altar boy

The church where Pope Leo XIV attended mass as a child and served as an altar boy is now an empty shell.

When her father numbs his pain with his wife’s prescription and sadly croons a song from when he was an altar boy, Piper can only roll her eyes and excuse herself from the room.

Feeling the full weight of his situation, the former altar boy scrawls a short letter to his family — “I’m so sorry. I love you all.” — just before raising the handgun to his temple.

This was Rivers unplugged, foul-mouthed in a way that made me feel like a squeamish altar boy.

She and Tony have a fraught relationship given Tony’s checkered past, which, we come to realize, has something to do with a horrifying experience from his days as an altar boy.