There’s no real trust there, and even though they have some intense makeup sex, they have just put the whole “my husband murdered seven people” thing in a box on the top shelf of the closet, out of sight and out of mind. He forces Debbie to say she trusts him by refusing to act when a dragon attacks Rome, but even after she says it, he still won’t budge because he’s on vacation. Omni-Man’s heroism eventually won her over again, but, deep down, this guy is an asshole. The strength of Oh’s delivery gives Debbie a forceful personality that puts her on an even playing field with her superpowered husband, and when they’re in Rome, we learn she has been in a position of power for a long time, having dumped Nolan after their first trip to Rome because he expected her to worship him. Like the morning-routine scene in episode two, this sequence showing Debbie at work reinforces certain aspects of her personality without using any dialogue, which I find very refreshing in a genre that tends to hand-hold its audience through the emotional beats. She works because she likes it later in the episode, we see the satisfaction she gets from preparing a home and putting it on the market. When Nolan tells Debbie she doesn’t need to worry about work when she’s the wife of the most powerful man on the planet, she reminds him that she’s more than just a superhero’s wife. ![]() We saw some of that in last episode’s conversation after the Guardians’ funeral, but it becomes a bigger issue this week when Debbie is reminded of what a blowhard her husband used to be and the ways his old behaviors are returning. They don’t live with the same mental stressors as Debbie, who has clearly had to work to get her husband to understand her perspective. Yes, it’s a scary, uncertain time with the murder of the Guardians of the Globe and Mark learning the superhero ropes, but Omni-Man and Invincible are genetically programmed to withstand whatever comes at them. The line quoted above, delivered while Debbie and Nolan are re-creating their first date at a café in Rome, is a succinct, powerful summary of both her tense emotional state and her relationship with the rest of her family. I should have known Sandra Oh wouldn’t have signed up for a thankless wife role, and this episode establishes that Debbie is as key a cast member as her superhero husband and son are. “Neil Armstrong, Eat Your Heart Out” gives Debbie more attention than any chapter of Invincible has thus far, adding a lot of complexity to her relationship with Nolan by defining more of their past. ![]() Debbie’s suspicions grow when Red Rush’s widow asks for help selling her house, putting Debbie in a headspace that’s fixated on Nolan’s role in the massacre. Her husband’s behavior has changed since their son’s superpowers kicked in, and a demon detective showed up in her house insinuating that her husband had killed his superhero comrades. “I feel like I’m standing on the edge of a cliff, and I’m the only one of us who can’t fly.”ĭebbie Grayson knows something is wrong.
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