Yeah, definitely not a sociopath. To me, she reads as the opposite- someone with a profundity of emotion and emotional turbulence, to the point where it clouds her judgment. The MRH comparison is salient. While Jessa often dons a facade of apathy to hide her internal turmoil, MRH dons an engaged, meticulously…

Sun Ra. Nothing like extremely space-y, dissonant jazz to put you in the productivity mood.

Yeah, I know, but her character felt weirdly low energy and the chemistry seemed off. Alia's played bouncing-off-the-walls Ilana types in the past (and played them with gusto); I just wish we had some of that here. Would have solidified the whole thing for me.

Yup. Glad to see it because so far (although we've had hints of Ilana's potential bisexuality) the portrayal of gay relationships has been incredibly one-sided, tilted almost unilaterally towards the dudes. Bout time they evened it out!

Interesting, that line of logic makes sense. Though I was half-expecting the anti-weed stance to prompt Ilana's recognition of their differences: "what, you hate weed… we really aren't the same. Okay, more sex now!"

In general, a good episode. I guess I'm just a little upset that Alia's character didn't have more "jizzy-jazz." Yeah, she looked like Ilana, but she was way more subdued- she didn't come close to matching Ilana's energy/craziness, and that undermined the premise for me.

Same! Thought they could have gone crazier with Ripa, à la the SNL crack-shampoo skit.

Have you seen A Serious Man ? Melamed's great in it. So great that literally all I could think of when I saw him in this episode was "Sy Ableman" (cue skin-crawl). Turns out I wasn't far off.

I'm officially convinced that Jocelyn is just middle school rolled into a person. Love it.

Bleh. This episode just didn't do it for me. A few good moments, but all the characters seemed like parodies of themselves- Linda reduced to singing, Bob reduced to obstinacy, Tina reduced to adolescent anxiety. Gene was slightly more interesting but his fascination with being a "man in action" seemed grossly out of…

Also: the Hannah's dad is gay sub-plot?

God, the piercing scene was so painful to watch and yet such a distillation of everything people both hate and love about this show.

The problem isn't the character itself: characters that aren't flawed aren't interesting. The problem is the reaction: the unilateral lionization of Atticus, which has clearly carried into the present-day (as illustrated in this article) and, as such, needs to be critically evaluated.

Also, although I know this may sound like blasphemy, Atticus Finch was over-rated:

Cartoon dads for life.

For TV: Bob Belcher. Without a doubt. Sure, he may not be particularly rich, or particularly handsome, or particularly powerful, or particularly educated, or even particularly immune to making terrible choices. But at the end of the day, he's the epitome of humanity- an honest hard worker with a heart of gold who's…

Ask the internet, and you shall receive:

Pimp? Nah, that'd be some 'rich old white man' patriarchy shit.

Finally, to the cry for help: "We're having profound relationship problems."

Sex Box : challenging the nature of absolute truth in a phenomenological world.