Instead of trying to appease his mom athletically and academically, like the real Kevin, Dusty kills girl after girl to make her proud. But the mundanity of his average high-school existence has pushed him somewhere darker.
Like Kevin, the kid does well in school and is generally liked. If anything, they’ve only shifted to his poor little brother, who’s joining the track team to “carry the torch” instead of pursuing his own interests.Īt the Midnight Club that night, Kevin vents his frustrations through his ongoing story about a psychopathic teen serial killer named Dusty Shane. And even with his terminal diagnosis, those high expectations remain.
He’s under pressure from his mom to make up for his father’s misdeeds (she mentions that he somehow “shit on the Carter name”). He may never have devoted all his time to a passion like Anya/Dana did with ballet, but his family thinks of him as the perfect son, the perfect student, the perfect boyfriend. Kevin never mentioned a girlfriend when they were pulling off flirtatious office heists together - and it seems like there’s a reason for that.īroadly speaking, Kevin is weighed down by the unrealistic expectations placed on him, both growing up and now. In an embarrassing moment, Ilonka mistakes Katherine for Kevin’s sister, but you can’t really blame her. It’s devastating to see the gulf between Spence and his parents continue to widen, knowing how little time they may have left together.īut “The Wicked Heart” is especially focused on Kevin, whose mother, brother, and girlfriend, Katherine, come to visit him. (Luckily, sweetheart Mark is there to remind her she has family here and calls out the egregious lie that her great-grandfather invented liquid soap.) Meanwhile, Spence’s parents can visit whenever they want, but because of his diagnosis, only his father can bear to see him - and his idea to pay his mom a surprise visit for her birthday gets shot down immediately. Like seemingly every Family Day for Cheri, she gets fancy soaps and a giant stuffed bear in lieu of her starlet mom’s company. Amesh has only been able to communicate with his parents over the phone since they were deported back to India his aunt and uncle are speaking to immigration lawyers, but who knows if they’ll even make it back in time to see him?Įven the patients who do have healthy parents are in their own complicated situations. Natsuki, whose father died in an ambush on his military unit, gets to know him through old photos her mother brings her.
Now we get to learn a few more specifics about the home lives of these eight teens.Įveryone’s in a different situation. At the beginning of The Midnight Club, we learned that lots of foster children have found their place at Brightcliffe. It’s Family Day at Brightcliffe! But that means something different for everyone.
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