LRF NOW Original Series: Can You Hear Me? - Season 1 Episode 10

 

Can You Hear Me?
Genre: Drama / Dark Comedy
Executive Producer: Emerald Fennell
Writer: Mo Buck
Based on the French-Canadian series

Season 1 Episode 10 - We Were Good

Cast:
Emma Mackey …. Amy
Danielle Brooks …. Shauna
Maya Hawke …. Cass
Haley Bennett …. Amelie
Jake Cannavale …. Keven
Ramy Youssef …. Nassim
Fred Armisen …. Marcel

(In black and white) Amy (Emma Mackey) is lying down in a bed with a black eye. (Colored) Earlier that day, she’s outside, drinking vodka straight from the bottle. She looks at Keven (Jake Cannavale) having fun with his friends. She has flashbacks of Cass (Maya Hawke) freaking out after she called Keven yesterday and the time she was with Cass and Keven came over and beat her and threatened her and kicked Amy. She’s slowly walking towards him as the opening credits start.

Shauna (Danielle Brooks) is sitting down at the park and is texting Amy, wondering where she is, when she sees Marcel (Fred Armisen), carrying a drunk Amy on his bike. He tells Shauna he found her lying next to a dumpster and she thanks him. He wants to be rewarded and unbuttons his fine, but Shauna calls him a creep and he runs away. Shauna carries Amy inside her apartment and tells her to shower, she stinks. Amy finds a marble on the floor and starts crying, telling Shauna they can’t leave the marble there, it’s all alone and so vulnerable. She breaks down in the stairs, crying. Shauna helps her take a bath and Amy is barely conscious. Cass enters the apartment and Amy tells her she’s sorry She should’ve listened to her and she didn’t have to do that. She suggests Cass should go to the police, but she says it’s not worth it, which angers Amy. Amy falls asleep and they carry her out and lie her down on the floor mattress. Shauna tells Cass she should call the police, but Cass says she deserved it because of the way she dressed how she drank. Shauna says that’s not an excuse and she should go the police.

Cass is on her way to the police station, but right before she enters, she gets a text from Keven, asking her to meet tomorrow at 5, so she doesn’t go in.

Amy wakes up and wants to drink, but the water is out so she drinks from the pot she put the flowers in. She has a note from Cass telling her everything will be alright. As she’s about to go out, Nassim (Ramy Youssef) is at the door and he’s angry at her. He says it’s awful what happened to Cass, but that doesn’t mean she should treat him like garbage, he says he’s mad and wants to leave, but before he’s able to, she kisses him, but she has to leave to go see her shrink. He tells her to come to the bar tonight.

(In black and white) Shauna and Cass are sitting in chairs, crying. Amy is lying on a bed with a black eye.

(Colored) Amy is in Amelie’s (Haley Bennett) office, telling her she kicked her mother out. Amelie says she’s made some big steps forward lately and she thinks she’s headed in the right direction. She reminds Amy that it’s her last session and Amy jokes that it’ll be boring in the office without her and Amelie says it’ll be calmer for sure. Amy thinks her for helping her and her friends, even if she didn’t always seem grateful. Before she leaves, Amy confesses that she was the one of pissed in her plant a while ago. Amelie knows and tells her not to be a good citizen from now on and not do anything she’ll regret.

Amy is walking in the street and she sees Keven leaving Cass a message, insulting her. He notices Amy and hangs up. She tells him that if he’s looking for Cass, she’s at her place, she drank and locked herself in the bathroom and asked her to come and get him. He gets angry and insults Amy and her friends, but agrees to follow her. When they get to Amy’s, the camera stays outside and after a while, we hear Keven screaming.

The following morning, Nassim is opening the bar and carrying a pack of newspaper. He leaves Amy a message, telling her he’s mad that she stood him up. After he hangs up, he flips a newspaper and sees a picture of Amy with a headline saying she tried to cut Keven’s penis.

Shauna is standing in front of a prison and shes goes in to visit Amy. She’s behind a bulletproof glass and handcuffed. Shauna asked why she told them they were married and she says only family was allowed to visit and she couldn’t pass as her sister. She asks her why she did that and Amy says the question is why didn’t she manage to do it. Perhaps she didn’t tie him up tight enough, but at least she was able to cut him up a bit, there was a lot of blood. Shauna says she’ll leave if they keep talking about it, so Amy stops. She asks Amy how she’s doing, but Amy asks if Cass will come to visit, she told them she’s her sister. Shauna starts to cry and tells her that they won’t come to visit her anymore, Amy went too far and nobody asked her to do any of this. She said she went too far. Amy says they can’t leave her, she has no one else, they’re everything she has. As Shauna leaves, we hear Amy crying and screaming. As she slides down the wall, she thinks back about the time the three of them were happy together.

The season ends with a montage of Shauna sitting in church listening to the choir she could’ve joined and Cass holding hands with Keven who’s lying down in a hospital bed. Amy is lying down in her cell staring at the ceiling, crying.

"Well, that took a turn. The more we saw of Amy’s misadventures, the more you felt bad for her. If there’s an answer for a tragic protagonist, it’s her. I do hope Mo will give her some form of happiness for the next season as there were times where it got a bit too depressing, but Emma Mackay should be someone who writers take interest in. She pulls you through the wringer and really, is the heart of the show." - Mitchell Parker, New York Times

"It almost feels like writer Mo Buck and Executive Producer Emerald Fennell actively went out of their way to make the characters all more and more unlikable as the first season of Can You Hear Me? went on. This was a show I wanted to like. It started out strong, but lost me as it went along. I'm sure there is an audience that doesn't mind spending more episodes with these characters, but I found it difficult to watch at times - not because of the quality, but because of the content." - Ron English, Saginaw News

"Can You Hear Me? will make you laugh just as much as it will make you feel depressed. It's honestly hard to watch at times as the actions and behavior of the characters will having you cringing. It's certainly not for everyone, but there is strong work on both sides of the camera. Emma Mackey continued to be the show's brightest point throughout the season as she gives a tour-de-force performance that should have her ditching TV series for bigger film leading roles soon enough." - Donovan Vaughn, The Plain Dealer