Especially in a program as small as most MFAs (which I assume is Jane's deal). Logistically, it would be really, really hard to remove crossover/appearance (at least) of impropriety. (For example, my MFA thesis had to be approved and signed off by three professors in addition to my adviser.)

"a prime candidate for taking Jane’s virginity"

Mirrored medicine cabinets. Way too many jump scares in which you open the cabinet and when you close it SOMETHING IS BEHIND YOU.

Yeah, although I have qualms about the writing, I think the acting (especially around that girl he likes) is really capturing this weird sense of Carl being in extremely arrested emotional development while also being read as practically an adult (who everyone has written off).

Yes, the more she says she's not having second thoughts, the more I wince. I'm worried this is going to become something about losing the house makes Fiona want to start "nesting" by having a baby. :cringe cringe cringe:

Listing an Ayn Rand book as your favorite is one of my automatic "nopes!" on dating sites.

Will the Dr. Phil show begin with all the excitement of being reprimanded by the Texas State Board of Psychology? (For either being really stupid, or being stupid AND gross, depending on what you believe.)

I'm amused that I keep seeing the producers saying Schwimmer is "the heart" or "the moral center" of the show. That is. . .not a weight I would want to put on this performance thus far.

I had the same reaction to the song.

It was talked about pretty widely when the allegations came out—late 2014 early 2015 I think? But I didn't realize the trial had started.

Yes, I loved their scenes together. Honestly, to me Rafael seems more alive and engaged with Petra than he did/does most of the time with Jane. I loved the baby name fishbowl and the unspoken understanding about Petra's previous late-term miscarriage. That felt so true to me.

Yes, seriously—this show has been so smart and savvy about a lot of things I will be really, really disappointed if it goes for that cliche.

A man using the expression "damaged goods" about either another woman or me would be a reason not to date him. Because nothing says maturity and empathy better than a phrase which literally commodifies women!

I'm just here if anyone wants to talk about the OJ Simpson Prank! reality show discussed on This American Life this August?

I have more of an issue with the "sounds like," myself—that line delivery of "I'm not black; I'm O.J." from the ads just sounds so high school actor-y to me.

The sex stuff is almost like a superficial analogy for the same problem at the heart of the show, as far as I can tell—it's just not transgressive anymore to have a show of all jerks and no heroes. I feel like the show keeps expecting to blow my mind with its portrayal of assholes being assholes from a variety of…

So then I guess where we differ is that you seem to see her not speaking in that episode as disempowered, whereas I thought her eyes conveyed perfectly the utter disdain of deeming Carl not being worth speaking to—which I think also makes sense since, if this is their first encounter, for all she knows he says this to…

She gets shit done? Seriously, Svetlana is probably the most efficient, observant and savvy person on the whole damn show. She's even running a nice side business having Mickey shiv people.

YES. Especially because I found it so refreshing for them not to have her dithering about it, and for her to call her family out on their bullshit intervention (and dragging Liam into it), AND flat out telling Sean she's not inviting his opinion on the topic. And having her say to Debbie that she (they) can have…

Yes, the academic conference was awful (although the intro to Helene's paper also sounded pretty ridiculous to me—that's an intro for an undergrad text or essay; you don't go to a conference like that and begin by explaining who Simone de Beauvoir was.) But Helene's whole story line has been cartoonish, and not…