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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The entire flashback sequence to the Irvine parents bringing Milo home from the hospital and [b]dealing with night wake ups was soooo relatable[/b]. I think this is episode 2 or 3? I haven't watched the whole thing yet, but this isn't spoiler-y for the kidnapping plot.

There is an exchange where Marissa is totally sleep deprived and at the end of her rope and Peter is trying to be supportive but also taking zero personal responsibility for figuring out the problem with sleep. He's like "why don't you sleep when Milo sleeps during the day?" and she tells him that's the only time she can get anything done all day.

And then she kind of goes off on him and says look, we aren't the first people to deal with this problem, there must be guidance on sleep training or how to make this easier, I'm sure there are books and experts, can you please just help figure this out. And Peter just looks at her and says, "Yes, I want to help. Just tell me what to do."

And the next shot is Marissa reading the books and doing research online and a montage of her figuring out sleep training and then cutting to Milo sleeping through the night and Marissa and Peter waking up after a decent night's sleep. And Peter is like "good work, look at that -- you can do anything." And Marissa doesn't look like she wants to kill him, but also... well if you are a mom who has experienced this EXACT sequence of events, you know how she feels.

I think this is what this show is about and they are nailing those moments. All the phone calls between Dakota Fanning's character and her husband asking him to help out with his own son so she can attend a work meeting or meet a client. And the way he kind of rolls his eyes at her career goals and points out that it won't even result in a higher salary so what's the point. Meanwhile he is a school teacher and clearly makes very little AND has a schedule that should be more conducive to being the primary parent but he's somehow not? I know families exactly like this. Exactly. And you know if the roles were reversed and the mom was the teacher and the dad had the kind of demanding but more prestigious job, that mom would be handling everything at home.

The kidnapping plot is unrealistic and a lot of the twists are soapy but the show is doing a good job of highlighting these little tensions at the heart of reasonably functional, happy marriages but where women still get this raw deal because we still just let men off the hook when it comes to parenting and the men are not even malicious about it, it's just a death by a thousand cuts as women pick up all the little loose ends and men don't really think about them at all.[/quote]

Maybe, but they appear to be making SO much money, like millions a year.  If the parents were being woken up multiple times a night, they would 100% hire help.  Like a live-in nanny.[/quote]

Agree. Someone with a $5m house in Wilmette which also has $80k a year property taxes, they would have had a night nurse for three mos. [/quote]

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