History Series / KevinCanFuckHimself

* AwfulWeddedLife: Despite keeping up a beleaguered but affectionate sitcom wife façade, Allison has come to actively despise Kevin, who seems blissfully ignorant of her true feelings.

* BigShutUp: Allison is often on the receiving end, to the point of being the first thing we ever see of her. It's so much a RunningGag of the sitcom reality that the other characters have trouble not doing it in the real world. [[spoiler:Her telling ''Nick'', the drug dealer she hired to kill Kevin, to shut up marks a turning point for her character]].

* DramaticIrony: Kevin nearly dies several times throughout the first season, simply because Allison happens to be absent at the time and does not provide the voice of reason. This implies that, if she were to actually make the incredibly difficult choice to leave him, he would likely get himself killed by accident, which would solve her problem. Alas, she is unaware that he almost got himself killed in her absence.
** [[spoiler:Indeed confirmed in the finale: once Kevin is completely alone, he dies within minutes.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Early in Season 2, Kevin mentions that he removed ''all'' of the batteries from the smoke detectors in his house. [[spoiler: Come the finale, he passes out drunk while burning Allison's possessions in the living room, and dies in the fire, with the smoke detectors not being able to rouse him ''or'' alert the fire department until it is too late]].

* NoodleIncident: Plenty, in a manner typical of sitcoms. These tend to enforce Allison's ButtMonkey status (lost her job thanks to a misunderstanding on Kevin's part, almost drowned when she tried to be a more 'fun' person, etc), enforce Neil's idiotic and/or plain dangerous tendencies (among them a penchant for arson), or imply behavior that further solidifies Kevin as a destructive asshole:

** Taken to an even darker extent in the single-camera scenes where such incidents further illustrate how bleak Allison's life has been, such as Patty talking about how Allison ''didn't get a slice of her own birthday cake''.

* PaintingTheMedium: The show features two very distinct styles of lighting and camera work. SitCom-esque moments are shot and lit very much like a traditional SitCom, even including a laugh track, showing off Kevin's narcissistic, idealized view of a reality that revolves around him. Meanwhile, the rest of the scenes are shot with much more restrained lighting and cinematic camera work to create a feeling of "ThisIsReality."

* PerspectiveFlip: This is about the typical sitcom marriage from the perspective of the wife, who after years of putting up with her husband's selfish and immature behaviour has come to hate him to the point of wanting to kill him.

* StatusQuoIsGod: Like every other sitcom convention, this gets a dark spin; Kevin is preventing any positive change from occurring and sticking in his and Allison's life so that he can continue to live as he prefers in their HatedHometown.

** As the title indicates, this whole show is a big middle finger to the Creator/KevinJames-led series ''Series/KevinCanWait''. To be more specific, this is in regards to how that show infamously killed off the titular Kevin's wife Donna (played by Creator/ErinnHayes) at the start of the second season and replaced her with a character named Vanessa (played by James' ''Series/TheKingOfQueens'' costar Creator/LeahRemini) in a desperate attempt to improve ratings (which ended up being AllForNothing as the show was canceled after that season anyway). That much-maligned move was cited by this show's creators to be the jumping-off point for this story.
*** This also feeds into the plot of this show's second season: Allison concludes that the only real way to get away from Kevin and the problems she's accrued is by faking her own death, [[spoiler:which she decides to do at the end of "The Problem" by making it look like she [[NeverFoundTheBody went missing]] after going on a hike]]. And to further the sense of irony, the following episode and GrandFinale of the series, "Allison's House" has [[spoiler:Kevin quickly going OnTheRebound with a new girlfriend who's played by Hayes]].

* AsHimself: Ex-NHL player Sean Avery, as seen in Episode 6.

* BittersweetEnding: Patty and Tammy ended up breaking up, Neil moves out and his fate is up in the air, along with his relationship with Diane, and as pointed out in FridgeHorror, Pete is going eventually find out that [[spoiler: Kevin died in a fire in his own house shortly after he left for Florida]]. But on the positive side, everyone is free from Kevin's tyranny, Allison is able to come back since the case involving Patty is dropped, it's implied that Neil and Diane's relationship might have hope if Neil is able to change, and the show ends with Allison and Patty embracing and deciding to "grow old and die alone together", possibly implying a relationship.

** Creator/RachelDratch plays Beatrice, a former Worcester city hall employee who helps Allison [[spoiler:get the documents she needs to fake her death]], in "The Unreliable Narrator".

* CassandraTruth: Neil tries to tell Kevin about [[spoiler:Allison and Patty's plan to kill him, Kevin is so caught up in his newfound fame that he doesn't take this news seriously at all.]]

