S01.E02: Yours, Sugar

[AnimeMania]

Clare grapples with whether or not she wants to become Sugar as she reels from trouble at work and with Rae. In the past, Young Clare and Young Lucas must confront their grief at Frankie’s funeral. If Clare can’t figure out her own life, can she be Sugar?

Premiere Date: April 7, 2023    Hulu

[pasdetrois]

I love Hahn and Wever, but Clare's extremely chaotic behavior is difficult to watch and appreciate. Also, if she's separated from her family, why not stay in an inexpensive weekly rental kind of place?  It makes no sense that she's wandering the streets at night or illegally bunking with an Alzheimers patient.

If we are meant to understand Clare is in emotional pain, I struggle to see it because she's so annoying.

[topanga]

On 4/9/2023 at 9:56 AM, pasdetrois said:

I love Hahn and Wever, but Clare's extremely chaotic behavior is difficult to watch and appreciate. Also, if she's separated from her family, why not stay in an inexpensive weekly rental kind of place?  It makes no sense that she's wandering the streets at night or illegally bunking with an Alzheimers patient.

If we are meant to understand Clare is in emotional pain, I struggle to see it because she's so annoying.

I agree. She's hard to watch. I see her make poor choice after poor choice. And based on her personality, it's hard to believe she was ever mature and somewhat responsible. 

I suppose the show will reveal what happened between the time she and David (?) got together and where she is now, but I'm not sure I want to stick with the show long enough to find out. 

[Faceplant]

On 4/9/2023 at 9:56 AM, pasdetrois said:

If we are meant to understand Clare is in emotional pain, I struggle to see it because she's so annoying.

I agree with this. I understand she lost her mother at a young age, but Clare is 49 and should have figured some stuff out by now. She does not think at all before making decisions. Sleeping in the alzheimer patient's room was so dumb. 

[paramitch]

I want so much to like this. I love Hahn, I get what's happening, and what Strayed was doing with the material -- it's easy to see the roots of her autobiographical journey of Wild (which I loved, both book and film) in this fictional story, especially in the heroine's unlikability, poor roots, heroin addiction, and how her loss of her (once again, saintly) mother contributed to her hypersexuality and collapse. And again her mother's the sweetest person in the world, loves horses, and sacrifices everything for her snotty, asshole daughter (and quiet slacker son).

But slogging through it is another matter. What's really weird to experience is watching this very visibly unstable woman destroy every relationship she has and then blame everyone but herself for it.

And then she's supposed to be an ADVICE columnist? She gave her daughter's college money to her brother. And is still evidently excusing it? Ugh. That's theft. I don't blame her husband or daughter for hating her. I don't blame the Alzheimer's patient's daughter for finding her actions creepy -- sleeping in her mother's room, 

I just -- it's not working for me.

But this is just very hard for me to get through. I'm halfway through episode 3 and... I just don't know if I'm gonna stick with this.

Edited June 29, 2023 by paramitch
Fixed a missing phrase

[SummerDreams]

I so want to find a drama - comedy to watch but this is not it. I love the actress but she is not enough. All this dying and the sickness talk is not comedian, it makes me depressed rather than happy. I think the writers have lost the ability to create a pure comedy without any glitter on it. Just smart dialogues and personal relationships. Am I asking for too much?