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Yeah, I was kind of torn on the ending—because on the one hand, it did kind of strain credulity that they would break the record by what seemed to be near-impossible margins, but on the other hand, it was really satisfying to watch.

I can imagine the cops letting him go after brief questioning, because it would probably become apparent pretty quickly that he's just a harmless sleep-deprived nerd who had the Adderall for legit reasons. Also, he's white.

The thing is, he isn't even that unattractive. He's squarely average-looking and he'd be kind of cute without the ridiculous beard. He's just so goddamn insufferable. Confidence is attractive; arrogance is not.

It's the loud, obnoxious arrogance (which other people, including a woman who commented above, read as desirable confidence) that makes him repulsive to me, not his appearance. His facial hair is stupid, but otherwise, Erlich isn't that bad-looking at all. I just give a really wide berth to anyone who proudly admits

…I'm sorry, are you actually implying that white men own the entire medium of television and film and it is theirs to do with as they please, and this is how it should be?

I feel like I'm more entertained than I should be by the way Gilfoyle has managed to totally insinuate himself into Dinesh's sex life. "Why is it that every time I go to have sex with a lady…he's just all up in there somehow?"

I'm always in favor of Ken Leung. John Cho wouldn't go amiss, either.

So would you support the inclusion of more women, then? Since the show doesn't have to be demographically realistic, there's no reason why future new characters CAN'T be female.

As a woman, I can also enjoy the show without more female characters, but the double standard is still noteworthy.

Honestly, I just don't know how they'd make it make any sense. They're on completely different planes in terms of life experience and emotional maturity.

I actually liked Gabe before he went off the creep end, so I appreciate that Jared is kind of like a legitimately sweet version of Gabe. He serves a dorkier professional function than the others, and nobody really likes him, but it's not his fault.

Wait, so let me get this straight. Person complains about the lack of women on the show — "Jesus, what do you people expect? REAL SILICON VALLEY doesn't have women in it! It's supposed to be realistic, not some fantasy land with invented demographics! Go watch reruns of Sex and the City, you harpy!"

It's okay. I wouldn't call the show misogynist, and I'm really enjoying it so far—I just want to be able to keep on enjoying it, so I'll stay cautiously optimistic too. Definitely glad that it was renewed.

I'm not talking about the lack of women as a stereotype, I'm talking about what I had initially perceived as the "woman who doesn't know how to do her job uses the power of boobs to make men do her work for her" stereotype that I've seen so many dudes rage over before. There are a lot of misogynistic tropes that the

There isn't a show on television that shouldn't aspire to be better than Girls. That's setting the bar way too low. Girls is unwatchable.

I completely believe that Richard didn't intend to be creepy and didn't realize how he was coming across and had no idea he was making anything worse. That's his whole schtick. I totally get that.

Monica is great. I love Monica. I won't even mind it much when she inevitably hooks up with Richard, since they've allowed her to be something other than a love interest first even if they haven't given her much personality—competence is her sole character trait. Still, no real complaints from me about Monica.

It's okay. The elderly cat lady/gentleman of your dreams is out there. You'll find them.

I don't buy that this is the first time he's ever acted like that, just out of nowhere—that wouldn't make any sense. Shelley dumped him because she said he was creepily obsessed with her, and then we see him acting in exactly the way she said he did, ergo, it makes no sense for people to be questioning Shelley's

That's fair enough. It's a stereotype that I'm sensitive to, so it set off a red flag when they had a girl who didn't know anything about code at a tech conference asking men to do it for her—but yeah, she did turn out to be just a girl who was there for a different-but-legit purpose and actually liked Dinesh.