From Kendall Roy's disastrous 40th birthday bash to Walter White's 50th birthday cancer diagnosis, TV's leading men always have the worst birthdays. Here's aurora_amidon on why:
Despite its surface appearance as a joyous if trite ritual, the birthday party has been known to cause a great deal of social and psychological headaches. Often involving a culmination of the most important people in a person’s life, the event is naturally a treacherous hotspot where bubbling tensions finally boil over. More than that, though, birthday parties are finite markers that locate a person in their own life.
Given the weight they carry, it is unsurprising that many of TV’s beloved prestige comedies and dramas have important birthday episodes of their own. From’s Michael Scott’s big day that is overshadowed by a coworker’s cancer scare, toBreaking Bad But Michael is still desperate to uphold the ideal of a sales-based workplace, and, ultimately, the modern corporate man. In “Michael’s Birthday,” he fights to be the center of attention, which reflects his daily struggles to persuade his employees of the importance of the “boss” figure in a society where workplace hierarchies are becoming more and more arbitrary.
The primary reason for Kendall throwing himself a birthday party in “Too Much Birthday” is to prove that, despite endless taunting and abuse from his family, he is still well-liked. Birthdays tend to be a good litmus test of such things; you can kid yourself into thinking you’re more popular than you are until no one shows up to your birthday party. And, given his luck, it is unsurprising that something to this effect happens to Kendall.
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