[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Big Little Lies” Season 2, Episode 5, “Kill Me.”]To the best of my understanding, “nutfuck” translates to something like “a crazy person” or “the current President of the United States” — but what’s so wonderful about Nathan’s usage is that it tells us more about the person shouting “nutfuck” than the person being labeled with such an appealing curse word.
After Nathan (James Tupper) extends a fake olive branch and Ed (Adam Scott) slaps the superficial gesture to the ground — “Not everyone gets along, Nathan,” Ed says.
“Can’t we just be comfortable not liking each other?” — angry ol’ Nate snaps.
As Ed rides away, presumably to have another passive aggressive coffee with Nathan’s wife, Bonnie (Zoë Kravitz), Nathan spins in circles shouting to himself in irate confusion.
“This whole planet is inhabited by nutfucks,” he says, bending at the waist and running after Ed, like a wolf hunting a particularly pesky deer.
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