without having feelings, apparently.
I mean she's just proving in this moment that she's a
stereotypical gay that can't do math because her math equates to
Sam and Nung are dating. But to be fair, this is all very
suspicious. Like the photo is like they were
like big nun had her arm around sandwich.
She doesn't touch anybody voluntarily ever.
And then like they do a bunch of cutesy things here because Nung
loves her sister. Like Sam is one of the two
people on the planet she genuinely loves and is like
unguarded around so little. Nung knows her well enough to be
like this shit. Suspicious.
Don't be suspicious, don't be suspicious.
Don't. Be suspicious.
Don't be suspicious. This is super suspicious.
OK, so of no during this. So Sam drops her off and she's
like, OK, I'm going to try one more time to get you to come to
the Centennial event for the school.
But because it's a big event, the grand man's going to be
there. And nuns like, oh, fuck no,
Absolutely fucking not. And Sam's like, well, just take
this dress just in case you change your mind.
Also, like, you look hot in it. Probably just like, whatever,
just just hang on to that. Nuns like free shit.
Yeah, absolutely. She's broke.
She's going to say no to that. So I love in this scene that,
like, Sam, again, is just like the optimistic people pleaser.
And she's trying so hard with Nung, no matter how, like, mean
or dismissive she is, because she recognizes that Big Nung is
being really defensive about the grandmother too, which indicates
that she's hurt about this. And I think Sam understands
that. But like, Sam is kind of like
Little Nung where she's like, I'm going to try and wear you
down, but she's nicer and more subtle about it than Little Nung
is. And I think that Big NUM knows
this. And the reason she never like
truly gets mad at Sam whenever she does this stuff is because
she knows Sam's hearts in the right.
Sam is like the biggest heart of the planet.
And she knows that, like, she means well by trying to get her
to reconcile with her grandmother.
But truly, the grandmother thing is like, is the hell she's
willing to die on because she feels like the grandmother owes
her apology, really. And then she said some famous
last words here. She's like, how about this, Sam?
How about you come back to me and ask me to like, move into
the palace when the grandma dies, then I'll come back.
So famous last words. It's right here, yeah.
Yeah. We'll get there.
These are some haunting words. I I'll say that for none later,
but before Sam leaves, Nung does physical affection voluntarily
stuff with with Sam where she like Pats her on her head and
like gets down, crouches and then gets like high level with
Sam, which is like a sign of respect and like affection and
Lil and I'm seeing this and she's fuming.
She's like, I got a head pat yesterday.
What the fuck? Like you just got a head pat and
a bow. This bullshit.
It's OK, little Nung. This is.
This is how Sam learned that. Head Pats are.
Affectionate, and that's why she gave Mon a little head pat when
she was younger. That's true cuz my God, you're
right. You're right.
That is true. Other thing to note and just
remember in this scene that's about to happen between big Nun
and little Nung, remember big little Nung just came off having
the worst night of her life and was like abused by her
grandmother. So she's not in a great place
right now and now she's watching this go down with Sam and
doesn't know who Sam is. So like she's not doing OK right
now. She's.
Trying to go to her safe place right now.
Correct. And it's not about to be a
slave. Right.
That's that is what's happening here.
Yeah, exactly. So they start talking and
basically Nung little Nung feels defeated and she's like saying
things like she should just give up fighting for her because
there is no world where she can compete with Sam because in her
eyes, like everything that she's seen, Sam has it all and she is
just a child. That's how people treat her.
And we we get that in another conversation.
I believe in the next episode where she like fully admits,
like, if I had all these things, maybe I would be worthy of you.
But like, it seems like I can't compete with all these other
people. Yeah, and I think it's it's not
so much the money, I think the money is part of it, but the
fact, I think the nail in the coffin for Little Nung was the
fact that Big Nung was affectionate.
And it's clearly close with Sam and she's not close with
anybody. And Little Nung knows her enough
to know that that is a, that's a big like red flag.
