#brio analysis

Hi Anon! TY for the ask. Sorry for sitting on it a bit.

It’s such an interesting ask. Because I think that the outcome of season 4 could be interpreted in a lot of different ways. Although, okay… that sad moment with the bourbon and his glistening little eyes as he leaned on the bar, and then told his bartender to pour it out. Or the “you think you’d have her?” moment. It certainly implies that he’s pining pretty hard, and is almost mourning the loss of her before she’s even really gone. Season 4 really tried to play into our little shipper hearts. So okay. While it can be interpreted in many different ways, (including a lot of his sadness being attributed to Nick’s betrayal rather than the loss of Beth), I’m in a romantic mood so I’m choosing to believe that it was all about Beth.

I don’t think he was afraid to lose her in the first two seasons. He was even gonna let her go. Several times! She was the one who kept bringing him back. At least in his own warped mind. The search function doesn’t work for me anymore so I can’t find my old posts, but he was going to let her go after he tested her with the truck. She forced him back by getting him arrested. Then he was gonna let her go in 2.04. She forced him back by giving his money to her loser husband and falling back into the basic bitch lifestyle instead of making something of herself. I think he genuinely believed he would let her go both those times. And that him staying was justified by her disrespect.

Season 3 gets interesting because he holds on to her as a form of punishment for them both. For her for all her sins, and for himself for being unable to handle her appropriately despite them. I think this is when he really realizes how compulsive this entanglement has gotten for him. He doesn’t understand the reasons, but he hates it. And he hates himself. A man like him, who prides himself on discipline and personal ethics, not being able to adhere to his own personal code…. Shameful! It’s probably why he killed Lucy the way he did. He wanted to hurt Beth, to prove to himself he could be hard, prove to her he didn’t care. Except he did care and he didn’t feel better after. He felt worse. Her tears hurt. Her pain hurt. His own persistent caring about her despite hating her huuuurt. And he knew he was fucked. He could never let her go now.

So season 4 he leaned into it. He pursued her like an equal. Made her his banker. “He trusts you.” Showed her his humanity. Reminded her who they once were to each other, despite the denial. And still she betrayed him. “I just thought that things were different now.” “You just didn’t choose me.” Idk if he was afraid of losing her. I think it maybe was that he was afraid of never actually having her and never getting over her. Never getting over his weakness. Through the whole season he continues the push and pull. Pull her in, then fuck with her again. Be vulnerable with her, then shut down again. He’s never able to allow himself to just let her choose him. He’s constantly sabotaging it despite wanting her validation and attention so badly. Because he never believed he would actually have her. Not in a way that wasn’t against her will. Not in a way she would ever admit to herself.

We all know that Beth is a curvy woman. They have never tried to hide that before and I don’t feel like it has ever been downplayed in any way by the way they have dressed her. But....BUT!!! Why in God’s green earth did they feel like they needed a body double with a perfectly flat stomach?????? Not only is it completely unrealistic, based on anyone looking at Beth’s body the last four seasons, but I am sure there has got to be at least one curvy body-double in all of Hollywood that they could have found.

The message this sends is quite troubling, in terms of the ideal body. So, as viewers, we are supposed to be dumb enough to believe that a mom of FOUR kids and a woman that has enormous breasts has a completely flat stomach???? It’s ridiculously unrealistic, and further perpetuates the “ideal” body, which is actually anything but ideal. For a show that is supposed to be all about female empowerment and positivity, they missed a huge chance to prove that.

x scary to know people are reading my tags!!

but thank you so much for your question!! this is such an important discussion and i’m honored to be entrusted with this!

Dean’s living room spa

i think the dream for me would be beth with a sledgehammer but she seems weirdly okay with him having tub time with his fake friends in it?? so maybe it’s more of a rio with a crow bar situation

either way i want dean to be in the tub when it happens

Nick 💜

ideally this would be a teamwork situation involving gardening tools being wielded as weapons

however i will accept almost any scenario involving his destruction as long as beth and rio are present and nick cries

the g wagon (i refuse to spell it correctly bc its a dumb car and it doesn’t deserve it)

i want beth to take a fucking crow bar to it (sorry it’s ugly)

to be clear, i want them to fuck in it first THEN destroy it

maybe beth can take her brick on the gas technique from season 2 and drive it off a cliff

or into a river 🤷🏻‍♀️

Nick 😎

i don’t think either of them could throw him bc he’s a lil bit thicc- maybe if they worked together?? - might need to be more of catapult situation

however, i think it could also be fun to put him in a dunk tank and everyone takes turns hitting the button

a picnic table

maybe they fuck on it first or maybe it happens while they’re fucking on it

idk maybe they’re having a picnic

i have destroyed one before (don’t ask) and it was fun so i think they’d have fun and i want them to have fun

Nick 💕

i want rio to assume matilda-like powers and just humiliate him like trunchbull (omg matilda au???)

i want rio to egg him and his crisp white shirt with rotten eggs until he and the eggs become one being

i want to personally throw a shoe at him during a councilman speech a la the bush shoeing incident

Duuuuuuuuude…… the most me. There are multiple scenarios playing in my mind but they’re not spelling out cute for Brio at all. Firstly, assuming that Rio has no clue that Boomer is alive (which I highly doubt), he’s not all that boss™. && the reason I say that he’s not in the dark about Boomer is because he’s been sending her body parts feigning that they’re Boomer’s, so he fkn well knows that the “body” he recovered is not Boomer’s, so whose is it??????? Did he even recover a body in the first place????

&& assuming that he does know, like why??? Why would he ask for an exorbitant amount of $$$ that leads the girls to drive the dealer to the ground?? For shits && giggles??? Or is it because like the great chess player && baller that he is in the game, he knew that Beth would clean out the dealer to wash the cash && that allows him to fill the dealer with his cars in order to flip his game && move pills???? Did he need the 200K to buy the merch && then push it around for ten-fold??? That whole spiel Beth gave him about numbers struck me because I’m sure he had no idea that Beth would go ham on him about numbers, which is hilarious because any parent hustling around more than one kid knows the power of accounting && making sure to get more bang for your buck. I’m convinced Beth is one of those parents that have extreme couponing binders. So, she knows the numbers Rio is counting on && I’m wondering if he just fooled them to flip his game. 

He did give her that Boss Bitches Lesson 101™ way back in season one when he said that he’s always flipping his game && while others are happy pushing dime bags, he’s out here pushing bitches to do his dirty work. Not just any bitches, but suburban bitches that opened a whole new wooooooorld for him (yes, Aladdin style… old Aladdin not the new live action one lol). He’s a businessman && I do think that he does find Beth attractive && amusing && he may be having “feelings” but he’s not soft!rio! at all.

Either way, what a dick. I’m livid now lol. It just makes zero sense that he’d ask for money && then either admit that he ain’t shit or that he IS shit. lol. Do you get what I’m trying to say???? That’s kind of why I’m annoyed with these “twists” && “grand gestures” because every time they do one, I don’t know if the writers realize that they leave loose ends && this hellbent need to romanticize the ship is unhealthy. Why is Rio sending her body parts? We all assumed that he opened the bag && started cutting up Boomer && now we know that Boomer is living in his Nana’s attic. So, why do it?