I have a feeling that it's building up to a face to face encounter. Right now much of the drama surrounding what happened that night is because the boys seemingly haven't spoken since everything that went down.

Agreed. This season is testing my ability to keep from yelling things at characters on TV who cannot hear me.

"If my kids' well-being comes at the cost of yours, that's a decision with which I'll probably always be OK."

"Come on over guys! The sex will be over SUPER quick, I promise!"
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Why does it matter whether it's 30 seconds or 60 seconds or 3 minutes or 8 minutes? It was a beautifully choreographed piece that thematically paralleled the episode/season so far (if you don't think so, watch again). The dancers were incredible and the direction was fantastic. That alone makes it easily worth its…

Oleaginous. I consider myself not a stupid person, and that is the first time I've ever seen that word written. Now that I've looked it up, I wholeheartedly agree with you.

This episode/particular scenes were indeed great.

But I also feel like they're giving Eric a sympathetic edit, which makes me believe (obviously) that there's still more to the story.

I know, right? God forbid they throw a little art in (dance, poetry) while you're watching another art form (filmmaking).

That piece of choreography, and the direction to it, was fantastic. Seriously. That's two artistic mediums working in perfect synergy. I wasn't convinced we needed to see the whole thing when it first started but by the time it was over, I thought it was done masterfully and it was easy to see how it paralleled what…

I think both shows could be described as grim (and I very much like both), but American Crime for the most part seems to be completely devoid of humor or levity. The issues it discusses are very important/engaging, and the "solve the crime" aspect of it is appealing, but it is certainly very bleak.

I think it was building, but that conversation did push it over the edge. I agree with you—he had been thinking about it for a while. But as his brother was talking about them getting out and escaping, there seemed to be the tiniest flicker of hope. But then his brother started talking about scoring chicks and such…

It never went away. I've been going to spoken word performances for almost two decades, and snapping has always been part of the performance. The response from the audience always depends on the type of performance you're a part of.

Definitely still happens. I went to my fair share of spoken word performances in high school/college and this is pretty much exactly how it goes down.

What? It's par for the course to snap during a poetry reading, especially with something like spoken word. It's like clapping when a singer hits a really good note or saying "Yes Lord!" when a preacher makes a particularly moving comment (depending on what church you're in, haha. I don't go to church anymore but those…

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Maybe a random point, but it got me thinking about it since this episode was All About Josh. This show has been very fluid in its depiction of gender and female sexuality, which has been wonderful, but quite rigid when it comes to male sexuality. This kind of reflects the general assumption that women are more fluid…

trashy television is different than dumb television. and people aren't spreading hate, they're spreading criticism—AKA, the entire purpose of this site.

"Extremely clunky" is probably the best description.

Right but his "learning how to deal with his sexuality" is different than clearly intimating that he's banging dudes but not going into any of the details. I get the whole coming out story, as it's been done to death, but why can't we see things from his perspective? The relationships he's developing, what he spends…