The excerpts I’ve seen, especially the Nick-on-horseback one, gave me the general impression that Mariah Smith is desperately hurt that Nick married someone other than herself.

If you took Madison and Milwaukee out of the state election formula, we would have a clear majority—we would have all five constitutional officers and we would probably have many more seats in the Legislature

The beginning of your second paragraph is the issue here. You’re projecting your own feelings about the issue onto the writer of this article and claiming she’s broken some ethical law because of how it makes you feel regarding your experience. I’m not saying yay or nay to your opinion, just stating that your personal …

They’d have mentioned it if they reached out to her, so it’s probably pretty safe to assume they didn’t.

I appreciate the sentiment, but that’s not how journalism works. Yes, I’m applying that standard to a Jezebel article.

Strangling, in particular, is REALLY serious. (Obviously all intimate partner violence is serious, but strangling is like stage four cancer versus stage one.) Aside from being potentially fatal all by itself, strangulation is one of the more significant indicators of future lethal violence. It’s exceptionally bizarre…

If it’s a matter of public record and fairly easily findable online (as was discussed in the previous piece) why would the writer need to “get permission” to use information that’s already publicly available?

Make no mistake, journalism, even left wing journalism is still male dominated with a bros before hos mentality. If they like the man he can do all sorts of things and media outlets will look the other way. My guess is the reporter felt an affinity for his subject so chose to whitewash his behavior. Look at Matt…

Hey! I’m not whiny! I may be wistful, philosophical, clearly in pain, and whiny, but I am NOT a porn star!

“personal problems, the type of serious things that can happen with any family,”

“Wistful and philosophical and clearly in pain.”

I got more of the vibe that its that Mr. PB literally doesn’t mature at all over the years. With the melding of the time periods at the party, you can clearly see people at different points in their lives (Diane, BoJack, Todd, Princess Carolyn) but Mr. PB is pretty much exactly the same. He keeps making the same…

Good instinct. I’m sorry I engaged with some of those people.

It seems like a lot of people are talking about this season as being too static, or too similar to previous seasons, or Bojack being stuck in an unchanging loop or whatever. But that just seems crazy to me. That’s what personal trauma is - it’s a pattern of ingrained reactions to stimuli, which may have been helpful…

The Princess Carolyn moment (and her entire relationship with Bojack) made sense to me, because her particular issue is that she’s codependent. She grew up with an addict who she cared about (her mom), and derived her sense of self-worth from helping her mom cover or compensate for her addiction, without being able to…

At the same time, she had just told him of her past best friend Abby using the same words: “And I hated her, and I will never forgive her, but she needed me and she was my best friend and I loved her.” In BoJack’s case, she omits the very last sentence, because she’s not ready to say it, and probably because she…

So, first I had the ‘this is out of character, he’s not that *kind* of abusive asshole’ reaction too. Then I thought ‘wait a minute, this is kind of what people always say about abusive men, even when the clear signs were there, I bet the show was going for that reaction, how clever.’ Then I thought yet again, and…

If you want to feel sadder pop across to Reddit and read some of the justifications for BoJack and the criticism of Diane.........

“Look, obviously men should not be engaging in predatory behavior at the office. But I’m worried now the pendulum’s going to swing too far in the opposite direction, and they’ll be held accountable for that behavior, which is not ideal.”

I disagree. BoJack has made progress over the course of the series and it’s showing. The problem is, he’s still on the emotional level of a teenager who learned everything about life from TV. And while he internalized that lesson - as evidenced by his speech in “Free Churro” - he never truly examined what he should do…