DIRECTOR'S CUT: Therapist Reacts to EASY A with guest Hannah Witton

When Todd offers to get involved in Olive’s drama and she turns it down, I feel reinforces the idea that she is a independent type who doesn’t want to get others involved. I also think that speaks to her empathy, she doesn’t want anyone that doesn’t need to get involved ( and possibly hurt) to get involved. She would take the brunt of things to protect the ones around her.

Rainee Chapman

Watching their reaction to this makes me want to hear all their thoughts on Poor Things

Shani Gribben

hello Morty

Amber

Jono here. I thought I was the only person on Earth who knew that movie! MY NAME IS MUERTE!

Cinema Therapy

Y'all should do Undercover Blues. Stanley Tucci is phenomenal in it.

Amber

Just realized that the song playing in the background of Penn Badgley and Emma Stone in the car is the same one (albeit a cover) playing in the ending cake scene of Sixteen Candles. Lovely homage to a guy "seeing" and being sweet to someone who thought they were invisible (in that scene...not gonna comment on the rest of the movie and its issues).

Lau ra

I think the moral of this story is don't hug Alan

Wayne Bloom

Having been at a Friends taping, I can confirm that Lisa Kudrow's cursing is 100% her irl. 😅 Whenever she messed up a line she would go off just like that. She's flippin hilarious!

Wendy Darling

WHAT! WHO TOLD YOU? Ehehehe I love it.

Sharon aka Pocozy

Y'all should consider reviewing "She's the Man". Amanda Bynes and Channing Tatum in a modern take on Shakespeare's "A Twelfth Night". Thank you both, and all your supporting cast and crew, for what y'all are doing. Y'all have been helping me more than I can say. Thank you 🥰 #cryingwithalan

Robin

Didn’t quite expect to be read for filth in an Easy A episode, but here we are 😂 The ending section about consent in a relationship being applicable to your friendships hit me hard because it laid out, bluntly, what was fundamentally hurting me in (what used to be) my closest friendships. These were people I’d known since grade school, who I became closer to in high school. But once we were adults it dawned on me that we had incompatible interests. While I still ~could~ have fun with them, and they were always nice to me, I felt left out from sharing my actual interests and feelings with them, and 70% of the time I wasn’t having a good time. I felt like I couldn’t say “no” to whatever they wanted. I kept thinking that I could learn to live with it, that I should understand that we were simply different people, and often times felt guilty to the point of tears. To wrap it up, the penny finally dropped not too long ago, and I exited myself out of those relationships (from about five people) pretty much all at once. TLDR: a harmful relationship doesn’t have to be something where the hurt is outwardly evident. It can be a lot of little things that build up, all to the point it hurts to be honest with yourself or the people close to you. And as pointed out in this episode, that turns the relationship into a nonconsensual one.

Prim

Alan, how is an Oscar winner considered underrated? Lol Maybe she should have some more?

Holly MP

Thank you so much for covering one of my favorite movies. My entire highschool life, from entry to graduation, was a complete lie. What I "did" and what I was "about" as a person in school was a complete lie and not remotely close to who I was outside of school. And I relate so much to "I'm beginning to hate me too" because living a lie like that where no one knows you for you is so damn painful.

So my hot take is parents need to be a little pushy. Not aggressive but involved and communicative

Deborah Olsen

So here’s my “hot take” on the parents in this movie. If they were parents of full grown adults they’d be fantastic because their jokes are and can be taken with adult understanding of life nuances. Like the joke about the father being parent of the week. A young kid won’t understand exactly why (beyond oh my parents love each other) and could very well take that as “I’m not loved”. — but if they were parenting a full adult with the life experience of adulthood they’d be fantastic. I think with teens (who don’t have the life experience to know when opening up would be a good thing or not) they would need to be more pushy or at the very least proactive about trying to help her understand that she probably needs to talk or speak up about these red flags. Cause red flags are red flags for a reason- right?

Deborah Olsen