Your thoughts are very similar to my own on the subject of therapy and processing trauma inside the White House in this ep - The Midterms has always felt like one of the weaker episodes of the season to me, partially for these reasons.
'The Midterms' does have to do a lot, and I was primed for a slightly different execution of the ramifications of their trauma. I take your points about the specifics of the environment, plus there's an element of different times, but the timeframe of the episode just exacerbated the fact that it wasn't the execution I was expecting, most of all around Toby.
their relationship status is actually left ambiguous at the end of the series
Ah, so ambiguous I'd forgotten about that, although Charlie/Zoey weren't my focus, so it's no surprise my memories of them faded. But looking at them now, to me they're so young and going through so much and yet seem to be coping with it well that it's more touching.
CJ should have kicked their asses.
YES! Or Ginger maybe should have handed CJ the popcorn so she could flick it at them.
Actually, looking at that metaphor again, I think I messed up, you are meant to tackle the player in rugby, but you're meant to compete for the ball not interfere with the player when you're in the air. So, I think I was borrowing the American metaphor. Basically, I sholdn't be trusted on sports meaphors of any kind.
I amuse myself by thinking of all the different things and people Margaret's been waylaid by in order to let Ainsley escape her supervision over and over, because it makes no sense at all.
That sequence would be AMAZING. That is now headcanon: all the things happened to Margaret.
I feel much better about only getting the gist of CJ maybe misspeaking now, and it didn't detract from the enjoyability of what ensued, which, as you say, fed into making Ainsley likeable.
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'The Midterms' does have to do a lot, and I was primed for a slightly different execution of the ramifications of their trauma. I take your points about the specifics of the environment, plus there's an element of different times, but the timeframe of the episode just exacerbated the fact that it wasn't the execution I was expecting, most of all around Toby.
their relationship status is actually left ambiguous at the end of the series
Ah, so ambiguous I'd forgotten about that, although Charlie/Zoey weren't my focus, so it's no surprise my memories of them faded. But looking at them now, to me they're so young and going through so much and yet seem to be coping with it well that it's more touching.
CJ should have kicked their asses.
YES! Or Ginger maybe should have handed CJ the popcorn so she could flick it at them.
Actually, looking at that metaphor again, I think I messed up, you are meant to tackle the player in rugby, but you're meant to compete for the ball not interfere with the player when you're in the air. So, I think I was borrowing the American metaphor. Basically, I sholdn't be trusted on sports meaphors of any kind.
I amuse myself by thinking of all the different things and people Margaret's been waylaid by in order to let Ainsley escape her supervision over and over, because it makes no sense at all.
That sequence would be AMAZING. That is now headcanon: all the things happened to Margaret.
I feel much better about only getting the gist of CJ maybe misspeaking now, and it didn't detract from the enjoyability of what ensued, which, as you say, fed into making Ainsley likeable.