Front (Left to Right): Brooke McQueen and Sam McPherson
Back (Left to Right): Nicole Julian, Michael 'Sugar Daddy' Bernardino, Mary Cherry, Josh Ford, Lily Esposito, Carmen Ferrara and Harrison John
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In the story arc, Harrison John get Leukemia and has to deal with the fact that he is sick, but also find hope that he will live. Something that I really like about this is that Harrison John is, for a lack of better words, an a-hole. Seriously, he’s rude to everyone when he gets sick. It just followed his character so well from other story arcs about him because whenever bad things happened, he had extreme emotions about it. I just felt like it was very believable for the character. Another thing I also liked is that, because it’s a story arc and other things are going on as this is happening, you watch the other character’s reactions to their friend having cancer. Sam McPherson, Harrison’s best friend, strikes me as one of the three most interesting characters to watch deal with this. Sam’s father had died of cancer when she was younger and it was really hard for her to have to deal with it, but it also gave her a lot more hope when Harrison finally pulled through. The second character I find most interesting in this situation is Brooke McQueen, who actually relapses back into an eating disorder because of how horrid Harrison is to her when she comes to visit. Finally, the last one I find interesting is Nicole Julian, the really mean one who believes that the friends you have is completely related to how popular they make you. What surprises me is that one Christmas, Nicole finds out she is the bone marrow match to Harrison and goes into surgery with him to give him a transplant. Probably the best things about this story arc is the addition of Clarence, Harrison’s roommate who has Leukemia and actually dies just before Christmas and comes back as an angel is training to show Harrison should value his life and not give up just because Clarence is gone. Before Clarence comes back as an angel, Harrison refuses to walk down the hall for his daily exercise because it’s a metaphor for his first step in getting better. However, after Nicole says she’s going into surgery with Harrison, he says he wants to walk and he does. I just love the metaphor used here. It would be difficult to highlight everything I enjoyed about the story arc, because it lasted about 5 episodes, each 45 minutes long, but these are the things that stuck out to me the most.
***END SPOILERS***
***SPOILERS***
In the story arc, Harrison John get Leukemia and has to deal with the fact that he is sick, but also find hope that he will live. Something that I really like about this is that Harrison John is, for a lack of better words, an a-hole. Seriously, he’s rude to everyone when he gets sick. It just followed his character so well from other story arcs about him because whenever bad things happened, he had extreme emotions about it. I just felt like it was very believable for the character. Another thing I also liked is that, because it’s a story arc and other things are going on as this is happening, you watch the other character’s reactions to their friend having cancer. Sam McPherson, Harrison’s best friend, strikes me as one of the three most interesting characters to watch deal with this. Sam’s father had died of cancer when she was younger and it was really hard for her to have to deal with it, but it also gave her a lot more hope when Harrison finally pulled through. The second character I find most interesting in this situation is Brooke McQueen, who actually relapses back into an eating disorder because of how horrid Harrison is to her when she comes to visit. Finally, the last one I find interesting is Nicole Julian, the really mean one who believes that the friends you have is completely related to how popular they make you. What surprises me is that one Christmas, Nicole finds out she is the bone marrow match to Harrison and goes into surgery with him to give him a transplant. Probably the best things about this story arc is the addition of Clarence, Harrison’s roommate who has Leukemia and actually dies just before Christmas and comes back as an angel is training to show Harrison should value his life and not give up just because Clarence is gone. Before Clarence comes back as an angel, Harrison refuses to walk down the hall for his daily exercise because it’s a metaphor for his first step in getting better. However, after Nicole says she’s going into surgery with Harrison, he says he wants to walk and he does. I just love the metaphor used here. It would be difficult to highlight everything I enjoyed about the story arc, because it lasted about 5 episodes, each 45 minutes long, but these are the things that stuck out to me the most.
***END SPOILERS***
- Jonathan and Roxanne meet.
- They go out for coffee. Jonathan finds out about her prostitution.
- Jonathan finds out her drug addiction.
- Jonathan spends months trying to help her get off of them, keeping her at his place
- Roxanne decides to give up her old life.
- Roxanne goes back to her old place to try and get her stuff.
- Jonathan follows her and when “the boss” goes to shoot her, Jonathan runs out and gets shot. The guys run, afraid of the possibility of him being a person who will be missed.
- Jonathan dies.
Roxanne’s epiphanic moment is
when she decides to give up her old life. This is when she sees how much
Jonathan has given up to save her from that life and she doesn’t want to just
go back to what she was doing before. Sadly, the character’s life does not
transform the way she thinks it will, but it does transform in a different way.
She needs to find a way to life that’s respectful to the work that Jonathan
did, but she also now has to do it without Jonathan.
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