S03.E06: Why Not Yesterday

[Annber03]

21 hours ago, possibilities said:

Max addresses everything with that same half-cocked mania, so it's not even out of character for him to do the same with this. But the show deciding to critique him rather than glorify him for it was actually rather refreshing.

I just saw this episode recently with a friend, and YES, I really appreciated this aspect as well. I think it was a good way to look at the whole issue in society of well-meaning people going WAY overboard without fully understanding or listening to the people they're trying to help. 

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Helen is more and more fed up with him, I noticed her getting snarky and impatient in the previous episode also. And that, more than anything else, is driving his increasing panicky ass behavior. He realizes he's completely dependent on her emotionally as well as in his job. And that he has not been even slightly... equitable... in their personal relationship, any more than he's been in his career.

Not putting the wet paint sign up was, I think, another way to signal how manic and ass-y he was being. I mean, that is a rock bottom basic thing to do, you don't have to be woke to do it, and the entire project was running on panic, not process.

 

"Once you solve racism, you can put out a word-of-the-day calendar." That line, along with Helen's speech to Max where she literally calls him out on the way he's handling this, proved exactly why I love her :D. I'm so glad she got to have that moment with that speech, it was literally what he, and viewers in general, needed to hear.

I also loved the scene with Max trying to talk to all the white doctors regarding their pay, and the women starting to discuss the fact that they're paid less than men at the hospital:

"We're not discussing gender at the moment."
"Oh, okay, so when's THAT meeting?"

XD

Floyd's reaction to the paint was great as well. "You're solving systemic racism...with paint...?" And then Max is like, "Well, no, it's not that simple..." Gee, ya think, Max :p?