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 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 December ninth,
Speaker 2: we're discussing the sixth episode of the current season of Shrinking.
Speaker 2: It is called in a Lonely Place, which did give
Speaker 2: us pause last week when we realized that was so
Speaker 2: we get We got a lot of, you know, some
Speaker 2: kind of breakthroughs in this episode.
Speaker 1: We did yes and you know, parenting wise, there was
Speaker 1: a whole thing of Paul and Jimmy reaching out to
Speaker 1: Seawan's dad Tim and sort of approaching them as like, hey,
Speaker 1: we also fed up as par as fathers, right, so
Speaker 1: don't feel too bad, and sort of brought him around,
Speaker 1: and he went to Seawan and admitted that he didn't
Speaker 1: know what to do, so he did a poor job. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it looks like they are going to be mending
Speaker 1: their relationship. So heay, fathers, he just takes two goofballs
Speaker 1: in a canoe to bring bring you around. And Sean
Speaker 1: had as as we at the end of last week's episode,
Speaker 1: had gotten himself beaten up. But I guess the fact
Speaker 1: that he didn't fight back is a step forward, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they didn't really just wanted to get hurt. He didn't
Speaker 1: hurt anybody.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they didn't really make much of that, but I
Speaker 2: felt like it was a thing like, yeah, he wasn't
Speaker 2: lashing out, He was inviting.
Speaker 1: Lashing out only at himself, right right. Oh, and then
Speaker 1: we had this funny but yeah right scene of him
Speaker 1: high on drugs greeting the whole rest of the cast.
Speaker 1: I mean to visit him in the in one Big
Speaker 1: Gang and he's like saying dragged out things to each
Speaker 1: of them, including revealing the fact that Alice tried to
Speaker 1: kiss him. Yes, and you know, so that was okay,
Speaker 1: have your fun.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it's like a sitcom requirement.
Speaker 1: Right, that was very sick. This show is sometimes very
Speaker 1: sitcummy and then sometimes very dramedy ish, and there was
Speaker 1: more of the latter in some of this than I
Speaker 1: would like. I would like Liz and Derek to just
Speaker 1: be the happy, fun married couple who are sort of
Speaker 1: stabily at the middle of this, and that is that
Speaker 1: is going in the wrong direction right at the moment.
Speaker 1: So but I do think that they did a pretty
Speaker 1: good job of setting up how sometimes I mean I
Speaker 1: would say once I don't know if it's sometimes one
Speaker 1: spouse is hurting but not able to express it in
Speaker 1: the way that the other spouse can understand, right, and
Speaker 1: so they overlook the signals even though I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: show the way you said, had Brian say, sometimes you
Speaker 1: can see people when people are in trouble. It's right
Speaker 1: on their face. Cut a limb right in there with
Speaker 1: their rocks. We get it. You might want to show
Speaker 1: that to Derek, however, right, and how like have I mean,
Speaker 1: Derek has been such a fun, happy everything rolls off
Speaker 1: his back sort of character, which is real fun to
Speaker 1: spend time with, but you do start to see how
Speaker 1: maybe if you were married to that person and occasionally
Speaker 1: not in the super fun mood, it might be a problem.
Speaker 1: So we've seen where they were going since with this,
Speaker 1: since last week with Josh Hopkins, and they keep going there,
Speaker 1: and it's I mean, they're setting it up. Well. I
Speaker 1: think I still don't want it, but they're setting it
Speaker 1: up well, Dan, yes, so you know, just look at
Speaker 1: her pictures. Yeah, he's really not interested in the pictures.
Speaker 1: And then Connor is uh I wrote down with Connors say,
Speaker 1: because I feel like my kids could say this to
Speaker 1: me sometimes my whole life, You've been up my ass
Speaker 1: and now when I need you, you can't even be there
Speaker 1: for me. But they have never called me a king
Speaker 1: Kong b So I guess I'm still doing okay, oh
Speaker 1: boy parenting.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, then you have Brian who professes to,
Speaker 2: you know, be worried about how bad apparent he's going
Speaker 2: to be. And he really kind of takes Alice under
Speaker 2: his wing on this one, extremely awkwardly and humorously.
Speaker 1: But yes, he.
