Episode guide
Work in Progress: Season 2
10 episodes · premiered Aug 22, 2021
Season two picks back up with Abby in the wake of her breakup (and almost out of almonds). A 46-year-old self-identified fat, queer dyke, Abby begrudgingly accepts that she’s too busy to kill herself. In fact, she’s just starting to get her head above water… when a global pandemic converges with a family emergency and forces her into uncharted territory.
- Episode 1: Life Got in the Way Aug 22, 2021 · 30m As Abby settles into a routine with a new roommate, she embarks on a fraught quest to find a new therapist – ideally, one she doesn’t hate. All out of almonds and hanging on by a thread…
- Episode 2: Everything's Fine, Everything's Okay Aug 22, 2021 · 30m When a crisis in Abby’s apartment threatens her most prized possessions, a cascade of buried memories takes her back to where her mental health journey began. Abby reflects on the…
- Episode 3: Two Queens on Two Queens Aug 29, 2021 · 30m Abby and her new roommate Campbell provide moral support for each other as they power through a full day of supposedly-fun-but-ultimately-stressful family gatherings. The only way out is…
- Episode 4: Apologies and Their Fluctuating Nature Aug 29, 2021 · 30m Haunted by her “crime against the entire queer community,” Abby sets out on a pilgrimage of healing that definitely might work. Overwhelmed by guilt and shame? Don’t worry, there’s a…
- Episode 5: Take Your Child to Work Day Sep 5, 2021 · 30m A catastrophe at work gives Abby a chance to rise to the occasion in front of her visiting nephew, Matty. Later, the two of them share a rare moment of peace and calm before sleep. It’s…
- Episode 6: Eleanor Roosevelt Sep 12, 2021 · 30m Abby and Campbell attempt to live their best lockdown lives despite the constant stream of bad news that somehow keeps getting worse. The growing calendar of canceled events causes Abby…
- Episode 7: Oh Say Can You See Sep 19, 2021 · 30m All Abby and her family can do now is wait at her father’s house. As they all turn to the important task of ordering delivery, watching massive amounts of TV, and avoiding the giant…
- Episode 8: FTP Sep 26, 2021 · 30m With the world on fire, Abby is forced to reckon with the history of racism, police violence and grief and her complicity in it. Tasked with writing her company’s “Black Lives Matter…
- Episode 9: Hey, Dad Oct 3, 2021 · 30m Masking up to brave the outside world, Abby wills herself to overcome her fear of germs and the unknown to visit Edward in the hospital. Father and daughter reflect on their fraught…
- Episode 10: I Release You Oct 10, 2021 · 30m Abby and Julia venture into uncharted waters, the family throws a party, and Abby finds herself ending one relationship just as she begins a new one. The fate of her last almond hangs in…