Apples Never Fall

Episode 1

The Delaneys

Thu, Mar 14, 202445 mins

The Delaney family is introduced in light of matriarch Joy perhaps having gone missing depending on which family member is asked. All the four adult children know is that they haven't seen her in a few days, and unlike her is not answering telephone calls or texts from them, which some can justify in they not having treated her well in recent months. Also depending on which of the four is asked, their father in their minds may be lying about her whereabouts, he only saying, whenever asked, that she is out running errands. The white elephant in the room in any discussion between the four is "her", a young woman named Savannah who entered specifically Joy's life as she supposedly was in physical and emotional distress, but who apparently has been out of Joy's life for months. In addition to Savannah entering Joy's life, the Delaneys' recent history is told in flashback starting with Sam and Joy's retirement from their famed West Palm Beach tennis academy in they having sold it, the four having grown up the offspring of ultra-competitive parents which has led to an underlying tension among all six and which has shaped the people all four are, and Stan and especially Joy struggling to find what that retirement life is going to be.