I laughed because of that recent kerfuffle about the teacher being fired for reading "Please, Master" to a high school English class. I was thinking of some things Ginsburg could have told him that would have been inappropriate even for HBO.

I think either McAdams's character or Kitch's, possibly both of them, should be an interesting side character without a backstory that requires all this introduction.

It's a classic case of overwriting.

I don't think so. He may be supposed to be out of his depth with these business partners but I think he's supposed to seem intelligent and articulate.

That right there was the stomach-sinking line for me. The "oh shit" moment.

Athena is sometimes known as the goddess of love and war. It's the kind of thing someone who googled either "Athena" or "goddess of love" might stumble on. And then say they knew what they were doing. But I really don't think they did know what they were doing.

This is going to sound really precious but: I think that was fine because Tom Waits hadn't been used in that way before. Now his voice is part of our tv memory; it has associations it didn't have when The Wire first started using him.

1981 is before the eighties you are talking about.

Drinking beer makes girls less likely to tell on pedos. You are reading too much into this.

It really wasn't so weird back then for a guy to see two kids in trouble and just take them home. I mean, most guys would just do that now if they weren't afraid of coming across like pedos.

That's also how creeps operate. They get the kid to do something shady and guilt-inducing to lay the groundwork for their creeping. Starting out with a speech about how dangerous hitchhiking is was also standard predator procedure.

The fact that they had to be warned about it tells you it was still being done, though.

You're right about chill but ten suburbs miles can be pretty impossible. I'm surprised the kids even knew how far it was. When you grow up being driven everywhere you tend not to know where anything is until you start driving yourself.

I was eleven. I also thought it worked. Hitchhiking was still just barely something people did. Enough that there were PSAs warning kids NOT to do it. I thought the daughter's bravado about it mixed with anxiety about the guy was totally believable. And then he had to go and use "chill" as an adjective which no one…

There is no way that house could be so clean and their homelife could be so orderly without serious domestic help even if the parents were just working regular nine-to-five jobs. This show, like all tv shows, takes no account of the fact that kids have their own, non-spy emergencies all the time. The situation is…

Top of the Lake got so silly. That scene with the girl singing and playing the guitar on the roof was one of the most cringe-inducing things ever.

I have a feeling he didn't.

I guess Rachel McAdams's bedroom needs will be exciting enough to give Taylor Kitsch what he can currently only get from his motorbike? By…episode three?

Remember when Pizzolato said that people were reading WAY too much into season one and no one listened to him?

I think there was a thud heard round the country when everyone realized that!