Lady in Red

Almost everyone wishes they weighed the same they did in high school. And once you reach a certain age, you wish you were the same weight you were when your kid graduated high school.

As the numbers on the scale get higher, you have to reel in your expectations at the risk of seeming delusional. (And don't ever try to wear what was stylish in high school. That never ends well.)

When Sara gets a call to be on TV, she wants to wear the red dress she wore to Harry's high school graduation. That this garment is the most important thing to her speaks volumes about both Sara and Harry.

It says that that graduating high school has been Harry's biggest achievement and he hasn't amounted to much since. If he had, Sara would have more recent photos of him. (He looks like Jared Leto, so he can't use unphotogenic as an excuse.)

And the dress shows us that Sara is stuck in the past. She wants to look like she did in the picture of Harry's high-school graduation. She also wants her son to be successful and her husband to be alive. Sara wants to feel sexually desirable again, which she hints at when she gushes about the dress.

SARA: Oh, I remember how he looked at me in that red dress.

Frankly, reanimating her dead husband is more likely than Harry getting his life together. The one thing Sara might actually be able to accomplish here is getting her hips into that dress. She throws herself into the task headfirst.

With each pill she takes, you know she's thinking that if she can fit into the dress, her life will return to happier times. Every time she puts it on, she's able to get the zipper higher and higher. But, like Sara's evil fridge, it starts to look like the dress is eating her