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I'm Ali Stroker.
Dads.
They’re really a thing this season, huh?
Here to help me dig into some daddy issues
are Elliott Gould and Ryan Broussard.
That may not have came out just right, but anyway.
Okay. So what's with all the daddy issues?
I want to start with Charles.
Charles not knowing anything about his dad
until I saw that painting.
I mean, that completely curled my hair.
Do you think that he feels ashamed?
I think the subliminal shame or embarrassment
is just the tip of the iceberg.
Yeah.
It seems like there's, like, an emotional recall with, like,
each one of the characters where they've kind of
blocked out things that they choose not to remember.
And then this painting for Charles
brings up some memories that he had with his father that,
like, he just completely forgot about.
Exactly.
We also have a really fun new storyline here
with Lucy coming back to the Arconia.
Yeah, Lucy is finally here, yeah.
I mean, she's had five other dads.
Yeah.
And she says Charles was her favorite, which is so sweet.
Yeah.
But it feels like she may view these dads
as sort of disposable.
Charles has these kind of complicated relationships
whenever he gets close with someone.
He kind of almost expects to get hurt.
So I don't know if he's expecting Lucy to leave again,
if he's just waiting for that downfall,
but it remains to be seen if that'll happen.
I don't know that there is a stable relationship
in the show other than the friendship
of our three main people.
So, I mean, Lucy and Charles,
one would only hope that there's something there
and there's a future for them
because we all are here to be loved and to love.
I sort of am getting vibes that Charles is kind of
taking on some kind of father figure to Mabel.
She’s quite young, isn't she?
I mean, she's a good deal younger than the guys.
-Yeah. -Absolutely.
Until Lucy shows up.
That is one of the funniest scenes,
is when she thinks she's young,
and then Lucy starts throwing all this
millennial mumbo jumbo at her and she's like,
oh, no. Charles, Oliver.
It's interesting to see her character
is not the young character anymore.
Like so many fun, new sort of
gems are being found as we dig into our leads’ pasts.
Like it's only a matter of time before each
character gets their own kind of flashback
of some emotional things that happened
with their parents that completely messed them up.
I've heard this saying that if you have something
that happens to you and you don't face it,
or you don't deal with it, it will repeat.
Mm-hmm.
Whoa. I mean, you're absolutely right.
I mean, that's true.
-Now for you. -Mm-hmm.
-For Will. -Yup.
How do you think Will is feeling about
his relationship with Oliver,
the information that he's getting?
I think it's a journey for both of them.
I mean, obviously, in the first season,
that relationship kind of,
it tied in to them,
like kind of making up and forgiving each other
for things that have happened in the past.
And like now it's going to be kind of like a legacy thing
where Will takes over and you can slowly start to start seeing
that Will is becoming Oliver.
Each episode that goes by he becomes Oliver more and more.
And now he's taking on this new passion
of being a theater director.
Like, what does that mean for Will?
Does he feel a lot of pressure to
live up to Oliver’s standards?
Because, you know, Oliver was a Broadway director
and now I'm only, you know,
kind of doing children's theater.
So it's like, what kind of shadow am I living in?
Do I want to create my own,
you know, path in that theater world?
Can you give us your best impersonation of Oliver?
Oh, my God. He makes this guttural...
Any time there's, like, some shocking news or something.
He does this really guttural...
He does *guttural noise*.
And it makes me crack up every single time.
I know what you It's one of my favorite.
It's one of my favorite things that he does
throughout the season is just one little guttural noise.
And I rewind it
and I watch it over and over and over again.
I absolutely love it.
I think the parental issues that these characters have
are a part of what makes them who they are.
-All of us. -Yup.
Makes all of us who we are.
It certainly affects our life every day
as to who we are and where we come from.
And I know, myself,
I'm just now starting to understand my father.
I recall my father and I had dinner
and after his main course he ordered bread.
And I said, “You always order bread after your main course?”
And he said, “My father always did.”
And I said, “I just realized something.
You've never told me anything about you.”
Yeah. I mean on the opposite spectrum of that,
it's like I really didn't have a relationship
with my father and sometimes I wonder how that,
I guess, affected my personality or my upbringing
or just thinking how much different
would I have been if I did have them have him in my life.
And so it's like it's a lot to unpack and we don't,
I guess, realize it on a subconscious level how much
it really affects us on a day to day basis.
But we see it with the characters of, like,
it really does affect them every single step they take.
It, like, there's something that gets unlocked
in their mind of like, oh yeah, I have to,
I have to unpack that.
And it feels like the three of them
are sort of crashing into walls right now
around their personal lives.
Yeah. And I just think it's also,
it's part of the comedy of the fact that they're so dedicated
to solving this crime.
Yeah.
And getting it right,
but their personal lives are a total mess.
So that's sort of, to me, part of what
I love about following their storylines.
Yeah, but I think that, isn't that something that we do
as human beings in general,
like we, the things that we should be focused on or fixing,
we put that on the back burner
and we put a lot of other things before that.
-A hundred percent. -Yeah.