2025-07-28 1:04:54 ¶ ●

An aspect of Eric Delano’s personality that makes me really curious comes from this paragraph. More specifically the sentence “She was having a real hard time of it. My legs were all over the shop. Would have probably been funny, if it hadn’t been me.”

My first thought upon watching the series, and one that I think is interesting from a characterization standpoint, was that it was maybe possible that Eric had a dark side of his own. Not one that was as intense as Mary’s, but one that was there and prevalent enough where he might have found Mary struggling with a corpse’s legs funny as long as those legs didn’t belong to him Gerry.

Possibly.

My second thought upon rewatching the series that another possibility was that Eric used humor as a coping mechanism and was trying to find humor in the sheer horror of his death. Which he did.

Possibly.

We don’t know a lot about who Eric was a person since his statement was mostly centered on his abusive relationship with Mary and his soured dynamic with Gertrude. So it’s a bit hard to say which one of the two possibilities I think is more likely, but either way I think that one sentence is telling of some aspect of his personality. Regardless of which interpretation you lean toward.