Elsbeth episode perfectly nailed a man writing women!
His student in the short skirt - he couldn't remember her name - appeared during office hours that afternoon. 'You looked up my skirt,' she said. 'What are we gonna do about it?'
How dare she? He was a distinguished member of the faculty, for God's sake. And this Lisa - yes that's it - would not be satisfied until he was... dismembered. How had he arrived here, from walking home from school to his mother's embrace and a tuna fish sandwich on perfectly toasted toast... to this horror? Well, of course he had looked up her skirt. But, you know, was that a choice? In that moment, he knew she had complete power over him. And he knew that he was, maddeningly, absurdly... in love with her.
The above is from "Murder He Wrote," the latest episode of Elsbeth (s3 ep16). It opens with a pompous, Boomer novelist reading from his latest work. It absolutely, 100% nails these misogynistic, sexually harassing, writer/professor men. The whole episode just made me so happy. I just wanted to hug the writers of the episode (and go tell my high school boyfriend that he's become such a cliche as to be the stuff of satire). No spoilers, but we all know from the start that this man is going to get what he deserves.
