Allison McRoberts

**Allison Devine McRoberts** is the main character of the AMC dark comedy ***Kevin Can Fuck Himself***. She is unhappily married to Kevin McRoberts, and is best friends with their next door neighbor Patty O'Connor.

## Background

Allison was born and raised in Worcester. Her father was a police officer and her mother Donna was controlling and emotionally abused her throughout her life. While in high school, Allison participated on the swimming team and worked in a diner with Sam, where they would often hook up in the back. They both abused alcohol and drugs often, leading to Sam's addiction issues. Because Sam was in a relationship with Jenn, the two never officially dated but they both had strong feelings for each other.

Soon after high school, Sam moved away with Jenn and Allison married Kevin some time after meeting him following her father's funeral in 2005. At one point, Allison worked as a paralegal, only to be fired because Kevin became convinced she was having an affair with her married elderly boss and poured sugar into the gas tank of her boss' car. Her aunt Diane got her a job at the liquor store where she continued to work for the next six years.

## Storyline

### Season 1

Allison, after ten years of marriage to Kevin, has become increasingly resentful of her situation. Kevin, who acts as if he's the main character of a sitcom, treats her more like a maid and a surrogate mother than a partner, and she's often blown off or ignored altogether when she tries to talk Kevin, Neil, and Pete out of doing something stupid. She wants to move into a nicer house with Kevin, convinced it will make things better and motivate Kevin to better himself as well. However, after learning from Patty that Kevin blew their savings on a get-rich-quick scheme, Allison snaps and becomes convinced that Kevin needs to die so she can finally be free of him.

Allison's plan to kill Kevin hits multiple roadblocks, however. She first tries to procure opioid painkillers so she can spike his food and make it look like he had accidentally overdosed, only to find herself chasing multiple false leads and isn't even able to get them legally from a doctor. She's then pointed to Patty, who has secretly been selling generic oxycodone on the side. But after inadvertently getting Patty's supplier arrested, the two have to drive to Vermont to find a dealer who can give them the pills. After a few mishaps, they wind up getting a gun from a dealer going by the alias Red Rooster and a bottle of pills from a trucker. When they're pulled over by the police after Kevin reported their car stolen because Allison wasn't answering his calls, Patty is appalled at this stunt. This leads to Allison angrily calling Patty out for ignoring the destructive consequences of Kevin's actions because she thought they were funny and "seemed harmless", citing the incident where Kevin got her fired from her paralegal job. Allison subsequently admits that she wanted to get the pills to kill Kevin.

Following Patty's exile from the group for not bringing Kevin a burger from his favorite restaurant, which opens her eyes to the full extent of Kevin's petty cruelty, Patty teams up with Allison to get rid of him. Allison also becomes more driven to stand up for herself, first telling off an obnoxious customer at the liquor store for shoving her before quitting altogether. She then gets herself a new job at Sam's new diner Bev's and they begin having an affair. Patty convinces Allison to not use the oxycodone to poison Kevin, citing the simple fact that they have no way of knowing if the pills will be enough to kill Kevin considering he has a high tolerance for drugs and alcohol, and moreover, Allison would be named the first suspect in Kevin's mysterious death. They instead decide to enlist the services of local criminal Nick Wyndorff to stage a break-in at the McRoberts' house and kill Kevin this way. In order to throw suspicion off herself, Allison breaks things off with Sam, rejecting his offer to run away together. After Nick runs into trouble, he accelerates the plan to kill Kevin before skipping out of town. Kevin is able to shoot Nick with the gun Allison and Patty acquired in Vermont, which they had buried in the backyard and he found with Neil's metal detector. Nick survives but is rendered comatose.

With the plan having gone off the rails and Allison becoming increasingly paranoid and frustrated to the point of forcing Patty to look through the notebook of Detective Tammy Ridgeway, whom Patty has begun dating, the two have an angry argument in the living room. Allison storms off and encounters Neil, who had been hiding in the kitchen for four hours after Kevin sent him off on a fake game of "ultimate hide-and-seek". Neil reveals he overheard their plan to murder Kevin and tries to tell on them. When Allison tries to grab his phone, Neil throttles Allison, forcing Patty to hit him over the head with a beer bottle.

### Season 2

After the altercation with Neil, Allison tries to formulate a new plan to free herself of Kevin, ultimately deciding to fake her own death. At the same time, she's begun to patch up her relationship with Diane, who's been miserable in her own marriage to her husband Chuck. Allison enlists the help of Billy Terrell, a private investigator, to help both Diane and herself. Allison also finds a new snag in Patty's deepening relationship to Tammy, who's open about the fact that she doesn't like Allison. She's also lost her job at Sam's restaurant after rejecting his offer, though he ultimately gives Allison her job back after realizing just how bad her situation with Kevin is.

With Billy's help, Allison and Patty get to work to help her fake her death and set up a new identity for her to live with. They steal the identity of a dead woman named Gertrude Fronch, but Allison starts to feel apprehensive about going through with the plan when she realizes she'll be leaving behind the new connections she's made with Patty, Diane, and Sam. This drives her to find a way to weaponize Kevin's ability to ruin things to make her problems disappear, first helping Sam keep his restaurant when Jenn's parents try to take it as part of their divorce. However, when Tammy gets footage of Patty and Allison stealing the pill bottle from the trucker in Vermont, which could land them in trouble, Allison goes through with faking her death to take the heat off of Patty.

Six months later, Allison settles in her new life as Gertrude Fronch in a small New Hampshire town, but feels unfulfilled still. She finds that Tammy had tracked her down, but Tammy reassures Allison she's not going to arrest her and won't tell anyone Allison faked her own death, having enough sympathy for Allison's unhappy marriage to Kevin to not want to make things more complicated for everyone, and reveals that Nick had died in his coma, so the drug dealer case was closed. Realizing she can't keep running away from her problems, Allison returns to Worcester. She first reunites with Sam, who fills her in on what happened since her disappearance, including that Kevin began dating another woman named Molly two months after her apparent death. Allison tracks Molly down to the bowling alley she works at and talks with her, which convinces Molly to break up with Kevin.

Allison finally confronts Kevin and admits to him that she hasn't loved him for years, faked her own death to get away from him, and she's now returned so she can officially divorce him. Kevin flies off the handle, first attempting to manipulate and verbally put her down to make her reconsider leaving him and then getting physically violent. Allison stands her ground and brushes off his attacks, stating her decision is final. When Kevin threatens to destroy her, she tells him to try his worst and leaves the house. In his rage, Kevin tries to burn up whatever belongings Allison left behind, only for the fire to spread out of control and consume the McRoberts' home, killing him in the process. Afterward, Allison and Patty, who has just broken up with Tammy, reunite and make a promise to "die alone together" as they get ready to move forward into a better and brighter future.

## Trivia

* "Live Free or Die" reveals she likes slasher movies.
* Allison’s father is a cop who died in 2005 and she and her mother Donna are very estranged since Donna never supported her dreams and made her settle for a life she did not want.
* Allison met Patty first in 2005 at the bar, shortly after her father's funeral. They bonded before Allison ran into Kevin.
* When she is with Kevin it turns into a multi-camera sitcom. When she is not with him, it turns into a single camera gritty drama.