S01.E02: Alan Learns to Meditate

[Guest]

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Sam delves more deeply into the reason he entered therapy, but he encounters resistance from Dr. Strauss as he attempts to continue their sessions; a gathering sense of not being alone leads to a revelation about the house.

 

[gesundheit]

This is good. I would love the short episodes if we didn't have to wait a week between them, but it's going to be torture.

[AntFTW]

3 hours ago, gesundheit said:

This is good. I would love the short episodes if we didn't have to wait a week between them, but it's going to be torture.

Yeah, I didn’t wanna stop watching. The show has my attention.

They at least could have released the first three episodes. Two episodes is just selfish.

Edited August 30, 2022 by AntFTW

[HelloooKitty]

Any guesses to who the mystery person is? Is it an alter? Is it his mom?

[gesundheit]

58 minutes ago, HelloooKitty said:

Any guesses to who the mystery person is? Is it an alter? Is it his mom?

I kind of have a guess based on the cast list, but if folks haven't seen that I don't want to be spoilery!

[sacrebleu]

Is it just me, or are there more frequent commercials for this show. ( I don't have commercial free Hulu) 

It really effects the flow. 

[patty1h]

6 hours ago, HelloooKitty said:

Any guesses to who the mystery person is? Is it an alter? Is it his mom?

I'm guessing that Sam may have multiple personalities and one of them was the person coming down the stairs, and that's why Alan didn't look too surprised.

Edited August 31, 2022 by patty1h

[Cinnabon]

I think it’s his mom.

[Corgi-ears]

It would be kind of hilarious if it's yet another therapist, and the house is just full of kidnapped therapists and Sam just goes from room to room for sessions.

[Zima]

Loving this so far. Steve Carrell is just amazing in everything, and "Sam" is good too. I like their dynamic. Fkn dying to know who was coming down the stairs! 

[AntFTW]

Did they explain how the therapist was captured in the first place or we just jumped right into him being captured with nothing in the middle?

[Guest]

26 minutes ago, AntFTW said:

Did they explain how the therapist was captured in the first place or we just jumped right into him being captured with nothing in the middle?

They showed him hearing something outside and going to look. We don’t see him get taken but it appears it happened then. 

[RainbowBrite]

Based on his reaction, I thought maybe it was a child coming down the stairs. 

[mostlylurking]

These episodes are way too short.  And we have to sit through commercials too.  At the rate we’re going with shorter and shorter  episodes/seasons, pretty soon the trailers we see for the show will be the actual show.  Ugh.

[Corgi-ears]

On 9/16/2022 at 3:11 AM, mostlylurking said:

At the rate we’re going with shorter and shorter  episodes/seasons

I know you're speaking generally, about TV As A Whole. But, interestingly, where this season of this show is concerned, the episodes are actually getting longer by about a minute as we go along. Ep 1: 21:00; Ep 2: 22:30; Ep 3: 23:30; Ep 4: 24:43. Probably random, but still: hmmm.

I actually like the format of 30-min dramas.