@deborah

There's just so little ambiguity here. When Sally is standing at the open door, talking to Glen and the other girl, nine feet away from Rollo (having stood up and walked away from him by her own volition without the slightest resistance from him), and she says to Glen, "He tried to force me," she is flat out lying —…

Yeah, the follow-up amplifies the joke beautifully.

@InterplanetJanet:disqus
"Perfectly sincere question: Has this ever happened on a TV show?  […] Because I've never seen that. I'm not saying it's never happened, but that scenario leading to physical escalation is a dramatic staple."

wrong thread

@InterplanetJanet:disqus Respectfully, you've got to be kidding.

@avclub-126ad03316db7675164e3f0c8be270e9:disqus Ted got Roger's office. Cooper never had an office (as he remarked one time; he used to sit around the lobby reading the newspaper and eating apples). Roger is now directly above where he used to be. Lane's office went to Pete last season; they haven't specified who's…

It was on Broadway, not in the park.

@avclub-05726c736277e78fffb7b9546ad0ec6f:disqus "Physical force is not the only kind of force when it comes to sexual coercion"

@avclub-dd5321bef3221ce6653c54293a545c71:disqus She got up off the floor (completely unencumbered and un-checked), calmly walked over to the door, summoned Glen, and then told him that the kid "wouldn't stop." She made up a scenario of what she believed was probably going to happen next, but had not yet happened; and…

But it does change the "basic point" you were trying to make; it changes it completely.

A like-minded individual! Wonderful.

You say the boy was "definitely headed toward raping her if she hadn't been able to get away/get help."

I can't figure out if

Interesting…

He just lost weight, that's all. It's the go-to solution for any and all Hollywood problems (and it's the most sure-fire way to indicate to all that your problems are solved). "You look great! You lost weight!" is the ultimate indication that deep existential crises have passed.

I do not agree with you.

It's a problem, but it's Ted's problem. He might have pulled it off, too; it's the kind of hail-mary-pass Don routinely succeeded at (back when he was in the advertising business). Don had absolutely no right to interject himself into the middle of it.

What's interesting is, she's doing a very good job of dealing with a problematic marriage…based on the assumption that she's not being blatantly lied to. She's basically "brought a knife to a gunfight" — she's working very hard to get it right, and she's penetrating through his manipulations, but she just has no idea…

Neither — Showgirls.