Adele: Week Seven

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Sunil: Week One

Episode number: 1

Overview: A retired math professor from Bengal, Sunil, accompanied by his son Arun and daughter-in-law Julia, reluctantly visit Paul to discuss the death of Sunil's wife six months earlier, his subsequent displacement to the U.S., and the recent tensions he's experienced while living with his son's family.

Frances: Week One

Episode number: 2

Overview: A well-known stage and screen actress, whose sister was treated by Paul 18 years earlier, begins therapy to uncover the reasons why she is "blanking out" during rehearsals for a new play.

Jesse: Week One

Episode number: 3

Overview: A 16-year-old homosexual, who has been seeing Paul for some time after being caught peddling prescription drugs to classmates, talks about his troubling "pattern of promiscuity," his unsettled family life with adopted parents and a recent alarming voicemail.

Adele: Week One

Episode number: 4

Overview: In order to get a new prescription for sleeping pills, an exhausted Paul visits a young, serious and intelligent therapist, and is compelled to confront deep-rooted fears about his health, his divorce, his patients, and his all-encompassing relationship with former therapist Gina Toll.

Sunil: Week Two

Episode number: 5

Overview: Sunil confronts his inability to voice his frustrations as he recalls the first time he and his wife met their future daughter-in-law in Calcutta.

Frances: Week Two

Episode number: 6

Overview: Frances struggles to remember what distracts her during rehearsals, and she gets defensive when Paul mentions in passing that he spoke to her sister about her illness. Meanwhile, Paul sees a neurologist to be tested for Parkinson's.

Jesse: Week Two

Episode number: 7

Overview: Jesse talks about his application to a prestigious arts program at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Adele: Week Two

Episode number: 8

Overview: Paul discusses Gina's book with Adele and vents about a particularly loathsome character he's certain is based on him.

Sunil: Week Three

Episode number: 9

Overview: Sunil makes tea as he describes his first wedding anniversary since his wife's death.

Frances: Week Three

Episode number: 10

Overview: Frances recalls her sister's one and only foray into acting in a college production, and discusses her mother's beauty before and after she became ill.

Jesse: Week Three

Episode number: 11

Overview: Jesse is accompanied by his mother, but the strain of their relationship makes any kind of discussion difficult.

Adele: Week Three

Episode number: 12

Overview: Paul complains of headaches the morning after taking Max to a concert to see Animal Collective, and is despondent while revealing what his son found on his computer.