What gets me even more than the Christmas theme, is the “blankets and lying together in bed and all-day films” thing... apparently two young adults want to spend an
August long weekend under blankets and watching movies all day?!?
I‘ve said it before, but the social times she cultivates recall childlike friend play-dates. I was a child of the 90s too, like Zoe, and idk what kids today do for fun but I’m telling you, there is something so visceral about her mindset around “having her friend over”, it truly takes me to this specific feeling from Saturdays spent lazing around as a kid in the 90s. Even when they don’t watch TV there is just something about her “friends come over” days that remind me of when you were a child on the weekend... when it’s not movies it’s literally
playing with toys in the backyard or playing in the pool and making pizza or some sugary recipe together.
Anytime they actually go out to be social or do something somewhat more normal you can tell it’s organized by Alfie. And even then there’s something in the way she talks about it where it’s like “Zoe’s Day Out!”, not just a natural thing for her.
I thought this about alfie too, wtf must he think. There’s been no sign of him on any of their stories today, perhaps he’s hiding in the loft until it all blows over Lol
Does anyone remember the time Alfie called this out? It was years ago and they were with Poppy and Sean and Mark, and Zoe I think was talking about how she was going to watch the Gavin and Stacey Christmas special. Alfie was looking a little down and he said something like, how can you watch it that many times? But
not in a tone of voice where he thought it was cute, IIRC it was at least a bit churlish if not confrontational.
Well there was this beat of awkwardness and Poppy snaps that Alfie is being
so rude (wtf) and Zoe gets this tight snarky smile and starts going “Does it bother you? Does it bother you?” And then Alfie quickly backs down and says no he just can’t understand it. I’m surprised it was left in the vlog because it was very awkward... but also very telling that the dynamic is that no one is to call out Zoe on the weirdness, they just go along with it.