What made Canali's comment particularly unsavoury though was the implication that he'd enjoy watching the girl being raped because she's hot.

It caught me by surprise too, which it shouldn't have, because I did spend the whole scene wondering whether the actress's acting had always been this terrible. And then it turned out it was the character who was acting and I felt stupid for not seeing it coming.

278 comments and no one mentioned the fact that the business card W&H hands to Numero Cinco says "Attorney's at Law"?

So you take my one paragraph pointing out how the Caliban plot calls to mind to the sucky real-life experiences of women, call it a 'cute little political diatribe' and counter with… four long paragraphs about how the Caliban plot calls to mind the terrible ordeal of men whose desire for physical intimacy isn't met.

Fair point - I might've been a bit too quick in claiming that the show is playing these things straight. I actually hope I'm wrong and we'll see some massive subversion in the next season when Brona enters the picture as the Bride.

Of course everyone deserves sympathy to some extent. But not every single choice and action does, especially when trying to frame such a choice or action in a sympathetic light requires being unfair and unsympathetic to another character who *really* did not deserve such a thing (Maude is 'stupid' and a 'bad actress'?…

Except Caliban didn't 'take a lot of abuse and snap'. Instead, he felt entitled to the sexual attention of one of the very few people who were genuinely kind to him, and whom he assaulted when she wouldn't put out. I would have understood and felt some sympathy for him if he had attacked Simon, but Maude? There's…

Glad to see someone else who went 'WTF' over this scene. At first I thought Vincent was faking that whole 'would've liked to have kept you but you know, business' speech (which sounded a bit awkward, as if he were really thinking 'holy sh**, this bloke really IS as creepy and unstable as he looks - I have to get rid…