This episode was just unwatchable. This is the Kill the Moon of this season.

That is a good description of how white people often sound when they talk about race.

Well…ok, but the formula of The Good Wife is to have a lot going on. I actually thought it was great; and though I did *not* see anyone apologize for being white, I did see a pretty accurate representation of people feeling awkward about their whiteness while trying to minimize the impact of white police murdering an…

And I really like that Eli is barely concealing his contempt for race issues; he is not a great person in every respect.

Well we can disagree, but I'm not being dishonest…maybe I'm just wrong or seeing things a different way. For me, The Good Wife is fun because the characters *aren't* very moral; they frequently espouse political ideologies, but their #1 concern is always financial success and petty competition. Alicia rarely wrings…

I don't see the problem. The show is about politics and politicians, and it demonstrated how those people - who are mostly white - might react to a somewhat familiar moment of high racial tension. That their reactions smack of privilege and entitlement shouldn't be surprising; that's who these people are. Alicia…

Nah, it's not bad faith, I just don't agree with you or the writer about the plotline. I do think it's bad form to shout at your subordinates, but it's not that writer's show, ultimately, so if she got overruled, at some point she has to either quit or let it go.

If one in five American women will be raped in her lifetime, that suggests that, correspondingly, one in five men is a rapist, and that 20% of the male population should be locked up. Now, I get that some guys are repeat offenders, so let's say the real stat is that 5% of men should be locked up. I remain deeply,…

If this *was* a documentary, I think the internet's head would explode.

Yep, and I *can* point out that the criticism is in bad faith. I have meetings *all the time* at my job where we set as a standard that the contents of the meeting shouldn't be made public. If somebody tweeted the content of one of those meetings, I would be mad. There are lots of good reasons to work from a place…

Yeah, I think it's pretty funny how $55k is such a loser paycheck to everyone in this debate. I'd like to make that.

Why can't Aaron Sorkin set norms for his writers room and be disappointed when his people don't follow them? He's not SUING her, he just didn't like it.

Well, we've had good writers for a long time.

Loved this episode, found the review much less sour grape-ish than last week's but still fundamentally wrong about everything, which is what's kind of fun about reading posts by Sorkin-haters. The conversation about rape and journalism was pretty awesome, actually - it took on a difficult subject and let the debate…