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CastAmanda Peet, Shear, Alessandro Nivola, Judd Hirsch, Bob Balaban, Andrea Martin, Zosia Mamet, Jessica Harper, Holland Taylor, Sheng Wang
Year released2025
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Did Fred mean to say he had been in psychiatry, rather than "psychopathology"? Did Fred's hiring of Sam constitute a professional boundary violation?
Office worker Sam Daniel Stein appears to suffer a panic attack.
Sam tells a bookstore clerk, "... I’m sorry if I freaked anyone out." (0:01)
Sam appears to have suffered a traumatic head injury. (0:03)
Psychiatrist Fred asks Sam, "When was the last panic attack?"
”You depressed?”
”Smoking grass?”
Sam: ”... struggling with some OCD stuff.”
Fred: ”What are the intrusive thoughts?”
”I’ve been in psychopathology for 50 years...”
Sam: ”.... your parents were killed in Auschwitz.”
”... internalized antisemitism.”
Fred: ”Go hit your head against the wall.”
"Don't worry about me...”
”... The best treatment for OCD is conditioning yourself to the thought...”
”... you’re an anxious Jew with mild OCD.”
Sam: ”... intergenerational trauma...?”
Fred: ”Now let’s talk meds.”
Sam: ”... didn’t have the Xanax on me.
Fred: ”... up the Effexor... good for obsessions... keep 2 milligrams Xanax on you.” (0:05)
Sam asks Fred’s wife and receptionist Helen, "... would that be right for a patient to...?" (0:10)
Fred’s musician son David tells Sam, referring to his daughter, "That’s Emma, doing an insane amount of homework..."
”... That’s why were’ in crisis.”
Referring to Zoe: "... Here’s your EpiPen..." (0:13)
David tells Sam, "Don’t worry..." (0:16)
Sam tells the girls, "I think E.T. is on NetFlix."
Zoe: ”What’s E.T.?”
Sam: ”... know what E.T. is?”
Emma: ”I know E.T..”
Claire: ”I know E.T..”
Emma: ”You don’t know E.T..”
Sam: ”We should watch E.T..”
Emma: ”Daddy says E.T. is scary.”
Sam: ”... when E.T. is hospitalized?" (0:17)
David’s wife Diane Cohen takes pills from a prescription bottle. (0:21)
Kim tells Diane, "He has Alzheimer’s, Diane..." (0:22)
David tells Dianne, "... L train service is a nightmare."
”My dad’s patient, Sam?”
”... I know it’s crazy.” (0:25)
Sam reads to Zoe: "... He tried to do so with dignity..." (0:28)
Dianne tells Sam, "Passion Fish." (0:30)
Dianne tells Sam, "Don’t worry about it..."
”... Jimmy was kind...” (0:35)
Sam tells Lenny, "... It was a panic attack..." (0:39)
Dianne, referring to Sam: "... he was having a panic attack, which is a mental health issue... mental health?... I’m really proud..."
Diane tells Lenny, ”... You’re being insane.” (0:40)
Dianne answers Sam: "Search for Meaning. It's, um, by a psychiatrist..." (0:44)
David(?), off camera: "... so impatient..." (0:48)
Sam insufflates a marijuana cigarette, then shares it with his friend Lauren.
Sam tells Lauren, ”... I had some, like, mental health stuff...”
”I’m, like, really high.” (0:51)
Dianne tells David, “Just be more gentle. You look insane..."
David: ”... Comin’ down off the high.” (0:55)
David tells Sam, referring to Dianne, "They adjusted her meds..."
”Psych!” (1:00)
Sam tells David, “... I forgot my medication."
”... had an anxiety attack... freaked them out.”
David: ”What medication?”
Sam: ”Xanax?” (1:01)
Sam: "Very clever."
Lenny: ”Trans?”
David asks Sandy, referring to Sam, ”... he’s one of my father’s psychiatric patients, or that he had a nervous breakdown...?”
Fred: ”... never was I involved with a patient...”
Dianne: ”He forgot his meds.”
Lenny: ”We should worry about his meds?”
Fred: ”He should have had his benzodiazepine.”
Dianne: ”... 700 pounds of Lexapro...”
Fred tells David, ”... You can’t drive now. You’ve been drinking...”
”... You’re drunk. You’re drunk.” (1:03)
Jenny tells Sam, "... no worries..."
Referring to the girls: ”Are they obsessed with you?”
Sam: ”I had like a panic attack...”
”... like really drunk...”
Jenny: ”She sounds like a sociopath." (1:09)
David: “Are you gonna give Darth Vader a hug?”
Claire: ”What’s Darth Vader?"
Boy: ”Star Wars.”
Becky: ”Painkillers...” (1:12)
Psychiatrist Dr. Greene tells Dianne, "... you did fine with Prozac... but Prozac stopped working after Claire. You added Zyprexa... added Effexor... Celexa didn’t help... something from Lexapro. You paired it with Adderall, but that kept you up. You added Wellbutrin... trazodone for sleep."
Dianne: ”... sleep stuff, and... depression.”
Greene: ”Any suicidal ideation?”
”Do you have any plans to kill yourself?”
”.. Are you in psychotherapy?”
”Have you been in psychotherapy?”
Dianne: ”... You’ll kill yourself.” (1:17)
Sam tells Dianne, "... Don’t worry about it..."
”... I am kind of curious...”
”... I acted kind of crazy...”
”... I’m shocked...” (1:20)