Like for her, she's like, that is competition, somebody who's
this you're being close with and one of my favorite lines in this
conference because Big Nun doesn't know what's going on.
She's like, she thinks it's amusing.
She's like, oh, you're jealous of my sister.
That's how much you like me. I think in the beginning she's
into this because she's like, wow, you're trying to compete
with my sister too. This is weird because she enjoys
the attention and the persistence.
And so when Little nun brings up the fact that like Sam's
competition, Big Nung says, well, basically you can't
compete with her. And that girl has everything.
And I love this line because it's so true on so many levels
about Sam, because Sam has like, you know, a good, you know, good
relationship with everybody in their family.
Basically at this point. You know, for the most part, she
also has Mon like a love of her life and then like the her
family's acceptance of her relationship.
And then she's also this crazy rich person with, you know,
quote a job. So like she does objectively
have everything. And I don't think little one
can't see the full extent of the everything long.
Just like she has you, therefore she has everything.
And yeah, so from Lil Mung's point of view, obviously that's
discouraging, right? Because Sam is objectively a
perfect person when you just look at her.
But the thing that's most alarming is that like why the
reason little monk showed up at this apartment is because big
Nung was ghosting her today and and from the night before.
And to find out that the reason that big Nung was ghosting her
is because she was with this perfect woman that has
everything like including Nung's affection.
Like that's what really kills her.
And I think that's why she really deflates and like why I
should give up. Like clearly I can't compete
with her on any level and she already has your affection and
you I have to fight tooth and nail to get you to smile at me.
So like, you know, I think that's that's the root of it.
And big Nung's reaction to little Nung wanting to give up
like seems like an overreaction and it kind of is, but she's
hurt by this and she's very defensive about her feelings.
And so her because of her emotional immaturity, she can't
process it. So instead she just flips it
onto the little Nung and it just comes out as anger and all of
her insecurities. Like it's thrown at her and
like, and this is something Sam understands that her sister does
and like gives her the room to like have her outburst before
she can process things. But a little Nung has no idea
what's going on. She's like she doesn't
understand big Nung can't really process big emotions yet.
And the thing that, like, concerns big Nong in this moment
is like the fact that little Nong is losing her confidence.
Like you can see her physically deflating and she's like, you
know, I can't keep. And then she's like, where are
all this the audacity of this bitch?
Where's your confidence with the where did it go?
And it's like, girl, do you have amnesia from the night before?
Like you fucking destroyed it by ignoring her for almost 24
hours. Like, you know, like, girl.
And it's like, clearly little Nung is not OK.
Like in this conversation, she's not bubbly at all.
She's like, she was defeated the moment she got there.
And this just made it worse. And I think big Nung is too much
in her own head or in her own feelings at this moment to like
empathize with little Nung like she usually does.
So it just like it just blows up basically in a horrible way.
And it's just she's falling back into basically past behavior and
she's just putting her own feelings above little Nung in a
way that like goes beyond reason and just acts super irrationally
because a rational person in this argument be like, that's my
sister, What are you talking about?
But she doesn't do that because for Nung, it's not big Nung.
It's not really about that. It's it, this is her worst fear
coming to life in front of her eyes because little Nung
promised her. She's like, I'm different.
I'm going to, I'll never give up.
I'm just going to, I'm not going to give up until you see me as
worthy. And here's little nun giving up
like that's her worst fear is that no one is actually worthy
of her, which means that like she will never have love.
And I, I think that like, because little nun was so
persistent, she let herself believe, Oh, maybe I can have
love. Maybe I am worthy of it.
And she's having these feelings too, that she's coming to
accept. And so like to have it a quote
in her mind abruptly end like this and have history repeat it
itself. That's why she's so mad.
