My Unorthodox Life (2021) s02e05 Episode Script
The Way We Were
1
I'm only a step away
Gotta keep on movin' ♪
I'm only a step away
Gotta keep improvin' ♪
I'm only a step away
Gotta keep on movin' ♪
Hey, I finished my workout downstairs.
-Nice. Jealous.
-Damn.
-My blood is pumping.
-Boy!
-Good morning.
-[Shlomo] What did you do?
I did some chest.
-Ohh! Uh
-You see some bouncing?
Is your name The Rock?
-I'm working on it.
-I can do that!
-Oh my gosh. You win, you win.
-[Miriam laughs]
-[Shlomo] Good.
-[Ra'ed sighs]
Should we see who's online?
[Shlomo] Under, uh, Grindr?
I mean, after a workout,
you need to see who's online.
-Share the pheromones?
-[Miriam] Is that the way it is?
-Your blood's pumping and everything.
-Yeah. I get it, I get it.
Five hundred feet away.
Probably in this building.
[Shlomo] Oh!
No, I'm joking.
Batsheva, I feel like she doesn't relate
with having an open relationship.
It really upset me, but at the same time,
I see Robert in my future.
So I just have to put my focus and energy
on our relationship
and not worry about other people.
I gotta focus and work.
Today's a workday for me.
[Shlomo] Any new news?
I'm booked for another interview
for another position at 4:00 p.m.
But that's round one. I'm a professional
interviewer at this point.
-[Shlomo] You should start a business.
-Literally, I'm amazing at interviews.
-I just don't land the position. [laughs]
-[Shlomo] Do it through Zoom.
[Ra'ed] Currently unemployed.
I am applying to about 20 jobs every day.
I feel like a robot.
[robotic voice] Résumé to résumé
to application to website.
[normal voice] It's a lot of work.
You and I need to open a business.
We'd be good business partners.
-We vibe well.
-Let's.
We should start a tequila company.
There are two bottles. We top and bottom.
[Shlomo laughs]
What if we sell the top of the bottle
as the top and advertise it as the top.
-We sell the bottom as the bottom
-They connect to each other?
What!
[Ra'ed] Oh, yeah.
Tequila's great.
[Shlomo laughs]
I'll make it till tomorrow ♪
Keep on moving ♪
You only live once, so ♪
-[Michelle] So nice to meet you.
-[Julia] Lovely to meet you.
You too. I'm so glad to meet you today.
Thank you for coming in.
Well, I was a bit nervous,
I have to tell you. [laughs]
I promise you,
this is gonna be a lot of fun.
It's not like going
to a dentist or anything.
Well, in my head the word "matchmaker,"
in the world I came from,
that was how you got married.
You didn't have many options.
When I think matchmaker,
I think religious, back in that old world.
shadchan, right?
shadchan.
-I am a modern-day matchmaker.
-Please, think of another word.
-[laughs]
-How about this? Headhunter.
-Yes.
-Recruiter.
-I love it.
I have used a matchmaker before.
I used a matchmaker in my old world.
Then I met Silvio through friends.
Now I'm 50.
I have no clue about,
like, the dating world.
I don't know apps.
I'm really counting on your help.
I don't think the apps I'm on are what
like, you're not going on Hinge.
Why not?
Because you're not gonna find your calib
These are people who I'm casually seeing.
You're not a casual-seer person.
You're like Shlomo. No offense.
[Julia sighs and groans]
Basically, I'm gonna do the next chapter
of my life like I've done everything.
Jump in feet first,
hope for the best, learn as I go.
So I wanna learn about your background.
Um, I grew up in a very
Orthodox extremist community.
-Monsey?
-Monsey.
-[Michelle] Okay.
-[Julia] And I did not escape
until I was 42 years old.
And I've been in this world
for all of nine years now.
-Not that long.
-No.
So I'm basically nine years old
and fifty at the same time.
I'm so confident at work.
I'm so confident about business.
I'm so confident about what I do.
People don't realize that
when it comes to the personal stuff,
I'm fucking clueless
and really scared and nervous. [laughs]
I'm too new at it,
and I don't know what I'm doing.
-Let's talk about past relationships.
-Yeah. I don't really have any.
Well, how old were you
when you got married?
-Nineteen.
-Nineteen.
Like, but that's not a relationship.
Sex was, you know
-Mechanical.
-Mechanical.
tehillim
in your head while you had sex.
It was not a very sexy experience.
That didn't work for me very well.
-Not very sensual or sexual.
-No.
In the beginning, when I left,
it was just, like, I wanted to try sex.
I was just basically sleeping around.
And then I had one boyfriend,
and then I met Silvio, and that's it.
I've been single for one week of my life.
Yosef and I,
because of all the religious stuff,
we didn't officially get divorced
until a week before I married Silvio.
I'm at a massive disadvantage because
things people went through in their 20s,
learning about guys,
learning about relationships.
I didn't learn any of that.
I don't have those experiences.
Let's talk about who is your future.
Okay.
What lifts you?
What's gonna make your heart smile?
I would love someone strong
and so confident
that they don't feel threatened by me.
Brilliance isn't sufficient.
I need kindness.
-Absolutely.
-I need love. I would
For once in my life,
I would like to be nurtured.
-I would like to be taken care of.
-Julia, you deserve that.
And it has to be someone whose heart
is big enough to love my whole family.
Exactly.
We come as a package deal.
Either you love all of us
or you can't love any of us.
One of the questions
we'll be vetting is, how do they feel
being with someone more successful,
more well-known, more accomplished?
-Yeah.
-More driven.
-And who likes sex, please.
-And who likes sex! [laughs]
-I am fucking horny. I gotta tell you.
-[laughs]
[pop music playing]
I won't be stopped
Ah, ah, ah, ah ♪
My life, my love
Ah, ah, ah, ah ♪
[Batsheva] Let's stop moving.
[Julia, laughing] Don't know what to do.
How about this?
[Batsheva] Ooh!
I asked Batsheva to get some more casual,
not such, you know, press photos,
but more casual, chill photos of me
for my matchmaker's dating profile.
I cannot wait to get out there
and start dating. I am very, very thirsty.
-I'll go through them and pick one you
-[Julia] We'll pick one you like.
And then I can send you, and we can edit.
Did you see the article on Page Six?
-No.
-[Julia laughs]
"Allegedly, Julia Haart Got Boob Job
Off of Illicit Company Funds."
-Oh, God.
-But I was thinking, like, let
Like, do we wanna respond?
And I was, like, no, of course not because
let the truth come out in court.
I had 17 hours' worth of documents
proving every word I'm saying is true.
My lawyer said they have not seen
such a strong case in 20 years.
Yeah.
So let him keep doing this.
When they go low, we go high.
-I wanna talk to you about something.
-Okay.
I've been wanting to talk
to Batsheva for quite a while
about her reaction to what happened to me.
Shlomo and Miriam, all hands on deck.
"How can we help?" So proactive.
Batsheva was, like, "Oh, do you need me?
I really wanna go on a date. Bye!"
I'll be back in a bit.
[Batsheva] Does anybody
need me here right now?
-Where's Batsheva?
-[Batsheva] I have a Fashion Week event.
[Batsheva] What's happening?
What did I miss?
This is going to become a police matter.
[Batsheva] Are you gonna get my knots out?
There were really dark days.
I was destroyed.
She wasn't emotionally present for me.
It really hurts.
This has been a very difficult
time period for me, you know?
-[Batsheva] Mm-hmm.
-And Miriam has been here
20 hours a day helping me.
Yeah.
I guess I just want us to be at that place
where you would feel,
"My mother needs me now. It's not time
for me to date, go out, or have fun."
"I'm gonna stay here,
hold her hand, and give her support."
Do you not feel like
I was sitting in the house enough?
I don't. I felt like you were, you know,
I don't wanna use the word "gallivanting,"
but gallivanting, you know? [laughs]
I literally moved out
the day before everything went down.
I didn't feel like coming back.
Miriam had moved into my room.
I guess I just feel like
it would be nice to have
to feel more supported by you
during this time.
Not so absent.
I'm giving my mom all of me.
We all have different strengths.
I was there for my mom
in the ways that I can be.
Helping her with her social media,
doing the sound bath,
trying to get her to relax
because that's what I can do for her.
I want our relationship
to get to the place where
we're back to being best friends.
We used to talk every day for hours.
No, I understand. You're always there
for me when I need you.
-But the way I approach our relationship
-Now I need you.
No, I understand that,
but I'm saying being a best friend.
I don't think I'm gonna be able to give
you that closeness you're looking for.
I had my therapy today, and she was, like,
"Looking back, you were so nervous
to move in with your mom,
that it was gonna be too much,
too much togetherness."
I said it was good
because my mom gave me space.
I'll always take care of you
in every way you need.
But what was happening to me was wrong.
-Yes, of course.
-And it was really, really tough.
It's about just being present.
-I think I just
-About caring so much
that everything else stops
when one of us is in trouble.
Because if you were in trouble, I would
stop everything I was doing to help you.
So I need to feel that from you too.
Support me, help me, sit here,
even if you're not doing anything,
just to be supportive.
You know, honestly,
I don't ever ask for help,
and I am a very strong person,
don't get me wrong.
But there are moments
in life where you feel that
you're fighting for your life,
and you expect that the people
that you have given your life to,
you have supported, helped,
paid for, done everything
in your power to make them happy,
that those people show up for you
when the shit hits the fan.
I really hoped that Batsheva
would be here for me
and say, "Ima, how can I help you?
What can I do?"
"How can I lessen your burden?"
And don't forget,
if I lose everything that I've worked for,
my children lose tremendously too.
I don't want more from you.
I wanna be more to you.
-You are everything
-Know what I mean?
I don't think I can go back
to that relationship that I had with you
when I was 18, and I don't think
it should be looked at negatively
It's sad. Wait till you're
a mother, my love. It's sad.
[Batsheva] I feel like I'm going around
in circles with my mom.
I'm really happy
with the way our relationship is.
And I feel like she thinks that
I just don't care, and it's the opposite.
I care for her a lot,
and I wanna be there for her.
But I'm giving her everything that I have.
I mean, don't get me wrong.
I'm very grateful to have a relationship.
I just miss deep talks
with my daughter, Batsheva.
Well
It's like, you don't miss what you've
never had, but I had that with you once.
I do miss it, you know?
I understand. I don't think that
that would be beneficial personally to me.
Once upon a time, we were best friends.
And I want that back.
[pop music playing]
-[Julia] Hey, you.
