In the second episode of Monster<\/i>, I am frightened of what y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all have gotten me to watch. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch Monster<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Trigger Warning: For discussion of trauma<\/b><\/p>\n
What the fuck<\/i>, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all???<\/p>\n
I still have no idea what the focus of this show will be beyond Dr. Tenma. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know why it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s called Monster<\/i>. Is it all contemporary? A psychological thriller? Is there a genre twist coming that I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know about? WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THE LIEBERT TWINS???\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Help me.<\/p>\n Downfall<\/b><\/p>\n Look, I expected some backlash, and with this episode\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s title? I braced myself. This wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t going to end well for Dr. Tenma, but THIS WAS SO MUCH WORSE THAN I ANTICIPATED. The immediate reaction from the staff after Tenma got out of the operating room was understandable. I get that this is a team effort, too, but I also wonder why this hospital is perfectly fine with the strange hierarchy of surgeons. Yes, Dr. Tenma is immensely talented, but over the course of this episode, no one ever seems to mention that the other surgeons weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t good enough. Why isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the director upset that Dr. Oppenheim and Dr. Boyer (I think that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s their names?) failed to save the mayor? No, everything lands on Dr. Tenma, but it was obvious by the end of the episode that they valued Tenma solely as an object to be utilized for their own gain. Neither surgeon cared that Tenma saved Johan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life! They only cared that he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help them<\/i>.<\/p>\n Still, I thought that Dr. Tenma would get a professional slap on the wrist. You know, a warning? Or maybe he would be pulled off other cases and patients? And for a moment at that hospital party, I thought that this was the case! Director Heinemann didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t appear that upset, and he was willing to let it all go. BUT THEN DR. TENMA IS REPLACED RIGHT THERE ON THE SPOT IN FRONT OF EVERYONE. That alone<\/i> was like the biggest professional slap in the face I could imagine. He was demoted and told PUBLICLY at a PARTY. As if that wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t enough, Director Heinemann assures Dr. Tenma that he will be effectively trapped in this nightmare for as long as possible because he will not write a letter of recommendation if he tries to leave. It is a monstrous act, one that Heinemann confirms is a way to kill Dr. Tenma\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ambition.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The downfall wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t over, though. One thing this episode does successfully is convey the rigid political system that exists within this hospital. Those in power are devoted to keeping themselves there, and those who defy the director\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s orders? They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re blacklisted, ostracized, and, in this specific case, dumped<\/i>. Because Eva wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really interested in Tenma as a person. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a completely different form of dehumanization than what Oppenheim and Boyer subjected him to, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s related. Tenma is only as good as what he can offer others, and once he isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a tool or a pawn? Then he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worthless to others.<\/p>\n We see this same sort of objectification in the treatment of the Liebert twins, both from the hospital and the detective assigned to the Liebert murder. Neither party cares that Anna is deeply traumatized by the experience of watching her family brutalized. The detective wants to stick her in front of her brother, who she watched get SHOT, just to see if that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll make her react. Which is\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 so deeply fucked up? At least her doctors know that. But the director has no interest in caring for either children; he sees them as a means of gaining publicity, of turning to the media to build up sympathy, but not for the kids! No, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all to rise the profile of Eisler.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This was fucked up enough. It truly was. And here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s where I think there is something really terrifying in this show that hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quite revealed itself. Like, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s possible that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s some supernatural shit going on here. Tenma says it would be better if Heinemann was dead, and at the end of the episode, Eva finds her father dead. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s intercut with scenes of nurse finding Dr. Oppenheim and Dr. Boyer dead. And this is a wild development, but I cannot get one image out of my head: a tearful Johan, his hand outstretched, staring at where his sister used to be. HI, WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT??? And why is Anna walking around the hospital, asking to be killed??? 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