{"id":373,"date":"2019-10-28T19:16:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T02:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattpoland.net\/sherlockpod\/?p=373"},"modified":"2020-10-10T17:20:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T00:20:22","slug":"the-bright-sessions-episodes-02-and-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattpoland.net\/sherlockpod\/2019\/10\/28\/the-bright-sessions-episodes-02-and-04\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bright Sessions \u2013 Episodes 02 and 04"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the next few\nepisodes of The Bright Sessions, <\/em>we\ncontinue to follow therapist, Dr. Bright, and her sessions with both new and\nreturning patients. Episode 2 centered around high school footballer player,\nCaleb, and his ability to feel others’ emotions. As he rants to Dr. Bright, as\nlisteners we learn that there is a boy in his English class named Caleb, and\nall his other classes. who feels sadder emotions. This in turn suppresses\nCaleb’s own emotions and he begins to have trouble balancing all the different\nemotions. On top of this, when the Caleb sees some bullies harrassing Adam, he\nmakes the comment “leave him alone the dude\u2019s sad enough as it is,”\nclaiming he made things worse for Adam. After listening closely to the podcast,\nI realized that you can tell a lot about how someone is feeling through their\nintonation or the tone in which they talk with. From the moment Caleb started\ntalking to Dr. Bright, you could immediately tell that he was hesitant and\nupset about something. You could also tell that there was a sense of comfort\nbetween the two, allowing us as listeners to come to the conclusion that this\nwasn’t their first time meeting, and that the two had been in a routine by now.\nI think it is an interesting narrative choice that as a listener, we do not\nlearn about the patient’s actual power until about halfway through the podcast.\nThis leaves us pondering and making guesses as to what it may be, and the\nconversation doesn’t give too much away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also listened to\nepisode 4, skipping episode 3 because episode 4 is the second session of the\ngirl featured in episode 1. It was interesting to listen to this one because I\nfeel as though by the end, her problem was close to being solved, leaving me wondering\nwhat they could talk about in the upcoming sessions. The thing that stood out\nthe most to me in this podcast where at the end, when Dr. Bright finishes by\nleaving herself a little memo about important details of the “case”,\nshe mentions “\u2026 the things that could be possible” with the girl’s\ntime traveling powers and that it reminded her of a mysterious character\n“Mark”. I think it was interesting that we, as listeners, have not\nbeen introduced to a “Mark” character and it may be because they are\ntrying to foreshadow something in the near future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comparing both\nepisodes, I think the first one was very surface level, understanding the\npatient and the learning how the podcast works but with this episode, the\nsuspense and “on edge” elements are more present, maybe because of\nthe amount of sessions there had been for this patient previously. While this\nis the case, I think a common theme that runs through the podcasts I listened\nto thus far is that all these kids seem to come to Dr. Bright with the\nintention of getting rid of their power. They have all had bad experiences with\ntheir power and will do anything to get rid of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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