Whether he is actually happy is up for debate, but Roger has actually become one the most redeeming characters. He's finally trying to take responsibility for his personal life. Plus, he actually throws himself in to the swinging 60s, as opposed to sitting on the sidelines scowling at the debauchery.

I think it's a mix of Peggy dealing with her overwhelming loneliness in her personal life, her disappointment being unable to take the director job herself, and that Freddy has historically been a fuck-up. She can't believe he could come up with something independently good, so it must be flawed.

I'm finding this show has a lot in common with The Sopranos. Like Tony, Don, despite rays of light shining through from time to time, just refuses to or genuinely can't change. He will always be selfish and dishonest and hurt the people around him. I got that the minute they cut to him having sex with Sylvia last…

It almost makes no sense to have them. This show is light on big reveals. Since season 1, there really hasn't been any mystery. Lane's suicide and Don randomly up and marrying Meagan were the only times I've been kind of shocked. The merger was kind of a big deal. This just isn't a plot driven show. It's about…

I would also say it has to do with "one of TV's hottest shows" selling point. Most people, I feel, watch whatever they think they're supposed to be watching, which is whatever is popular by the water cooler. These new "edgier" shows hit a button with a lot of discerning viewers to begin with, then their lesser…

I just finished this last season. It's an okay show to binge watch in two sittings, Each season is only six hours in total. when you really don't want to give fuck but want to stare at some likeable actors just having fun in leisurely roles. The jokes aren't funny. The whole series is Entourage from Ari Gold's…

I'm really not sure. I'm hypothesizing about why this disparity exists. I haven't seen much of Spartacus or Oz, actually. I do know they had male nudity. I'm pretty sure it wasn't nearly as gratuitous as this show has been with boobs. I know even GoT is pretty sparing with their vagina shots; I've not noticed any…

It is sad. Investors will generally be happy so long as their stock price goes up. I think the people of the thread agree the show's imbalance of female to male nudity is becoming problematic, whether just for misogynist implications or because the pandering camera is such a distracting factor (lingering on women…

This guy did some research on it. http://www.justinmclachlan….

You make good points. I just don't know how some of the older conservative viewers will react to the breaking of a new taboo. I also don't know how some of the younger insecure hetero-males will take to it.

I thought he was alright in Nymphomaniac, if that's what you're asking.

Thank you for your candor. I feel like Albert Kinsey administering actual surveys for data collection on female sex stimuli in the Hollywood junk department.

For the average female viewer, is that something she would feel comfortable leering over on the show and admitting to watching it? Or watching with a group of friends? Jon Hamm's tight pants are not the actual skin flute uncased. I wonder if it would scare off a lot of the middle aged female crowd, especially those…

For the average female viewer, is that something she would feel comfortable leering over on the show and admitting to watching it? Or watching with a group of friends? Jon Hamm's tight pants are not the actual skin flute uncased. I wonder if it would scare off a lot of the middle aged female crowd, especially those…

At the end of the day, they have shareholders. If male nudity starts scaring away viewers, the board of directors will step in. I'm not sure it's just men. HBO does have a large middle age and even elderly audience. My parents, in their 50s, loved most of the big HBO dramas until they cancelled with a rate spike. …

There is no way HBO could lose a broadcast license over that. An erect male penis does not qualify as obscenity, even in a sex scene, within the larger context of a show like this. It wouldn't matter if there was penetration. The producer was just bullshitting Apatow. I've seen Bertolucci's The Dreamers on there…

I was back at my parents house one weekend and watched the sexposition with Little Finger and the two prostitutes with my parents. We had been watching separately until then, and there hadn't been anything that would bother me watching it with them up to that point. But sitting in the living room together through…

While I often find TED Talks interesting, the show perfectly skewered the talkers' douchiness. Everybody on that stage talks in such grandiose terms, with dramatic pauses in every sentence, like some cross between a new age messiah and a professional wrestler in a state of zen. What they are prophesying will not…

Maybe there is a question of whether members of the audience really want it. Coming from my straight guy shoes, I never really hear about straight women being interested in celeb male nudity the way straight men are in celeb female nudity. I know there are a few male stars like Chris Brown and Colin Farrell who have…

I commented on this on another thread. The thing that bothers me about it was an article (I think Indiewire) where they had one of the directors saying there was always an HBO producer on set pressuring him to film more female nudity and include a full frontal shot. (I think it was Ygritte).