Bad romance
This Is Uncomfortable
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4.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Mira Celper had always wanted to be best friends with her mom, but their relationship grew strained once her mom started dating the mysterious David, a successful engineer. As her mom fell deeper in love, Mira couldn’t shake the feeling that something about David was off. So she set out to find the truth.
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“This Is Uncomfortable” is Reema Khrais, Megan Detrie, Hayley Hershman, Peter Balonon-Rosen, Camila Kerwin and Marque Greene.
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| 0:33.4 | Mita Selper had always dreamed of having a certain kind of relationship with her mom. |
| 0:37.8 | One where they'd go and get their nails done together, go shopping, swap secrets. |
| 0:42.4 | You know, think Rory and Lorelai of Gilmore Girls. |
| 0:45.6 | But growing up, things felt pretty different. |
| 0:48.6 | We did not have a very close relationship at all. |
| 0:52.4 | There's that kind of mom-daughter relationship that is unique, but that was kind of lacking for me. |
| 1:01.0 | My mom and I just didn't see eye to eye. |
| 1:04.2 | Their main source of tension was Mita's stepfather, her mom's boyfriend. |
| 1:08.4 | He was not a very likable figure, I guess you could say. |
| 1:13.6 | He just was very good at making you feel horrible about yourself. |
| 1:18.6 | And I did do a lot of trying to talk to her and being like this person is not good. |
| 1:26.6 | When Mita was about 15, she decided to leave her mom's house and be with her dad instead. |
| 1:31.4 | They all lived in Ajax, Ontario, a town outside of Toronto. |
| 1:34.8 | But Mita and her mom hardly talked. |
| 1:37.6 | Then one day, a couple of years ago, Mita was hanging out at a friend's house when her mom came by to pick her up. |
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