All three of them have been completely silent on the subject in their interviews, which I interpreted as it being a private matter and none of the interviewers' business. Which gets a little complicated, if you take the view that the interviewers are audience surrogates.

Legally Blonde is Smart White Girl in Yankee Country. Important distinction.

Oh, they know what to make of women. This episode proved that without a doubt.

Do not listen to PuraPuma. Magic Mike had a solid story that can be appreciated by anyone who has had a jerk for a boss or a screwup for a friend.

In this, we are in complete agreement, with one exception: I don't think political correctness is a factor for Pizzolatto whatsoever, unless you're defining it as "trying to show a perspective other than a white straight man's."

Speaking as someone who was in relationships in the mid-'90s in a rural area, hell no. Not even close.

It is amazing how well we understand how little he'll ever change, just based on six episodes.

Of course Maggie is pretending to read Reviving Ophelia on the sofa.

Since it's about his wounded pride at not being able control her sexuality rather than her well-being, I'd say they understood the situation perfectly.

Plus tequila.

Never doubt Rust's sharp eye for weakness.

You also don't cast three actresses who look that much alike for no good reason.

the way the Rust-Maggie sex scene is so starkly de-eroticized

Looks like Marty did make a down payment on Beth after all.

Oh, I would have been BEYOND pissed at her, but mostly out of fear and concern for her well-being, not my own inflated ego.

I suppose we can be grateful for the youth of today that they can still frighten and annoy their elders with some ripped fishnets.

If every teenage girl who was called a slut committed suicide immediately afterwards, the earth's population would crash in about a week. Tertiary characters or no.

I sincerely doubt any editing on this show will ever prove to be bad.

And yet that scene was so well-done, because you could tell that at the same time, he really thought that he was being a Sensitive and Cool Dad and trying to genuinely understand her.

Thing is, though, it's been at least a couple of hours since said episode of clothing disarray (and it's implied that he wasn't the one who found them; rather that some other cops found them and had the courtesy to call Marty rather than bust his daughter for public indecency). However, that probably just gave him…