MW has said in an interview that yeah, he murdered her. it's just kind of creepy to think of her "using" the guy who took her to sea. This plan seems to require a whole lot more brain power than Dot has. Dot once saying that she doesn't remember something angrily doesn't mean she's owning dementia and making choices…

Ken and his wife have always considered Ken a writer first and Cynthia has always been clueless about advertising. Trudy is Lady Macbeth wanting Pete to succeed. When Pete says he's unfulfilled at work she tells him dissatisfaction is a symptom of ambition. It's a difference between the couples, not just the husbands.…

@avclub-705562aaa4a5b85bfa44373d8e6bf234:disqus I just think it weakens the main points of the story if Pete's supposed to be realizing that Bob is his mistake so he'll have to cover him up. It flips the power dynamic so now Bob's got something on Pete (that he hired a con man and must hide that) to keep Pete quiet…

Don did that after Pete took the blame for screwing up the defense account to cover for Don's past, so the feeling's petty mutual between them on that!

I really don't think 2) is that big of a deal. Bob says Pete hired him, but Bob's a liar and Pete doesn't even remember doing it. I think that line was more about Bob being slippery than Pete realizing he'd make himself look bad by hiring him so ought not to fire him. Especially since he knows how things went with…

I don't get why you think it's a mistake. Bob has been totally positive about Pete, culminating in seeming to profess love for him. Now Pete seems to be a threat to him. Bob's anger at Pete in this ep doesn't retroactively erase everything he felt for him before that, or say that he couldn't still feel some of it.

Did Rolo actually get beaten up? It didn't seem like the boys' fight was that serious to me. I thought they both left in fine shape with Rolo driving Glen home—and Rolo pointing out to Glen that he shouldn't have fought with him because of that. Glen seemed ready to fight over the very idea of Rolo going after Sally…

But that kind of risk/reward is around the level of jumping off a building hoping that it'll turn out you're actually a pigeon and can fly. It's total risk with undetectable possibility of reward.

I don't think it's a lock that Ken wouldn't be a dick about it. He already dislikes Bob and homosexuality.

But the whole point was that he was surrendering and apologizing—if he was a petty tyrant he wouldn't do either. He's doing what he does for Don—not being a tyrant, not being a threat because he knows Bob could get him. He's just watching and making reasonable demands in exchange for it.

Yes, he meant Pete's mom. He was telling Manolo to manipulate her and upset her so she would get angry at Pete and tell him to leave Bob alone. Manolo didn't want to use her.

Bob can be angry at Pete now and still have liked him last week. There is no gain whatsoever to his coming onto Pete. There's no possible scam there.

I think the reason it can't be seen as him just simply taking power is that he's surrendering, as he says. Which could certainly be read as topping from the bottom, as it were, but it didn't seem like there were enough demands made on Bob to say that Pete was just enjoying his power.

Why would he think he was giving Pete something that would appeal to him in that scene? They live in a homophobic world and Pete was just asking to be reassured about his mother's situation. Bob introduces a different subject completely on his own—and looks pained at Pete's casual reference to degenerates.

I think the "accepted norm" view covers Pete's reaction to gay people pretty easily. He seems like he's never thought about the subject beyond the standard view that it's a mental disorder and a bad thing because he's unmanly. In the scene with Bob it didn't seem like the show was flagging any personal issues with…

@avclub-63c17d596f401acb520efe4a2a7a01ee:disqus I think he was absolutely expecting her to believe he wasn't having sex. He was telling her what she "thought she saw" wasn't what she saw. He was trying to make her think he just had his arms around her to comfort her or something. He wouldn't think that Sally would…

He was overruled easily by Cutler when he tried to save Bob's job—that's why Joan had to go about it through a little clever trickery.

That wasn't even a date. He was just a guy at the movie theater. She was with Abe at the time.

No, Pete would not soon get caught about the au pair and he doesn't blame Trudy for his actions. He confesses despite there not being any danger of his getting caught by her. He's already dealt with the neighbor who only asked him not to do that sort of thing in the building. His line saying "I don't want you to go…

Why would Bob think Pete was gay at all, much less so confident about it he's giving him secret knee rubs to tell him the nurse is his boyfriend?