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Originally Posted by TwistedChief
This show is amazing.
And this latest episode released today - Me Time - is on par with any TV episode I’ve seen in a long, long time.
Claire Danes is ****ing brilliant. What a great show.
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Yeah, the shit is heavy. I'm not sure I expected that. At least THAT heavy.
Spoiler!
That is a really good (IMO) look at mental trauma.
1. **** that Doctor. Thank Christ we had good doctors for our kids.
2. My wife had some post-partem depression with our first kid and a lot of that stuff resonated (I know the point was that it wasn't PPD)
3. The stay at home mom shit also resonated. Wife and I both have a sister that chose to stay at home, told us how much harder they work than us, and then proceed to complain about being broke. Obviously small town Kansas is much different from High End NYC, but I was like LOL NO WAY.
Personal shit aside, that was a good look into the spiral that you can go through with mental trauma.
I'm 39, so I'm the age of the people in the story, and some of the plot points resonated with my experience. Again, small town Kansas/Nebraska/MBA is much different from NYC, Isreal semester abroad stuff, medical school/liberal arts stuff but I really am surprised at how much it resonates with me. Further it makes me wonder how close I was to a similar miserable existence that affects the lead characters.
EDIT: I should point out in our case the problems are our sisters, not stay at home moms in general.
Really an interesting watch for me.