-[Robert] Hey! Look at you in green.
-You look so handsome.
-Mwah!
-It's been a few days. I missed you.
-[Julia] I have not spoken to you since
-[Robert] Connecticut, I know.
-Connecticut.
-You have fun?
-What you been up to?
-What are you doing? What's going on?
-Well
I got my letter from Elite
right before you walked in.
-Oh, the firing letter?
-Yeah.
I'm gonna send it to my attorney.
We'll go from there.
-I expected it.
-That's good.
You know what? In a way,
I'm, like, sad that I got the letter,
just because it really
puts the nail in the coffin.
"What's next?" is the feeling that I have.
-What're we gonna do next?
-Plan that together.
Yeah.
By the way, I got a video
of who took the art.
Oh my God!
The detective for major crimes
sent it to me.
It's crazy.
I can't believe this is where we're at.
Okay. Look at this.
Press play.
[Julia] Do you hear how quiet it is?
We're all sleeping.
-They filmed it? They filmed themselves?
-I think they filmed themselves.
Who is that, Robert?
You know who it is. It's Pierre.
[Robert] Bullshit!
Oh my God.
[Julia] It's for sure Pierre.
Pierre was our chef.
-Ah! Pierre!
-[Pierre] Good evening.
This man is literally the physical
embodiment of all good food.
Delicious and healthy.
[laughs]
I understand that Pierre's doing whatever
Silvio asks, but I'm disappointed.
I really cared about Pierre.
I thought he was my friend.
It feels like
It feels
It It hurts.
Fuck, I hate admitting that.
Uh
It hurts.
I can understand that he's Silvio's friend
first, and he's his best friend, but
he knows me.
It's so disappointing.
[Julia] But that's not enough.
Silvio tried to file
a police report to claim
that my car was stolen.
[Robert] An US Weekly article
just came out that says that
Julia it's bullshit, that Julia's
wanted by the police for the car.
[Julia] He's putting
all this stuff in the press,
which is so easily disproven.
There was never a police report filed,
and I was never wanted. Never.
I actually traded in my own car
that I had before I met Silvio.
I traded that in when I got my Bentley.
So I literally paid for the Bentley
that he is now blatantly
accusing me of stealing.
Can you even believe this shit?
I got to tell you, I had a really
deep conversation with Batsheva.
I kind of shared with her, she hasn't been
as around as the other kids have been.
There's no depth
in my relationship with her.
There's so much depth in my relationship
with Shlomo, with Miriam, even with Aron,
with him disagreeing
with everything about my life.
And she's like, "Why do you care?
We're in such a good place."
Yeah. We're in a good place,
like the Cold War.
Do you think it's related
to the past stuff?
-She felt abandoned a little.
-Not a little. She felt abandoned.
The reason that I worry that
Batsheva is still upset with me
is because until I left the community,
we were BFFs.
We were super close to each other,
and when I left,
she, you know I wasn't as present
for her as I had been her whole life.
You always told us that we
were your greatest joy in life and that
it was the best job you ever had.
So it was, like, confusing to me
to understand why you weren't able to be
there for me as a mom during that time.
I think she felt really betrayed.
And so, because that's
the only actual fight we've ever had,
I kind of think that our relationship now
may be based on that.
She just doesn't realize
that there's still hurt in her heart.
And I think until she acknowledges that
and we can find a way to work past that,
it's gonna stay
this surface-level relationship.
What would be a good first step
that you'd feel good about?
Um, maybe we can go
to a counselor together.
She loves therapy. She's very comfortable.
I know she has a therapist.
Maybe we can talk
through our problems with a therapist.
[Robert] Could be good.
May I just have another
vanilla latte with almond milk?
-[waiter] Sure. Ice?
-Ice, yes, thank you.
-[Julia] Iced?
-Yes. Gay people love iced drinks.
Yeah, everyone likes cold drinks,
but not in ten-degree weather.
-Oh no, it's a cultural phenomenon.
-I'm googling it.
-I can't even know how. I'll ask Ra'ed.
-Do gay people like cold drinks
-in cold weather? [laughs]
-That's ridiculous. [laughs]
[pop music playing]
-[plucking guitar]
-[Aron] Ow!
[continues plucking]
-[Miriam] Have you been practicing tuning?
-I tuned it once, actually.
-[Miriam] Nice.
-I was gonna practice, but meh.
-[Aron laughs]
-Have you done your homework?
No ♪
-Do you know what chord you're playing?
-[Aron] Yeah.
-What?
-E.
-No.
-B?
-No.
-H?
-No. [laughs]
-[laughing] A.
No.
[Miriam laughs]
Ay, ay, ay.
My mom's definitely worried that Aron
is being a little distant from everybody.
Because the more religious you are,
inherently the more separated
the rules make you.
So my plan moving forward
with Aron is to play guitar with him,
so we can just hang out because
we haven't done that in such a long time.
[Miriam] Here.
The note on the E or first string.
So you have four beats.
-[plucking]
-One, two, three, four.
Bop your head. Bop it. Get into it.
Come on, we're playing guitar, bro.
-One, two, three, four.
-Yeah!
-One, two, three, four.
-Hey, hey, hey!
-One, two, three, four.
-Hey, hey!
-One
-Yeah!
[Aron laughs]
So, how's your yeshiva hunt going?
Did you decide
if you want to go to yeshiva or not?
Um, yeah.
-What's your decision?
-Yeah. [laughs]
You're going?
Yes.
-You're set. You decided you wanna do it.
-Yeah, I think I wanna do it.
Do you enjoy your secular education
at the school you go to now?
Well, again, I don't need it.
I mean, why do I need it?
-I think it's important
-It's important, why?
-To understand the world and people.
-I'll understand the world and people.
I didn't wanna go to college.
-Did I ever tell you that?
-No.
But the reason
I went to Stanford in the first place
was because Ima guided me to go
to university, though I didn't want to.
And I'm very happy
with that decision of hers.
But it is good for you to know that
that decision of college for me
wasn't fully my own.
I really agree.
For you, I think it was a great choice.
But as we've seen,
we're all very different people.
And we also don't make choices
based off of each other.
Yeah, but I think sometimes
it's good to listen to your mom.
Ima very much convinced Shlomo to go
to college even though he didn't want to.
Ima convinced me to go to college
even though I didn't want to.
I'm happy I made the decision,
and Shlomo's happy he made that decision.
For me, it doesn't make sense because
what am I gonna gain from college?
I wanna be a Rabbi. This is what my dream
was ever since I was a little kid.
It'd make much more sense
for me to go to a yeshiva
than to go to college.
Right now I have a dream, and every day,
I'm fulfilling that dream a bit more,
so we should all be accepting.
If we want respect from others,
we have to show respect.
I'm sorry you feel that way.
That's not very nice.
-What?
-You don't feel as respected.
I don't think anyone's disrespecting.
I just think it's acceptance from Ima.
I don't feel like I need acceptance,
like you need to accept me.
I shouldn't be restricted from yeshiva.
-What's the rush?
-Why should I waste my time?
It's not wasting your time.
-It's time to explore.
-I don't need time to explore.
I've had time. I'm not looking for more.
You are very young, and I think it's okay
to pause before you make a decision
that will determine the rest of your life.
I think it's a healthy, smart move.
I had to think about it yesterday.
I am just 15.
That's definitely a thing,
definitely a factor, but I don't think I'm
on the maturity level
of the average 15-year-old.
That's a fact. We can pretend
it's not the fact, but it is.
All right.
[upbeat music playing]
-[Julia] Hey.
-[Yosef] How're you doing?
[inaudible]
[both laugh]
Oh
Thanks for coming out.
-I really appreciate it.
-Of course.
[Julia] I'm meeting Yosef for dinner
because we wanna talk about
what's been going on with Aron.
We talked a lot about him
going to a yeshiva,
but I feel like the way that Aron
has been talking to me,
it's not very kind, and I don't like that.
I don't think it's respectful.
What do you think
about the whole Aron situation?
payes?
-It's whatever.
-He wants to go to Philly yeshiva.
Do you think this is a rebellion
against Ima?
A 16-year-old rebellion?
No. Right now
he wants to discover his heritage.
He really gets a pleasure out of learning.
And he gets a great pleasure out of,
you know, teaching.
-[waiter] Sliders here.
-Ooh!
Ohh la la.
[Julia] I think that's beautiful.
I love that. I wanna support him.
What worries me is the other stuff.
He was always saying,
"I wanna go to Harvard."
Now he's, like, "No, I don't wanna
go to that kind of college."
"I'll do college but really yeshiva
where I don't actually have to walk in."
It's that whole isolationist cuckooness
that scares me.
Have you had a conversation with him?
-Yeah.
-You did?
Yeah, but I see the positive
in everything he's doing.
I see he sees the positive
in everything he's doing.
But do we think he can do that
and still go to college?
-Why should the two be exclusive?
-They're not mutually exclusive.
-I don't think they have to be exclusive.
-No.
-He wants to leave school.
-No, he doesn't wanna leave school.
Yes, he does.
I think it's rebellion. I feel like
there has been a massive shift.
The way he behaved was extremely painful.
Yosef and I are basically on the same page
in terms of the fact that, look,
I don't have any problem
with Aron being religious
as long as we are respectful
of one another.
I'm the tough one in the relationship
when it comes to parenting.
Yosef was always a sweetie.
I was the one who set the rules and said,
"You have to go to bed, do your homework."
And here I am back again saying,
"No, education comes first."
I'm asking you just maybe
to have a conversation with him.
I definitely will have
a conversation with him.
-In a loving, most loving way.
-Right.
I do think what he needs to learn,
because that's part of being
an inspirational person
that he wants to be,
is to think about
the other person's feelings.
That if what you're doing
is gonna hurt them, you know
Showing honor and value
to other people. Brios.
Not Jews, anyone.
You know, it's That's a big rule.
I love that.
-Okay. So we have
-That's true Torah.
-That's true Torah.
-That's true Torah.
I really appreciate you.
-You have no idea.
-I have your back.
I know, and I see that.
You are a true-blue friend.
[upbeat music playing]
-[Miriam] Excited to do some Pilates.
-[Britni] Ready?
Let's do it.
[Britni] Go ahead, lay all the way down
and then exhale. Push it all the way up.
-And inhale
-It's heavy.
-[Britni] Come all the way back.
-[laughs]
-And up, yep, and down.
-[Miriam] My butt.
[Britni] Three, two, and one.
Bring that right foot down.
