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Want to go back to the Terrible Psychologist


While I have refrained from wasting my time to bash this terrible but watchable (if doing something else) show

But seeing the disturbed child behaving like a future Serial Killer made me think about the Psychologist. Having severe depression I have dealt with various Psychiatrists besides my main one and found a few that were terrible and the others excellent. And one Psychologist who was also excellent.

But when the kid shows the Dr. a doll and she freaked out and said she would not treat him anymore, I thought he had made a doll out of an animal he killed.
But it was just a doll with stolen false teeth. A Mental illness specialist has to have an extremely low tolerance for abnormal behavior to be freaked out by that. Of course it gets funnier from there. The parents and family, don't react "Oh my Goodness" He really needs help, Lets find the best person money can buy since they are rich, it would not be a problem. But instead, do nothing. That plot point has occurred and some reason for not finding another Dr.is not offered and logic goes out the window as it usually does in this series. Logic doesn't have to be perfect but a little bit would have helped. The person to blame is not the writers but the creator of the show who would be hands on for a 13 episode run. Approving and rewriting scripts.

That is off my chest. I vented, it doesn't really matter.
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This show is beyond campy; it is outright ludicrous in it's unbelievable story for the reasons you gave here. I was still watching in the hopes of it redeeming itself; now I just want to finish it knowing that there will be no Season 2 because it's so awful. I'm actually surprised they plan to finish airing the final few episodes. Typical Summer fill-in.

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