But they did. It's Caleb.

Ah, I really miss the Trophy Wife.

Or banal as fuck homonormative crap like The New Normal (shudder).

Gay showrunner trying too hard to not be gay, basically. Or be 'differently' gay. Basically amounting to a whole lot of bullshit.

Rick Cosnett is really making a career out of spectacularly killing himself to resolve plot arcs.

precisely. seconded.

I like your points here. The scene wasn't as well done as the show thinks it was, but there were elements of this theme trickled throughout the rest of the season that strengthen it, especially Alexandra's *minor spoiler* discussion with the professor next episode.

Why is it shitty? Just because you don't agree with it? Or because you don't see the shading and complexities of it as I've expressed multiple times and you conveniently ignored? You're so laser focused you missed the entire point of the season.

and did you not notice the books being burned too? aka the destruction and denial of knowledge. if you're so focused on that one element of things, you're purposefully misconstruing the show.

Did you not understand how they are using it as an extended metaphor or how the entire season is about the multiple ways in which holocausts, erasures, and denial of our identity affect us?

Now you're just being ridiculous, narrowminded and a little rude. Plus appealing to an extreme to prove your point. There are multiple ways of using holocaust. There's THE holocaust and a holocaust. Holocaust is defined as destruction on a large scale. A metaphorical holocaust is then destruction of identity.

not really. imagine being trans and having a whole group of people say your entire gender experience is not legitimate because you weren't born with a uterus/vagina. that's erasing your existence in a not so metaphorical way. second wave feminists are still to this day absolutely vicious and nasty about this subject…

Also autogynephilia is a made up mental illness or has been used as a mental illness term. Using it casually here is deeply offensive and assumes that other people's sexuality is akin to being mentally ill. if you're going to be high and mighty about your definitions of the sexuality spectrum, at least know that.

they're discussing the idea of imaginary holocausts which is mentioned only briefly in the next episode. at its most basic: this is the idea that much of second wave feminism erases out the trans experience in a way that is gendercide.

Yes. This person is just being obnoxiously wrong.

You do know they had an entire episode dedicated to the fact that he was not, in fact, an autogynpehiliac last season. At a certain point you're just making shit up. And I speak to you with a bit of condescension because you're practically dripping it for others.

The ship name is 'Parry' because together they can 'parry' any attack that comes their way.

Maybe it's because my whole family's dead and I have no pictures of them, but that whole scene of Frankie crying on the floor was not played for laughs for me. I genuinely understood that terrible sadness Frankie felt. I don't understand why everyone else thought it was hilarious. But the kids reactions were probably…

At least Mary Louise Parker had the charisma to pull off her contemptible character. I just hated him by the end.

Nah, I'm still burnt out on him from Weeds.