And that's why she's like lashing out like a child against
little nun. It's because she's afraid and
she's terrified in this moment and doesn't know how to handle
it, so she just attacks little Nung, which is not how you
handle. This, I think it's also because
she is just starting to realize her feelings and she's starting
to let herself feel them. And so like right as she is
letting these feelings take over her, that's when little Nung is
stopping the fight. And because no one else has
fought for her, like she's like, OK, well her fight proves that
she wants to be with me. But if she's no longer doing
that, then is this one sided now?
And it's just too much going on in her head 'cause she's just
these, she hasn't been able to process these feelings before.
She didn't know what's going on. So all these feelings are
hitting her at once where little Nung has been able to process
them. But now little Nung has been
beaten down so much by her grandmother.
And then her own insecurities 'cause they are insecurities,
seeing other people around big numb and knowing that she is
still in high school. And like, it's the way that
people treat her. People treat her like she's less
than. So her confidence can only go so
far when other people are telling her that that is not who
she is. Like if someone, if you say I'm
great at something and you keep working for it, like, you know,
you're great, but you have constant people telling you
like, no, you're not great, you're terrible, you're
terrible, you're terrible. Eventually that confidence is
gonna wane, unless you're just not human.
Yeah. And like in this scene, it
almost seems like Big Nung is not being, not being like a
human, like she's being inhumane because she's throwing these
unrealistic expectations onto little Nung because she's scared
and she's afraid and she's hurt and doesn't know what to do with
that. So she's just, and this is what
these grandmothers all keep doing.
They just attack the person that's making them sad instead
of, like, processing all this shit.
And so it's the breaking of the promise because like everything
you just said and the fact that big Nung was starting to believe
like, you know, she's like, does little does she even mean it
when she says she loves me? I think she was starting to
believe that. And then she's like, wow, then
clearly you don't love me. And So what she throws back at
her is like, don't promise somebody shit if you're just
going to like be wishy washy about it and just give up at at
this insane obstacle that isn't even real, which like, no, you
can clear this shit up and you're not choosing not to.
Because she's mad that she would even have the audacity to break
the promise because to big Nung again, a promise is something I
think she sees as sacred, like the word love.
And she's like, OK, well, she really means it because she
keeps fighting for me. And then like to have her give
up in what she thinks is so easy.
She's just like, I can't believe you would even do this to me.
Like I never fucking want to see you again.
And it's just. Yeah, she kicks the sad.
She kicks the already sad puppy by saying you're not worthy.
And then she's like, I never want to see you again,
basically, is what she says, which.
Like, yeah, I never want to see your face again.
Like. That's so neat.
I what a shitty way to end the episode.
And then just like little monks crying in the lobby, that's how
we end. She had like the worst fucking
day of all times and that's where we.
There's a lot of pain. It's so much pain.
Will we ever be happy again with
the show? I don't know.
Let's gotta keep watching, I guess.
All right. Any final thoughts before we
close this out? I think the overall take away
for this episode is This is why we can't have nice things.
I agree with that and also exile.
Endless exile. In what way?
The end? The end.
Yeah, basically the end, 'cause
they're they're fighting and they're not on the same page
and. Yeah.
OK. That makes sense.
Now we'll. Listen to it soon.
That's a great. Song all right.
Big Gay Energy Award. Yeah, I was trying to figure
this out. I'm thinking it it's might be
Sam baking the pie for Mon my. God, that is so cute.
Yeah, yeah, that get that gets it too.
What gets it for me from that scene specifically is Mon doing
the sham sham thing. It was boop.
That was really cute that that was added.
And I wonder if that was in the script or if Marissa added.
Marissa just did it. Yeah, either way, 'cause it was
such a big part of Sam and Maude.
Yeah, just Marissa. Is that in the book?
I don't know. The book's not huge.
These books are you've read, you know, loyal pen.
The books are very like it's very it's like mostly dialogue.
It's less descriptive of actions and things.
So I would be I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't.
I don't know. I can't confirm it.
If you've read the book, is the nose booping from Mon?
Is that in the book? Or is that a did Becky just do
it and gap and it's just that's Canon now.
Either way, it's great. All right, cool.
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