#nevermoor analysis

nevermoor doesn’t glaze motherhood like after your child was born, your only purpose of being is to take care of them.

and the most important thing, we get a variety of mothers and mother figures. not just a bad-good spectrum of them, but character who actually have conflicts and dilemmas from being a mother (figure). (actually, can’t wait to know more about the relationship between brilliance and ezra, and especially how she felt after ezra had betrayed her). and it’s so refreshing to see that after tons of boring and bad representations.

and i just love meredith’s character. i was so afraid that townsend would make her another boring dead mother cliche (like lily potter), with little to no personality, just the ideal mom morrigan has never had. and thank god that she didn’t turn into that, i should’ve had more faith in the writer. she’s a character on her own, chaotic and morally ambiguous, and she’s a feral animal and i love love love that.

Israfel is happy and fulfilled when he IS singing, since everybody else feels that way about his voice. That is the one moment he can feel a sense of world peace, but after he stops... it’s just this terrifying, miserable, empty feeling that fills the room and he can’t get away from it. 

I’m saying that Israfel is addicted to singing the way his audience is addicted to listening. He is only worth something to people when he’s performing. He is addicted to mattering to people and making other people feel better. They love him when he sings. He loves him when he sings. 

Other times he drinks to distract himself. RIGHT AFTER he’s done with his performance, he rushes to drink in his dressing room. 

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*Spoilers ahead*