Speaker 1: Welcome to the Parenting Roundabout podcast. I'm Terry Morrow and
Speaker 1: I'm Catherine hileco. 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. Then 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 March third,
Speaker 2: we're continuing with A Man on the Inside, Season one,
Speaker 2: episode six hour Man in Sacramento. And last week you
Speaker 2: were like, Wow, this is getting kind of maudlin, and
Speaker 2: then this week got worse because yes, they killed somebody.
Speaker 1: They killed somebody, and they talked about another character's cancer
Speaker 1: and there was most large chunk of the show was
Speaker 1: about how fathers and daughters don't communicate even as adults,
Speaker 1: and where did our little mystery show go? Yeah, we
Speaker 1: got Julie for like ten seconds.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they just had to throw that in there for
Speaker 2: a quick reminder, like, oh yeah, don't forget this.
Speaker 1: But then forget because there was absolutely nothing about not
Speaker 1: even a side ways oh something. I guess the salts.
Speaker 1: Are we to believe that the salt shakers were stolen?
Speaker 1: I get?
Speaker 3: I mean, what would be the point of that. I
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 1: It's just what happened to the writing staff, Like somewhere
Speaker 1: halfway through this, somebody's like parent died or something, and
Speaker 1: it just all went off into a sad reflective place.
Speaker 2: Right, Although we did get we did get the grandchildren.
Speaker 1: So we got Emily and we got the grandchildren. Even
Speaker 1: the grandchildren were like Grandpa said, all maturance stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what is its show is? I'm confused. I don't I
Speaker 1: Don't'm not saying I dislike it. I'm just saying it's
Speaker 1: not what we signed on for. Right, Maybe it's better
Speaker 1: than what we signed on for. I don't know, but
Speaker 1: I mean it's very well done, and I mean they
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time with Didi there at the beginning,
Speaker 1: and so I thought it was going to be We're
Speaker 1: going to find out things about her that wind up
Speaker 1: reflecting on the mystery, right, But nah, No, we just
Speaker 1: like Stephanie Beatrice and wanted to give her more to do.
Speaker 2: Wanted her to lay on the floor with her headphones on.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so so she was part of the plot this
Speaker 2: week was that she was offered a corporate job, which
Speaker 2: then she has her whole moment of like, but I
Speaker 2: love my people.
Speaker 3: So it seems like she doesn't want to do it, but.
Speaker 1: Just feels to me like a show we've seen before.
Speaker 1: But okay, how many more episodes do only two?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean it's just very weird, well done, but weird
Speaker 1: that it really has nothing to do with anything previously.
Speaker 1: But parenting wise, we did get some parenting content.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was amused by the idea of Mom is the
Speaker 1: communication glue of the family, of the keystone of the
Speaker 1: bridge of the family communication, which is certainly true. Yes,
Speaker 1: you know, it's true when Mom's around that she's doing it,
Speaker 1: and it's true when she's gone that suddenly people don't
Speaker 1: know how to know how to do it communicate right,
Speaker 1: So that true and sad and melancholy, making and thinking,
Speaker 1: how do I teach my family to talk to me?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I probably should get on that at some point.
Speaker 1: It's too late.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's touff.
Speaker 1: I mean, but in previous episodes, Emily and Charles seem
Speaker 1: to communicate fairly well I guess maybe not. No, he
Speaker 1: was just sending her stuff in the mail. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: she's she's busy, she has errands to run.
Speaker 2: If she needs a new garden hose, yes, very important.
Speaker 1: Right, but her boys are all sorts of sensitive and communicative,
Speaker 1: right as.
Speaker 2: Long as they can talk while playing video games. I mean,
Speaker 2: that is that does go back to the old thing,
Speaker 2: like if you need to have a conversation, like being
Speaker 2: in the car or you know, being involved in something
Speaker 2: else is always a good It was a car.
Speaker 1: Strategy, and that is finally where Emily and Charles did
Speaker 1: have their conversation. Yes, in the car, Yes, because because
Speaker 1: you're you're trapped.
Speaker 2: Right, and you shouldn't look at each other, especially if
Speaker 2: you're on TV, because you will stress me out.
Speaker 1: That Yes, I hate that every time. I hate characters
Speaker 1: in a car because you always think that something's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: But yes, if they're looking at each other, or if
Speaker 1: there's a weird angle.
Speaker 2: On the road.
Speaker 1: Please, we don't need that.
Speaker 2: We've already got people in you know, sick and dying.
Speaker 2: We don't need yes, a car correct add to it all?
Speaker 1: Why and they only they only had one week to
Speaker 1: do the She should have bought the massage. She when
Speaker 1: she could have used it. I mean it was pretty
Speaker 1: heavy hand did last week and it's like, oh, they're safe.
Speaker 1: She had no time with it at all. Yes, one
Speaker 1: week to the next she was gone.
Speaker 2: Although it was funny that they brought it to her
Speaker 2: celebration of life. Everyone can have a massage, now, that's right.
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, I liked when I think
Speaker 1: he was saying that he didn't want to put a
Speaker 1: burden on his daughter by communicating all the stuff that
Speaker 1: was going on, and she, I think said that us
Speaker 1: not communicating is the burden. Yeah, which is a good
Speaker 1: thing to remember from a parenting point of view, right.
