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On the second episode of the series, which I found myself way more immersed in than the pilot, but this was more due to engaging hospital patient storylines than screentime with Kelly McCreary’s face, of which there wasn’t enough. So hooray on one hand, boo on the other.

We start this week with Emily once again talking to herself and trying to reassure her brain that she will not collapse into an awkward mess when she sees Will, who if you remember, she poured her romantical guts out to last week in a very dramatic type of way. And to which Will replied, “Eh, nah.” I feel for Emily on this one — having to see a person on a daily basis after something like this is one of the worst things on Earth, after hangnails and wet socks and Bud Light and stuff.

[1] Henry-Alex Rubin wowed critics and audiences back in 2005 with Murderball, a documentary about wheelchair rugby which he co-directed with Dana Adam Shapiro. The film earned a Best Documentary nomination at the Oscars and won the audience award at Sundance. Since then, however, Rubin's been laying low. Aside from a T-Mobile commercial and some work on an ABC Family show called Schooled, Rubin hasn't done much in the way of directorial work in the last six years. Now, however, Rubin will be returning to the director's chair for his first narrative feature -- a drama called Disconnect. Read more after the jump. Disconnect follows "the linked stories of a group of contemporary characters searching for human connection in a wired world" -- like Crash by way of The Social Network, I guess? The script is by Andrew Stern, who has even fewer IMDb credits to his name than Rubin does...