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The following contains spoilers for The Shrink Next Door Episode 8, “The Verdict” (written by Georgia Pritchett and directed by Jesse Peretz) I have a lot of thoughts regarding The Shrink Next Door’s finale. So many that I had to watch multiple times to see if I actually still had them, or if it was just […] More
The following contains spoilers for The Shrink Next Door Episode 7, “The Breakthrough” (written by Catherine Shepherd & Sas Goldberg and directed by Jesse Peretz) A breakthrough in therapy can happen multiple times—it’s the moment you first begin to realize the damage you are inflicting on yourself, the moment when you can pinpoint triggers and begin […] More
The following contains spoilers for The Shrink Next Door Episode 6, “The Party” (written by Georgia Pritchett & Sas Goldberg and directed by Jesse Peretz) Question: How do you create a passage of time in a series trying to tell itself in eight episodes? Answer: You get inventive and create an entire episode framed around […] More
The following contains spoilers for The Shrink Next Door, Episode 5, “The Family Tree” (written by Georgia Pritchett and Catherine Shepherd and directed by Jesse Peretz) Do you remember how back in 2005 teenage girls and hopeless romantic women went entirely nuts for the love story that was The Notebook? Everyone thought Noah threatening to let […] More
The following contains spoilers for The Shrink Next Door, Episode 4, “The Foundation” (written by Adam Countee and directed by Michael Showalter). It’s been a week since we were all introduced to Marty Markowitz (Will Ferrell) and his manipulative therapist Doctor Ike Herschkopf (Paul Rudd). The first three episodes of The Shrink Next Door focused […] More
Imagine spending close to 30 years of your life living as someone’s puppet because you thought they were helping you. You lose your home to that person because they believe it would be appropriate for their face to be the front. They become a partner in your business and then slowly start to take all […] More
Between The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor, I have come to the conclusion that Mike Flanagan’s series are my comfort shows. I know a comfort show is supposed to be a “feel-good series that brings you to escape in a stressful time,” so choosing a series that plays into the […] More
Crossing Jordan was an NBC series that ran for six seasons starting in 2001. It followed Boston medical examiner Jordan Cavanaugh (Jill Hennessy), her boss Garret Macy (the late Miguel Ferrer), her co-workers Lily Lebowski (Kathryn Hahn), Bug (Ravi Kapoor), Nigel (Steve Valentine), and Boston PD Homicide detective Woody (Jerry O’Connell). Through its six seasons, […] More
The following contains spoilers for the Mare of Easttown finale, Episode 7, “Sacrament” I can’t believe that seven weeks have come and gone. It feels like just yesterday we were introduced to Kate Winslet’s Mare Sheehan waking up to go investigate some peeping tom incident. Now, here we are finding out the answer to the […] More
The following contains spoilers for Mare of Easttown Episode 6, “Sore Must Be the Storm” It was hard watching tonight’s Mare of Easttown and even more to sit here and discuss it because there were a lot of things that hit really close to home with me. I keep having the words Mare’s therapist says […] More
The following contains spoilers for Mare of Easttown Episode 5, “Illusions” I must start by saying if you are a viewer who has been watching Mare of Easttown purely for Evan Peters, I am truly sorry. I’ll admit that ever since Peter’s Detective Colin Zabel made his introductions in Episode 2 I was not his […] More
The following contains spoilers for Mare of Easttown Episode 4, “Poor Sisyphus” As the song says, “We’re halfway there!” That’s right, Mare of Easttown has reached its halfway point. Episode 4 refocused our attention on the major cases that have been the driving force for Mare (Kate Winslet), Detective Zabel (Evan Peters), and the rest of […] More
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