8.031 minSeason 2 • Episode 8
LatestPat struggles to find someone she can trust. Terry’s mayoral ambitions seem to have overwhelmed his loyalty to her. Gaynor struggles with her own fate and Jake gets a second chance to defend his family.
A dysfunctional family moves from the city to a small town into a house in which terrible atrocities have taken place. But no one seems to notice except for Patricia “Pat” Phelps, who’s convinced she’s either depressed or possessed – turns out, the symptoms are exactly the same.
Acting
Courteney Cox fully unhinged, finally.
Writing
Sharon Horgan's signature trauma-comedy sharpness.
Production
That house is practically its own cast member.
Creators
Sharon Horgan, Jeff Astrof
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The show explicitly riffs on 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and 19th-century 'female hysteria' diagnoses, updating Gothic domestic horror for the SSRI era.
Sharon Horgan created this after 'Catastrophe,' and Jeff Astrof wrote for 'Friends'—making this a bizarre full-circle for Cox's career.
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