max

there are obvious similarities with dennis and frank both realizing that these meaningless sexual encounters are not what they wanted, that it's unsatisfying, but mac has also explicitly stated this is the case with him as well this season. samantha knows what frank is angling for, and she continues trying to establish a relationship with him instead. dennis has been refusing to have sex with mac for years.

sam begins their date by talking about her dead husband in a way that prompts frank to ask if she killed him. she doesn't deny it.

ok post canceled i've decided im going to throw up actually

something you might agree to call whatever you have going on with your best friend in highschool and college sleeps over and the drunk fumbling starts; in your shared apartment when he becomes your roommate (no homo); in the bed you share in your sister’s apartment when she’s not home; back in your apartment, except now you’ve hit that big age where it’s no longer normal to have a roommate, let alone the same roommate for 30 years. when it gets harder to brush off the knowing looks from your friends when he finally comes out. something you both might agree to call it to avoid having to ever talk about it. outright denial is suspicious - better to hide it in plain sight under a flippant phrase.

the more he tries to hammer it home the more it sounds like we do do it.

something also about your gay roommate addressing the elephant in the room for the first time in years by assuring everyone that it’s definitely (man-to-man) not gay, while in the same breath claiming that he is definitely not gay, despite the fact that he IS very, very fucking gay, and everyone knows it

it’s irrelevant!

it’s certainly not a comment on the fact that whatever the fuck you have going on is and always has been very, very fucking gay, and that any comment to the contrary is as fake as his farmers tan

it’s totally normal for two middle-aged men to need each other this badly to live like this