-Ooh!
-[Nathalie] Ah!
-Oh my God.
-[Miriam] Doesn't it feel so good?
-How much longer?
-Heaven. This feels like heaven to me.
[Britni] All the way back in. Good work.
That's the series,
if you guys work on that.
-[Miriam] Perfect. Thank you.
-[Batsheva] That's great.
So do you feel like Ima, you know,
like, we went to Connecticut.
Like, did she come back
feeling refreshed at all?
[Nathalie] The time I was there,
I feel like she was still working
all the time. Like, she was on a call.
I think it was good she got out
of the house, and I think that was good.
-Just a change of scenery?
-A change of scenery, yeah.
You know?
[sighs] So I had, like,
a really intense conversation with Ima.
She was like,
"I wish that we were closer."
Like, "We used to be best friends."
-I'm, like, that was when I was 18.
-[Nathalie] Yeah.
I'm turning 29.
-I'm in a different headspace.
-Why would it go bad if you get closer?
She has a different relationship with you.
You're at a different stage in life.
Like, I don't know any of my friends
who can spend
hours on end with their family.
Like, it's a lot for me.
I'm the kind of person, if somebody needs
me, I'm gonna be there. No matter what.
She is one of my best friends.
I love her. I want to help her
because she's helped me so much.
-[Miriam] Did you sleep at all last night?
-An hour.
-Oh, no!
-It was my fourth day in a row. It's bad.
I canceled all my weekend plans,
and I'm all ears.
[Julia] I love you,
you're the literal bestest.
I feel in debt to my mom
because she gave me you, you know?
That sounds weird.
But I wouldn't be able to be with a girl
without my mom
taking me out of my religious community.
Wrapping my head
around the idea that I can literally
be married to a man and have children
right now, if not for her,
is a crazy thought.
Yeah.
I feel like any adult can only handle
spending so much time with their family.
I love her. I love spending time with her.
I think we have a great relationship.
It's just not as intense
as Miriam's relationship.
Right.
[pop music playing]
[Julia] We win this battle part
of the lawsuit,
it's done and dusted
in six to eight weeks.
If we don't,
it may take me two years to win.
-[laptop chimes]
-Mm-hmm.
I'm not gonna sit on my ass
and twiddle my thumbs until I win.
In the meanwhile,
let's fucking build something of value.
In EWG, all we were focusing on
was the avatars themselves.
We did nothing about the metaverse.
Let's focus on the tech.
-[Miriam] Mm-hmm.
-Let's create a company together.
Let's build the first ever
interoperable metaverse
that is like a giant global mall.
It's a transactional environment.
So people come into this space,
and they can shop, they can
-They can shop, create.
-[Robert] View, they can look.
They can look. I'm gonna give you
both shares of the company,
and Robert Z will be
the founding four members.
[Miriam] Yay!
Of course, we have been counting on you
to figure out the tech,
to find out what kind of people we need.
-New business, what's the LLC called?
-We came up with a great name.
-Haart Sphere.
-[Robert] Haart Sphere?
-[Julia] Haart Sphere.
-Okay.
-Isn't that great?
-Very cool. Yeah.
It's not just me.
It's Miriam Haart and Julia Haart.
-Robert, you're an honorary Haart.
-Obviously.
-So we need haartsphere.com, .org, .net.
-Have you done that?
-[Miriam] I haven't bought anything.
-[Julia and Robert] Buy it immediately.
Okay.
[Julia] To me, I've been fighting
for freedom for so long,
I'm just gonna keep fighting.
I'm going to get what is owed to me back.
But I wanna plan for the future,
and that's where Haart Sphere comes in.
To get to do this
with people I trust and love
and to build something
on my own that no man can steal,
that's really exciting for me.
I just bought haartsphere.com.
-Buy all the dots.
-Okay.
[upbeat music playing]
-Is this the place?
-I believe so.
-[Shlomo] Haven.
-[Robert] Haven Spa.
[Shlomo] Uh, I'm here for a waxing.
-[woman] Your first name?
-Shlomo.
Brazilian, right?
-Mm-hmm.
-Good.
Ra'ed filled me in
on Miriam's birthday party,
and Miriam and Natalie's friend,
and how Ra'ed was, like, the wingman
that brought them together
and made sure they smooched.
-And then the kiss comes in.
-[Nathalie] Whoa!
Oh, okay.
Cutie Shlomo has, like, an upcoming date.
And I think we have some work to do
just to make sure
we're properly groomed for the occasion.
Have you had wax before?
Not like this.
-This is your patient.
-Oh my God. Are you my first victim?
-So you're still a virgin, are you?
-Yes. [chuckles]
In more ways than one, dear.
In more ways than one.
Perfect.
[waxer] It's a little bit unpleasant,
but you will survive.
[Shlomo] Great.
[waxer] There you go.
Oh, this is gonna hurt.
This is gonna hurt a lot, okay?
What do I think about?
Think about having sex with a girl.
There we go.
From Ra'ed and you,
this girl liked you at the party.
You haven't closed the deal.
How d'you close the deal?
[Shlomo] There's definitely
a confidence thing,
performance-related, you know?
[Robert] Whoa, what do you mean by that?
Performance-related.
Like, you were scared you
Like, most people at 26
have had multiple partners.
So, they're kinda, like,
on a different pedestal.
-[Robert] Women?
-[Shlomo] Women, yeah.
I'm relatively confident
she's not the Princess of Denmark.
I'm relatively confident
she's a 26-year-old girl who wouldn't mind
getting in your pants.
You'd like to get in her pants.
-But you have to make the move.
-I know.
If I could encapsulate Shlomo's,
like, issue with women,
it's that he has almost
too much respect for them.
A girl wants to be treated well.
A pedestal is great, but make it too high,
and you'll never reach.
Okay, if there is a next definable step
The next definable step
is to go on another date with Marianna.
[Robert] And that date ends how?
I guess see how the date goes but home.
Hopefully going well.
And then make the magic happen.
[Shlomo laughs]
I'm seeing some issues in this plan.
First off, we need to address your game.
You really should let
the spirit of Ra'ed take you over.
-[Shlomo] Yes.
-Are you the type that, like,
"I'd like to kiss you. May I kiss you?"
-Or something like that? Or
-I have asked permission.
[Robert] And?
-Did they acquiesce to the request?
-I've never been shut down for a kiss.
-Okay.
-But
So kissing is the start. Kissing is
the gateway drug to heavy petting. Okay?
-Heavy petting, really?
-Heavy petting.
Ra'ed has a lot of back hair. We have
to take care of that every now and then.
Should I do a strip or two?
-You have to rip it quick.
-Yes, I'm gonna go quick. Like lightning.
-[Shlomo laughs]
-Do it, baby.
[Robert] Okay.
[waxer] That was slow.
-Look at all that I got.
-[Shlomo] Slow.
-I got some.
-[waxer] You felt it, right?
-I felt that. That was like a pull.
-[Robert] Okay, maybe I need to redo it.
-[waxer] Okay.
-Good. Great. Thanks.
-You ready for me?
-[Shlomo] No.
-[waxer] Go.
-[Robert] All right.
-Oh
-Did you get it?
-You fired.
-Oh. [laughs]
-Shit. Twice in one week?
-[Robert] Twice in one week.
-That hurts.
-[Shlomo] Sorry.
[all laugh]
[pop music playing]
[Robert] Knock, knock.
-Hey!
-Hello!
-[Robert, in singsong] Happy birthday.
-Thank you.
[Ra'ed and Robert, in singsong]
Happy birthday!
-Hello!
-Hello.
-[Robert] Oh my God, 31 years old.
-Shut the fuck up.
[laughing]
-Happy birthday.
-[Batsheva] Thank you.
Tonight is my 29th birthday dinner.
This is a really big, nice,
intimate celebration with my family.
I was really nervous about celebrating
my birthday on my own,
so I'm thankful that I have my friends
and family around me today.
Oh, yes, David, please alcohol
-Urgently get this woman a glass of wine.
-[Julia] Urgently.
Guys, I'm so excited. I have not had
Aliza back here in such a long time.
-[Miriam] Aliza's coming?
-Aliza's coming.
-Amazing.
-[Robert] Who's Aliza?
Yosef's wife.
-Is your dad coming tonight?
-Yeah. Where have you been?
Oh, okay!
It's a family dinner.
[Julia] It's a family birthday
kosher dinner.
-[Robert] Oh my gosh.
-[Julia] Yeah!
-You having fun?
-Obviously. I'm a little tipsy, so.
I'm about to ruin this dinner. [laughs]
I love that. Please be tipsy.
-Sit next to me so we can fight a little.
-I can handle it.
[laughing]
Guys, Aron is coming, no talking now
about, like, stuff, his stuff.
-What do you mean?
-He's become
-[Batsheva] Very ultra.
-Very ultra.
It felt like he was not happy
to be with us in Connecticut.
-He wasn't happy.
-It was uncomfortable.
He came in his black hat, and he stayed
in his Shabbos jacket the whole time.
Tonight, it's just about family.
-[Yosef] Hey!
-[Miriam] They're here.
[all] Yay!
[Julia] Look at that.
-Aliza!
-How are you?
[Julia] Aww!
Batsheva wanted to sit
next to you on her birthday.
[Robert] Should we all say
nice things about Batsheva?
-My God, I love that.
-Abba, I'm sure you have something to say.
Batsheva has taught me a lot.
That shows how special she is.
I remember, we were traveling to Atlanta,
and she taught me how to be out there.
We were on an airplane,
and she turned around and screamed out,
"I'm Jewish! Is anyone here Jewish?"
-[Julia] I remember that.
-[laughing]
[Yosef] It was a really classic moment.
It was with confidence, and it was pure.
I'm very thankful
to have wonderful parents
who raised me with a lot of confidence.
So cheers to both of you.
[all] Cheers.
[Julia] That was beautiful.
Aron, it's your turn, baby.
When Ima was starting her fashion empire,
Batsheva took the role as the mother.
So I remember Batsheva
chasing me to take a shower.
[laughs]
-[Aron] Sometimes.
-I paid her to be my nanny for you.
So you could have a home-cooked meal,
and someone would be home
to do homework with you when you came home
from school because I was busy building
-towards our future.
-[Aron] Mm-hmm.
And Batsheva, I know
she did an amazing job with that.
-Thanks for that.
-Of course.
I love you.
You'll always be my little bro.
When I left my community, I did it alone.
I didn't want to burden my children.
