I love Ricky Gervais’s dark, sometimes sick, sense of humor, they hit so close to home. But the ending and the lack of examination of any kind on structural obstacles toward mental well being is disappointing, to say the least. This is after all just a temporary crisis, specifically, a cishet middle class white male’s temporary crisis.
what's more disappointing than the person you thought would understand pain turned out to be just another corny old white man, happiness is overrated. but it is kind of funny though so there's that