Speaker 2: Kind of does the right thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he really does. He does some good auditioning for
Speaker 1: the role of father. Yeah, in bringing you know, taking
Speaker 1: care of Lewis to some degree the drunk driver, and
Speaker 1: also taking care of Alice and bringing them together and
Speaker 1: what could have been really awkward and awful was really
Speaker 1: very sweet. Yes, really really well done. Because you would
Speaker 1: think this could be really kind of icky of you know,
Speaker 1: forgiveness and all that stuff, but kind of just Brett
Speaker 1: Goldstey is giving such a nice performance of somebody who's
Speaker 1: just sort of accepting all of the responsibility and trying
Speaker 1: to make things better and asking questions and not forcing things,
Speaker 1: but just being very sweet. So that was a really
Speaker 1: nice scene in his house. I thought, very good for
Speaker 1: all of them. Bryan is so awkward. He's like he's
Speaker 1: fighting against his instincts to be a goofball and trying
Speaker 1: to be right, like, you know, a responsible parental figure,
Speaker 1: and he does well, but he's radically crawling out of
Speaker 1: the skin to do right. Good luck with that Bardon thing, buddy,
Speaker 1: all right, it doesn't get better from her, No, It's
Speaker 1: going to be that way for like twenty one years
Speaker 1: at least.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that whole scene, Like, I think it
Speaker 2: was great that they had Brian you know, being super
Speaker 2: awkward because yes, like how do you know, like how
Speaker 2: does Alice know what to say? How does Lewis know
Speaker 2: what to say? Like it was such a difficult scene
Speaker 2: to write, I'm sure, like yeah, to come up with
Speaker 2: all that stuff.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and to act to know just how to
Speaker 1: modulate it so that it seems real, right and not
Speaker 1: just a sitcom reprochement.
Speaker 2: Right. And I thought that the Alice actor did extremely
Speaker 2: well too, Like you could just Liskeita Maxwell, I believe
Speaker 2: is Yeah, the changes in her face, you know, the
Speaker 2: very yes.
Speaker 1: So able to remember her mom with joy and that
Speaker 1: sadness is kind of sweet. Yeah, and uh and you
Speaker 1: know and Brian helping with that to some degree to
Speaker 1: remembering her too, and you know you forget that it
Speaker 1: was he was good friends with her too, sure, so
Speaker 1: just lovely.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then we get introduced that Lewis had a partner, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and we don't know what happened to her, and I
Speaker 2: sort of feel like, I don't know, I think you
Speaker 2: don't have a picture around if somebody breaks up with you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So yeah, I have been watching a hints. Okay,
Speaker 1: I was being real good for a while, just watching
Speaker 1: what we were watching and then I just one day
Speaker 1: I had some time in my hands and it's like,
Speaker 1: I saw these new episodes to watch them. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: am biting my tongue anyway, but yes, that was I
Speaker 1: had forgotten that that was introduced in this episode. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it does make you wonder, and I agree, it's not
Speaker 1: if it had been a bad breakup, you would not
Speaker 1: have the picture still up right. I was amused by
Speaker 1: the fact that like fatherlike son of Sean's dad was
Speaker 1: very amused every time Paul picked on. They have like
Speaker 1: that same smile, right, and you know, Paul so enjoys
Speaker 1: doing that, so give him that.
Speaker 2: Then we had Gabby kind of, you know, making up
Speaker 2: with her sister and coming to terms with the fact
Speaker 2: that she needs to kind of step up.
Speaker 1: But it was amusing that after she said that that
Speaker 1: I'm going to step up, and then, you know how,
Speaker 1: I think her sister asked how long do you need?
Speaker 1: And Gabby says twenty years? Twenty years, and I think
Speaker 1: they negotiated to negotiated to three months. But it's still,
Speaker 1: oh my goodness, still such a I mean, she's already
Speaker 1: her life is pretty full, and to take that on
Speaker 1: is difficult to know what to do about it. But
Speaker 1: you know, obviously the sister needs to be set free.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a difficult and not fun topic to add.
Speaker 1: Although parenting related certainly, do you do with your parents?
Speaker 1: I personally flew to the other side of the guy
Speaker 1: from mine, loved them, didn't want to deal. But but
Speaker 1: I'd also did help my mother in law in my house,
Speaker 1: so yeah, but she was she was not my job.
Speaker 1: It was mostly to keep my husband from having to
Speaker 1: drive across town to go help.
Speaker 2: Her, and then she could watch soap operas with your daughter.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. And also like Mari Povich and
Speaker 1: stuff like Yes, I remember my daughter asking me one
Speaker 1: like lunchtime one summer, something about you know, mess a
Speaker 1: messy relationship of some sort, and like, where is this
Speaker 1: coming from? Oh, you're watching those shows with grandma. Oh kay,
Speaker 1: I got ith parenting?
Speaker 2: Yep, well what's next for us?
Speaker 1: There was just just on the parenting, on the parenting topic,
Speaker 1: just one more there was a somebody said, dads are tricky.
Speaker 1: They don't always come through the way you'd like them to,
Speaker 1: but they do eventually, which also of course true with moms.
Speaker 1: And there was also something about somebody being defensive of
Speaker 1: the father was being defensive because I knew you were right,
Speaker 1: and yeah, yeah, relatable, relatable, definitely for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So next week we'll see what some of the consequences
Speaker 2: are of some of these revelations and discussions.
Speaker 1: And yes, we will meetings and there will be funny
Speaker 1: things and there will be not funny things, and that
Speaker 1: is just the show we've got.
Speaker 2: That's right. So it's the seventh episode and it's called.
Speaker 1: Get in the C A S E A C.
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