I don't think it's automatically sexist. There was a sexist idea that was considered common sense not so long ago that would say of course Chandra would fall in love with him, but I think female attorneys are common enough now that people don't really think that. So I have to acknowledge the obvious sexist stereotype…

That's way to generic for me to see it actually playing out. We hear she broke up with some guy I never met and I knew nothing about their relationship at all, and then she kissed her client in a way that barely registered as romantic.

But they're not his professional boundaries. She has a professional obligation to behave professionally. There's no onus on him to make sure she acts professionally.

But that still comes down to Chandra's possible law career vs. Naz's life in prison since it was looking like he was going to lose that trial she encouraged him to go for in part because she advised him to go on the stand. (Not that that the trial was all down to her-he was innocent so didn't want to say he was…

Is the kiss wrong for Naz? I mean, in an ethical way? Naz didn't have any professional behavior he was expected to follow. He was a desperate man in a vulnerable position depending on his lawyers to help him.

Yeah, I agree. I see the practical reason for wanting him to be at his best, and even her wrong-headed reason for wanting him on the stand. But having her just run out and get the heroin for him like she was picking him up another white shirt was a stretch. Especially without her even considering that this was a…

Anthony Weiner is a really bad example to make that point, though. He's got a history of this kind of sexually destructive behavior. The thing with Chandra was that she didn't have anything like that that we saw, which was why the kiss seemed to come out of nowhere. She wasn't somebody who seemed so at the mercy of…

Yeah, that too. Although at least in that case I could see why she would want him to be not in withdrawal on the stand, it seemed a bit much for her to doing all that herself to keep from having to talk to Stone about it. That seems like an issue defense attorneys would sometimes have to deal with.

Yes, I would never say that a young female lawyer kissing her client could never work, but the reason there were so many WTF? reactions (personally I even forgot it happened it seemed so weird) was that there just wasn't enough context for it.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. You're not even convicted yet and you've got 3 tattoos, including a knuckle and a neck? Is that really part of surviving in Riker's? You won't have any space left for your actual sentence at this rate.

Err…and by Middle Eastern I meant South Asian. Couldn't edit for some reason.

I think there's a huge difference between needing her to be hyper-competent and want her inexperience to stay within believable bounds. Believable being a relative term, of course, but that was my problem. I had no problem with her making mistakes as a lawyer and having a lot of the wrong instincts but no, I think…

Maybe this will change next week but at this point how much does the jury even know about these other suspects? There's some guy with the name of a drug store who apparently exists in the world and so far I don't know that they've heard anything about the stepfather. It doesn't seem like the defense has yet laid out a…

Seriously. If I were him in that absurd fantasy situation I'd have been shocked to wake up and *not* find his mystery beautiful woman dead it was that cliche.

And didn't she initiate all the physical contact to begin with? She'd probably be doubly on guard against seeming non-professional.

But if he was manipulating her it was just badly written. He didn't do anything that would make a minimally competent lawyer learn over and snog him. Any other defendant would act mostly the way he does.

If he does that she'd really have destroyed her own career. He'd just maybe get another trial or something?

So you know that actually was Matthew Beeman from The Americans, right?

And even the lawyers were for some reason not finding out who owned that house she lived in, it would be all over the press, as would her stepfather's history of marrying rich women and the fact that he physically threatened that attorney in front of witnesses at the gym. This thing would be front page news.

I thought the distraction was just to keep the guard from running over right away and potentially saving him or grabbing Freddy etc.