who the hell cheats on their sick/senile wife? That's just downright cruel.
shareAs Woody Allen famously said, 'The heart wants what it wants'. Phil is lonely and needy. At least he didn't abandon his wife.
shareI see it differently. He's sticking with her through the ravages of this terrible disease, when she is no longer much of what she once was. His possible relationship with Grace takes nothing away from his care and friendship with his wife, who's very lucky she still has him.
shareAgreed.
I think the show actually does a pretty good job of showing the different forces acting on Phil.
He's stuck with a wife he no longer loved and who he was going to divorce... they were seperated before she got sick if you remember. However when she became ill he didnt want to just leave her to fend by herself, so he stayed and supported her. It would appear that she doesn't remember the seperation but that they were a married couple... whereas he obviously does.
The other options here are that he leaves his wife, something incredibly heartless and cold given the amount of years they've cared about each other... or he remains faithful to a woman who is no longer the wife he married and who can't remember their history together...
I don't think Phil came across as an a-hole but more as a lonely man who was trapped into a situation he didn't chose but who was too nice a guy to just walk away from... even when it meant losing his chance at happiness with Grace.
Yes... wrong script desition... :(
Oscar
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