She also texts Aimee whenever there's awful news about a lesbian-most recently the story of a daughter of a family friend who died from suicide.īrigid gets grief over having left the family stomping grounds and resettled in New York for college. She keeps making remarks about Aimee, a lesbian, that are no less hurtful for being passive-aggressive. Deidre seems to have absorbed some of her mother's reactionary cultural attitudes even though she does a bad job of pretending to be enlightened. The Blake family hails from Scranton and remains connected to what seems to be a very right-wing Catholic church. Grandma Momo, who is in a wheelchair and suffers from dementia, was a devout and once-formidable congregational fixture. Karam drops breadcrumbs to establish the Blake family, using Richard as a excuse to deliver exposition, since he's the prospective new member and an outsider in more ways that one (he's Korean-American and seemingly more intellectual and introspective than all of the Blakes save for Brigid).
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