They were too young, and I didn't want
them to know how close I had come
to committing suicide.
I thought that that was a burden
they should not have to bear.
It wasn't about being miserable
being your mom.
It was about being miserable
not being myself.
And at a certain point,
it was literally life or death.
If I hadn't gone the day that I did,
I would have killed myself.
It worries me tremendously
that Batsheva still resents it.
I'm raising my glass.
[voice breaking]
I'm so lucky to be your mother.
I love you so much.
[Batsheva] Aw.
-I don't know why I'm so emotional.
-Cry.
I'm really not a crier.
I don't know what's wrong with me.
I just want every dream
of yours to come true.
And I just want you to be happy, fulfilled
and that your life is far beyond
anything you can dream of.
-Ima!
-[Miriam chuckles]
-Oh wow. I get a hug.
-Of course you get a hug.
I love you.
I love you so.
I don't want you to cry though.
I love you so much.
[Julia] Batsheva, we are eating
in the living room for your birthday cake.
Thank you everybody for coming
and celebrating with me tonight
and for all the really nice
toasts and cheers.
-I don't remember whose idea it was
-[Robert] Mine.
-Rob.
-[Robert] Yes.
See? The person who says
they're the coldest is the kindest.
-Oh, God.
-[all] Aww.
[Batsheva] I'm thankful
for my friends and family.
[Julia] Come follow me for a second.
Like, based on our conversation
in the library
and don't feel like you have to do this,
but it's something that I'd love to do.
I know you have a therapist
that you really trust.
Do you think we could go together to your
therapist and talk about our relationship?
Sure.
[Julia] Yay.
-I love you so much.
-I love you. You're really intoxicated.
-[Julia] I know.
-So I would go to bed now.
-I'm gonna bring you to bed.
-Thanks. I love you. [laughs]
-You're so special.
-I love you. Thank you for tonight.
Do it ♪
I gotta do it my way ♪
Do it ♪
No one can tell me two ways ♪
Do it ♪
Can you keep up with the bass ♪
Do it ♪
I gotta do it my way ♪
Are you a little nervous, Shlomo?
No sweat?
-[Miriam] He's been working out.
-[Nathalie] You're good.
[Shlomo] Marianna is here.
[Miriam] Oh, here she is!
Look at that cutie.
[Shlomo] Hi, how are you?
I think a double date's a great idea
because it'd be a great way for Shlomo
to ease into the things that are starting
to build up with Marianna.
I hope he still makes it a little flirty.
-We can contribute to the flirting.
-No
If you need help in your relationship,
just go with us on a double date.
1-800-ask-the-bisexuals.
[chuckles]
-Should we start?
-Yeah.
Yeah, come on, Mir.
-[Nathalie] Here we go.
-Prepare to lose.
Okay, baby. Show me what you got.
-[Miriam grunts]
-[Nathalie] Woo!
[Shlomo] Okay!
[Nathalie] Whoa!
[Nathalie] Oh, it's good!
[cheering]
-[all] Oh!
-Let's go! [laughs]
-[Nathalie] You told me that you were bad.
-I am.
-[Nathalie] Okay.
-Beginner's luck.
I mean, how am I gonna go
right after that?
-[Nathalie] Go girl.
-I was very lucky.
[Marianna] Oh!
[laughing]
[Miriam] So bad.
-I think I said I was good at this.
-That was so bad.
-What?
-[Shlomo] Hey.
[Nathalie] What?
Shlomo's, like,
"Don't talk to my girl like that."
[Nathalie and Marianna] Oh!
-Looking sexy, babe!
-[Miriam grunts]
-Look at this couple. They're so cute.
-They are very cute.
-It's always number two.
-I gotta compliment you.
Almost a year now.
-Crazy.
-It is crazy.
[indistinct chatter]
So crazy.
I don't know if I'm seeing
this going anywhere.
I don't know either.
I feel like she is getting to his level
and giving as much as he's giving.
Need to have a talk with him
about his flirty game.
-But we have talked with him.
-That's true. It's not come through.
Yeah.
[pop music playing]
[sighs]
I've never actually met her in person.
I always do Zoom sessions.
-That's funny.
-Mm-hmm.
-Hi!
-[Batsheva] Hello.
-Come on in.
-Nice to see you in person.
[Nicole] Nice to see you too, I know.
[Julia] I'm really glad that Batsheva
said yes to go with me to therapy.
I'm not sure she's forgiven me,
and I need to find that out.
I need her to figure it out.
Maybe she's still angry with me,
and she doesn't even realize it.
Who wants to kinda give a brief overview?
When I left the community, she felt a lot
of abandonment which I totally understand.
She didn't have me
like she had me her whole life.
We would speak 800 times a day.
We had this, like,
really special connection.
I just miss the closeness.
I always feel that our interactions
are a little
-[Nicole] Surface?
-Surface. Yeah.
Like, we talk all the time.
We spend time all the time but, like
-It doesn't feel as meaningful? Connected?
-It doesn't feel as deep and connected.
I miss that.
I think that there's
still some residual trauma
left over
from when I left.
No, I dealt with all that,
like, years ago.
It's not I don't feel any, like,
abandonment from you anymore.
I really don't. Like, I definitely felt it
back then, but I went to therapy.
I'm not harboring any, like, resentment.
That's really not what I feel.
If it's not and I'm wrong,
then I remove everything I'm saying.
I'm just saying if there is,
I want to know how to fix it.
-[Nicole] Sure.
-That's all. I'm always gonna be thinking
about your best interest, about your
financial security, about making sure
And as your daughter, you have to
understand it's not an issue for me.
I'm happy to be open with you, but I feel
like if I'm putting something out there,
you share it with people
because you think it's not a big deal.
-What are you talking about?
-The squirting thing.
That was not for you
to share with the table.
-That made me uncomfortable.
-I'm so sorry.
When I'm talking to my mom, you should
know you can talk about your sex life.
-You shouldn't talk about my sex life.
-But you need to tell me.
I feel like
we've already had this discussion.
I don't want my personal sex life shared.
And yes, I'm in a different place
than when she was writing the book
and put in my sexual experiences with Ben.
[Ben] "After they got married,
Ben came to me with another issue."
He said, "Can you help us?
We can't figure out how to do it."
-"We tried last night, nothing happened."
-Oh my God.
-[Ben] When we got married
-Me and Ben, personally
and our own sexual experience
I don't think is anybody else's business.
But you understand why I have to
why I wrote it?
I don't wanna hear the explicit details
of my sexual experiences.
And I'm very open now,
but open doesn't mean public.
Some things are meant to be kept private,
and a line needs to be drawn.
Honestly, I think it's so beautiful
to be open about sexuality.
But that's you.
I sometimes forget that not everyone
is so open about it, and I apologize.
But I asked you, would you be okay to talk
about how impressed with the fact that
you're sleeping with one guy here.
I didn't realize that
that and the squirting thing
were in different
levels with you.
-[Batsheva] My privacy.
-You say, "I slept with people."
In my head, it's all the same thing,
so I didn't realize that that
and the squirting thing were different.
But you don't wanna say, "I squirted."
Please continue saying it.
I love hearing it. It's lovely. Thank you.
So these examples are really great,
but I wanna really focus more
on the difference in how you are
each valuing the relationship.
It sounds like, Mom, there's a closeness
that you're missing, that is lacking.
-[Julia] Exactly.
-Right, a deeper connection.
If it's something I've done
or a wall that she's built.
When she came and stayed in the house,
every time I would come in and say,
"How are you feeling? Are you okay?"
She just didn't want to engage.
I wanted to hold her, do you know
what I mean? I wanted to comfort her.
-But that's not what I needed.
-What do you need?
I just was What she gave me,
which was space and a loving place
and support and that to me was amazing,
and I was so thankful for that.
I feel like I do give you closeness.
It's just I don't have, like, a daily
-or constant, a weekly, emotional thing.
-Yeah, that's probably what it is.
That's not my personality.
-That could very well be.
-Ask my friends. I'm not like that.
You say yourself,
you're very introspective.
You work through a lot
of things yourself. I'm similar to you.
-So I don't need to talk.
-That's a good point.
You say this all the time.
I don't need to, like,
talk them through with people
and when I do, I have come to you,
and they're not often,
and they're not all the time.
But, like, if I needed someone
in those hardest times or I was, like,
"What do I do?" Like, you're
the person that I would call. So
She does come to me a lot
and asks for advice.
I kind of wanted her to come tell me
how she's feeling emotionally inside.
When I understood that she's not telling
those things to anyone, it's not me.
It's who she is.
And she's my daughter, so that makes
perfect sense that's who she is.
This huge, massive weight
lifted off my heart,
that I have been carrying with me since
the year I left the community, this guilt.
It's really helped me a lot.
I feel so much better.
Thank you for explaining it to me.
[Batsheva] I'm happy you did it.
-I am so grateful for our relationship.
-Me too!
[Julia chuckles]
-[Julia] 'Cause we're amazing together.
-Yeah.
[narrator]
.
[Robert] Let's go, y'all! Woo doggy!
Yes! I'm so happy
to be back in Texas, honey.
-What do y'all think of Ra'ed? Not sure.
-No.
I love Robert Brotherton.
I have to ask you a question.
[Christine Chiu] Cheers.
-To not needing men.
-To take them for pleasure.
[Julia] How old are you?
-Twenty-three.
-[laughs]
We're gonna build our own technology.
The Haart Sphere is the world's
greatest democratization of creativity.
I'm CEO. You're CTO.
Unbelievable, the two and a half years
you've been through.
Until I win this thing and clear my name,
there's that lump in my chest.
This ring makes me nauseous now.
My sense of value,
up to three million dollars.
You're not letting me do what I want?
You are going to get an education,
whether it fucking kills me.
[tense music playing]
Silvio filed some emergency order
in divorce court.
He wants to move back in. He's unhinged.
-I'm doing as much as I can, Julia.
-You have just done the bare minimum.
-That's bullshit. When you asked me to do
-Bullshit?
things I could do, I did it.
When you get attacked,
I am a fucking lion.
Oh, it's time to be
Everything I'm supposed to be ♪
I'm cutting chains
And I'm moving forward ♪
Oh, it's time to move on, move on
Yeah ♪
Oh, no
I know it's time to move forward ♪
I'm not generic
You know I'm a champion ♪
My life is copactic
You know that I'm excellent ♪
You know that I'm excellent ♪
You know that I'm excellent ♪
Oh, this is my time, my time, oh ♪
Oh, this is my time, yeah ♪
Oh, this is my time, my time, oh ♪
I'm only a step away
Gotta keep on movin' ♪
I'm only a step away
Gotta keep improvin' ♪
I'm only a step away
Gotta keep on movin' ♪
Hey, I finished my workout downstairs.
