What do you mean, "who does that?" Dan was there for a genuine business meeting, and it doesn't seem that crazy to believe he would have business meetings - even in Vegas - on a week day.

Last week's episode was terrible, but overall, I think that this season has been decent.

FWIW, it wasn't called the Danvers Lunatic Asylum by the time it was closed. http://www.danversstateinsa…

Virginia is certainly charismatic and charming, but one of the flaws of the show IMO is putting forward the narrative that could be considered close to a Manic Pixie Dream Girl (though, certainly, the show has taken pains to show that Virginia has depth and exists for reasons beyond showing Bill how to live life) for…

Eh, I was just annoyed in seeing it everywhere and jumped on your reference to it. That's not your fault.

Likely because Helen is over a certain age and it's much more difficult to get pregnant naturally the older you get. Plus, it's not like Austin is a fertility doctor - he's an orthopedist. Not to say he couldn't learn how to do these procedures, but he'd still have to learn.

Here's the thing, though - I thought Virginia was pretty unlikeable in this episode, too. Pushing them into the gorilla research for her own ego, pushing them into doing publicity for publicity's sake. Then suddenly Bill is the villain? I didn't like this episode because I think it pushed that plot way too hard, but…

I think you mean Johnny, not Bobby. That's Mad Men.

This whole thing comparing "jumping the shark" to Virginia's moment with the gorilla makes no sense. You can't identify a "jumping the shark" moment as it happens because you have no idea if this one bad episode signals an overall decline of the show or is just that - one clunker of an episode (if I had to guess, I'd…

This episode was really weak. And the season premiere was not as strong as it could be, I think because the writers plan for the season got a bit upended by some legal wrangling around the Johnson children. But overall, I think it has been a good season. Of course, I also liked season 2 more than most people.

I know you feel that way. That isn't how it happened on the show, however.

The first time they had sex was cringeworthy because Virginia wasn't enjoying it. But that had nothing to do with coercion. Bad sex =/= rape. She made it clear to Bill after the session that she didn't enjoy it, explained that it had to do with the position, and that's when Bill discovers the Kama Sutra. The next time…

The problem is that we aren't operating under the same set of facts - you have constructed a narrative in your head that doesn't match the set of facts as demonstrated on the show. As such, this isn't about "issues of consent" as it is "issues of memory." Since you are wedded to your narrative, and I am not because…

Okay. We're just going to have to agree to disagree because IMO in no way, shape or form is Virginia a victim of rape.

Um, no, I didn't say it happened that way. I didn't say he "lied" to her about transference. And IMO, it is about making you feel better because you keep talking about rape, abuse of power, and coercion, and while there are lots of power dynamics going on between Bill and Gini - many of which are uncomfortable - she…

But really, it didn't happen that way at all. But if it makes you feel better to see it that way, then you keep on seeing it that way.

I hadn't seen that quote but that makes sense to me. I always thought that Bill actually felt really bad about that statement, he knew how badly that made her feel (just as he knew how badly he made her feel when he offered to pay her for participating in the study in season 1), and that was his way of making it up to…

I guess we'll find out. But in this episode, it appeared like Libby's tantrum really devastated the guy, who did seem to really love her.

Yes, this is the only time that sex as a condition of her employment is mentioned, in season 2, in a highly charged moment between the two of them, where both of them are trying to feel each other out.

No, she did not acquiesce to his demands and no, he didn't fire her for not sleeping with him. And no, she didn't come back knowing that sleeping with him was a condition of her employment. You actually have the entire plot wrong.