I'm sorry to inform you, but the individuals responsible for drawing the blood do not agree with you and agree with the defense. Perhaps you need to read more. Or watch the program.

I loathe endings where everything is tied in a pretty bow and nothing is ambiguous. Speculating on how things may have turned out is the best part. Perfection.

They did nothing but show this girl (and the other prostitutes) manipulate men all day. An act.

Seems like the wife and kids kicked to the curb get nothing and no five year cushion to find a new man

Agreed. It's 1901, son!

For what it's worth, I thought when he announced the six areas, he mentioned it was much more than they anticipated with the scope

She has a job and is a homemaker. She's being pressured into being a mother. Is this really so difficult for people to empathize with?

Ostensibly because he didn't have a son, and took her ice fishing with only jerky to eat.

Season 1 is much better.

One note: Ed wasn't happy with what he had, which set everything into motion.

Having had a nearly useless small Midwestern town public school education through state college, I can assure you I didn't read any of that until after school, voluntarily. Typical 80s business administration track.

Betsy told the story about Lou intending to marry her sister, but the sister didn't wait for Lou to return.

How does that square with her opinion that everyone is "put" here for a purpose, for which you'll have to answer to the Lord?

Not shock but dissociative. She wasn't going to deal with the man through her windshield in the garage at all.

Why isn't it content to NOT want children (Peggy) instead of wanting more, like Ed?

Looks like imported stuff.

So, women should be happy with their lot in life in the kitchen, and remember to be "low-key". Just have the kids when you don't want kids. Not anti-feminist. Got it.

A strong, independent daughter, because she was raised by a man? Who isn't "fulfilled" until she surrenders the case she's put together over to her bumbling boyfriend, and "finally" becomes surrogate mother to his kid? It's when Molly becomes a mother that she's really "done her job" as Betsy said discussing Camus,…

So far nobody's pointed out it was a "palindrome" for when Ed told Peggy the same thing when it all began.

That might be emphatic win, rather than empathic win.