-Nice. Jealous.
-Damn.
-My blood is pumping.
-Boy!
-Good morning.
-[Shlomo] What did you do?
I did some chest.
-Ohh! Uh
-You see some bouncing?
Is your name The Rock?
-I'm working on it.
-I can do that!
-Oh my gosh. You win, you win.
-[Miriam laughs]
-[Shlomo] Good.
-[Ra'ed sighs]
Should we see who's online?
[Shlomo] Under, uh, Grindr?
I mean, after a workout,
you need to see who's online.
-Share the pheromones?
-[Miriam] Is that the way it is?
-Your blood's pumping and everything.
-Yeah. I get it, I get it.
Five hundred feet away.
Probably in this building.
[Shlomo] Oh!
No, I'm joking.
Batsheva, I feel like she doesn't relate
with having an open relationship.
It really upset me, but at the same time,
I see Robert in my future.
So I just have to put my focus and energy
on our relationship
and not worry about other people.
I gotta focus and work.
Today's a workday for me.
[Shlomo] Any new news?
I'm booked for another interview
for another position at 4:00 p.m.
But that's round one. I'm a professional
interviewer at this point.
-[Shlomo] You should start a business.
-Literally, I'm amazing at interviews.
-I just don't land the position. [laughs]
-[Shlomo] Do it through Zoom.
[Ra'ed] Currently unemployed.
I am applying to about 20 jobs every day.
I feel like a robot.
[robotic voice] Résumé to résumé
to application to website.
[normal voice] It's a lot of work.
You and I need to open a business.
We'd be good business partners.
-We vibe well.
-Let's.
We should start a tequila company.
There are two bottles. We top and bottom.
[Shlomo laughs]
What if we sell the top of the bottle
as the top and advertise it as the top.
-We sell the bottom as the bottom
-They connect to each other?
What!
[Ra'ed] Oh, yeah.
Tequila's great.
[Shlomo laughs]
I'll make it till tomorrow ♪
Keep on moving ♪
You only live once, so ♪
-[Michelle] So nice to meet you.
-[Julia] Lovely to meet you.
You too. I'm so glad to meet you today.
Thank you for coming in.
Well, I was a bit nervous,
I have to tell you. [laughs]
I promise you,
this is gonna be a lot of fun.
It's not like going
to a dentist or anything.
Well, in my head the word "matchmaker,"
in the world I came from,
that was how you got married.
You didn't have many options.
When I think matchmaker,
I think religious, back in that old world.
shadchan, right?
shadchan.
-I am a modern-day matchmaker.
-Please, think of another word.
-[laughs]
-How about this? Headhunter.
-Yes.
-Recruiter.
-I love it.
I have used a matchmaker before.
I used a matchmaker in my old world.
Then I met Silvio through friends.
Now I'm 50.
I have no clue about,
like, the dating world.
I don't know apps.
I'm really counting on your help.
I don't think the apps I'm on are what
like, you're not going on Hinge.
Why not?
Because you're not gonna find your calib
These are people who I'm casually seeing.
You're not a casual-seer person.
You're like Shlomo. No offense.
[Julia sighs and groans]
Basically, I'm gonna do the next chapter
of my life like I've done everything.
Jump in feet first,
hope for the best, learn as I go.
So I wanna learn about your background.
Um, I grew up in a very
Orthodox extremist community.
-Monsey?
-Monsey.
-[Michelle] Okay.
-[Julia] And I did not escape
until I was 42 years old.
And I've been in this world
for all of nine years now.
-Not that long.
-No.
So I'm basically nine years old
and fifty at the same time.
I'm so confident at work.
I'm so confident about business.
I'm so confident about what I do.
People don't realize that
when it comes to the personal stuff,
I'm fucking clueless
and really scared and nervous. [laughs]
I'm too new at it,
and I don't know what I'm doing.
-Let's talk about past relationships.
-Yeah. I don't really have any.
Well, how old were you
when you got married?
-Nineteen.
-Nineteen.
Like, but that's not a relationship.
Sex was, you know
-Mechanical.
-Mechanical.
tehillim
in your head while you had sex.
It was not a very sexy experience.
That didn't work for me very well.
-Not very sensual or sexual.
-No.
In the beginning, when I left,
it was just, like, I wanted to try sex.
I was just basically sleeping around.
And then I had one boyfriend,
and then I met Silvio, and that's it.
I've been single for one week of my life.
Yosef and I,
because of all the religious stuff,
we didn't officially get divorced
until a week before I married Silvio.
I'm at a massive disadvantage because
things people went through in their 20s,
learning about guys,
learning about relationships.
I didn't learn any of that.
I don't have those experiences.
Let's talk about who is your future.
Okay.
What lifts you?
What's gonna make your heart smile?
I would love someone strong
and so confident
that they don't feel threatened by me.
Brilliance isn't sufficient.
I need kindness.
-Absolutely.
-I need love. I would
For once in my life,
I would like to be nurtured.
-I would like to be taken care of.
-Julia, you deserve that.
And it has to be someone whose heart
is big enough to love my whole family.
Exactly.
We come as a package deal.
Either you love all of us
or you can't love any of us.
One of the questions
we'll be vetting is, how do they feel
being with someone more successful,
more well-known, more accomplished?
-Yeah.
-More driven.
-And who likes sex, please.
-And who likes sex! [laughs]
-I am fucking horny. I gotta tell you.
-[laughs]
[pop music playing]
I won't be stopped
Ah, ah, ah, ah ♪
My life, my love
Ah, ah, ah, ah ♪
[Batsheva] Let's stop moving.
[Julia, laughing] Don't know what to do.
How about this?
[Batsheva] Ooh!
I asked Batsheva to get some more casual,
not such, you know, press photos,
but more casual, chill photos of me
for my matchmaker's dating profile.
I cannot wait to get out there
and start dating. I am very, very thirsty.
-I'll go through them and pick one you
-[Julia] We'll pick one you like.
And then I can send you, and we can edit.
Did you see the article on Page Six?
-No.
-[Julia laughs]
"Allegedly, Julia Haart Got Boob Job
Off of Illicit Company Funds."
-Oh, God.
-But I was thinking, like, let
Like, do we wanna respond?
And I was, like, no, of course not because
let the truth come out in court.
I had 17 hours' worth of documents
proving every word I'm saying is true.
My lawyer said they have not seen
such a strong case in 20 years.
Yeah.
So let him keep doing this.
When they go low, we go high.
-I wanna talk to you about something.
-Okay.
I've been wanting to talk
to Batsheva for quite a while
about her reaction to what happened to me.
Shlomo and Miriam, all hands on deck.
"How can we help?" So proactive.
Batsheva was, like, "Oh, do you need me?
I really wanna go on a date. Bye!"
I'll be back in a bit.
[Batsheva] Does anybody
need me here right now?
-Where's Batsheva?
-[Batsheva] I have a Fashion Week event.
[Batsheva] What's happening?
What did I miss?
This is going to become a police matter.
[Batsheva] Are you gonna get my knots out?
There were really dark days.
I was destroyed.
She wasn't emotionally present for me.
It really hurts.
This has been a very difficult
time period for me, you know?
-[Batsheva] Mm-hmm.
-And Miriam has been here
20 hours a day helping me.
Yeah.
I guess I just want us to be at that place
where you would feel,
"My mother needs me now. It's not time
for me to date, go out, or have fun."
"I'm gonna stay here,
hold her hand, and give her support."
Do you not feel like
I was sitting in the house enough?
I don't. I felt like you were, you know,
I don't wanna use the word "gallivanting,"
but gallivanting, you know? [laughs]
I literally moved out
the day before everything went down.
I didn't feel like coming back.
Miriam had moved into my room.
I guess I just feel like
it would be nice to have
to feel more supported by you
during this time.
Not so absent.
I'm giving my mom all of me.
We all have different strengths.
I was there for my mom
in the ways that I can be.
Helping her with her social media,
doing the sound bath,
trying to get her to relax
because that's what I can do for her.
I want our relationship
to get to the place where
we're back to being best friends.
We used to talk every day for hours.
No, I understand. You're always there
for me when I need you.
-But the way I approach our relationship
-Now I need you.
No, I understand that,
but I'm saying being a best friend.
I don't think I'm gonna be able to give
you that closeness you're looking for.
I had my therapy today, and she was, like,
"Looking back, you were so nervous
to move in with your mom,
that it was gonna be too much,
too much togetherness."
I said it was good
because my mom gave me space.
I'll always take care of you
in every way you need.
But what was happening to me was wrong.
-Yes, of course.
-And it was really, really tough.
It's about just being present.
-I think I just
-About caring so much
that everything else stops
when one of us is in trouble.
Because if you were in trouble, I would
stop everything I was doing to help you.
So I need to feel that from you too.
Support me, help me, sit here,
even if you're not doing anything,
just to be supportive.
You know, honestly,
I don't ever ask for help,
and I am a very strong person,
don't get me wrong.
But there are moments
in life where you feel that
you're fighting for your life,
and you expect that the people
that you have given your life to,
you have supported, helped,
paid for, done everything
in your power to make them happy,
that those people show up for you
when the shit hits the fan.
I really hoped that Batsheva
would be here for me
and say, "Ima, how can I help you?
What can I do?"
"How can I lessen your burden?"
And don't forget,
if I lose everything that I've worked for,
my children lose tremendously too.
I don't want more from you.
I wanna be more to you.
-You are everything
-Know what I mean?
I don't think I can go back
to that relationship that I had with you
when I was 18, and I don't think
it should be looked at negatively
It's sad. Wait till you're
a mother, my love. It's sad.
[Batsheva] I feel like I'm going around
in circles with my mom.
I'm really happy
with the way our relationship is.
And I feel like she thinks that
I just don't care, and it's the opposite.
I care for her a lot,
and I wanna be there for her.
But I'm giving her everything that I have.
I mean, don't get me wrong.
I'm very grateful to have a relationship.
I just miss deep talks
with my daughter, Batsheva.
Well
It's like, you don't miss what you've
never had, but I had that with you once.
I do miss it, you know?
I understand. I don't think that
that would be beneficial personally to me.
Once upon a time, we were best friends.
And I want that back.
[pop music playing]
-[Julia] Hey, you.
