The Slap (2015)
6/10
A great argument for never marrying. Or having kids. Ever.
28 March 2015
Warning: Spoilers
Okay, is it me, or is everyone in there committing adultery on everyone else?! Seriously, no married person on here (with the exception of the Greek parents, and since there's still an episode left as of my review, that's still debatable) can keep it in their pants! Hector, Aisha, Connie, Harry, Gary, the lawyer, and I'm sure that I'm missing someone - good God almighty! Marriage vows get trampled on like they're nothing, and if people aren't slapping, they're rutting like zebras!! Even Aisha, when Hector told her he kissed an underage babysitter (hello?! Statutory rape anyone?!?), she calls it a "petty" offense and that he shouldn't have told her...never mind she had just gotten done getting busy in the hotel room with a colleague.

As for the slap itself, Rosie is using her kid to fill emotional needs and it's really sick. She's mainlining alcohol and breastfeeding her 5-year old?? Ew. No wonder he's a holy terror. I was already cringing as she was reading a book to the kid and all cuddling with him and such...I thought she was going to make out with the kid! And who lets her husband drive drunk everywhere?

Many people should get the taste slapped out of their mouths for wrecking this show, but I give it a 5 because I actually *do* want to see what happens next, so the 5 is for the car-wreck-rubberneck effect it's having on me.

As for Hugo getting slapped, I don't believe in slapping a kid. Harry should have slapped the parents instead, over and over again. They couldn't be bothered to stop him from almost knocking another kid's teeth out with a bat, but boy did they run when the kid got slapped for kicking Harry in the shin.

On second thought, I'll give this a 6, not a 5. In honor of Mr. Spock's anointed new-generation actor. Zachary Quinto is outstanding. His portrayal of Harry actually had me flinching when he rounded on his wife.
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