And we even learn from King (Armand Fields) that her now ex Chris (Theo Germaine) is getting top surgery, though he and Abby are no longer speaking. We see her at work and with her sister and with her friends. We see her in several new therapists’ offices. The first episode of the new season checks back in with Abby.
But it’s also unique in its insistence that Abby’s life is enough, that her story alone is worthy of a television show.
#My secret identity season 2 tv#
Work in Progress is unique in its focus on Abby - one need only watch Showtime’s previous timeslot to recognize the rarity on TV of a fat butch dyke whose ex is a non-binary trans man. And like the first season, its humor, its pathos, its power is found in its casual, low-key specificity. If the first season was a spiral, the second seems to be about the mundanity of doing okay. “Life just got in the way of me killing myself,” she tells one of the many candidates. She got promoted, her best friend Campbell (Celeste Pechous) moved in with her, and she’s looking for a new therapist. But here we are picking up soon after and she’s mostly doing alright. It’s been a year and a half since we left Abby McEnany’s semi-autobiographical queer dyke standing in the snow - suicidal, rejected, having just hurt the person she loves. I kept thinking about this quote as I watched the second season premiere of Work in Progress.
You don’t have to have been roasted on a spit by Satanists in order to just have a hard time being a human being.” “You can look back on your life and be like wow I have all of these issues and they came from what the true crime books would call an idyllic American childhood… we are the way that we are because we’re humans and we’re fragile and we have a hard time with intimacy and loving each other and accepting ourselves and that’s just the human condition. “I think it’s difficult for everyone acknowledging whatever trauma of whatever form you’ve been through in your life is enough to fracture you in the ways that you’re fractured,” co-host Sarah Marshall mused in an episode of her podcast You’re Wrong About. The following review has spoilers for last weekend’s premiere episodes of Work in Progress Season Two.
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