still bamboozled by the maellicia hate. i’m still at “everyone clap for my daughter or ill blow this building up”

Gonna be honest the other day I saw someone on letterboxd criticizing the shining for feeling like the madness kicked in way too fast by having that fugly man start yelling at Shelley Duvall immediately but I figured he was just Like That. Tbh. Cause we didn't really establish him as that nice of a guy to begin with. Am I giving symptoms for not assuming it was THAT out of character for him or is everyone else way too generous about Men

Like the vibes were off from the jump to be so honest. Jack was already giving me the heebie jeebies in the car ride before they even got to the hotel. Maybe you need to calibrate your shithead husband radar. Wendy looked a little surprised when he was a bitch about her interrupting his writing but not, like, "clearly he's started losing his mind" surprised