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Shrinking Recap: Maladaptive Behaviors
Watching Jimmy and Alice reconnect makes for the most moving episode of the season.
But when Ava shows up to Jimmy’s house (it’s closer to where she works), Brian quickly finds himself falling into old patterns, pacing around and rambling anxiously until Charlie tells him to stop and breathe. I really like the choice to let him succeed here; sure, he privately gushes about Alice’s beauty after seeing a photo of her in a new dress for Dylan’s school dance, but he didn’t insist on coming to the store with her, nor does he give her date another dad talk. He also has some valuable wisdom that stretches back to episode three of the show, when Jimmy first said he had “dead-wife face.” As he explains to Alice, he first started using the phrase in order to claim ownership of his grief, to let people know they didn’t need to walk on eggshells around him.
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