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It’s hard to pull off a cohesive tone with dramedies about mental illness. The comedy part demands a quippy protagonist who masks their inner pain with killer comebacks. The drama part comes with the obligatory scenes of emotional purge, the defensive walls tumbling down and our protagonist exposing their fragile state. The tonal shift can be sudden enough to give you whiplash.
Earlier, Scott tells his little sister Claire , worried about Scott’s mental state as she prepares to head for college: “I’ll probably harm myself. If there’s anyone who will harm himself, it’s probably me.” Rather than abjectly melancholic, to Scott, that aside is on-brand silliness.
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