If you watch this and think that people do not act this way, then you haven't been around many people. But in the depression era, there weren't as many "psych meds" and most people faced reality the way we see it portrayed in this episode. They simply worked things out over time.
I knew a lady who spent 20 years dying. She knew her time was short and spent 5 presidential terms spread out over two decades convinced of that fact. She finally did pass away at the young age of 85. Thankfully, in this episode, Grandpa Zeb doesn't take quite that long to snap to and, without injecting a "spoiler", I will just say that this episode was a good treatment of matter.
Richard Thomas and Will Greer worked well together, even as Greer and Ellen Corby provided a lot of great banter throughout these first few seasons. Brings back a lot of old memories of my Georgia-born and bread grandfather and his more proper and prim Yankee bride of around 7 decades of marriage.
I knew a lady who spent 20 years dying. She knew her time was short and spent 5 presidential terms spread out over two decades convinced of that fact. She finally did pass away at the young age of 85. Thankfully, in this episode, Grandpa Zeb doesn't take quite that long to snap to and, without injecting a "spoiler", I will just say that this episode was a good treatment of matter.
Richard Thomas and Will Greer worked well together, even as Greer and Ellen Corby provided a lot of great banter throughout these first few seasons. Brings back a lot of old memories of my Georgia-born and bread grandfather and his more proper and prim Yankee bride of around 7 decades of marriage.
