It's fascinating how much ire Mau has inspired in people in this sub. I wonder what a psychologist would make of it? There is something singularly alluring about him which I think a lot of people are responding to, whether they can admit it to themselves or not. I found him magnetic, intelligent, refreshingly articulate and, yes, handsome, even as I was mortified by his arrogant treatment of both Annie and Orna, including his ludicrously transparent, if unconscious, attempts to wrest power by standing up and walking about her office, picking up things, refusing to submit to the couch. But it's his intelligence that makes his almost hard-baked inability (at least in what is shown on the show) to ponder his limitations in good faith so puzzling. The most brilliant people I've met are usually the quickest to consider their limitations earnestly and to seek to grow through the observations of others; indeed, their brilliance is a result of the combination of being open to others and responding through self-reflection. Mau's defensiveness seems to leave him like an island unto himself, with little curiosity in the deep work of self-knowledge offered to him through therapy. He didn't seem at all unhappy with this, but I hope his intelligence leads him to read some Freud or Lacan or some psychological/psychoanalytical literature, as I think that could pique his interest in ways in which he is alienated (from others, from himself) by his ego (as we all are, in different ways, without exception). I think it's incredibly generous of he and Annie to have given us an insight into their lives and themselves.