It's interesting that so many people defending this episode say Sorkin is raising a question in the rape scene. First off, Sorkin's work as a whole is incredibly anti-open ended questioning; he likes answers given by his (mostly male) characters of established authority. In fact, he loves authority—he loves…

Aaron Sorkin brought nothing new to the debate, and in fact showed he hasn't been paying attention to the debate that's already been happened. Maybe he's the one who should do more thinking.

A lot of us have already been thinking about rape, rape reporting, the disgusting and dismal state of prosecution of rape, and the intense scrutiny and abuse reporters face long before Sorkin showed up to pontificate on it, thanks.

Logic is hard!

Because using rape as a "mere" story device is awesome, original, and has no built in agenda.

I really almost had to cover my ears during Don's chat with the Princeton student. He "believes" he is obliged to believe the less convincing story, because "ethics." I really can't even make fun of that. Especially as written by a guy who has no problem using his TELEVISION SHOW to pick petty fights with former…

I'm seriously horrified by that.

I really want to know if it's true the movie implies even momentarily that Turing for any amount of time shielded a Soviet spy because of being (blackmailed for) being gay. Because if so, that is some mad bullshit.

Also, I would have much preferred the "traditional" casting of Mr. Darling and Captain Hook with the same actor—so deliciously Freudian! and Christian Borle probably would have seemed like he was actually aware he was currently in a performance. Having Mr. Darling be Smee is just weird—it doesn't make any internal…

It wasn't creepy enough (in the right places) to be an interrogation of the dark bits of Pan, and it wasn't exuberant enough (in the right places) to be a gleeful one. Alison Williams seemed to be in a Wes Anderson version of the story—way too wise and melancholy and competent, and not chaotically insane and…

It's probably the stupidest possible thing to purchase as a "one nice thing" in a house with a kid and a cat. (Even white cats have claws and hairballs.) As if they don't obviously spend tons of money on frivolous/luxury stuff anyway, making it an even dumber justification.

Yes, Mitchell, you and Cameron ARE (generally) terrible people. Thanks for asking!

I went to journalism camp at Ball State for three years in high school! (No big loss, Sue.) Although is that color-coded tray system a thing? I ended up at a tiny liberal arts college with full tray equality.

I wouldn't mind Sorkin's ranting and raving quite so much if he was better at sounding like he had a clue what he was talking about. Office Ryan's proposals of "disruption" sounded like 2008 at best. Long-form personal essays as commentary or reportage weren't an invention of New Media, either the concept of the…

(upvoted for finding someone else who has read all those books, and likes Man and Wife better than The Moonstone.)

I read Jude the Obscure while pulling an all-nighter during a thunderstorm in November. That scene. . .with the note. . .(trying to not spoil/depress anyone) kinda broke me a little.

Everything we know about Rafael tells us that he wouldn't have noticed her in high school.. This. I actually have found the five years ago kiss memory kind of ick (although that was partly because I thought Jane was 21 now—I guess she was technically 18 then).

/tangent: as a little kid I found "You are my Sunshine," TERRIFYING.

"You love Homeland" would be kind of hilarious as an all purpose insult to yell at people, though. That guy who messed up your sandwich order? Big Homeland fan.

Well, and he's a man, with a man's ethics and code of honor, y'know. I'm totally sure both his education and his progress up the corporate ladder were totally unrelated to his family name and wealth.