S01.E06: Couples Therapy (Naked & Afraid)

[AnimeMania]

Hihi told John and Jane to take some space! John has been spending lots of time with his new friend, Bev. But what about Jane? Will John forget about all the fun they had together? Poor Jane! Bad, bad, John! How will John and Jane bounce back from INFIDELITY!

Premiere Date: February 2, 2024    Prime Video 

[Raja]

On 2/5/2024 at 1:34 PM, AnimeMania said:

Hihi told John and Jane to take some space! John has been spending lots of time with his new friend, Bev. But what about Jane? Will John forget about all the fun they had together? Poor Jane! Bad, bad, John! How will John and Jane bounce back from INFIDELITY!

Premiere Date: February 2, 2024    Prime Video 

Oh, John. Oh, Jane. Our pair have been oh so bad at sharing and caring. Time to call in help -- John and Jane, get ready for: COUPLES THERAPY, what a gas!

Premiere Date: February 2, 2024    Prime Video 

[Raja]

Every time an artifact in the therapist home was shown I was wondering if she was a Jane now in low risk without a John as no way would the Company allow her to get out. I was thinking of a translator getting retired to hold the secret over on Disney+ and waiting to see if our Jane and John or another would take her out.

But with each episode we are going further into the John Wick world with no blow back from very public actions. With John thinking about a kid Jane has  cut the sex  off so we go on to more killing, but if your heart's not in it? I guess two more until an ambiguous, but not the movie's ending since everyone ask if there will be a second season.

[Rahul]

I found a couple of moments where Jane committed phenomenal blunders on the missions that were shown interspersed throughout the therapy sessions because  she has clearly been established as the better of the two operatives.

First of all, during the game night, Jane would have used the sniper riffle to first kill the man in the yellow shirt, because he was the only armed target among them. Instead, they had her take him out last, endangering John's life. No way Jane would have done that.

Secondly, during the fight in the elevator where the lift kept comically going further up and up the skyscraper, Jane would have likely taken a second to hit some buttons on the control panel to either stall the elevator or ensure that it stopped at a floor a few levels above the lobby when she realized what was happening. She would definitely not have allowed the elevator to advance all the way to the roof so that John had to climb 20+ stories with his asthma and be of no help to her.

Both these incidents were totally in service of the story the writers wanted to tell but they really did interfere with my suspension of disbelief.

That being said, I applaud the creative use of the the therapy session in this episode to push the narrative of John and Jane's troubled relationship forward. I enjoyed Sarah Paulson in the role of the therapist and knew her life (or home, as it were) was in peril the second she revealed she had been recording all the sessions.

Also, kudos to Donald Glover for the acting in that scene where he finally lost it in the woods and went on an absolutely acerbic diatribe calling Jane incapable of genuine human emotion and falling somewhere on the autistic spectrum. There was something so primal and real about that argument between the lovers. I felt that in my gut. The acting on this show has been something to behold.