Speaker 1: You know, you can think I'm going to keep something
Speaker 1: from my kids that will cause them pain, but then
Speaker 1: it's painful for them not to have the information or
Speaker 1: it's a problem. It's more of a problem not to
Speaker 1: communicate it, right than it is, which sounds like something
Speaker 1: we could probably work into lost too. But they would
Speaker 1: all be much healthier if they communicated or just left
Speaker 1: town without murdering people one or the other.
Speaker 3: Pick one.
Speaker 1: If Jack, if Jack's wife had actually talked to him
Speaker 1: about what she was feeling, oh well, there would be
Speaker 1: no show because they would not be screwed up. Therefore
Speaker 1: they would not make it to the island.
Speaker 3: Back to the Man on the.
Speaker 2: Ens, yeah, I mean we have we have two more
Speaker 2: episodes for him to figure out what happened with the jewelry, and.
Speaker 3: You know it shows like the after Party and what
Speaker 3: was it? I feel like there was another one that
Speaker 3: I'm forgetting right now.
Speaker 2: Where you just look at each person wanted you know,
Speaker 2: each suspect gets kind of a feature. And yes, we
Speaker 2: got kind of frustrated with After Party because it was
Speaker 2: just like, well, it can't be that person because it's
Speaker 2: not the final episode. But this isn't doing anything like yeah,
Speaker 2: like we don't have any sort of real candidates at
Speaker 2: this point, right.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I and nor do we really particularly and
Speaker 1: we haven't seen the horrible lady whose jewelry got stolen
Speaker 1: nor her son. What is this show? I just I
Speaker 1: mean I don't begrudge it. It's look at aging. I
Speaker 1: think that could be an interesting idea for a show.
Speaker 1: But you have a rotating cast, I guess if you
Speaker 1: can keep killing them all. Yeah, and the whole I
Speaker 1: felt like I had seen the whole contest for Dede's
Speaker 1: soul sort of thing about the you don't want to
Speaker 1: be there with the people living their lives and deaths
Speaker 1: or do you want to have a place where you
Speaker 1: can get good coffee right and be in a high building?
Speaker 1: You know. It's I feel like we've seen that show before.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh for sure, and we know what happened.
Speaker 1: We kind of a fun like well when there's kind
Speaker 1: of a fun way in, but we seem to have
Speaker 1: gone out now, so right right now that we're in,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean, And wasn't this it was based
Speaker 3: on like a true story? Right?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah? It says that in the credits.
Speaker 2: So it's like they took this tiny little germ of
Speaker 2: an idea from from something that really happened, and they
Speaker 2: were like, but we're going to use it as a
Speaker 2: metaphor for aging and families and I don't know what all. Mike, sure,
Speaker 2: what are you doing Please please explain yourself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's either a bait and switch or they're gonna
Speaker 1: just all of a sudden pivot and go back to
Speaker 1: the mystery at the end, right, which I don't think
Speaker 1: you can do, even if even if it's a short
Speaker 1: number of it's a short season, right. And I do
Speaker 1: wonder whether it's difficult for people who have been used
Speaker 1: to a network TV season to do an eight episode series,
Speaker 1: because if you're doing parks and rec you can take
Speaker 1: eight episodes and wander around, yeah, and then get back
Speaker 1: to where you were. You can get back to the
Speaker 1: pit after twelve episodes of not talking about the pit.
Speaker 1: But for this you kind of have to keep the
Speaker 1: thread going. You think, hmmm, I don't know. I guess
Speaker 1: we can't judge until it's all over. Maybe there's something
Speaker 1: cleverly has been sewn through all of these episodes, right
Speaker 1: that we have not noticed, and we'll.
Speaker 2: Go, oh, now, I see what you were doing.
Speaker 1: That was all part of it. The jewelry is hidden
Speaker 1: a massage cheer. How did we miss? How did flow
Speaker 1: have the money for the massage char she was stealing?
Speaker 2: Well, we already went through that because she was suspected
Speaker 2: for a minute because of her Yes, gambling, gambling.
Speaker 1: Yes, maybe her debts were really high, and so this
Speaker 1: is how they smuggled her out of town. But she's
Speaker 1: not really dead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, her body body.
Speaker 1: All sorts of directions this could go, but he will
Speaker 1: not go in any.
Speaker 2: And it's too fine and it's you know, fifty four
Speaker 2: remaining minutes or however many it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So do we believe at the end of this episode
Speaker 1: that DEDI just went and bought some dang salt shakers? Yes,
Speaker 1: with her own money? Yes, because that's all from the
Speaker 1: very beginning, I was thinking, find a restaurant supply store.
Speaker 1: How expensive that can they be?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like I'm not saying you should like refurnish
Speaker 1: the whole place on your own paycheck, but salt shakers, Right,
Speaker 1: just buy some salt checkers. But maybe she bought them
Speaker 1: with the money she got from stealing things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe that's why she needs to steal stuff to
Speaker 2: fund right, it's a it's a Robinhood situation. She's taking
Speaker 2: care of the residents.
Speaker 1: Bills things from unpleasant old ladies in order to buy
Speaker 1: the small everyday items they need. Aw Well, when he
Speaker 1: needs to buy deed a fancy coffee maker.
Speaker 2: Or how about a massage chair if there's one available.
Speaker 1: Right, bet, so she doesn't have to lay on the floor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is true possibility. Well, we'll see next week.
Speaker 3: We will.
Speaker 2: We will continue with episode seven of eight. It is
Speaker 2: called from Russian Hill with Love and we'll see you
Speaker 2: back here tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Sound like a solution, but okay.
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Speaker 2: round up.
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