One whole hot mess of family issues, betrayal, failed marriages and relationships which all come to a pivotal point of reconciliation.Pepper or Penelope is of an age that she's feeling the pressure to have the 'All American Dream' or at least in her parents eyes. Her parents disapprove of her boyfriend Rick after his obsessions with a female client.
Seeking answers to her own problems in her relationship, leads to guidance from Bertie and George who seem the ideal married couple until he was forced to retire. Francis and Carol whom were married fifty years but were troubled with health issues. In fact, the porter and doorman seemed to be her best characters for advice ironically they were uniquely different.
It felt like the author tried to hard to make the characters appealing which altered the flow for me.
This had me all over the place in terms of its plot and central theme.
New characters were constantly being introduced but they truly didn't add much insight and the idea of therapy for a couple newly engaged or whatever was plain nuts.
But the final thing that made me scream internally was the 'hired hand' in Central Park to replay the entire scene that occurred with Rick.
I won't go into specifics but it left me feeling awkward and felt a bit racist since the character portraying the mugger was black and was paid to replay the crime scene leaving both characters with deeper scars.
I just wasn't feeling the whole thing as the back and forth with the names made it confusing and the in and outs of each relationship didn't really jive.
I'm glad Penelope came to her senses and went her own way but for the remainder of the plot I just wasn't overly involved.
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