Damages
All That Crap About Your Family
TV Flash files “All That Crap About Your Family” as hour 37 of 59 in the TV Flash guide — Damages (2007–2012) on FX/Audience, season 3, episode 11, aired 2010-04-05, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E11: listed hour 37 of 59 in the Damages guide, hour 11 of 13 in season 3. It aired 2010-04-05 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Tell Me I'm Not Racist” (S03E10). Next is “You Were His Little Monkey” (S03E12).
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Ellen visits the woman in her dreams to learn if she is her birth mother but actually learns something far different about her family. Just as Patty decides to move against Tessa, the DA arrests the young woman. Ellen convinces her to turn to Patty for help but finds herself suspended when her boss finds out what she has been up to. Patty however thinks she now knows what was going on with Tessa's regular visits to Antigua and convinces the DA to let Tessa make one more trip to the island. Leonard Winstone has to deal with his own problems when his father shows up at his office unexpectedly, threatening to reveal his secrets.
Viewer FAQ
Where does All That Crap About Your Family sit in the Damages guide?
S03E11 is listed hour 37 of 59 — hour 11 of 13 in season 3, season 3 episode 11.
When did Damages S03E11 air?
All That Crap About Your Family aired 2010-04-05 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Is Damages a procedural I can sample any week?
No. Nonlinear seasons keep the betrayal already in the room. The associate walks in anyway — psychological bloodsport, not a tidy verdict.
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Why this series still plays
Glenn Close's Patty Hewes bills loyalty as a weapon and smiles like a closing argument. Damages shuffles time so the betrayal is already in the room, then sends Rose Byrne's associate walking in anyway. Legal television as psychological bloodsport, not a tidy verdict.
Flash: Glenn Close smiles like a closing argument and the timeline is already fractured. Patty Hewes takes a young associate under her wing as cases turn into moral bloodbaths — loyalty billed as a weapon, betrayal already in the room. Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler, and Daniel Zelman's series (2007–2012) made Rose Byrne's Ellen walk in anyway. Tate Donovan, Željko Ivanek, William Hurt, Marcia Gay Harden orbit a legal thriller that shuffles time so the knife is always twisting. Close won multiple Emmys for Patty.…
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- Zeljko Ivanek as Ray Fiske
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- William Hurt as Daniel Purcell
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- Marcia Gay Harden as Claire Maddox
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