It also explains why Ellies mother is happy to be an enabler, her daughter is a mirror image of the man she married. No wonder she doesn't see any of Ellies issues being issues.
However kudos to Ellies siblings. I imagine being brought up in a household where you're being constantly told conspiracy's are real (I can hear Seb Sherimani's interview in the back of my head), and your sibling is rewarded for believing/repeating those conspiracy's. I imagine it very difficult to go against that and thrive in a 'normal' capacity.
It also puts a new spin on some of the facts about Ellies life.
Removed from school for "asking too many questions".
or
Ellie refused to accept anything taught unless it tallied with her Dad's world view and (with her personality) disruptive challenged anything that doesn't.
Neil and Bernadette must have had a difficult choice. Ellie wouldn't have gone along with faking an acceptance of the curriculum, so they could either tell her that the 'truth' is just an opinion not the actual truth, or just homeschool her (essentially indoctrination).
I know a couple who have two children, aged around 7 and 6.
The father believes every conspiracy out there - viruses aren't contagious, flat earth, fake moon landings, satellites are just lights hanging under NASA balloons to trick you into thinking that you're not living under a dome, and table top mountains are the fossilised stumps of giant trees which were cut down by giant people.
They never take the children to see a doctor, because fruit, vegetables, and sunshine are all they need to be healthy.
The mother goes along with it all because she's an earth mother type, and also presumably because she knows that if she were to stand up to him, she'd be raising the children on her own, and he also becomes very aggressive when challenged to prove any of his ideas.
It breaks my heart to know that those two kids are being raised in such a toxic environment.
One of the kids in particular looks permanently confused.
I would report them to social services, but I think the parents would quickly figure out who made the call, and he knows where I live.
If I end up moving house, I'll make the call.
It also explains why Ellies mother is happy to be an enabler, her daughter is a mirror image of the man she married. No wonder she doesn't see any of Ellies issues being issues.
However kudos to Ellies siblings. I imagine being brought up in a household where you're being constantly told conspiracy's are real (I can hear Seb Sherimani's interview in the back of my head), and your sibling is rewarded for believing/repeating those conspiracy's. I imagine it very difficult to go against that and thrive in a 'normal' capacity.
It also puts a new spin on some of the facts about Ellies life.
Removed from school for "asking too many questions".
or
Ellie refused to accept anything taught unless it tallied with her Dad's world view and (with her personality) disruptive challenged anything that doesn't.
Neil and Bernadette must have had a difficult choice. Ellie wouldn't have gone along with faking an acceptance of the curriculum, so they could either tell her that the 'truth' is just an opinion not the actual truth, or just homeschool her (essentially indoctrination).
Did Ellie end up being home schooled by her parents?
If so, that's more pieces in the jigsaw.
Daddy Buckle telling her from morning till night that everything's a lie, but him, being a very important police detective, knows for a fact that blah blah blah.
Ellie was believing everything Daddy was telling her because that's how she earned Daddy's love.
It's reminding me of family homes such as Fred and Rose West, Peter Sutcliffe and his wife, and the latest suburban family man who was fucking all the corpses in the morgue, and then going home to the wife and kids.
In the home, everyone accepts the weirdness because that's the only way to survive emotionally and psychologically, and everyone outside the home is not to be trusted because they don't understand the truth of the world.
Ellie's childhood home is sounding like one of those weird homes, just without the bodies buried in the garden.