'Good Girls' Season 3 Episode 9: Annie's 'embarrassing' obsession with her therapist is making fans cringe
Spoilers for 'Good Girls' Season 3 Episode 9 'Incentive'
'Good Girls' Season 3 has finally returned from its random break in the middle. While there's a lot to celebrate and laugh about — from a sadly armless hitman to the police almost catching a whiff of who's behind the nail polish stunt — what has really managed to piss fans off is Annie Marks (Mae Whitman) going around the same old circles as she did in the beginning — obsessing over 'unavailable men' as if 'real growth' is something clearly unachievable for her.
The synopsis for Episode 9 of Season 3 titled 'Incentive' says: "Beth decides to find a solution to her Rio problem after he backs her into a corner; Ruby enlists Sara's reluctant help to replenish supplies after a key counterfeiting component dries up; Annie spirals after a vulnerable session."
This mentioned spiraling in the synopsis is actually Annie being suggested by her make-do therapist Josh that she get a 'list' of things her ex-husband Greg liked about her. And even though under the influence of wine she kisses and tries to lead it to more with Greg, she later comes to the realization that what she really needs on that list is 'spark'.
After realizing Josh and his girlfriend (who's tutoring Annie now, by the way) don't sleep in the same bed or have sex frequently (read: not at all) Annie tries to get Josh all hot and bothered about how much sex she and her ex have had. She's pretty much prying and being unnecessarily intrusive only because Josh isn't ready to admit that maybe he and Annie have a shot after all. It's not like he ever led her on or used her personal issues to take advantage of her. Josh has steadily declined all of Annie's advances and is now just trying to maintain patient-doctor borderline, which Annie clearly has no respect for because she "just needs one unavailable guy or the other to distract her from the miserable life", feel fans.
Taking to Twitter, fans have come in unison to complain about how unnecessary all of this is; especially after we thought Annie was showing real growth by turning down random men wishing to have sex with her at the store's back end.
"Annie falling back into her usual pattern, wanting an unavailable guy. Can she grow? I need real growth," noted a fan, while another complained, "He's your therapist and everyone on the planet knows you have inappropriate relationships with unavailable men to avoid getting hurt and you're setting yourself up to get hurt. Annie, this is the last thing you need."
A third fan even noted that the armless-shooter Beth Boland (Christina Hendricks) and co. hire to take out Rio (Manny Montana) is probably a better romantic prospect for Annie than her therapist. "Why couldn’t THIS fine man be annie’s new love interest instead of her THERAPIST," an outraged fan said, as another remarked how maybe Josh's girlfriend could be a potential friend for Annie to make her fall out of this tropes, writing: "I want this girl to be Annie's friend. Lord knows she needs friends not unavailable men. I know she likes therapist guy but what Annie really needs is an actual friend outside of Beth and Ruby."
From "There we go, jealous Annie. Always messing up someone relationship" to "Annie is so embarrassing, her interest in Dr Cohen makes me cringe" — all fans want to scream at poor Annie right now is: "F***ing CHILL. Your therapist doesn’t want you!"
'Good Girls' Season 3 airs on Sundays at 10 pm only on NBC.