Sort Of (2021) s01e05 Episode Script

I got an apartment
in the queer dreamland
we always dreamed of,
and you took a dump on that dream.
Bessy is important to me.
Now she is in a coma.
I can't argue with kids
and a coma, mommy.
So now I have to move
to another country alone.
Violet punched one of her classmates
in the vaginal region.
I pushed her in the vaginal region.
You don't want to talk
about anything. Just like dad.
Did she ever mention
a friend named Penny?
-Um, no.
-He called it an emotional affair.
-I wish they were just fucking.
-Why are you weird?
Am I?
Yeah.
I'd like to try to make
my hours work.
Do you think you can handle it
with everything that's on your plate?
Whoa, I've never seen a kid fight
with a teacher like that before.
I can't believe he gave me an F.
-Said you had a lighter?
-Butane.
Why do you have this by the way?
I totally use it responsibly.
-6, 7, 8, 9.
-What is happening?
What is happening?
Sick. Totally looks like a Picasso.
What is that?
-Oh no.
-Oh My Gosh!
Fire, people!
Fire!
You're gonna go to jail!
Are you insane?
I'm so sorry
about the last minute cancellation.
School emergency.
Thank you.
Yes, I will call back later
to reschedule.
-What happened?
-Violet lit a Picasso on fire.
in my office
until your father gets here.
Very nice to meet you, Sabi.
Typically,
this is expulsion territory,
but in light of the recent situation,
I'm prepared to recommend suspension.
-Thank you.
-If you agree to send Violet
to a board-approved
child psychologist.
Totally.
What?
She definitely needs
a professional to talk to.
I don't need a therapist.
Babe, you lit
your school work on fire.
I didn't think it was fair
that the whole class
had to paint the same stupid,
still-life of an apple.
So I did a cubist take.
What I did was self expression,
which is the basis of art.
And then my art teacher
fails me for that?
Why am I in the wrong here?
Sometimes it's easier
to follow the rules,
-which is stupid, I know.
-I didn't mutilate a guinea pig,
or something you should
actually be worried about.
Why would she even think that?
You lit your schoolwork on fire.
What is that?
It's that fruit
leathery stuff they like.
Sugar right after school.
-What are you thinking?
-They always eat this.
Your mom know?
-Uh, yeah.
-She thinks sugar is evil.
-Hey!
-There's 12% real juice in that.
Oh my God.
Shame eating. Upstairs. Go.
Yay, shame!
-I live for shame.
-Go, Henry.
All right, fast,
let's go, it's a race! Come on.
Violet you're gonna win,
you're gonna win!
Hey, look, so,
there's like no shame
in seeing a therapist, Vi,
especially when life is like beyond.
What about you, Henry?
Would you like to see someone?
Sure.
Are you seeing a therapist, Sabi?
Oh my God, I don't like
Hey, what should we do
to take our minds off stuff?
Oh, Hey, let's see how 7ven is doing
in ze Fatherland.
Look.
There we are, look.
She's like fully touristing out.
7ven's like
the coolest person I know.
Oh my God,
that does not make me jealous at all.
I'd think you were cool too
if you went abroad with her.
Abroad? Fancy.
-I could have gone if I wanted to.
-Oh my gosh, why didn't you?
I had my reasons.
I'm not saying you shouldn't feel
what you're feeling.
I'm saying
you don't have to talk about it.
I'm cheating on Paul,
I'm a horrible person.
In some relationships
that wouldn't be considered cheating,
that would just be like normal.
Yeah, but you have to tell
the other person.
Uh, that's true.
What I like to do
is I put my difficult feelings
in a special little box in my brain,
and I close it up nice and tight,
and I don't open it ever,
and then I talk about stupid stuff.
Rum and Red Bull, per favore.
Grazie, prego.
-Wait, what?
-Rum and Red Bull.
What are you doing in Canada?
What is anybody doing in Canada?
I quit the Mein Art Kampf.
You quit?
The job entailed getting
terrified white people coffee.
