I hope this is okay to post here. Sorry if it isn't, this just seemed like the best thread to post to. I don't come to this side of the forum very often but after the current debacle, I decided to watch the 60-part documentary.
This has been... wild... to say the least. I honestly didn't know how awful the entire story would be and I'm only at Part 39. The documentary definitely has me feeling some shit though. There are so many points in the story that I just hope Chris found a redemption arc. So many times where it actually seems feasible and then I find myself rooting for him, even though I know how the story ends. Then once things come crashing down to reality, I'm bouncing back & forth between laughing at the milk or just feeling disappointed that he couldn't get his shit together. One thing that definitely changed though was my opinion on his parents. Father sounds okayish I guess, but he really should've done more to get him out of the house & into proper counselling. HIS MOTHER, on the other hand, just sounds fucking jacked. I don't really get what her problem was BEFORE the dementia set in but whatever they were just helped fuck Chris up for the rest of his life.
Part of me still kinda wants him to get redemption but he's like... what? 40? It's not gonna happen. Half (or in his case, MORE than half) of his life is gone & I genuinely think he's way too far down the rabbit hole to really have any hope of being reached.
Anyways, someone can fill me in if I'm missing lore on Rob or Barb. I probably am but eh.
Edit:
I do have a question though since I was only half awake when listening to parts of the docuseries last night:
Were Chris' actual high school friends commenting about him on Facebook or were those impersonators? I just genuinely wanted to know what people that used to be friends with him have to say about this hellscape of a saga