Season 2 thoughts - TOTAL SPOILER THREAD!

Personally, I don't think murder is EVER a good idea.

And I am guessing you never watch - or read - any of the "true crime" shows and books (like Ann Rule does, e.g.) Because you might just be shocked how many murders directly result from infidelity/love "triangles" - and NOT just in the "lower classes" but even college professors, sometimes. Remember that Mallory's husband was a College Professor in this "fictional" show?

This is but one real world example of a Prof who DID kill his estranged wife and the man he suspected was her lover - before killing himself.

Zinkhan was named the prime suspect in the April 25, 2009, shooting deaths of his wife and two other people, Tom Tanner and Ben Teague, outside the Athens Community Theatre in Athens-Clarke County in northeast Georgia.[7] The murders occurred during a picnic reunion of the Town & Gown Players, and all three of those killed were active in local theater productions. Two bystanders were injured by bullet fragments.[7] According to neighbors and colleagues, there had been no advance signs of trouble.[12] Police said Zinkhan and his wife, Marie Bruce, were having “marital difficulties,” that Tom Tanner appeared to be his “specific target” in the shootings and that Ben Teague was “at the wrong place at the wrong time.” Tanner was shot first, police said.[13] On the same day, "Zinkhan was charged with three counts of murder and a state arrest warrant was issued in Clarke County, Georgia. A federal arrest warrant was issued on April 26, 2009, after he was charged with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution."

Sorry to break it to you but men and women ARE actually different in many, many ways. And sex is one of these ways. Sex (heterosexual) is (almost always) more consequential for women than men. Women are ALWAYS the ones getting "penetrated" - women are the ONLY ones who have to worry about getting pregnant. Many disease risks from sex are greater for women than men, a woman who has sex with ONLY one man gets an enhanced immune system response as her body adjusts naturally to his unique bodily fluids. But a woman who has sex with multiple men gets only a degraded and stressed immune system.

The only thing I saw REALLY fictional about this show was that all Neil's and Simon's female clients were young and beautiful and rich. They all looked like high-class hookers themselves, but in the real world of women renting male escorts they are all average looking and older - at best. Plus MOST male escorts are actually hired by other males (homosexuals) - but not a word of that in this show.

("Midnight Cowboy" was more accurate in this regards.)

And all the "cultural" or "societal" adjustment propaganda in the world won't change the actual facts of Nature established thru 200,000 years of human evolution.

"Hee hee hee...quit touching my junk, pervert"!

Thank you.

My wife and I have significantly different tastes in a lot of things - but I sure respect her and we don't knock each other for our different tastes or even opinions on some matters. So - sorry about your own situation but nothing and nobody is perfect and I am quite content now to settle for "good enough" and to always try and temper my passion (emotions) with reason and attempted empathy. (And I don't always succeed, either.)

The whole "it's just a show" response always seems very strange to me - but generally it IS used by others who disagree with my own opinions about something or other. It's just a back door way to censor and I won't accept that, personally.

Especially since movies and TV really HAVE been instrumental in changing broader societal values in so many ways. Some ways are stealthy - others more direct.

Propaganda is propaganda - whether produced by NAZI's, outright Communists, "Christian rightists", or Hollywood progressives. A really "good" almost total propaganda movie example is "Coming Home" which garnered several academy awards and was/is highly acclaimed by most in the USA now. It also has an infidelity subplot which is why I finally got around to watching it - then became an interesting exercise for me in spotting all the propaganda surrounding the Vietnam War.