New Blog 2: Princess House Prices

Thursday 8 November 2012

Princess House Prices

This perfection is shattered by the sound of a gunshot. Don Hubbard, their reclusive next door neighbor, has just shot himself. Neighbors gather outside the Hubbard house and chatter nervously as emergency personnel take the body away. Tara and Max meet a gay couple, Ted and Hannie. They share the common bond of being the “different” families in the neighborhood. Tara invites them over for dinner. At dinner with Ted, Hannie, Charmaine, and Nick, we see a broader range of feelings and behavior from Tara than we have witnessed in previous episodes. Ted reveals a painful psychological childhood trauma and talks about the wonderful therapist he had in New York, Dr. Shoshanna Schoenberg. Conversation shifts toward how much effort Hubbard put into killing himself, and how much he must have wanted to die. Max desperately tries to change the topic, proposing they play board games.