Watched twice and took copious notes. Some of the tools were excellent others meh.
Even after Jonah decided to open himself up he held back. I wanted more realness and vulnerability from him, however, the biggest turd in the pearls came when Jonah's beautiful mother joined a session. She was being very real, open and honest about how she treads lightly when having talks with her son. She felt she could not be totally herself with him out of fear she'll say something wrong that would cause him to think a certain way about her. It was particularly interesting to me because I feel exactly the same way with my only son who is highly sensitive like Jonah. My son is the only person I hold back with when I deeply long to be free to be myself completely and share openly without my guard up so I was eager to see where the discussion would go. To my utter disappointment Jonah quickly and completely blew off her feelings in a placating manner while Phil sat awkwardly offering no assistance to Jonah's mother, than out of the blue, Jonah thinks a good idea to land Phil's joke about banging Jonah's mother. The in poor taste joke by Phil should never had made the doc, period, but since it was not cut, Jonah's betrayal by outing Phils unfunny joke with his mother present was beyond inappropriate. Jonah did exactly what Phil did when talking about something uncomfortable by deflecting with humor except it was not even remotely funny or cool. I felt sad for his mother and could clearly see Phil's awkwardness and urgent need to shut down that session as it was "devolving" at that point according to Phil. I did think the genuinely funny moment, and the person who saved that awkward joke moment, came from Jonah's mom who said "you'd remember if it was me", in reference to being "banged" by Phil. Jonah's mother is a quick wit and that was a brilliantly funny retort. She saved that session single-handedly!
Stutz was enlightening on many levels, imperfect on many levels, and full of turds and pearls.
Even after Jonah decided to open himself up he held back. I wanted more realness and vulnerability from him, however, the biggest turd in the pearls came when Jonah's beautiful mother joined a session. She was being very real, open and honest about how she treads lightly when having talks with her son. She felt she could not be totally herself with him out of fear she'll say something wrong that would cause him to think a certain way about her. It was particularly interesting to me because I feel exactly the same way with my only son who is highly sensitive like Jonah. My son is the only person I hold back with when I deeply long to be free to be myself completely and share openly without my guard up so I was eager to see where the discussion would go. To my utter disappointment Jonah quickly and completely blew off her feelings in a placating manner while Phil sat awkwardly offering no assistance to Jonah's mother, than out of the blue, Jonah thinks a good idea to land Phil's joke about banging Jonah's mother. The in poor taste joke by Phil should never had made the doc, period, but since it was not cut, Jonah's betrayal by outing Phils unfunny joke with his mother present was beyond inappropriate. Jonah did exactly what Phil did when talking about something uncomfortable by deflecting with humor except it was not even remotely funny or cool. I felt sad for his mother and could clearly see Phil's awkwardness and urgent need to shut down that session as it was "devolving" at that point according to Phil. I did think the genuinely funny moment, and the person who saved that awkward joke moment, came from Jonah's mom who said "you'd remember if it was me", in reference to being "banged" by Phil. Jonah's mother is a quick wit and that was a brilliantly funny retort. She saved that session single-handedly!
Stutz was enlightening on many levels, imperfect on many levels, and full of turds and pearls.