Dan Savage

Yeah. And what is it? And did Laurie get the second best of the Russian dudes in episode seven?

Yeah. And what is it? And did Laurie get the second best of the Russian dudes in episode seven?

Oh my God. And this is why I love Mike White's writing so much. He starts to pull that scam on Laurie to try to get $10,000 out of her.

Oh my God. And this is why I love Mike White's writing so much. He starts to pull that scam on Laurie to try to get $10,000 out of her.

And then his girlfriend bursts in the door. And he instantly goes from, oh, male menacing Russian gangster to literally being slapped in the dick by his girlfriend who is pissed.

And then his girlfriend bursts in the door. And he instantly goes from, oh, male menacing Russian gangster to literally being slapped in the dick by his girlfriend who is pissed.

And so he's not... the man, just like Saxon isn't the man that Saxon would like us to believe that he is. This dude isn't the man that even circumstance would suggest that he might be.

And so he's not... the man, just like Saxon isn't the man that Saxon would like us to believe that he is. This dude isn't the man that even circumstance would suggest that he might be.

And we're just seeing the highest end of it, right?

And we're just seeing the highest end of it, right?

We're seeing the elite. Right.

We're seeing the elite. Right.

I think all relationships are transactional. Yeah. We both pay in. And you pay with, if it's not an explicitly financially transactional relationship, how do you purchase the time, the attention, the affection, the devotion, commitment of a partner? Well, you pay in with time, attention, affection, devotion, prioritization. There are lots of ways that you pay in.

I think all relationships are transactional. Yeah. We both pay in. And you pay with, if it's not an explicitly financially transactional relationship, how do you purchase the time, the attention, the affection, the devotion, commitment of a partner? Well, you pay in with time, attention, affection, devotion, prioritization. There are lots of ways that you pay in.

And if you stopped – if I stopped paying – my husband in that way, the relationship would collapse. But it's in some ways, and maybe this makes me very, a terrible person that no one should listen to about sex or relationships. But I do think at some base fundamental level, all relationships are transactional. It's just some are more starkly so, and some are more exploitatively so.

And if you stopped – if I stopped paying – my husband in that way, the relationship would collapse. But it's in some ways, and maybe this makes me very, a terrible person that no one should listen to about sex or relationships. But I do think at some base fundamental level, all relationships are transactional. It's just some are more starkly so, and some are more exploitatively so.

And I think that's a thread that runs through All three seasons. And yet, because Mike White won't let us have anything be black or white or uncomplicated or not ambiguous, you do see, even in those transactional relationships...

And I think that's a thread that runs through All three seasons. And yet, because Mike White won't let us have anything be black or white or uncomplicated or not ambiguous, you do see, even in those transactional relationships...

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.