misguided Nick tempered by the
potential for male aggression.
The ensuing glimpses of Nick
and Naomi’s irreparably dam-
aged working arrangement are
difficult to witness, the spurned
older man barely looking up from
his work when his assistant asks
for permission to go to lunch.
Seeing the potential for dam-
age, and perhaps motivated
by jealousy for a young woman
who reminds her of herself at
that age, Gwendolyn imposes an
impossible deadline on Nick’s
project in order to break up the
pairing. Alyssa, unaware of how
unattracted Naomi really is to
her pathetic husband, becomes
so riddled with paranoia it be-
gins to negatively affect her ca-
reer as a therapist.
Perhaps the most fascinating
dynamic is that shared between
Naomi and Buddy, the latter
breaking his self-imposed rules
of avoiding the former as he con-
tinually sneaks away from his wife
to spend time with the Aussie,
pushing ‘platonic’ as far as any
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