I wanted to share this little story I have with the walking dead and my mom. So my mom doesn't speak or understand much English only Vietnamese and never had any interest in what my siblings and I watched because of that. So my relationship with my mom was pretty boring as we had nothing to connect on or talk about other than "Is there any food at home?" stuff like that. Until one day I was in the living room by myself re-watching TWD and my mom came in. Now keep in mind my parents are typical asian parents, they don't like anything scary or violent, they'd rather listen to karaoke videos or videos on street food. I even tried avoiding letting my parents see me watch TWD because I was sure they wouldn't like it. Then one day my mom walked in on a scene where a walker was getting killed by Glenn and she asked what I was watching in a slightly disgusted face, I ended up explaining the concepts of zombies, to which she was interested enough to watch the first episode with me. From there on my mom and I binged watched TWD season 1-5 in 2 months and watched the rest of the new seasons weekly, which I translated the whole thing in Viet for her which isn't that hard as we all know how simple the walking dead dialogue is. Nowadays we talk about something other than typical parent-son shit and actually have gotten closer because of it. I tried get my dad to watch it but he pussied out because of the violence.
Submitted May 25, 2018 at 07:30PM by klamkock https://ift.tt/2xhdvp2
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