After a blow to the head, Abby decides she can't do it anymore. Her life just can't be only about the house, the kids and the wife. She needs more: she needs to be Eleanor.
Acting
Robin Weigert's dual performance is devastatingly precise and hungry.
Direction
Passon films sex with the mundane intimacy of folding laundry.
Writing
The concussion as inciting incident: brilliant metaphor or lazy device? Discuss.
Director
Stacie Passon
Robin Weigert
Abby
Maggie Siff
Sam Bennet
Johnathan Tchaikovsky
Justin
Julie Fain Lawrence
Kate Abelman
Laila Robins
Woman #3
Ben Shenkman
Graeme
Janel Moloney
Pru
Daniel London
Evan
Emily Kinney
The Girl
Chase Bolnick
Kid in Presentation
Zara Tindall
Spinner
Mimi Ferraro
Woman #4
Cleo Gray
Woman #7
Tracee Chimo
Woman #2
Erika Latta
Woman #5
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released the same year as 'Blue Is the Warmest Color,' this got buried—partly for being too quiet, partly for being too queer without the male gaze.
The title's double meaning: literal brain trauma and the jarring collision of Abby's two incompatible lives.
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