Two separate issues - one is factual, the other is opinion. The Phoenix had already run the story on Geoghan, as the movie notes. the film also notes that the Herald could pick up the story when the records become public.

Good review but one correction - the Globe wasn't concerned about the Phoenix, who had already written about the Geoghan case, getting the story. They were worried about the Boston Herald.

Yep. The political commentary in this episode was pretty nonsensical.

It's a false comparison - practically every movie set in the South during the Civil War has a scene of a Union soldier attempting to rape a woman. You very rarely see the actual reality, which is that most of the sexual coercion came from Southern men.

The Quiet Man, always and forever.

Oh, for God's sake, if you are going to mock it, at least take the approximately 10 seconds it takes to Google what period Jane Austen wrote in.

Bad thing happen in wars, especially rape, and I am sure that the Civil War was no exception. But you'll note that even that article mentions that most of the rapes that took place were, unfortunately, perpetrated on black women, not the "Flower of Southern Womanhood" trope that we usually see in books and movies…

I have a hard time celebrating a movie that uses the tired, discredited trope of a Union soldier attacking women in the South, even if that story is female-centered.

I very much liked parts of this episode, mostly the parts that John Teti identifies. The writing between the three main characters is excellent and I thought that the acting was tremendous.

Previews indicate they'll be back in the season finale next week.

I liked it in that I thought the performances were good across the board.

Agreed that no one causes someone else's alcoholism, but it is also true that no one alcoholism causes someone to become a serial philanderer, either. Dan and Alice - much like Virginia and Bill - should stick with each other rather than inflict their damage on other people.

But it does take more than being a serial philanderer.

Agreed. It finally made him seem like a real character and not just a composite of anti-Bill character traits.

IMO, they were up until last night. Finally we saw cracks in his facade, but I think that the damage is done in that a lot of viewers see him as a better person than Bill.

I am kind of fascinated by the fact that reviewers seemingly gloss right over Dan's considerable flaws, but I can't necessarily blame them, since the show spent a lot of time building Dan up as the perfect solution to Gini's "problem" with Bill. Plus, it has also spent a lot of time ignoring Virginia's own agency in…

I agree with this (re Bill) - at some point, the notion of Bill as irredeemable monster and Dan as perfect lifeline for Virginia is boring and undercuts both Virginia and Bill as characters. This notion that Virginia has no agency in her relationship with Bill is really bothersome, IMO.

Nicholson will never get a pass from me on anything, because I think he's a skeeze. But he particularly won't get a pass because he refused to wear a Red Sox cap because of his own ridiculous affiliations. I really hate that guy.

People made that claim about Jeremy Renner and Ben Affleck in The Town. It wasn't true in either case. Seth Stevenson at Slate explains why it is so difficult for non-natives to successful reproduce the accent: http://www.slate.com/blogs/…

I thought it ended strongly - definitely a few episodes lagged in the middle, but on the whole, I thought season 2 had a clear story it wanted to tell and told it pretty well.