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Two Unusual People, an Ordinary Kind of Love
You Maniac begins with two rather unusual characters, but what stayed with me by the end was how ordinary they became once they fell in love. They worry about separation, imagine being replaced, and struggle to say what they really want. For all their quirks, their feelings are very human.
The relationship between Moss and Dean becomes especially meaningful when Moss stays beside Dean through his father’s death. Their connection grows into something neither can easily do without. Then an opportunity to study in America forces them to consider how love fits into the futures they want.
I appreciated Moss being honest about wanting to go. Loving Dean does not make his ambitions disappear. Dean tells him to take the opportunity, but supporting someone’s dream is easier to say than to endure. He withdraws, afraid of becoming an obstacle and equally afraid that Moss will find someone else. He wants to let him go, yet desperately wants to see him. So much for being the expert in romance!
The finale also offers a lovely contrast between the two couples. Pan and Ten have the comfortable closeness of husbands who have been together for years, while Moss and Dean still have a more restless energy. They are happy, but they have not suddenly become an entirely settled couple.
What made the ending satisfying for me was that wherever Dean is has become the place Moss returns to. That gives their relationship a warmth beyond the initial attraction.
William and Est’s playful chemistry was another pleasure. There is something reassuring about William when the two are being silly together, and I enjoyed that ease between them.
I started with a story about two peculiar people and finished with two people who simply wanted to be together. Their romance may have become more familiar along the way, but that sense of finding a home in another person left me smiling.
The relationship between Moss and Dean becomes especially meaningful when Moss stays beside Dean through his father’s death. Their connection grows into something neither can easily do without. Then an opportunity to study in America forces them to consider how love fits into the futures they want.
I appreciated Moss being honest about wanting to go. Loving Dean does not make his ambitions disappear. Dean tells him to take the opportunity, but supporting someone’s dream is easier to say than to endure. He withdraws, afraid of becoming an obstacle and equally afraid that Moss will find someone else. He wants to let him go, yet desperately wants to see him. So much for being the expert in romance!
The finale also offers a lovely contrast between the two couples. Pan and Ten have the comfortable closeness of husbands who have been together for years, while Moss and Dean still have a more restless energy. They are happy, but they have not suddenly become an entirely settled couple.
What made the ending satisfying for me was that wherever Dean is has become the place Moss returns to. That gives their relationship a warmth beyond the initial attraction.
William and Est’s playful chemistry was another pleasure. There is something reassuring about William when the two are being silly together, and I enjoyed that ease between them.
I started with a story about two peculiar people and finished with two people who simply wanted to be together. Their romance may have become more familiar along the way, but that sense of finding a home in another person left me smiling.
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