-[Robert] Hey! Look at you in green.
-You look so handsome.
-Mwah!
-It's been a few days. I missed you.
-[Julia] I have not spoken to you since
-[Robert] Connecticut, I know.
-Connecticut.
-You have fun?
-What you been up to?
-What are you doing? What's going on?
-Well
I got my letter from Elite
right before you walked in.
-Oh, the firing letter?
-Yeah.
I'm gonna send it to my attorney.
We'll go from there.
-I expected it.
-That's good.
You know what? In a way,
I'm, like, sad that I got the letter,
just because it really
puts the nail in the coffin.
"What's next?" is the feeling that I have.
-What're we gonna do next?
-Plan that together.
Yeah.
By the way, I got a video
of who took the art.
Oh my God!
The detective for major crimes
sent it to me.
It's crazy.
I can't believe this is where we're at.
Okay. Look at this.
Press play.
[Julia] Do you hear how quiet it is?
We're all sleeping.
-They filmed it? They filmed themselves?
-I think they filmed themselves.
Who is that, Robert?
You know who it is. It's Pierre.
[Robert] Bullshit!
Oh my God.
[Julia] It's for sure Pierre.
Pierre was our chef.
-Ah! Pierre!
-[Pierre] Good evening.
This man is literally the physical
embodiment of all good food.
Delicious and healthy.
[laughs]
I understand that Pierre's doing whatever
Silvio asks, but I'm disappointed.
I really cared about Pierre.
I thought he was my friend.
It feels like
It feels
It It hurts.
Fuck, I hate admitting that.
Uh
It hurts.
I can understand that he's Silvio's friend
first, and he's his best friend, but
he knows me.
It's so disappointing.
[Julia] But that's not enough.
Silvio tried to file
a police report to claim
that my car was stolen.
[Robert] An US Weekly article
just came out that says that
Julia it's bullshit, that Julia's
wanted by the police for the car.
[Julia] He's putting
all this stuff in the press,
which is so easily disproven.
There was never a police report filed,
and I was never wanted. Never.
I actually traded in my own car
that I had before I met Silvio.
I traded that in when I got my Bentley.
So I literally paid for the Bentley
that he is now blatantly
accusing me of stealing.
Can you even believe this shit?
I got to tell you, I had a really
deep conversation with Batsheva.
I kind of shared with her, she hasn't been
as around as the other kids have been.
There's no depth
in my relationship with her.
There's so much depth in my relationship
with Shlomo, with Miriam, even with Aron,
with him disagreeing
with everything about my life.
And she's like, "Why do you care?
We're in such a good place."
Yeah. We're in a good place,
like the Cold War.
Do you think it's related
to the past stuff?
-She felt abandoned a little.
-Not a little. She felt abandoned.
The reason that I worry that
Batsheva is still upset with me
is because until I left the community,
we were BFFs.
We were super close to each other,
and when I left,
she, you know I wasn't as present
for her as I had been her whole life.
You always told us that we
were your greatest joy in life and that
it was the best job you ever had.
So it was, like, confusing to me
to understand why you weren't able to be
there for me as a mom during that time.
I think she felt really betrayed.
And so, because that's
the only actual fight we've ever had,
I kind of think that our relationship now
may be based on that.
She just doesn't realize
that there's still hurt in her heart.
And I think until she acknowledges that
and we can find a way to work past that,
it's gonna stay
this surface-level relationship.
What would be a good first step
that you'd feel good about?
Um, maybe we can go
to a counselor together.
She loves therapy. She's very comfortable.
I know she has a therapist.
Maybe we can talk
through our problems with a therapist.
[Robert] Could be good.
May I just have another
vanilla latte with almond milk?
-[waiter] Sure. Ice?
-Ice, yes, thank you.
-[Julia] Iced?
-Yes. Gay people love iced drinks.
Yeah, everyone likes cold drinks,
but not in ten-degree weather.
-Oh no, it's a cultural phenomenon.
-I'm googling it.
-I can't even know how. I'll ask Ra'ed.
-Do gay people like cold drinks
-in cold weather? [laughs]
-That's ridiculous. [laughs]
[pop music playing]
-[plucking guitar]
-[Aron] Ow!
[continues plucking]
-[Miriam] Have you been practicing tuning?
-I tuned it once, actually.
-[Miriam] Nice.
-I was gonna practice, but meh.
-[Aron laughs]
-Have you done your homework?
No ♪
-Do you know what chord you're playing?
-[Aron] Yeah.
-What?
-E.
-No.
-B?
-No.
-H?
-No. [laughs]
-[laughing] A.
No.
[Miriam laughs]
Ay, ay, ay.
My mom's definitely worried that Aron
is being a little distant from everybody.
Because the more religious you are,
inherently the more separated
the rules make you.
So my plan moving forward
with Aron is to play guitar with him,
so we can just hang out because
we haven't done that in such a long time.
[Miriam] Here.
The note on the E or first string.
So you have four beats.
-[plucking]
-One, two, three, four.
Bop your head. Bop it. Get into it.
Come on, we're playing guitar, bro.
-One, two, three, four.
-Yeah!
-One, two, three, four.
-Hey, hey, hey!
-One, two, three, four.
-Hey, hey!
-One
-Yeah!
[Aron laughs]
So, how's your yeshiva hunt going?
Did you decide
if you want to go to yeshiva or not?
Um, yeah.
-What's your decision?
-Yeah. [laughs]
You're going?
Yes.
-You're set. You decided you wanna do it.
-Yeah, I think I wanna do it.
Do you enjoy your secular education
at the school you go to now?
Well, again, I don't need it.
I mean, why do I need it?
-I think it's important
-It's important, why?
-To understand the world and people.
-I'll understand the world and people.
I didn't wanna go to college.
-Did I ever tell you that?
-No.
But the reason
I went to Stanford in the first place
was because Ima guided me to go
to university, though I didn't want to.
And I'm very happy
with that decision of hers.
But it is good for you to know that
that decision of college for me
wasn't fully my own.
I really agree.
For you, I think it was a great choice.
But as we've seen,
we're all very different people.
And we also don't make choices
based off of each other.
Yeah, but I think sometimes
it's good to listen to your mom.
Ima very much convinced Shlomo to go
to college even though he didn't want to.
Ima convinced me to go to college
even though I didn't want to.
I'm happy I made the decision,
and Shlomo's happy he made that decision.
For me, it doesn't make sense because
what am I gonna gain from college?
I wanna be a Rabbi. This is what my dream
was ever since I was a little kid.
It'd make much more sense
for me to go to a yeshiva
than to go to college.
Right now I have a dream, and every day,
I'm fulfilling that dream a bit more,
so we should all be accepting.
If we want respect from others,
we have to show respect.
I'm sorry you feel that way.
That's not very nice.
-What?
-You don't feel as respected.
I don't think anyone's disrespecting.
I just think it's acceptance from Ima.
I don't feel like I need acceptance,
like you need to accept me.
I shouldn't be restricted from yeshiva.
-What's the rush?
-Why should I waste my time?
It's not wasting your time.
-It's time to explore.
-I don't need time to explore.
I've had time. I'm not looking for more.
You are very young, and I think it's okay
to pause before you make a decision
that will determine the rest of your life.
I think it's a healthy, smart move.
I had to think about it yesterday.
I am just 15.
That's definitely a thing,
definitely a factor, but I don't think I'm
on the maturity level
of the average 15-year-old.
That's a fact. We can pretend
it's not the fact, but it is.
All right.
[upbeat music playing]
-[Julia] Hey.
-[Yosef] How're you doing?
[inaudible]
[both laugh]
Oh
Thanks for coming out.
-I really appreciate it.
-Of course.
[Julia] I'm meeting Yosef for dinner
because we wanna talk about
what's been going on with Aron.
We talked a lot about him
going to a yeshiva,
but I feel like the way that Aron
has been talking to me,
it's not very kind, and I don't like that.
I don't think it's respectful.
What do you think
about the whole Aron situation?
payes?
-It's whatever.
-He wants to go to Philly yeshiva.
Do you think this is a rebellion
against Ima?
A 16-year-old rebellion?
No. Right now
he wants to discover his heritage.
He really gets a pleasure out of learning.
And he gets a great pleasure out of,
you know, teaching.
-[waiter] Sliders here.
-Ooh!
Ohh la la.
[Julia] I think that's beautiful.
I love that. I wanna support him.
What worries me is the other stuff.
He was always saying,
"I wanna go to Harvard."
Now he's, like, "No, I don't wanna
go to that kind of college."
"I'll do college but really yeshiva
where I don't actually have to walk in."
It's that whole isolationist cuckooness
that scares me.
Have you had a conversation with him?
-Yeah.
-You did?
Yeah, but I see the positive
in everything he's doing.
I see he sees the positive
in everything he's doing.
But do we think he can do that
and still go to college?
-Why should the two be exclusive?
-They're not mutually exclusive.
-I don't think they have to be exclusive.
-No.
-He wants to leave school.
-No, he doesn't wanna leave school.
Yes, he does.
I think it's rebellion. I feel like
there has been a massive shift.
The way he behaved was extremely painful.
Yosef and I are basically on the same page
in terms of the fact that, look,
I don't have any problem
with Aron being religious
as long as we are respectful
of one another.
I'm the tough one in the relationship
when it comes to parenting.
Yosef was always a sweetie.
I was the one who set the rules and said,
"You have to go to bed, do your homework."
And here I am back again saying,
"No, education comes first."
I'm asking you just maybe
to have a conversation with him.
I definitely will have
a conversation with him.
-In a loving, most loving way.
-Right.
I do think what he needs to learn,
because that's part of being
an inspirational person
that he wants to be,
is to think about
the other person's feelings.
That if what you're doing
is gonna hurt them, you know
Showing honor and value
to other people. Brios.
Not Jews, anyone.
You know, it's That's a big rule.
I love that.
-Okay. So we have
-That's true Torah.
-That's true Torah.
-That's true Torah.
I really appreciate you.
-You have no idea.
-I have your back.
I know, and I see that.
You are a true-blue friend.
[upbeat music playing]
-[Miriam] Excited to do some Pilates.
-[Britni] Ready?
Let's do it.
[Britni] Go ahead, lay all the way down
and then exhale. Push it all the way up.
-And inhale
-It's heavy.
-[Britni] Come all the way back.
-[laughs]
-And up, yep, and down.
-[Miriam] My butt.
[Britni] Three, two, and one.
Bring that right foot down.
-Ooh!
-[Nathalie] Ah!
