Overview

Depressed roommates Sam and Pat help each other navigate the inherent awkwardness of therapy through profanity, humor, and take out.

Pat worries about depressing her therapist (like we all do) and then gets herself put on suicide watch because of poorly-timed nihilistic humor. Sam, on the other hand, thinks way too much about how long it takes her to introduce herself to new therapists. Sam often wonders if she is being rude to them (don’t we all?)

Queer Plotline Timeline

By the end of the series, Pat identifies as a trans woman. In regard to what this means for the character in previous episodes, her actress, Christine Cherry, said this:

The episodes exist as they are and we certainly aren’t gonna George Lucas them so that Pat’s gender expression matches my current one. So I guess that means that the Pat that exists in those episodes is a boy because that’s what the text says and the text is the text and death of the author and all that. However, if/when we make more episodes, Pat will be a girl in those. If that makes your head hurt, well, it makes my head hurt, too.

Notable Queer-Centric Episodes

Season 1, Episode 8 “I Have To Come Out To My Therapist” — Sam puzzles about how to come out as asexual to her therapist without it becoming ‘a whole thing.’