I understand why this episode of the series (which I've been enthusiastically looking forward to) got a C+, but I do have to say it was absolutely a treat to see all of this lovely old sports footage, and to see these brave reporters.

But this is exactly the kind of thinking the documentary was responding to. Why? The thesis of the documentary was that gender shouldn't be a determining factor for equal access to athletes. I can't think of any reasons why someone of the same gender should be the ones to conduct locker room interviews.

This is one thing the documentary didn't make clear at all, and I was a little aghast at the omission: There is a BIG difference between print journalists and on-air 'talent'.

Ok @avclub-4a4f9471dc1b4c82ebcecb67487468ba:disqus , since it's obvious that you:

Now that I think about it, I think one of the reasons I like Charlie so much is that I feel like nothing would really be different if she were a guy. As opposed to some of the other stuff in earlier episodes, I didn't necessarily get the 'here's a female character acting recklessly because of a surfeit of emotion'…

She really does. I didn't really pick up on how pretty she is until this episode because she is so believable undercover. I'm really starting to like her character a lot; for all the mystery Briggs seems to be entitled to because everyone keeps mentioning it, I like that Charlie seems complex in a way that is much…

(did you listen to any of 'the rap music' yet?)

I feel like a jerk for my completely humorless reply to you in the Newswire article on Jay-Z yesterday. :(

"HIH Headphone" (husband)
"Crown Prince Headphone" (toddler)

Perhaps you're not boasting about your pop culture ignorance, but it certainly seems like it.

I am a huge Mary Beth fan-she reminds me a lot of me in the early part of high school before I really found a good niche of friends (I've always been thin, but I was also very tomboyish, so I definitely identified with feeling like no boys were interested in me) . I wanted to give her a hug and a pep talk so many…

I really thought this scene was well handled. I particularly like the way they didn't ramp up the melodrama when he bellowed that line about keeping both girls away from Regina-there was no music and the camera just lingered uncomfortably on both of them. It was an awful thing to say, whether he was just upset because…

I think the oldest one is supposed to be not all that great looking, but I always imagined the others to be pretty. The oldest few all have different mothers, iirc

Thanks for the heads up!

I would say that a large part of the appeal of most professional sports has to do with an appreciation of the various strategies and tactics being used. Growing up I used to spend summers with my great grandpa listening to baseball on the radio and as I began to familiarize myself with the players, the teams, and the…

Ugh, replying to my own post is dumb but I'm not sure where else to put this:

Totally agree with all of this :)

But Paige was rescuing them, which could definitely be seen as 'care-taking'. Women are tasked with cleaning up the messes men make, or paying the price for them, in many, many narratives, and I think interpreting the 'shootout' sequence as such is totally valid. Even the 'epic' cooking of the other female character…

She did deserve better, but I did giggle at the ridiculous noise it made.

I can never remember what the hell this show is called and had to set my DVR to remind me that it was on. So about halfway through the episode this conversation happened in my living room: