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Its emotional work to watch this show.
You have to commit to listening to each character equally and not taking anybodys side.
All of the major characters are juggling multiple traumas, some recent, others low-level but continuing.
(Im in one now.)
(The connection between Juless life experience and her drug use is ripe for exploration in future episodes.)
We also get more details about Matts inner life.
Matts story didnt have a proper ending, either, of course does anyones?
This is all overwhelming in a good way a trove of information that enriches the characters without explaining them.
The show is just as smart about depression as it is about grief.
As Leigh says, quoting another woman in her therapy group, My sister didnt kill herself.
Mental illness killed my sister.
And even if you get used to the bad knee, theres never just one injury.
The older you get, the more injuries you collect.
The emotional ones you feel in the body, too.
People arent the only things taken from us.
We lose relationships, partnerships, jobs, homes, hope for the future, faith in institutions.
That it understands that were all in it together is what makes it not just bearable, but inspirational.