However, [[OnceMoreWithClarity in reality]], Kevin is actually a {{Jerkass}} {{Manchild}} who is completely clueless to the destructive and lasting consequences of his many {{Zany Scheme}}s and whose self-absorbed behavior crosses over into outright abuse has increasingly worn down Allison, with [[SubvertedSitcom the sitcom trappings]] (complete with a {{Laugh Track}}, brightly lit and colorful [[ThreeWallSet three walled sets]], [[ThreeCameras three camera visuals]], and people giving [[WorldofHam over-the-top and hammy performances]]) being simply the result of Kevin's warped and narcissistic perspective of the world. Allison's perspective is... [[ThisIsReality much different]], with the canned laughter gone, the visuals single camera, the "sets" real locations, dark and moody lighting, and people behaving more believably down-to-earth.

On August 28, 2021, AMC announced the show had been renewed for a second season. It was later announced on 30th November 2021 that the second would also be the final season of the series. The second season premiered on August 22, 2022 and ended on October 10.

* ArtShift: The "sitcom" parts are brightly lit and are filmed using the multi-camera method standard for network sitcom shows. The "drama" parts of the show have more realistic and sometimes downright dour lightning (while still avoiding RealIsBrown), and uses the single-camera filming method for varied angles and closeups.

** "New Patty" has Creator/JonGlaser as Paddy, Patty's SpearCounterpart and EvilCounterpart.

The show premiered in June 13, 2021 on AMC+, with episodes airing on AMC proper one week later. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2qGIsOkA64 Trailer here]].

* ComedicSociopathy: {{Deconstructed}} throughout the series by following the RuleOfFunny-fuelled patter of a standard sitcom [[PlayedForDrama to its unseen conclusions]].

* DramaticIrony: Kevin nearly dies several times over the course of the first season, simply because Allison happens to be absent at the time and does not provide the voice of reason. This implies that, if she were to actually make the incredibly difficult choice to leave him, he would likely get himself killed by accident, which would actually solve her problem. Alas, she is unaware that he almost got himself killed in her absence.

* DreamIntro: The second episode opens with Allison spending her morning hanging out in an upscale cafe. It becomes clear that it's a dream when she casually tells the waitress that she recently killed her husband, [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight to which the waitress reacts with friendly interest]]. [[note]]There is also an EasterEgg in which the book she is reading is Literature/{{Ulysses}} by [[Creator/JamesJoyce Joyce Something]], because Allison doesn't know/remember.[[/note]]

* EscalatingWar: Takes place over "New Tricks" between Kevin and the [[TheGhost unseen neighbours]] he believes are responsible for stealing a valuable hoodie he ordered online.

* HeelRealization: After realising that she's acted terribly and selfishly, the sitcom filter stays on Allison as she holds what could destroy Tammy's career, but it disappears and she tries to make things right.

** In true sitcom style, Kevin is much closer to his best friend Neil than he is to Allison. The pilot has Neil bawling loudly at the prospect of Kevin moving away. Their plotline in "We're Selling Washing Machines" is a classic FeudEpisode in which the two compete ferociously to see who is the superior chili chef; Kevin seeks an advantage by buying a whole (dead) pig, but ultimately can't bring himself to cut it open because he's bonded with it as a ReplacementGoldfish for his missing friend. Allison and Patty, who are respectively forced to spend more time with Kevin and Neil since they're no longer always together, find that they have to repair the friendship just to get some much-needed space from their ridiculous behavior. This is PlayedForLaughs in the multi-cam plot with the expected WomenAreWiser emphasis, but [[PlayedForDrama takes on a darker edge]] in the single-cam, where Kevin's new clinginess is interfering with both Allison's ongoing plot to murder him and her efforts to spend time with an OldFlame. However, they're also a deconstruction, as Kevin clearly does not value Neil as a friend as much as the reverse holds true and is a ToxicFriendInfluence on him.
** The true example ends up being Allison and Patty as they become friends and partners in crime over the course of the series. Allison says they're so close, she sometimes can't even remember which of them did what, and that any horrible thing they do is okay because they do it ''for each other''. Patty later admits Allison is her "favorite person." Played with, as Patty turns out to be queer (though it's never clarified whether she's a lesbian or bisexual), and some of their interactions take on a [[PseudoRomanticFriendship romantic undertone]], with both season finales ending with them HoldingHands and the GrandFinale has them [[spoiler:promising to stick together no matter what.]]

** Allison gets donut holes from Dunkin ... and throws most of them out in the trash, before spitting up the chewed up one in a waste bin.
* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: [[spoiler:After telling off a customer at the liquor store for rudely shoving her, and her aunt tries to downplay it by saying it's just part of the job, Allison quits on the spot, and takes a bottle of wine as her "gold watch".]]