Episodes

  • Fleishman Needs Meds and Therapy

    Fleishman Needs Meds and Therapy
    Jan 25 2023
    Jordana and Adam dive into the unique perspectives and broken psyches in the mesmerizing, thoughtful, and original take on middle-aged discontent, better known as Fleishman Is In Trouble. 

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    29 mins
  • Pierpoint Needs an In-House Therapist: An Industry Deep Dive

    Pierpoint Needs an In-House Therapist: An Industry Deep Dive
    Jan 18 2023
    Jordana and Adam discuss the deeply troubling psychological state of Industry and the messy recipe of extreme behavior, high salaries, and selling your soul.

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    21 mins
  • Wednesday Sessions

    Wednesday Sessions
    Jan 11 2023
    Jordana and Adam delve into the mesmerizing, fascinating, darkly fantastic and flawed character of Wednesday Addams.

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    27 mins
  • The Therapeutic Sex Lives of College Girls

    The Therapeutic Sex Lives of College Girls
    Dec 21 2022
    Jordana and Adam discuss HBO Max's Sex Lives of College Girls as the show's characters explore identity, individuation, sense of self, and enormous amounts of sex.

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    35 mins
  • Another Therapeutic Stay at the White Lotus

    Another Therapeutic Stay at the White Lotus
    Dec 14 2022

    Jordana and Adam discuss Season 2 of the HBO smash hit The White Lotus. Circling around themes of toxic masculinity, identity within relationships, and murder on the Mediterranean, Characters on the Couch has you covered.



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    44 mins
  • Grieving with WandaVision

    Grieving with WandaVision
    Dec 7 2022

    Jordana and Adam talk about grief and loss through the eyes of our favorite morally ambiguous comic book witch, Wanda Maximoff. If grief is love persevering, what is it when someone makes flesh-muppets out of an entire town to cope with their own personal loss? On this, Characters on the Couch has got you covered. Let’s delve in.



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    30 mins
  • A Postmortem of The Patient

    A Postmortem of The Patient
    Nov 30 2022

    Jordana and Adam circle back to The Patient and try to make sense of the psychology of a sociopath who locks his therapist in his basement. They delve into what works, what doesn’t, and all the ways they saw this show from entirely different perspectives.




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    35 mins
  • Why Are So Many Grown Ups Still Drawn So Much To Superhero Content?

    Why Are So Many Grown Ups Still Drawn So Much To Superhero Content?
    Nov 23 2022
    Jordana and Adam discuss the psychology of why so many of us are still drawn to men and women in capes. From the complex, damaged psyches of Batman and Ironman to the societal exclusion of the X-Men, we delve in to better understand what still draws us in decades later. 

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    39 mins