- The Woobie: Peggy. She becomes depressed after the emotional thrill of surviving her fall due to her helplessness of being in a body cast, she is unable to help Cotton and Didi with their baby while watching them mistreat him because of their own problems, and it’s also revealed the reason why she jumped was because of Didi going into labor which made her depressed about not being able to have any more children. Only when she’s able to rock the colicky G.H. to sleep does she feel truly happy in the entire episode.
- Poor Bobby is only twelve years old and is taking care of his newborn uncle since Peggy is physically incapacitated after her accident, Didi has postpartum depression that has her emotionally drained and partially catatonic, Cotton thinks that G.H. is cursed because of his lactating and refuses to even touch him, Luanne has left the house because the sight of Peggy causes her to cry hysterically, and Hank is preoccupied with not only taking care of Peggy but wrestling with his guilt about how he might have almost killed Peggy due to his exuberance about the parachuting. And this is after having spent two hours driving Didi to the Arlen hospital to have the baby because neither he nor Didi knew where the Houston hospital was, then became her birthing coach due to Cotton still being in Houston and his parents out of the house to go parachuting. One can’t blame Bobby for finally putting his foot down and giving G.H. to Didi after she asked him to get lottery tickets while Cotton demanded him to get his shin jelly since Bobby was busy with “women’s work” and Cotton was being lazy and demanding as usual.
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