Speaker 1: Welcome to the Parenting Roundabout podcast. I'm Terry Morrow and
Speaker 1: I'm Catherine Jileco. As parents and parenting writers, we can't
Speaker 1: help but see everything through a parenting lens. But as
Speaker 1: our kids have become adults, we find ourselves more interested
Speaker 1: in getting caught up on movies and streaming than I'm
Speaker 1: going over the same parenting topics over and over.
Speaker 2: So since we're pretty sure we can find parenting wisdom anywhere,
Speaker 2: we're going to talk about what we're watching, what we
Speaker 2: thought about it, and maybe what we can learn from it,
Speaker 2: if only what not to do. Watch and listen along,
Speaker 2: and let's all make like we're doing something important for
Speaker 2: our families. Each Wednesday we bring you our thoughts on
Speaker 2: a newer entertainment property, and for this week of January thirteenth,
Speaker 2: we're discussing the eleventh episode of the second season of Shrinking.
Speaker 2: It's called the Drugs Don't Work.
Speaker 3: Oh Yes, Paul Struggling will.
Speaker 1: A duel me? Yes, yes, Paul directly, the one for
Speaker 1: whom the Parkinson's drugs are no longer working as well
Speaker 1: as they will and within a short time we'll stop
Speaker 1: working at all. But also Jimmy's drug of fixing people,
Speaker 1: not doing it for him anymore. And this episode raises
Speaker 1: the terrifying question, are they going to do a Donnie
Speaker 1: redemption arc next season? Is that what next season is
Speaker 1: going to be?
Speaker 2: God? No, it did seem that that Jimmy tried and
Speaker 2: abandoned that that plan pretty quickly. I hope that sticks
Speaker 2: because nobody wants that newbody wants that.
Speaker 1: No. No, so we assume that Grace is selling real
Speaker 1: estate in Canada. She's not back, right, That's capacity That's
Speaker 1: what I assumed the first time I saw that I
Speaker 1: was away, But then I figured, yeah, I suppose they
Speaker 1: have houses to sell in Canada.
Speaker 2: Right, You think it would take some time to take
Speaker 2: whatever tests and then you have.
Speaker 1: To take her sister knows somebody it's.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we won't. We won't be worrying about that.
Speaker 1: Instead will be she gets the houses where people were
Speaker 1: right exactly.
Speaker 2: Instead will we'll complain about why they had to do
Speaker 2: this dumb sitcom thing of breaking up Derek and Gaddy.
Speaker 1: Come on, now, yeah, it was not necessary at all.
Speaker 1: It was not and it was awful, and I mean
Speaker 1: give that guy credit for good self esteem, but still.
Speaker 2: Stupid, very stupid like and it was an It was
Speaker 2: a fun like a it was a funny scene when
Speaker 2: they broke up. Yes, but as always, there was no
Speaker 2: reason for this. They they were fun together. They he
Speaker 2: fit right in. She could have just invited him to
Speaker 2: Thanks dinner and all would have been.
Speaker 1: Yes, perfectly, ablutely. And also they managed to say again
Speaker 1: how hot he? So check that one off the script.
Speaker 1: Also did did Taco Bell pay for that product placement?
Speaker 2: I don't know, Liz was Liz was not being giving
Speaker 2: it positive reviews, but everybody else was.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, Liz not liking it is sort
Speaker 1: of an indoorma. But you want to be like those
Speaker 1: two sexy people.
Speaker 2: Don't you have mentioned he's hot?
Speaker 1: Yes, right, let's just mention it one more time, shall
Speaker 1: we like?
Speaker 3: It?
Speaker 1: Just be such an ego boost for that guy. Every
Speaker 1: episode they tell me how.
Speaker 2: Handsome, But then they kicked me out and that's the
Speaker 2: end of my character?
Speaker 3: All right, bye?
Speaker 1: That could be You know what what does not get
Speaker 1: a ringing endorsement in this is the home health aid industry.
Speaker 1: Because if that's who I'm hiring, I'm just gonna have
Speaker 1: to have my mom and ride oh my gown. She
Speaker 1: was awful.
Speaker 3: She must not.
