Hulu released the first three episodes of the third season of "Difficult People" on August 8th and it has already gotten the great reviews everyone expected it to. The first episode “Passover Bump” takes place post-election season and is filled with jokes and comments about the current president, American healthcare, and meditation. The episode opens with Billy and Julie protesting a new play called “Bazinga in the park with George,” presumably a fictional mashup of The Bing Bang Theory and Stephen Sondheim’s “Sunday in the Park with George”. The two friends show up to the theatre with signs denouncing the play, referring to it as an insult to Sondheim. Because of this stunt, they are sentenced to community service, in which they must pick up trash in the park and on the side of the road. They are participating in such community service when a man in his car pulls up to the curb asking them for directions to the "Trump statue" and they proceed to take their bags filled with garbage and dump them all over the man and his shiny red car.
Meanwhile, Matthew discovers his parents are dead and copes with his loss by reverting into an angsty teen rebel. Billy gets a part playing the warm up guy for the "Larry Wilmore Show," thinking that he’s going to perform stand up but is disappointed when he finds out his job is to pump up the audience with stupid phrases and t-shirt canons. However, the audience doesn’t seem to respond too well to the routine the producers laid out for him, so he begins to crack some jokes of his own in an effort to cheer the crowd up. It surprisingly works, but his jokes are all at the expense of Larry Wilmore, which ends up getting him kicked off the show. That, and an unlikely guest is interviewed on the show and recognizes Billy, much to his dismay.
In the midst of all this, Julie is trying to prepare herself for her mother’s seder dinner by going to her old college heath services to be prescribed more antidepressants, a rather unnecessary addition to the cocktail she is apparently already on. She claims that she needs the extra SSRIs to deal with her mother. When she is ultimately denied this extra medication, she attempts to find some peace of mind through meditation by using an app that guides her through a meditation in the voice of Danny Aiello. This seems to work for a while until she learns that she is somehow being hypnotized into giving large sums of money Mr. Aiello. When participating in one meditation activity, Danny asks her, “What are you afraid of?” to which she simply responds, “My mother.”
However, Julie is still able to attend to her mother’s seder and ends up slightly bullying her mother in the way her mother often bullies her. But at the end of the dinner, they are able to look past their differences by bonding over their mutual hatred for Julie’s coked-up aunt...
And that's what you missed on Glee!