29 Mernell St.

Liz's home at 29 Mernell St. houses a cramped kitchen cluttered with frozen bread loaves that slice fingers, mini-pizzas doled out on magazines in place of plates, and dish towels taped into bandages. Tight counters force bodies close during crises, where taxi calls replace ambulances and hunger frays nerves. The space pulses with blunt household rules, exposing self-reliant grit amid domestic chaos and deepening bonds under pressure.

2 events

2 rich involvements

Detailed Involvements

Events with rich location context

S1E1 · MOTHERLAND

Magazine Manners and the Bandaged Hand

29 Mernell St. is invoked as the destination/address for the taxi and anchors Liz's identity and residence; it functions logistically to get Liz to A & E and narratively as a specific, gritty home turf.

Atmosphere

Implied as a modest, no-frills flat location consistent with the cramped kitchen's mood.

Functional Role

Logistical endpoint for the cab pickup and a marker of Liz's domestic rootedness.

Symbolic Significance

Symbolizes Liz's solitary practicality and the specific social world she inhabits; a locale that grounds the emergency in a real, inhabited life.

Specific address given aloud to taxi operator Flat associated with cramped, charity-shop ambience described earlier

S1E1 · MOTHERLAND

Frozen Bread, Severed Finger, Makeshift Aid

29 Mernell St. is invoked as the pickup address for the taxi — a precise civic anchor that converts Liz’s private crisis into a public logistical problem and ties the emergency to an identifiable, modest domestic location.

Atmosphere

Mentioned matter-of-factly; carries the mood of everyday urban domesticity.

Functional Role

Logistical destination for emergency transport; verifies location for the taxi service.

Symbolic Significance

Represents Liz’s rootedness in a cluttered, working household and anchors the incident in a specific socioeconomic place.

Given as address over the phone Implies typical terrace/flat environment consistent with cramped kitchen Serves as pickup coordinates for the taxi

Events at This Location

Everything that happens here

S1E1 · MOTHERLAND

Magazine Manners and the Bandaged Hand

In Liz’s cramped kitchen she enforces blunt household order—‘use a magazine’—as she hands out mini‑pizzas while Julia admits she skipped breakfast. A small domestic moment jolts into crisis when Liz, …

S1E1 · MOTHERLAND

Frozen Bread, Severed Finger, Makeshift Aid

In Liz’s cramped, chaotic kitchen Julia, already hungry and frayed, asks for food while Liz hacks through an ice-monstered freezer. Cutting frozen bread, Liz badly slices her finger. Instead of …