Speaker 2: Just yeah, she was nice to Gabby's mom, but she
Speaker 2: was very mean to Gabby.
Speaker 1: Very mean, a little on the sadistic side. Yeah, just
Speaker 1: unnecessarily isn't Gabby paying?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean if it weren't for Gabby, for her,
Speaker 2: for Gabby not taking her mom into her house, you
Speaker 2: wouldn't have a job right now.
Speaker 1: So plus would you have your mom living with you,
Speaker 1: but you're here taking care of somebody else's mom. Who's
Speaker 1: taking care of your momh? Boy, that pushed all my se.
Speaker 3: Yeah, geeesh.
Speaker 1: And there was a lot of a lot of parenting
Speaker 1: woes with the Alice said, speaking of words that are
Speaker 1: just straight like a knife to the heart. I'm more
Speaker 1: sad than mad. Anyways, You're not the person I thought
Speaker 1: you were.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: Ouch, every every parent watching this episode.
Speaker 2: Just whisks absolutely just get a gun and shoot him. Yeah,
Speaker 2: yeah that was And it's like you here, it's like
Speaker 2: the you know, the inverse of when a parent would
Speaker 2: say to a kid, I'm not mad, I'm disappointed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so maybe we should through because now we know
Speaker 3: how it feels.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Yes, that is yeah, painful both ways,
Speaker 1: but it leaves more of Mark on the parrot.
Speaker 3: Rough rough.
Speaker 1: And then she goes in stays again.
Speaker 4: Is it right?
Speaker 2: But we never saw her there, She was never like
Speaker 2: inconveniently there when when Gabby was trying to have a
Speaker 2: conversation with Derek, she was driving off in her Mini
Speaker 2: at that time.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm in her little car.
Speaker 2: Yep. And uh, Brian and Charlie are gonna have a
Speaker 2: baby now because the first mother found out that the
Speaker 2: other prospective parents were Disney adults.
Speaker 1: Is that a thing?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it's totally a thing.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yes, yes. And also he gave her the
Speaker 1: troll you know, the trolls pulled through for them in
Speaker 1: the end. And it's a good thing because I think
Speaker 1: that adoption guy was just about to dump the.
Speaker 3: Yes, like I cannot anymore?
Speaker 1: Can we take both twins and they give one of
Speaker 1: the bag after you?
Speaker 3: Yes? He was so happy to see Charlie come.
Speaker 2: To their meeting.
Speaker 3: So then why did why did the birth mother call Brian? Yeah,
Speaker 3: that was another It was.
Speaker 1: A little weird weird. Maybe maybe the coordinator said, look,
Speaker 1: I don't want to talk to this too. Here's this one.
Speaker 1: You just take it from here. Only deal with Charlie parents.
Speaker 3: Brian he was like, I'm out of here. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: can't take it. Yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and uh oh Wally, Jimmy's patient had a little
Speaker 1: parenting moment with a dog. You know, just couldn't give
Speaker 1: it back. It was fun the way that resolved. But
Speaker 1: if the guy can hear that well into her apartment,
Speaker 1: that would totally get Yeah.
Speaker 2: That's.
Speaker 1: Made for a fun comic mind but immediately put.
Speaker 3: To do something because that's that's disturbing.
Speaker 1: Or else, just just form a friendship with somebody you
Speaker 1: never have to see face to face. You just talked
Speaker 1: to him from the wall. It'll be fine.
Speaker 3: Yes, And.
Speaker 1: I really I think I spoiled last week the the
Speaker 1: thing of Sean dating Paul's as they and they in
Speaker 1: the actual appointment, they sort of started talking and he
Speaker 1: cut them off. But now Paul goes to inappropriately finds
Speaker 1: out that the doctor is at this bar and he
Speaker 1: goes to talk to her and then Sean Pompson. I
Speaker 1: loved the way he sits down and puts his arm
Speaker 1: around her, and then she kind of leans into him
Speaker 1: and puts her hand on his.
Speaker 3: Arm like this this is happening, Paul.
Speaker 1: Yep, yep. She wasn't like trying to be very professional.
