True, and the struggle is real. But I really think it is part of Hawley's ethic that nothing trumps compassion and human relationships. Floyd is a strong woman besieged on all sides - even by her son - but at the end of it all she is the grand lady of a gangster empire in which murder and crime are ways of doing…

I have to agree with your interpretation. This is no love letter to second wave feminism, the embodiment of which is Elizabeth marvel's character "Constance". She is sleazy and has been trying to get into Peggy's pants, while spouting female empowerment rhetoric. In many ways she is another version of the Reagan…

Somehow this show grew on me. Vince Vaughan in particular. I went from cringing with his line delivery and attempts to show pathos to hanging off his every word. By the time he told Jordan, "here we are. under the bright lights" I was hooked. Must have a Frank Semyon prequel.

Sounds like you're imprinting your own hang-ups on the character. He was displaced by Daniel. Sidelined by his wife, by his stepmother, even by his father to an extent. The robotic use of "Janet" is such a symbol of that. And again, people are missing the point of this show if you think anything is "un-sayeable" or…

I remember last season in this very comments section speaking up for Teddy Jr, who was being treated by viewers pretty much as the evil southern jock archetype, a foil for the protagonist. I'm glad to see the show runners giving Teddy Jr his due. He certainly made mistakes, but then isn't that what this show is about,…

Please. I think the universe has had enough of this insipid, politicized critique of all media. You people have utterly degraded media criticism. When you're older you'll realize what robotic buffoons you've been.

Stereotypes, "tropes" and hack writing are A-ok when they are directed at men.

It's really annoying the way almost all media criticism has to be filtered through this insipid feminist lense of how the female characters are portrayed. I get it. I understand that decades of hack writing has produced reams of one-dimensional characterisations. But to overcompensate to the extent that we now have to…

That's not what the original poster said. He said it was better to be cliched than ignore abuse. If you don't understand the difference then I can't explain to you. But its this mindset that is really weighing down art criticism.

I have. He would be very happy with the state of current culture and art criticism indeed.

Are you being deliberately obtuse? Or are you so deep in the hole of art must serve a political purpose. We should stop showing car chases because car accidents are a real problem. That's how inane the comment was.

And what multidimensional relationship could one realistically expect to see between an abusive ignorant asshole and his son?

Its comments like this that make me fear for the future of artistic expression. Why does all art have to fit a political agenda?

Why because these characters are meant to be prototypes in some eternal gender conflict instead of human beings? You are in fact reinforcing traditional gender expectations with your ideas of women being the passive receptors of male sexual aggression that need to be liberated and given power. There have always been…

Go back and watch the scene again and imagine the genders reversed. She rattles off plans for second date, he jumps her. She tells him he's worried about going too fast he pushes her down on the couch. He gets called away for an emergency and she is churlish about it. You think that would really fly?

But freedoms also mean freedom from expectations. There was an implicit expectation that Barry should "put out" because the other character wanted to have sex. As a man I would never dream of putting that expectation on a woman or require some shame-ridden apology from her because she wasn't ready or had an emergency…

I didn't think the horny cougar was a bit. I was actually expecting to see her become a series regular as Joe's love interest.

I knew there'd be some feminism up in here on the relationship dynamic between the two. What I found interesting was how "entitled" she seemed to feel to sex and the fact that he wasn't jumping to perform as demanded was a problem for him. Imagine if the sexes were reversed. Guy gets sexually aggressive with a woman…

This one right here was amazing as well. The X-men.

As a looong time reader of Legion of Super Heroes way back in the 1980s Keith Giffen era (yes I'm old) it was great to see them on screen. Actually, the final 1990s Legion as adults darkly themed comic was the last comic book I bought regularly. That's what made the Justice League cartoon so special, it was truly a…