I think it's a case of feeling safe to hate people who don't exist. IRL we have to empathize and try to communicate and compromise. We can transfer hate and frustration to TV characters because it doesn't hurt anyone.

I still like the suggestion from last week (can't remember who) that it's either the female student he tore apart and who wanted to sleep with him, or the douchenozzle male student who slept w the French professor.

Allison's POV has always been one of the least tethered to reality. In her mind her panic attack (which I do think happened) made her freeze, but I'd guess in reality she ran to Joanie but wasn't conscious about it. It's the strength of the writing that it's so skewed.

Ugh, Saint Allison of Montauk. Soooooooo over it! She's not fragile; she's a snake. She abandoned her daughter but feels like she can judge when her efforts merit regaining custody. And why is her POV the only one where she's not sexy??? UGH!!!!

It's fair if Paula has shot down his efforts that he won't try again. But if you can't cook, dial a meal. If you can't do laundry (which is ridiculous but >shrugs< OK), take it to a laundromat or ask a neighbor or family member to trade help for other help. Make an effort, don't just say you'll help.
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When Scott was whingeing on about the stack of clothes on the washing machine, I wanted Paula to tell him to do a load. FFS it's laundry not rocket science, and she works full time and goes to law school. Even if she wasn't going to law school, how about pitching in!

I thought Toby was a little bit abusive so vaya con vacas amigo.

Confirmed.

Ooh, that's an interesting twist. Or the scary freshman who wanted to sleep with Noah after he said her work was garbage #daddyissues.

So since they're already pointing the finger @ the guard, it has to be one of the Lockharts who slit Noah's throat, right?

I had the same issue. For a show capturing a key moment in the Women's Movement, it was very soap opera-y… and then had all the sexploitation crap to boot. Did they have to add T&A to cater to their male audience? No. It's too bad the story wasn't deeper, so I'm glad they decided to move on to another project.

It was meh, definitely some modern interpretation (Tom & Lorenzo go over it in more technical detail in their podcast).

ABC could give him prime time on Mondays. Three whole hours of TV.

The POV really is the defining feature for me; otherwise this is paint-by-numbers storytelling.

Ugh, good point.

That's what I thought…and for me was the real death knell for their relationship. I think in Issa's subconscious was that Lawrence would always default to a state of inertia, and why she was restless in the relationship. No justification for her hookup, but makes sense that his eleventh hour redemption didn't make…

But I wonder if they were more tasteful than Helen envisioned them (since her first viewing she didn't know if they were Whitney).

Totally understandable, completely deserved. But Luisa seemed snottier than I remember, making me think Alison reads a lot more judgment than was actually conveyed.

Did Lawrence talk about turning down the tech job, quitting Best Buy and working on his app full time?

I still miss the dual POV. Were there really aggressively nude photos in Whitney's BF's loft (and holy crap the photo in the cab was painfully hilarious)? Did she leave FIT? How do the kids really feel about their dad in jail? How much more reasonable is Luisa when not in the eye of Alison the Victim? How much better…