While this episode has the interesting plot of Olive's pupil's return to attempt a suicide, when he's not the focus of the picture the episode could hardly be worse. It's some petty women's drama about people passively-aggressively criticising each other's dresses, trying to get everything perfectly arranged and pretty at a wedding, and otherwise being insufferable. None of the black-comedy feel of the previous episode past that point, and Olive is either rude or being rude-d at, nothing that she says is actually bitterly funny, unlike in episodes 1 or 4.
Frankly, the plotline with that pupil and his mother is fascinating, and I would've wanted it to be continued later on, and much elaborated upon from what we've been shown. In the pilot episode the mother had severe depression, here the son (purposely?) retroactively misdiagnoses it as bipolar, but apparently in reality both have had schizophrenia or something like that? Their lifestory would've made for a much, much better mini-series (or even a full-sized one).
Frankly, the plotline with that pupil and his mother is fascinating, and I would've wanted it to be continued later on, and much elaborated upon from what we've been shown. In the pilot episode the mother had severe depression, here the son (purposely?) retroactively misdiagnoses it as bipolar, but apparently in reality both have had schizophrenia or something like that? Their lifestory would've made for a much, much better mini-series (or even a full-sized one).
