Understandably, the first two episodes of Blunt Talk focused on main characters Walter Blunt (Patrick Stewart) and his manservant Harry Chandler (Adrian Scarborough), and specifically Walter’s attempt to do something great in his life since he’s been given a second chance. With Blunt Talk’s third episode “All My Relationships End In Pain,” we get a much larger sense of what this show is about, as it does away with the crutch of Stewart doing silly things and embracing the larger cast that has so far been extraneous. As we get another perspective of Blunt Talk, it becomes clear this show is actually about the desire for something more and the minimal steps people take in that direction.
After Blunt’s incident in the pilot, his show seems to be doing fine and his incident led to no misdemeanors, just a suspended license. However, Blunt still has to go to an AA meeting, while also taking his therapist’s mixed advice to live a messy, good life, like Elizabeth Taylor and meet someone. Once Blunt gets to the church filled with meetings, he opts for a sexual addiction meeting, meets someone, then goes back to her house, where they are interrupted by her husband. As he makes his escape with Harry, he mentions that he can’t say he didn’t try to meet someone. Blunt misses the point, and rationalizes his careless actions as a positive step, when really it’s just him reasoning his behaviors in a way that works to not shake up his life.
As Blunt and his entire team leave their office for the weekend, Blunt says to Harry, “I think that it’s best that our roles are defined.” “All My Relationships End In Pain” immediately goes on to do that, showing us the life of his crew outside the show, who all seem to live in a sad, yet hopeful daze. Shelly doesn’t get any story for the weekend, instead we get a larger glimpse of who she is while still at the office. She pitches a genital warts story to Blunt and is immediately shot down. Then, as they leave the offices, she follows everyone driving in their cars in her bike. She’s always in the back, even though she’s desperately trying to get ahead to no avail.?
Martin also gets less of a story, but it seems likely that his weekend will have nothing eventful in it anyways. He takes a ride home with Rosalie and we discover that, much like Blunt and Gisselle did in the pilot, for the last two weeks, Martin has enjoyed the embrace of putting his face in Rosalie’s breasts.