-Oh my God.
-[Miriam] Doesn't it feel so good?
-How much longer?
-Heaven. This feels like heaven to me.
[Britni] All the way back in. Good work.
That's the series,
if you guys work on that.
-[Miriam] Perfect. Thank you.
-[Batsheva] That's great.
So do you feel like Ima, you know,
like, we went to Connecticut.
Like, did she come back
feeling refreshed at all?
[Nathalie] The time I was there,
I feel like she was still working
all the time. Like, she was on a call.
I think it was good she got out
of the house, and I think that was good.
-Just a change of scenery?
-A change of scenery, yeah.
You know?
[sighs] So I had, like,
a really intense conversation with Ima.
She was like,
"I wish that we were closer."
Like, "We used to be best friends."
-I'm, like, that was when I was 18.
-[Nathalie] Yeah.
I'm turning 29.
-I'm in a different headspace.
-Why would it go bad if you get closer?
She has a different relationship with you.
You're at a different stage in life.
Like, I don't know any of my friends
who can spend
hours on end with their family.
Like, it's a lot for me.
I'm the kind of person, if somebody needs
me, I'm gonna be there. No matter what.
She is one of my best friends.
I love her. I want to help her
because she's helped me so much.
-[Miriam] Did you sleep at all last night?
-An hour.
-Oh, no!
-It was my fourth day in a row. It's bad.
I canceled all my weekend plans,
and I'm all ears.
[Julia] I love you,
you're the literal bestest.
I feel in debt to my mom
because she gave me you, you know?
That sounds weird.
But I wouldn't be able to be with a girl
without my mom
taking me out of my religious community.
Wrapping my head
around the idea that I can literally
be married to a man and have children
right now, if not for her,
is a crazy thought.
Yeah.
I feel like any adult can only handle
spending so much time with their family.
I love her. I love spending time with her.
I think we have a great relationship.
It's just not as intense
as Miriam's relationship.
Right.
[pop music playing]
[Julia] We win this battle part
of the lawsuit,
it's done and dusted
in six to eight weeks.
If we don't,
it may take me two years to win.
-[laptop chimes]
-Mm-hmm.
I'm not gonna sit on my ass
and twiddle my thumbs until I win.
In the meanwhile,
let's fucking build something of value.
In EWG, all we were focusing on
was the avatars themselves.
We did nothing about the metaverse.
Let's focus on the tech.
-[Miriam] Mm-hmm.
-Let's create a company together.
Let's build the first ever
interoperable metaverse
that is like a giant global mall.
It's a transactional environment.
So people come into this space,
and they can shop, they can
-They can shop, create.
-[Robert] View, they can look.
They can look. I'm gonna give you
both shares of the company,
and Robert Z will be
the founding four members.
[Miriam] Yay!
Of course, we have been counting on you
to figure out the tech,
to find out what kind of people we need.
-New business, what's the LLC called?
-We came up with a great name.
-Haart Sphere.
-[Robert] Haart Sphere?
-[Julia] Haart Sphere.
-Okay.
-Isn't that great?
-Very cool. Yeah.
It's not just me.
It's Miriam Haart and Julia Haart.
-Robert, you're an honorary Haart.
-Obviously.
-So we need haartsphere.com, .org, .net.
-Have you done that?
-[Miriam] I haven't bought anything.
-[Julia and Robert] Buy it immediately.
Okay.
[Julia] To me, I've been fighting
for freedom for so long,
I'm just gonna keep fighting.
I'm going to get what is owed to me back.
But I wanna plan for the future,
and that's where Haart Sphere comes in.
To get to do this
with people I trust and love
and to build something
on my own that no man can steal,
that's really exciting for me.
I just bought haartsphere.com.
-Buy all the dots.
-Okay.
[upbeat music playing]
-Is this the place?
-I believe so.
-[Shlomo] Haven.
-[Robert] Haven Spa.
[Shlomo] Uh, I'm here for a waxing.
-[woman] Your first name?
-Shlomo.
Brazilian, right?
-Mm-hmm.
-Good.
Ra'ed filled me in
on Miriam's birthday party,
and Miriam and Natalie's friend,
and how Ra'ed was, like, the wingman
that brought them together
and made sure they smooched.
-And then the kiss comes in.
-[Nathalie] Whoa!
Oh, okay.
Cutie Shlomo has, like, an upcoming date.
And I think we have some work to do
just to make sure
we're properly groomed for the occasion.
Have you had wax before?
Not like this.
-This is your patient.
-Oh my God. Are you my first victim?
-So you're still a virgin, are you?
-Yes. [chuckles]
In more ways than one, dear.
In more ways than one.
Perfect.
[waxer] It's a little bit unpleasant,
but you will survive.
[Shlomo] Great.
[waxer] There you go.
Oh, this is gonna hurt.
This is gonna hurt a lot, okay?
What do I think about?
Think about having sex with a girl.
There we go.
From Ra'ed and you,
this girl liked you at the party.
You haven't closed the deal.
How d'you close the deal?
[Shlomo] There's definitely
a confidence thing,
performance-related, you know?
[Robert] Whoa, what do you mean by that?
Performance-related.
Like, you were scared you
Like, most people at 26
have had multiple partners.
So, they're kinda, like,
on a different pedestal.
-[Robert] Women?
-[Shlomo] Women, yeah.
I'm relatively confident
she's not the Princess of Denmark.
I'm relatively confident
she's a 26-year-old girl who wouldn't mind
getting in your pants.
You'd like to get in her pants.
-But you have to make the move.
-I know.
If I could encapsulate Shlomo's,
like, issue with women,
it's that he has almost
too much respect for them.
A girl wants to be treated well.
A pedestal is great, but make it too high,
and you'll never reach.
Okay, if there is a next definable step
The next definable step
is to go on another date with Marianna.
[Robert] And that date ends how?
I guess see how the date goes but home.
Hopefully going well.
And then make the magic happen.
[Shlomo laughs]
I'm seeing some issues in this plan.
First off, we need to address your game.
You really should let
the spirit of Ra'ed take you over.
-[Shlomo] Yes.
-Are you the type that, like,
"I'd like to kiss you. May I kiss you?"
-Or something like that? Or
-I have asked permission.
[Robert] And?
-Did they acquiesce to the request?
-I've never been shut down for a kiss.
-Okay.
-But
So kissing is the start. Kissing is
the gateway drug to heavy petting. Okay?
-Heavy petting, really?
-Heavy petting.
Ra'ed has a lot of back hair. We have
to take care of that every now and then.
Should I do a strip or two?
-You have to rip it quick.
-Yes, I'm gonna go quick. Like lightning.
-[Shlomo laughs]
-Do it, baby.
[Robert] Okay.
[waxer] That was slow.
-Look at all that I got.
-[Shlomo] Slow.
-I got some.
-[waxer] You felt it, right?
-I felt that. That was like a pull.
-[Robert] Okay, maybe I need to redo it.
-[waxer] Okay.
-Good. Great. Thanks.
-You ready for me?
-[Shlomo] No.
-[waxer] Go.
-[Robert] All right.
-Oh
-Did you get it?
-You fired.
-Oh. [laughs]
-Shit. Twice in one week?
-[Robert] Twice in one week.
-That hurts.
-[Shlomo] Sorry.
[all laugh]
[pop music playing]
[Robert] Knock, knock.
-Hey!
-Hello!
-[Robert, in singsong] Happy birthday.
-Thank you.
[Ra'ed and Robert, in singsong]
Happy birthday!
-Hello!
-Hello.
-[Robert] Oh my God, 31 years old.
-Shut the fuck up.
[laughing]
-Happy birthday.
-[Batsheva] Thank you.
Tonight is my 29th birthday dinner.
This is a really big, nice,
intimate celebration with my family.
I was really nervous about celebrating
my birthday on my own,
so I'm thankful that I have my friends
and family around me today.
Oh, yes, David, please alcohol
-Urgently get this woman a glass of wine.
-[Julia] Urgently.
Guys, I'm so excited. I have not had
Aliza back here in such a long time.
-[Miriam] Aliza's coming?
-Aliza's coming.
-Amazing.
-[Robert] Who's Aliza?
Yosef's wife.
-Is your dad coming tonight?
-Yeah. Where have you been?
Oh, okay!
It's a family dinner.
[Julia] It's a family birthday
kosher dinner.
-[Robert] Oh my gosh.
-[Julia] Yeah!
-You having fun?
-Obviously. I'm a little tipsy, so.
I'm about to ruin this dinner. [laughs]
I love that. Please be tipsy.
-Sit next to me so we can fight a little.
-I can handle it.
[laughing]
Guys, Aron is coming, no talking now
about, like, stuff, his stuff.
-What do you mean?
-He's become
-[Batsheva] Very ultra.
-Very ultra.
It felt like he was not happy
to be with us in Connecticut.
-He wasn't happy.
-It was uncomfortable.
He came in his black hat, and he stayed
in his Shabbos jacket the whole time.
Tonight, it's just about family.
-[Yosef] Hey!
-[Miriam] They're here.
[all] Yay!
[Julia] Look at that.
-Aliza!
-How are you?
[Julia] Aww!
Batsheva wanted to sit
next to you on her birthday.
[Robert] Should we all say
nice things about Batsheva?
-My God, I love that.
-Abba, I'm sure you have something to say.
Batsheva has taught me a lot.
That shows how special she is.
I remember, we were traveling to Atlanta,
and she taught me how to be out there.
We were on an airplane,
and she turned around and screamed out,
"I'm Jewish! Is anyone here Jewish?"
-[Julia] I remember that.
-[laughing]
[Yosef] It was a really classic moment.
It was with confidence, and it was pure.
I'm very thankful
to have wonderful parents
who raised me with a lot of confidence.
So cheers to both of you.
[all] Cheers.
[Julia] That was beautiful.
Aron, it's your turn, baby.
When Ima was starting her fashion empire,
Batsheva took the role as the mother.
So I remember Batsheva
chasing me to take a shower.
[laughs]
-[Aron] Sometimes.
-I paid her to be my nanny for you.
So you could have a home-cooked meal,
and someone would be home
to do homework with you when you came home
from school because I was busy building
-towards our future.
-[Aron] Mm-hmm.
And Batsheva, I know
she did an amazing job with that.
-Thanks for that.
-Of course.
I love you.
You'll always be my little bro.
When I left my community, I did it alone.
I didn't want to burden my children.
They were too young, and I didn't want
them to know how close I had come
to committing suicide.
