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Riley annoyed me

posted 10 years ago by IsoldeJaneHolland
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Why would a cute 16 year old girl hook up with a fat, crude, violent old drunk in the first place? And then continued to defend him even after he had literally kicked her down the street and half strangled her to death? Yet after, in the car with Mia, she's saying,"But it's his bay-bay, toooo." Jeez, seriously? Manchester is England's third largest city, yet that's prime boyfriend material?

We never see how they got together exactly, and I'm having trouble picturing it: "Oh, John, when you came lurching up the driveway today, reeking of beer, stale cigarettes and bean flatulence, snarling 'Have you got me fewking rent, you little c^nt?' my girlish heart just went pitter-patter and I knew my Prince had come."

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[–] IsoldeJaneHolland 10 years ago

Well, honestly.

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[–] IsoldeJaneHolland 10 years ago

To be honest - and this is a horrible confession for a lifelong Anglophile to make - I actually prefer inauthentic accents; the real thing can be hard to take! I had to turn off Secrets & Lies halfway through. Yes, I see the four stars rating, but Brenda Blethyn's mewling bleat is just too excruciating. I absolutely adored the gently musical burble affected by the ladies of Calendar Girls to represent "The Yorkshire accent", but hearing the real thing in the Full Monty was a nightmare. I actually had to put up the English subtitles to understand what was going on! And I loved (or rather, loooved) Jane Leeves fake Manchester accent on Frasier, but hearing the real thing from Riley & Company in this movie was way less pleasant. (And I'm not just picking on the English; I preferred the Forrest Gump voice of California boy Tom Hanks mimicking an Alabaman.) And on and on....

The funniest thing I've seen on Saturday Night Live in the past five years was Bill Hader playing - ironically - an English hit man from London trying to go straight, but the dialogue is completely unintelligible. "USA Today raves 'I don't think I heard a single consonant'."
http://collider.com/bill-hader-russell-brand-fake-british-trailer/

[–] shante-baker 10 years ago

I wondered the same thing. I assumed she was only having sex with him to pay the rent, but there were scenes that said she genuinely liked him. Who knows, she appeared to be out of school, we never see her interacting with other kids her age (not her siblings), so I can see an impressionable girl getting caught up in the affections of an older man when no one else was paying her any mind, esp. if it was helping pay the rent.

[–] IsoldeJaneHolland 10 years ago

Thank you for the reply.

[–] rod775-1 10 years ago

Yeah, I just finished EP. 5, & that Riley is alittle unrealistic. Does she have a death wish? She was this close to being throttled. Mia and her siblings were going to be harmed by Tom. But still, she is mopeing around sticking herself. This plot point is disappointing but the writers have their own ideas in how to keep it going.

[–] BrunoAntony 10 years ago

She was letting him bone her to pay the rent and probably confused the sex for emotional attachment ... she had no parents or father figure, was raising the kids by herself, etc.

Older dudes + really young girls is usually due to a messed up family situation and emotional vulnerability.