#really hate this

my jobs that let every new hire go after new years and now they haven't paid me since december and owe me over £1.3k and i need money for rent and utlities. im currently stuck on my current comm cuz i need to proceed in the game to write about a later section and its taking too long to get past it.

I really don't think the showrunners realise what they've done by giving Rio this background of familial abuse with Nick.

Presumably, the incident with the stool was not the first time Nick had hit Rio. But even if it was, we have the flashback to Nick getting Rio locked up, where someone close to Rio betrayed him for their own gain and he had to suffer as a result. This has been his dynamic with Nick for the last 20 ish years and as of yet, Rio hasn't done anything about it. Rio has still maintained a relationship with Nick and Nick continues to mistreat him.

The show then made direct parallels between Beth betraying Rio by getting him locked up and Nick doing the same thing. Beth has consistently hurt and betrayed Rio, she has lashed out at Rio and used physical violence towards him, she's shot him, and he's never truly retaliated, he's never cut ties with her. By drawing these parallels and retrospectively giving Rio this abusive history, they are literally turning the whole brio dynamic into a repeated cycle of Rio tolerating abusive behaviour. They're making Rio someone who associates close relationships with a degree of mistreatment and therefore accepts this mistreatment. But the worst part is, I don't think it was deliberate and I don't think they're going to address it at all.