Shit Show Life

Mildred Gunning, she was never selfish, she settled for a man and the life they created because she couldn’t be with the man she truly belonged to. When she said she didn’t want to ruin four lives, it wasn’t because she didn’t love John, she loved him hole heartedly. They both made their choices early in in life which lead them down paths that would never meet perfectly and only ever run along one another, which made her settle for the man she married, as John was supposed to be untouchable by his vows to god. Yet in the very end of everything they lived selfishly together and died together as one unit, a family as they should have been.

Father Pruitt was simply a man who was in love and afraid of death, since a child, and took what he could to avoid it and have the family he wanted. That means putting his faith and confidence in the wrong person while trying to process the changes he was going through to achieve his pathetically innocent goals. As a priest, as a man, he was very open minded and actually saw the world around him, compared to Bev. He obviously didn’t view religion as everyone else on the island, his affair with Mildred is proof of that, his love for his lesbian daughter was proof of that. He wanted to live life, experience life that wasn’t how a book was telling him how to or despite what he was taught growing up. But what else was he supposed to do when he didn’t know anything else but priest hood and and Mildred wasn’t going to let him ruin what he’s already done with his life and she didn’t want to the hurt the man she had married. He made choices, choices he regretted but accepted at the end which put him in gods graces unlike Bev who truly didn’t see no wrong with her actions and behavior and mostly likely was going to hell which is why, I believe, she started to freak out and try to dig a damn hole to nowhere. He lived and loved with his family, all in the end welcomed by god.

Going forth into the episodes you can see him change as Bev learns about him actually being Monsignor and being renewed as he first believed he was. He was in a vulnerable state going through the new changes and Bev was manipulating him, making him believe things should go one way while he had other more innocent plans. She was using his power for her own cruel intentions. Then you add in the ‘Angel’ who was also manipulating Pruitt to gain access for food. That thing was an intelligent being, it was mentioned that it would whisper in his mind, it knew what kind of man Pruitt was and used that to its advantage. I believe it was, like Bev, telling Pruitt what he should want and how the situation should transpire and Pruitt would preach and act as such because what else should he believe? Why shouldn’t he believe who he thought was his confident? He is essentially going through an astronomical change essentially alone and learning how these changes, becoming a new being, tie in with his values. As for him not having the will to not kill someone and drink their blood, he only killed Joe and before he did he would go days without drinking any blood from the ‘Angel’. He never wanted to kill anyone to feed. As for Riley, he didn’t kill him that thing did, he only started drinking the blood after, and that was again after going days without feeding.

Mother and daughter, how adorable.