There was barely any,
quote, "curating."
-Wait.
-Also I had a threesome with my boss,
which wasn't the best thing,
I guess, politically.
Hey, fetuses. Wait.
-Why aren't you in Berlin?
-I am in Berlin,
I'm just astral projecting.
You seem real. Anyway.
I wanted to get
the young people's take
on an idea I have
for the 19th anniversary
of the bar opening.
Here it comes.
Gender bendy Angels in America.
-Please, no.
-What?
You've canceled Angels in America?
-You've heard of AIDS, right?
-Deenzie,
do something cool and fun.
Not old and faggy.
Performance art or drag high-tea.
Oh my God, yeah.
Like royal sip and spill.
Mandatory that everyone drags up
as a royal king or queen.
Yes. White queers are stupid nuts
for high-tea and colonization.
Yeah, I do love it.
Not colonization.
Um, you forget? Shortcut's this way,
through the alley.
Nah, let's kick it on the street.
I want to take in the beauty
of our world-class city at night.
-Hey, you okay?
-Yeah, I'm fine.
So, you sat at the bar
or three hours,
I haven't seen you sit anywhere
for more than 15 minutes.
I'm embracing failure.
I'm blessed to be free of
Western notions of success.
I'm ready to be not so work driven.
When were you ever work driven?
So how are you? Awkward deflection.
Oh, gosh,
the kids are good, surprisingly.
Violet's Birthday is coming up
and it's gonna be weird,
'cause Bessy's in the hospital.
I just asked you how you are,
and you answered by telling me
how your kids are.
-Fucking Stepford wife.
-Totally.
I'm totally Nicole Kidman.
Paul, Violet's father
is a therapist, too,
and had appointments all day,
so he couldn't bring her.
And you're Fabi?
Sabi, the nanny.
Okay, interesting.
Isn't it?
How does it make you feel
to think of your mom
not being conscious?
Sad.
Have you talked
to anyone about your sadness?
Nope.
-No one in your family?
-No.
-Friends?
-No.
Have you been to visit
your mom in the hospital?
No.
Are you afraid that visiting
her might make you cry?
Not really.
Have you cried since your
mom went into the hospital?
No.
I wonder if for our next session,
if you could bring something in
that belongs to your mom,
something that reminds you of her.
I have to come back?
It would be good to find
a way for her to express
how she's feeling,
drawing pictures, journaling.
-Sometimes girls like to dress up.
-Do they?
Well, what do you actually want?
I don't know what I want.
You can ignore it
if you don't want a party.
Parents don't always know
what's best for us.
Sometimes we know.
What are you guys talking about?
Violet thinks she might
not wanna have a birthday party.
-I've already sent out the invites.
-You what?
We talked about this.
You said you wanted a neon theme.
Nobody's coming,
'cause they would've
mentioned it at school.
Your mom would want you
to have a party.
Whatever, dad.
You need to stop.
-I do?
-Stop making parenting calls
without checking with me.
I'm sorry. I just I have a patient
waiting downstairs.
-Hi.
-Hi.
I know how you feel.
My mom assumes things about me
and what I might want all the time.
Am I like, a bad person?
'Cause I haven't cried about her yet.
No, Vi, definitely not.
Just 'cause you haven't cried,
it doesn't mean you don't,
like, love her.
Not to be rude, but I kinda
don't want to talk anymore.
Cool.
Call 7ven.
-Yo, king.
-Yes, queen?
Yeah, I have to work
for a bit and I have the kids.
Are you asking me
to help you with children?
Sex is complicated.
It can help you process emotions,
but often it can help you run away.
Is that what I'm doing?
Running away from big emotions?
It's amazing how far we'll go
not to feel our feelings.
Okay, wow. This is kinda cool.
Like, you two in this space
is so wild.
Don't embarrass me. Try and blend in.
Which means,
Henry, don't look so butch.
I'm kidding. Okay, um, so,
what can I get you, little mortals?
-Cappuccino.
