I don't believe this is at all what people have been criticizing the final episode for, aside from a few redditors. I think this is what people who liked the ending keep hearing people say, instead of engaging in the episode's notable and jarring flaws.

If you believe what Cohle believes, he's reaching out in the most human way possible here.

If you're only on the first two episodes, you have not begun to know either character, my friend!

cannot second this recommendation enough

Yeah, have been looking for any discussion about this. She clearly focuses in on his face before she starts screaming "HIS FACE". She is also still looking directly at him as he gets up to leave. The nurse's shocked looked that she responds at all tells me she doesn't look at many faces. Could be a rh, as you say, but…

I feel so much for Cohle's feels, it's embarrassing.

She does such beautiful work. I'm halfway shocked that something of such obscure quality was actually ever assigned in the first place.

He was standing his ground.

Dunn and Zimmerman SHOT AT THE CHILDREN

oh wow, she's a peach:

what? seriously? Marissa Alexander's prosecutor??

I'm sorry that this sounds patronizing. I was doing my best to make clear the difference between not supporting the term, but still supporting the people, in the previous post.

SYG is absolutely awful and should be the focus of all the efforts to prevent this from happening.

I don't see this mistrial as doing anything to deter racists from acting on their bigotry. If anything, it tells them to just refrain from shooting at a car speeding away.

What makes me really fucking upset about this is that so many will dismiss the mistrial verdict because he's going to jail anyways. IT'S NOT THE POINT. And it sure as shit wouldn't be if you were worried about your son or daughter just doing things that normal teenagers do.

Labels are culturally produced and can be harmful, too. No, I don't feel obligated to support the blanket term "gay" when I see it as a harmful erasure of marginalized sexualities. I also don't see the women who use the label as "bad people" though. I think they're caught up in a harmful trend.

I respect this as a reason to reject 'lesbian', but don't see how 'gay' is any better if we're wanting to find some way to be more inclusive. To me, 'gay' is absolutely identity politics erasing differences. Thanks sincerely for your response.

This is really sad to me. The modern Gay Rights Movement has had the unfortunate effect of normalizing a particular gay experience. Your queer female-identifying foremothers fought really hard to make sure a purely female (though not merely cisgendered) experience was marked and understood to be different than male…

Thanks for your response and clarification. It's just frustrating to hear 'gay' become the unquestioned, normative term when lesbians have fought very hard to carve out an identity that isn't understood as a simply the "female" version of gay (which is historically the cismale identifier). I think it does both a…

what? it doesn't do anything to the gender binary except privilege cismale experience and erase queer female experiences.