Even therapists want remedy generally — and that’s very true for Kerry Washington’s Paige Alexander and her turbulent household in the Hulu dramedy UnPrisoned.
On this unique first look of the season 2 trailer, we get a glimpse on the lengths Paige goes to to maintain her household collectively — together with hiring a new-age household remedy coach named Murphy, performed by visitor star John Stamos.
Murphy is half-guru/half-reality star and claims to be a “household radical therapeutic coach,” who desires Paige, her father, Edwin (Delroy Lindo), and her son, Finn (Faly Rakotohavana), to discover ways to really get on the identical web page and work collectively.
Paige is a single mom and therapist whose world and common routine is upended when her father will get out of jail after a 17-year stint. He’s hoping to make amends together with his daughter whereas residing together with her and her teenage son.
After sparking a quick romance together with her father’s case employee, Mal (Marque Richardson), Paige is trying to put herself out into the relationship scene as soon as extra. Mal, it appears, has wasted no time discovering a brand new girlfriend, however nonetheless desires to make a friendship work with Paige.
All of this drama on Paige’s shoulders get compounded when her teenage son expresses a want to get to know his dad, who has not been in his life for years — an concept Paige struggles to simply accept.
Again in March 2023, ET spoke with Washington on the sequence premiere screening of UnPrisoned, and the actress admitted that now that she performs a therapist in her new sequence, buddies have been hitting her up for relationship recommendation.
“It is humorous as a result of individuals used to return to me to sort things with my white hat,” Washington laughed, referring to her function as political fixer Olivia Pope in Scandal, “and now individuals come to me for relationship recommendation.”
“Folks, I am simply performing!” she added with a beaming smile. “I do not know any of these things. None of it!”
Season 2 of UnPrisoned premieres July 17 on Hulu.
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