Here's a question - Taylor must have known the next day, a Sunday, that someone had done something to him, especially given the physical evidence that the nurse found more than a week later. And yet at school in the first episode (the next day? a couple days later?), he appears fairly well adjusted in the stands…

Because it was important to the story that we hear it when Mateo yelled it - it triggered Chris' harsh reaction. In the song, there was no narrative importance to it, so it got bleeped. Or maybe the version they played was just a radio edit? Those would be my guesses.

Let's see how Kevin reacts when word of Eric's sexual orientation spreads. Kevin is emphatically heterosexual. I have a feeling it might be a challenge for him to remain thick as thieves with Eric once he learns Eric is gay. I hope Kevin isn't put off by it - I really do like his character, horn dog though he may…

I agree that it's a lot to add to the story, and to the extent I'm on the fence with the theory, that's one of the reasons. I do think it would perfectly explain a lot of the "hmm" moments involving Dan, though, and if the show could pull off two different perspectives on the same issue of being a gay man in…

I'm thinking along similar lines re: Eric (also with the caveat that it could change). Maybe Taylor and Eric both had an Ativan, but Taylor had a worse reaction for whatever reason. Maybe he'd had more beers? Or maybe Eric was drunk and thought Taylor would like getting drugged based on their texts? I think Eric…

Sepinwall's loss. I understand the criticism, but there is so much truth in the writing, so much character complexity, such great acting and such great production values - I find the show extremely compelling and extraordinarily watchable.

I think he actually cares about Eric. In the first episode, he was encouraging to him on the basketball court when he didn't have to be. That said, I do agree Kevin was not being truthful, but I'm assuming he's not lying about not being involved in an actual assault, especially since he does have an alibi that can…

That, and he's in the closet himself, so it hit close to home that someone he coaches was willing to kill himself rather than come out. (That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.)

Well, it was kind of bitchy to take that cell phone call while Eric's dad was giving her his sob story. ; )

/Curiously I think I might be leaning toward believing Eric. If he is a rapist he might be a bit unusual, for TV at least, in being very haunted and guilt-ridden about the whole thing./

My big complaint so far this season is that Anne has to have some tragic backdrop of depression or drugs or breakdown or whatever. They've used it to partially explain why she's pushing the rape case so hard (guilt) and why Taylor wouldn't tell her he's gay (fear of abandonment). How 'bout - that's just the kind of…

I took it as her trying to make a joke, maybe to tease him a little bit.

There was a story in the papers recently about a football player accused of raping a girl while she was drunk. He was allowed to continue playing while being investigated, and people actually hung banners in support of him at games. And God help me, I read the comments, and in 2016 some people were writing it off,…

I really liked the cut from the 911 rape call to the opening shot on the basketball court of Kevin pushing against Eric's hands and then Eric being unable to stop Kevin's drives. That still could end up being being foreshadowing.

I agree, although by the end of this last episode, I was getting weary of Connor Jessup's halting, stuttery delivery. It's starting to feel a little overly affected, like "I'm a sexual assault victim being steamrolled by all the institutions, so do you get it that I've got no voice?!??" it's a good thing he has a…

What's the first question people ask when members of a sports team are involved in a scandal? "What did the coach know/do/not do"

But too much interest doesn't automatically mean sexual. She feels neglected, so whatever Dan had an interest in would be something she's jealous of.

It's painting with entirely too broad a brush to say sports are really about winning. They're about different things to different people. A "winning tradition" is part of Dan's success, but clearly, another part is being a mentor and surrogate father to these kids.

I'm pretty sure there was a willful disregard of basketball principles in order to achieve what they wanted thematically.

I didn't equate lack of interest in her to the show suggesting he was a pedophile. I get the feeling it's more of a "lonely middle aged wife feeling less important to her successful husband than his career."