1. If there's an office where leather short-shorts are acceptable work attire, I'd like to see it (and I can only imagine what casual Friday looks like) and 2. Eliza called Henry out for slut-shaming her, in those exact words in fact. The point of the episode was that it's OK to stick to booty calls if that's what you…

Betty's sham marriage for money ended and she pulled herself up by her bootstraps and did pretty well for a former ho. Lillian's death was the catalyst for Bill and Gini getting closer (when he was consoling her was the first time they kissed on the mouth I believe, which they had previously avoided to convince…

Right, it's about removing the pressure and also establishing emotional intimacy. That's why Bill and Lester didn't have any luck with the prostitutes, and why Bill was able to perform after he broke down in front of Gini and she comforted him.

I believe therapists today do indeed prescribe a period of non-sexual touching gradually working up to intercourse as a cure for psychological impotence. Not sure if M&J actually came up with it though.

I don't think they were going to subject them to anything traumatic, necessarily. In fact I believe that the protocol they used to cure Bill (non-sexual touching, then sexual touching, then intercourse) is used by therapists today. Better that than the taffy-pulling prostitute.

Different times. In 1961 the affair alone probably would have branded her as an unfit mother, especially since her ex is apparently married to June Cleaver. She might even have lost visitation, and since the kids seemed totally fine with going to the ex's, why put them through a messy court battle? That was the gist…

No, Libby's conversation with her was genuine and based on Libby's very real fear of ending up in the same situation. Gini was perhaps misguided in thinking that the CBS doc would be the key piece of evidence that would turn a judge in her favor, but the reasons for not going to court- the study being compromised as…

Yes, of course she knows it's Gini. All those late nights "working", when would Bill have time to see anyone else?
If she didn't know or only suspected before, she sure figured it out when they did the CBS interview. Libby married Bill because it's what was expected of her as a "good girl", and Bill married her…

So, um, what do we think they used to simulate Bill's "morning wood"? Or do you think Sheen is a "method actor"?

Well said, and I mean IRL his baby mama is Kate Beckinsale so obviously he's not Quasimodo. Plus his face hadn't fully recovered from his brother's pummeling and I think that's what he was alluding to when he said "no amount of makeup can hide it". It's outward evidence of his messed-up inner self.

Yes, I read it as it really hit home to Libby that Bill is much more involved with Gini than he is with her, and whether or not they're sleeping together is almost beside the point. He's checked out of their marriage.

That's what she said?

Yeah, for a minute there I actually wondered if it was all going on in Libby's imagination and Robert had just dropped her off and said good night after the cop hassled them, because I didn't think it would happen quite that way in real life. It was a little too "Dear Penthouse…"

I think they changed the names of the Masters kids because the real people are still alive. The son was recently arrested for indecent exposure.

I thought it was more about sharing his pain with her, or symbolic of their shared guilt in the affair. Or something.

Also, after what Bill said to Gini about abandoning Frank and then punishing him for it, it seems pretty obvious that he goaded him into the fight not just to be a fucking asshole, but because he wanted Frank to hit him and felt he deserved it. He trained as a boxer, but notice how he didn't really fight back? It was…

I don't think it was just you, it seems like they *wanted* us to think the two had been an item up until Frank said "I want my brother back".

Which might be because they don't need another extraneous character at this point, but he did care enough to try to stop her from taking the kids and moving the California with Ethan, so I'd assume he wanted visitation. Besides, with the time jump aren't her kids damn near teenagers at this point? It's not like…

The real William Masters did have a brother named Frances. I think the "Mason" name was a fake one for the files (too many questions from Gini and Betty if Bill used their real name), and the "grapevine" that they talked about is Essie. And judging from the last scene, they grew up together and were close once.

Yes, he described in detail what he was going to do to her and none of it involved PiV. And when they showed them in bed afterwards, he was still fully clothed and buttoned up.