I thought that that was a burden
they should not have to bear.
It wasn't about being miserable
being your mom.
It was about being miserable
not being myself.
And at a certain point,
it was literally life or death.
If I hadn't gone the day that I did,
I would have killed myself.
It worries me tremendously
that Batsheva still resents it.
I'm raising my glass.
[voice breaking]
I'm so lucky to be your mother.
I love you so much.
[Batsheva] Aw.
-I don't know why I'm so emotional.
-Cry.
I'm really not a crier.
I don't know what's wrong with me.
I just want every dream
of yours to come true.
And I just want you to be happy, fulfilled
and that your life is far beyond
anything you can dream of.
-Ima!
-[Miriam chuckles]
-Oh wow. I get a hug.
-Of course you get a hug.
I love you.
I love you so.
I don't want you to cry though.
I love you so much.
[Julia] Batsheva, we are eating
in the living room for your birthday cake.
Thank you everybody for coming
and celebrating with me tonight
and for all the really nice
toasts and cheers.
-I don't remember whose idea it was
-[Robert] Mine.
-Rob.
-[Robert] Yes.
See? The person who says
they're the coldest is the kindest.
-Oh, God.
-[all] Aww.
[Batsheva] I'm thankful
for my friends and family.
[Julia] Come follow me for a second.
Like, based on our conversation
in the library
and don't feel like you have to do this,
but it's something that I'd love to do.
I know you have a therapist
that you really trust.
Do you think we could go together to your
therapist and talk about our relationship?
Sure.
[Julia] Yay.
-I love you so much.
-I love you. You're really intoxicated.
-[Julia] I know.
-So I would go to bed now.
-I'm gonna bring you to bed.
-Thanks. I love you. [laughs]
-You're so special.
-I love you. Thank you for tonight.
Do it ♪
I gotta do it my way ♪
Do it ♪
No one can tell me two ways ♪
Do it ♪
Can you keep up with the bass ♪
Do it ♪
I gotta do it my way ♪
Are you a little nervous, Shlomo?
No sweat?
-[Miriam] He's been working out.
-[Nathalie] You're good.
[Shlomo] Marianna is here.
[Miriam] Oh, here she is!
Look at that cutie.
[Shlomo] Hi, how are you?
I think a double date's a great idea
because it'd be a great way for Shlomo
to ease into the things that are starting
to build up with Marianna.
I hope he still makes it a little flirty.
-We can contribute to the flirting.
-No
If you need help in your relationship,
just go with us on a double date.
1-800-ask-the-bisexuals.
[chuckles]
-Should we start?
-Yeah.
Yeah, come on, Mir.
-[Nathalie] Here we go.
-Prepare to lose.
Okay, baby. Show me what you got.
-[Miriam grunts]
-[Nathalie] Woo!
[Shlomo] Okay!
[Nathalie] Whoa!
[Nathalie] Oh, it's good!
[cheering]
-[all] Oh!
-Let's go! [laughs]
-[Nathalie] You told me that you were bad.
-I am.
-[Nathalie] Okay.
-Beginner's luck.
I mean, how am I gonna go
right after that?
-[Nathalie] Go girl.
-I was very lucky.
[Marianna] Oh!
[laughing]
[Miriam] So bad.
-I think I said I was good at this.
-That was so bad.
-What?
-[Shlomo] Hey.
[Nathalie] What?
Shlomo's, like,
"Don't talk to my girl like that."
[Nathalie and Marianna] Oh!
-Looking sexy, babe!
-[Miriam grunts]
-Look at this couple. They're so cute.
-They are very cute.
-It's always number two.
-I gotta compliment you.
Almost a year now.
-Crazy.
-It is crazy.
[indistinct chatter]
So crazy.
I don't know if I'm seeing
this going anywhere.
I don't know either.
I feel like she is getting to his level
and giving as much as he's giving.
Need to have a talk with him
about his flirty game.
-But we have talked with him.
-That's true. It's not come through.
Yeah.
[pop music playing]
[sighs]
I've never actually met her in person.
I always do Zoom sessions.
-That's funny.
-Mm-hmm.
-Hi!
-[Batsheva] Hello.
-Come on in.
-Nice to see you in person.
[Nicole] Nice to see you too, I know.
[Julia] I'm really glad that Batsheva
said yes to go with me to therapy.
I'm not sure she's forgiven me,
and I need to find that out.
I need her to figure it out.
Maybe she's still angry with me,
and she doesn't even realize it.
Who wants to kinda give a brief overview?
When I left the community, she felt a lot
of abandonment which I totally understand.
She didn't have me
like she had me her whole life.
We would speak 800 times a day.
We had this, like,
really special connection.
I just miss the closeness.
I always feel that our interactions
are a little
-[Nicole] Surface?
-Surface. Yeah.
Like, we talk all the time.
We spend time all the time but, like
-It doesn't feel as meaningful? Connected?
-It doesn't feel as deep and connected.
I miss that.
I think that there's
still some residual trauma
left over
from when I left.
No, I dealt with all that,
like, years ago.
It's not I don't feel any, like,
abandonment from you anymore.
I really don't. Like, I definitely felt it
back then, but I went to therapy.
I'm not harboring any, like, resentment.
That's really not what I feel.
If it's not and I'm wrong,
then I remove everything I'm saying.
I'm just saying if there is,
I want to know how to fix it.
-[Nicole] Sure.
-That's all. I'm always gonna be thinking
about your best interest, about your
financial security, about making sure
And as your daughter, you have to
understand it's not an issue for me.
I'm happy to be open with you, but I feel
like if I'm putting something out there,
you share it with people
because you think it's not a big deal.
-What are you talking about?
-The squirting thing.
That was not for you
to share with the table.
-That made me uncomfortable.
-I'm so sorry.
When I'm talking to my mom, you should
know you can talk about your sex life.
-You shouldn't talk about my sex life.
-But you need to tell me.
I feel like
we've already had this discussion.
I don't want my personal sex life shared.
And yes, I'm in a different place
than when she was writing the book
and put in my sexual experiences with Ben.
[Ben] "After they got married,
Ben came to me with another issue."
He said, "Can you help us?
We can't figure out how to do it."
-"We tried last night, nothing happened."
-Oh my God.
-[Ben] When we got married
-Me and Ben, personally
and our own sexual experience
I don't think is anybody else's business.
But you understand why I have to
why I wrote it?
I don't wanna hear the explicit details
of my sexual experiences.
And I'm very open now,
but open doesn't mean public.
Some things are meant to be kept private,
and a line needs to be drawn.
Honestly, I think it's so beautiful
to be open about sexuality.
But that's you.
I sometimes forget that not everyone
is so open about it, and I apologize.
But I asked you, would you be okay to talk
about how impressed with the fact that
you're sleeping with one guy here.
I didn't realize that
that and the squirting thing
were in different
levels with you.
-[Batsheva] My privacy.
-You say, "I slept with people."
In my head, it's all the same thing,
so I didn't realize that that
and the squirting thing were different.
But you don't wanna say, "I squirted."
Please continue saying it.
I love hearing it. It's lovely. Thank you.
So these examples are really great,
but I wanna really focus more
on the difference in how you are
each valuing the relationship.
It sounds like, Mom, there's a closeness
that you're missing, that is lacking.
-[Julia] Exactly.
-Right, a deeper connection.
If it's something I've done
or a wall that she's built.
When she came and stayed in the house,
every time I would come in and say,
"How are you feeling? Are you okay?"
She just didn't want to engage.
I wanted to hold her, do you know
what I mean? I wanted to comfort her.
-But that's not what I needed.
-What do you need?
I just was What she gave me,
which was space and a loving place
and support and that to me was amazing,
and I was so thankful for that.
I feel like I do give you closeness.
It's just I don't have, like, a daily
-or constant, a weekly, emotional thing.
-Yeah, that's probably what it is.
That's not my personality.
-That could very well be.
-Ask my friends. I'm not like that.
You say yourself,
you're very introspective.
You work through a lot
of things yourself. I'm similar to you.
-So I don't need to talk.
-That's a good point.
You say this all the time.
I don't need to, like,
talk them through with people
and when I do, I have come to you,
and they're not often,
and they're not all the time.
But, like, if I needed someone
in those hardest times or I was, like,
"What do I do?" Like, you're
the person that I would call. So
She does come to me a lot
and asks for advice.
I kind of wanted her to come tell me
how she's feeling emotionally inside.
When I understood that she's not telling
those things to anyone, it's not me.
It's who she is.
And she's my daughter, so that makes
perfect sense that's who she is.
This huge, massive weight
lifted off my heart,
that I have been carrying with me since
the year I left the community, this guilt.
It's really helped me a lot.
I feel so much better.
Thank you for explaining it to me.
[Batsheva] I'm happy you did it.
-I am so grateful for our relationship.
-Me too!
[Julia chuckles]
-[Julia] 'Cause we're amazing together.
-Yeah.
[narrator]
.
[Robert] Let's go, y'all! Woo doggy!
Yes! I'm so happy
to be back in Texas, honey.
-What do y'all think of Ra'ed? Not sure.
-No.
I love Robert Brotherton.
I have to ask you a question.
[Christine Chiu] Cheers.
-To not needing men.
-To take them for pleasure.
[Julia] How old are you?
-Twenty-three.
-[laughs]
We're gonna build our own technology.
The Haart Sphere is the world's
greatest democratization of creativity.
I'm CEO. You're CTO.
Unbelievable, the two and a half years
you've been through.
Until I win this thing and clear my name,
there's that lump in my chest.
This ring makes me nauseous now.
My sense of value,
up to three million dollars.
You're not letting me do what I want?
You are going to get an education,
whether it fucking kills me.
[tense music playing]
Silvio filed some emergency order
in divorce court.
He wants to move back in. He's unhinged.
-I'm doing as much as I can, Julia.
-You have just done the bare minimum.
-That's bullshit. When you asked me to do
-Bullshit?
things I could do, I did it.
When you get attacked,
I am a fucking lion.
Oh, it's time to be
Everything I'm supposed to be ♪
I'm cutting chains
And I'm moving forward ♪
Oh, it's time to move on, move on
Yeah ♪
Oh, no
I know it's time to move forward ♪
I'm not generic
You know I'm a champion ♪
My life is copactic
You know that I'm excellent ♪
You know that I'm excellent ♪
You know that I'm excellent ♪
Oh, this is my time, my time, oh ♪
Oh, this is my time, yeah ♪
Oh, this is my time, my time, oh ♪