Kevin Can F**k Himself Finale: Where Do We Go from Here?
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From the start, Kevin Can F—k Himself has begged a question about where this is all headed. The show unabashedly began with a desperate woman plotting to kill her husband—no punches pulled there. That plot drove the first season, but despite the frankness with which the show deals with this reality, it never allowed it to become cavalier. This all played out to an anxious fever pitch in the penultimate episode, “Broken,” where Allison began to feel the full weight of what she set into motion. She secured a killer, and a time, and then spiraled out. She made it a little clearer why she was ever with Kevin to begin with, and what it was that made her go through with marrying him. And then, in the episode’s final moments, things moved faster than she planned. “This isn’t happening, this isn’t happening…” she repeated, lost in fear and doubt as the appointed “burglar” entered her home to kill her husband. But Kevin found a gun and—hopped up on Red Bull and the idea of becoming a father—took matters into his own hands.
The episode wasn’t clear about whether or not it was Kevin who was killed, but the finale, “Fixed,” dispatched with any confusion immediately. Kevin was fine, and had even managed to shoot Nick the would-be assailant, who was in a coma. He was lauded for his actions, and Allison had a non-reaction to the events—except to try and later plant the drugs in Nick’s apartment so Patty, at least, would be safe.
In terms up wrapping anything up, “Fixed” was not a good finale. Laden with loose ends and cliffhangers, it was an unsatisfying conclusion after the emotional fervor that was built up in “Broken.” There was a shred of hope, for a moment, when Allison finally called Kevin out for being a dick, Sam said he left his wife and wanted to move on with Allison, and Patty and Allison’s friendship was cemented. Things could have ended there, with us knowing that hopes would likely be dashed in episodes to come. But then Allison, in fact, became the dick. She confusingly said being with Sam was “giving up,” she guilted Patty into checking Tammy’s police notes to see if she was onto Allison’s plot, and she couldn’t seem to decide whether she was coming or going in general.
But there was a really interesting moment right in the end that I only wish we had more time to explore. Neil, hiding in the kitchen pantry while Allison and Patty yelled accusations at each other, now knows everything about Allison’s (thwarted) plans to kill Kevin, and confronts her with it—along with a recording he made on his phone. While she tries to wrestle that phone away from him, Neil calmly starts choking Allison. But when Patty smashes him over the head to stop him, he’s snapped out of the sitcom world for the first time. Now he’s in the reality we’ve seen Allison and later Patty occupy. Will he stay there?