I don't get Netflix but would be prepared to do just to watch this show. Especially to see the reaction of the wives as to why their husbands want a divorce.

After watching Justified (I am nearly finished) I am on to Deadwood. I never thought I would like it but it is a period show and has Timothy Olyphant playing a similar character as he does in Justified. I adore his character on Justified... plus just looking at him! lol So, I think I will really like Deadwood. Will keep you posted!!

"able to have a real life with her admirer turned traitor turned husband." Pure, I don't see her ever having a real life. The final scene, where Jamie is sitting on the bed asking Grace to tell him stories about the most awful periods of her life is so darn creepy I could cry. It's as if he's just making her relive the horror over and over and over -- like Dr. Jordan does -- and it's all associated with their intimate life. He gets off on her misery. As for the doctor, all those sexual fantasies about Grace and that ugly scene where he has sex with/rapes his landlady and then tells her he wanted to do that with another woman --Grace, of course --and not the poor landlady.. He took his desire tfor Grace out on a woman who would have given anything to be loved or at least respected by him. Grace really got to him and unsettled his certianties about women. But he really could not handle all of that. You are right that Grace is exceptionally strong. That quilt at the end, with her and Mary's and Nancy's stories all embedded in the quilt --briliant. Atwood is so good as limning women's lives and the ways in which they deal with the patriarchy. I think -- though I have not read all Atwood's novels -- that she is endlessly subversive. Everyone around her thinks Grace is settled and oh so lucky. Grace knows the reality. Small details: Grace licking the thread and threading the needle; Grace running the needle through a piece of cloth to signal that storytelling is finished for the day; the irony of a Tree of Paradise quilt that is embedded with the stories of Mary, Nancy, and Grace's imprisonment. Some Garden of Eden. I don't know about the split personality theory but it certainly could be. For one thing, how could Jeremiah transform from peddlar to world-reknowned hypnotist. What a shape-shifer. Grace clearly saw Mary with her liveliness, surety, sense of rebellion as what she would liked to have been. And then look what happens to Mary. Grace speaks in Mary's voice in that awesome hypnotism scene but she threw so many curves in that scene that everything became unsettled. I am obsessed with this series! I hope you keep posting about what you see in the series, pure. We can be our own mini-book club.

I like a series and for some reason feel compelled to keep watching this one. It is funny in its ABSURDITY. I certainly hope there is NOTHING real about it. The chemical use alone tells the tale IMHO. To live as these people do ya have to be HIGH, otherwise saner heads would prevail and better choices would be made.