Spoilers for Fallout season 2

Now that I've had time to digest season 2 of fallout, I wanted to make a post about the relationship between Chet and Steph in the show.

I think overall, it was a good and at this time important depiction, even if it isn't a focus point. The show frames Chet's fear as legitimate and not something to laugh at. It could be debated that it follows into tropes of the male victims being a "role-reversal," and that the trope of a female abuser having some sort of sympathetic backstory that explains her abuse (although in Fallouts case I am willing to give grace, as it isn't about her being victimized by men specifically and her taking that out on other men, as is usually the case for the trope, it follows the bigger themes of season 2, which has both male and female characters upholding the cycle of violence for sympathetic and unsympathetic reasons, and steph is maintained as one of the more villainous characters, even if there is a traumatic reason for her actions)

Overall I felt it was a decent portrayal, and important given our current climate. I am wondering if any of you have thoughts on this or other media portrayals of such issues and dynamics?