Sensitive Skin, HBO Canada – season finale
Al gets some disturbing news from Dr. Cass (Elliott Gould, M*A*S*H, FRIENDS, RAY DONOVAN). It gets worse when he discovers that his car has been broken into, and that Davina is having an affair with Greg. Davina leaves Al and moves in with her in-laws, much to the chagrin of Veronica. Roger has a spectacular art opening, Davina has a complex delusion that seems to support her decision to change her life, and Al has a near fatal heart attack.
Everything about Sensitive Skin, eh?
Link: Sensitive Skin’s CanLit connection
From Quill & Quire:
Q&A: Barbara Gowdy on swearing and her television debut on HBO’s Sensitive Skin
“Jokingly over the years, Michael Ondaatje said he would be my agent. I would bug him and say, “You’re a lousy agent, I’m not getting any roles.†Then he phones me to say he got me a speaking part on Don McKellar’s show. Of course I withheld his 15 per cent because it’s the only role he’s ever gotten me. It’s all a joke between Michael and me and Don.” Continue reading.
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Sensitive Skin, HBO Canada – Episode 5
Davina takes on the burden of planning her mother’s funeral and Veronica refuses to help. Al takes it upon himself to brighten Davina’s life by painting the loft, but his efforts have the opposite effect. Roger appears to be coming on to Davina at the art gallery and later at the visitation. She tells him to stay away, but at a post-visitation family gathering the truth comes out about Roger’s crisis. With the help of medical marijuana, Al let’s Davina know what he thinks about her recent improprieties.
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Sensitive Skin, HBO Canada – Episode 4
Al and Davina join Roger (Colm Feore, THE BORGIAS) and Veronica (Joanna Gleason, Last Vegas) on a birthday road trip, but after Roger’s disparaging rant about the arts, Davina takes back her Christmas gift of piano lessons and gives them to Al. While Al struggles with the dull exercises, Greg (Marc-André Grondin, C.R.A.Z.Y.) the piano teacher reveals to Davina his passion for archeology and older women.
Link: Sensitive Skin takes a while to find its stride
From Bill Brioux of TV Feeds My Family:
Review: Sensitive Skin
“The folks behind Sensitive Skin are smart. Get too wordy in a review and you wind up sounding like Al, Skin‘s wannabe downtown Toronto hipster who clings to columnist status though he’s barely a blogger.” Continue reading.