-I'm not getting you a cappuccino.
Sparkling Lemony.
I'll have a scone.
Hi.
It gives me anxiety
when children have
unrealistic expectations of me.
Violet's crushing on you.
You can do no wrong.
You're lucky I love you.
-Aren't you supposed to be abroad?
-Abroad? Fancy.
No, I left, 'cause I'm a failure.
-I failed art.
-I failed art, too.
-Violet lit a Picasso on fire.
-What?
That's awesome.
Picasso's a misogynist piece of shit.
What's a misogynist?
Why a lion?
You told me to bring something
that belongs to my mom.
She has this whole
little lion collection.
I collect elephants.
They're amazing.
They mourn their dead.
They create graveyards.
My mom's not dead.
I didn't say she was.
I was just sharing
with you something
Right.
What up? Hey folks!
-Shotgun!
-Of course.
-How was therapy?
-Stupid.
I hate therapy. It sucks ass.
Therapy's for people
who don't have friends
or access to mushrooms.
Therapy helps a lot of people,
and Violet, don't do mushrooms.
But I have no friends.
Babe. Technically, I'm a hundred
different people in the same body,
so, you have tons of friends.
When I need to process heavy stuff,
I talk to the people
who actually care about me.
Not somebody I pay to care about me.
Like when bad stuff happens.
See, like
I was kind of followed in Berlin,
like at night late,
and I honestly thought I was
gonna be murdered for real.
Sorry, that was intense.
My point is that I did not,
I did not talk to a professional.
I'm talking to my friends,
I'm talking to you guys right now.
Oh yeah!
Hey, you're being really great.
You know, for Violet?
Whatever, she's rad.
She deserves me.
Sorry for getting cray
in front of her.
-What happened?
-It was after a gallery show,
a couple of big scary dudes,
they followed me for 10 blocks.
Made me realize I knew no one
in this totally foreign city,
and I had nowhere to go.
And I mean, look at me,
I'm a gorgeous target.
I just kept thinking,
this is the end.
You know, weirdly, I thought of you,
and how you stayed home
to help these people.
And I thought you were such a coward,
-but now I want to be just like you.
-Oh my God, no, whatever.
I made it home safe,
but I stopped sleeping,
and it got too hard to stay.
Hey, you know
I'm here for you, right?
Like for anything.
Well, I don't want
to be alone tonight,
and my folks are out of town.
So maybe like, sleep over?
Play date and a sleepover?
Ew, is that sexual?
No. Why would that be sexual?
-Okay, don't get too close to me.
-Okay, sorry.
Everything okay?
About her birthday
Put yourself in her shoes, right?
She's like, this kid
whose mom suddenly went away,
and maybe she doesn't really know
how to deal with how she's feeling,
and is kind of maybe afraid
of feeling anything at this point.
Well, I just want her
to celebrate herself.
What's she like in the hospital?
What does she look like?
Kind of like Doctor Octopus in a way,
'cause she's got all these tubes
and things sticking out of her.
-Hi.
-Where the party at?
-Where is everyone?
-I can't believe this.
How can people bail
on a kid's birthday party?
No one wants to come
to suspended pyro girl's house.
Thanks for the reminder that
I don't have friends.
Don't be ridiculous.
It's the parents, not the kids.
Don't call me ridiculous,
you misogynist.
-Oh, snap.
-Misogynist?
Did you call me that in front of her?
No.
Fine, you want a party?
Let's have a party,
-'cause father wants a party.
-Hey.
Okay, Vi.
I'm so amazing,
and so happy right now.
-I'm doing the best I can!
-Well, do better!
Oh, you're having one
of your stress bleeds again.
Hey, I have an idea.
Vi, I totally get you not
wanting to have your own party,
but what would you say about
going to someone else's party?
-Party time!
-Violet, look at that.
Are you ready?
Just out of here. That's good.
Come on, let's go.
Whoa, you guys look insane.
You have a big head.
I've got a big wig.
Hey! Oh!
Oh my God, look at us!