Locke and key season 2 episode 6 recap series#

Ike would play mind games with them, sometimes pitting them against one another or playing matchmaker.

The Shrink Next Door podcast managed to speak with a few of his other patients and their testimonies helped form the environment created during this week’s episode. He’s a therapist which means that he has many “clients”. The cruelty doesn’t stop with Bonnie or Marty for Ike. Sarayu Rao in The Shrink Next Door, now streaming on Apple TV+. Bonnie doesn’t want to take advantage of Marty but I believe she is completely wrapped up in the man she loves and is married to, and Ike has taken advantage of her good graces. You can see the guilt on her face but she keeps quiet because as Ike said back last week, “you have to learn to accept hospitality with good grace.” Marty can ask them to leave at any time but he’s choosing not to. He awkwardly tries to explain the situation on why Ike’s name is on the house even though it was really his, and Bonnie is listening to the entire conversation from the kitchen. There is a moment when a guest asks Marty about his family photo hanging on the wall among all of Ike’s because she mistakes it as being of Ike. She becomes cold and decides to ignore what is going on, especially with the treatment of Marty. All of this is a smack in Bonnie’s loyal face and yet she stays with him and surrenders her kindness over to him so by the time we enter the later years we see how he’s transformed her. He’s cruel to her and the girls when it comes to their costumes for the parties, and he openly flirts with the other female guests. Ike’s become the person she warned him about coming back during “The Foundation” when she told him that he doesn’t know when to stop sometimes. He tries to say they don’t need one because she’s “Super Mom” and that she can handle anything.Ī key moment in Episode 6, though, is when Marty finds Bonnie in the kitchen hiding from the party happening outside, and she says she can’t do this anymore. After she has their twins, she asks Ike for help by hiring a nanny to help her. As The Shrink Next Door progresses we begin to see the cracks where Ike is trying to pull the strings and Bonnie is attempting to fight back.

At first, he is open to her and there is a connection where you can feel, and believe, that these two have a real relationship. For the past few episodes, we’ve seen his treatment towards his wife Bonnie (Casey Wilson).

Casey Wilson in The Shrink Next Door, now streaming on Apple TV+.Įveryone is a pawn to him. “ The Party” discards all of that development to give us the first glimpses into the horrible person he truly is. All aspects that may not make us completely root for him to make his goals but make us feel empathetic towards him. We’re given his family life and exploration into his past. The instant tone change really throws you for a loop.Īlthough we know Ike is a horrible person, it can’t be denied that the first bunch of episodes set him up to be somewhat sympathetic. We go from seeing the formation of a “love story” last week into the deep abusiveness that comes from staying with Ike. I do feel though that having this focus on the parties takes away from really understanding the hold Ike has on Marty. We see how Ike becomes deeper and deeper into the illusion of the life he’s created while Marty’s mental state deteriorates. The time jumping through the years by using the multiple house parties (that actually happened according to The Shrink Next Door podcast) is an inventive way of showing us the progression of their relationship. As the episode progresses through the years, we see more parties and the continuous exclusion of Marty until Marty’s only form of socializing is with his fish in the fishpond on the other side of the yard.

Ike (Paul Rudd) and Marty (Will Ferrell) throw their first housewarming party, where we see Ike and Marty get ready, but once the party begins Ike makes little suggestions that push Marty to the outskirts of actually socializing with people. “The Party” starts off feeling similar to other episodes.

Locke and key season 2 episode 6 recap series#

Question: How do you create a passage of time in a series trying to tell itself in eight episodes? Answer: You get inventive and create an entire episode framed around the concept of house parties. The following contains spoilers for The Shrink Next Door Episode 6, “The Party” (written by Georgia Pritchett & Sas Goldberg and directed by Jesse Peretz)