Speaker 1: She was just like, yep, here, we are so good
Speaker 1: for Sean. He also should have totally taken the apartment
Speaker 1: that that place looked nice. Nice, I would possibly leave
Speaker 1: my house to live in the place looks nice.
Speaker 2: Yes, it was, you know, of course, a nice impulse
Speaker 2: from Derek. But I do I can see Sean being like,
Speaker 2: I need to try to things for myself. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: you're right, it was super nice.
Speaker 1: Can you try to do things for yourself while you're
Speaker 1: still living in the house. If you can live someplace
Speaker 1: off of somebody's living, that it's probably good for him
Speaker 1: to be with people. So then, Oh, there's also the
Speaker 1: little issue of Julie having friends, which Paul knew in
Speaker 1: the abstract but not in uh fast right until he
Speaker 1: walks in into his former fortress of solitude finds her
Speaker 1: and a bunch of ladies That must have been the
Speaker 1: funnest casting. Yes, and they were working in every time
Speaker 1: there's this one blonde lady. Every time the camera was
Speaker 1: on that group, she was she was working for me.
Speaker 1: She was all but holding up her resume.
Speaker 3: But good for her.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know, okay, fine, I'm tried to think
Speaker 1: the last time I had that many women over in
Speaker 1: my house just to hang. Do people still have groups
Speaker 1: of friends like that?
Speaker 3: Well, like I have.
Speaker 1: I absolutely did it. One time. You have book I
Speaker 1: could have been book club.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It reminds me that scene in Jerry Maguire where she
Speaker 1: had there having their you know, divorced and otherwise broken
Speaker 1: up club and then he walked, Oh, Tom Cruise, I
Speaker 1: liked it anyway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so a lot a lot happened, considering it was
Speaker 2: the second to last episode of the season.
Speaker 1: Right, Yes, that is true. At one point I was
Speaker 1: talking about Sean. This seems like a parenting thing to
Speaker 1: me to tell somebody if you're not ready, that's fine.
Speaker 1: When you are ready, the universe will present another opportunity.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that's always true, right, but it's a
Speaker 1: nice though. But that's what you got to tell you, right,
Speaker 1: You know, you can't say no, You just have to
Speaker 1: do it now. Which is possible that I have it
Speaker 1: doesn't work out? Yes, yeah, and uh.
Speaker 2: And of course the very end was that Jimmy realized
Speaker 2: he needed help and he and he actually reached out.
Speaker 2: He tried his old coping mechanism and it was lightly
Speaker 2: turned down.
Speaker 1: Very sweetly. I can find you somebody else, but I
Speaker 1: hope you won't be right and.
Speaker 4: Uh, and then he did actually call Paul, thankfully, because
Speaker 4: I was concerned when he was, you know, lurching about
Speaker 4: in traffic that yeah.
Speaker 3: I'm going to make it that far.
Speaker 1: So that did not That was not good. And really, honestly, Alice,
Speaker 1: you know I love you and all of your how
Speaker 1: many years of maturity, But what she was asking him
Speaker 1: was not reasonable that he should go do therapy for
Speaker 1: the person. It's not I mean, you can hope he's
Speaker 1: that kind of guy, but as not a reasonable ask.
Speaker 3: So she.
Speaker 2: She does, she does.
Speaker 1: But Lewis seems to be doing pretty good. He got
Speaker 1: to meet Summer and Dilnon, what do I Summer would
Speaker 1: probably cheer him up if she give him, if he
Speaker 1: gave her an opportunity, and uh, he has a friend
Speaker 1: at the coffeehouse, so that's going to friends. I love it.
Speaker 1: So he seems to be doing a lot better than Jimmy, right,
Speaker 1: he should give some counts to day but anyway, so
Speaker 1: we are now set up for the final episode of
Speaker 1: the String, which, although it dropped on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 2: Yes thanks the title is the last Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: And you couldn't. They couldn't quite get it to drop
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving, so they say, well, what's the next holiday
Speaker 1: we can reasonably date? They didn't drop it on Christmas.
Speaker 2: They dropped for Christmas Eve. So we will be back
Speaker 2: for that next week and we'll see you here tomorrow
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