I think he could work if they got rid of that ridiculous hair and "beard" and figured a way to present him as a male other than this. Or commit to the genderfuck, but… differently?

In a just world, Work would have been the song that blew up and not this. (Non-ironically enjoying both, sorry)

Glad I know that after watching the first two episodes of the show.

What the character was supposed to be: a confident, masculine free-spirited person who gives zero fucks about how he is perceived

I will say one thing: Tony is the first Tatiana Maslany performance that is not on point and she isn't helped at all by the complete make-up failure.

Nate was always frustrating in his trying to do the right thing and somehow failing most of the time. I liked him a lot more the first time I watched the show than the second time, possibly because I was younger and he's the kind of character who appeals to teenagers (or at least to the kind of teenager that I was).

Oh yeah, that was definitely realistic and understandable. He could have done a lot worse,too. By the time that storyline happened I already hated him too much to sympathize, though.

Which relates to anything how?

Weirdly I kind of liked Vanessa and thought she was often the saving grace of the Rico corner of the show.

The only time I liked someone on SFU less than Rico was whenever George was a dick to his children. But George had some cool moments to balance it out. Rico was just a non-stop barrage of shit.

It wasn't just sidelining. I felt that after this episode, they stopped giving a fuck altogether and just made him as pathetic as possible without taking his character last season into account at all.

I don't think she's a bad actress, but I haven't seen her in anything besides True Blood, where her entire performance is putting on an off-putting fake accent and being generally weird, so.

To defend True Blood, it not only made a time jump at the beginning of the fourth season (Sookie went into a fairy dimension for an episode, when she came back, a year had passed in Bon Temps), but the choices criticized in the article all made sense for the characters (Bill is a self-agrandizing douchebag - of course…

I wanted to watch Brothers & Sisters because she was on that, but never brought myself to it. Is it any good?

He only appears near the end of third season, but give the show a shot anyway for it is glorious.

Every comedy sketch should be delivered in the press conference with subtitles format.
"Witch caught"
"Slut not ashamed"

Is it consent if you're physically cornered by a man without possibility of escape?

Theoretically, they could, but they made it rather clear that the intention is to follow the source material as faithfully as possible (They will change details and framings of certain things, but they wouldn't change major events). There is a theoretical possibility of them diverging from the books, but it hasn't…

I admit that I didn't watch the episodes before this one yet, but the facts of this episode are that he used physical strength to force her to do something sexual while she was clearly not willing to do so. There might be deeper connotations to the action, but it was rapey. Whatever game Pam might have been playing…

Just here to remind everyone that the showrunners really don't have much of a choice in the matter.