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  • Alternate Aesop Interpretation: Toxic attitudes toward sex and purity can be dangerous, especially for impressionable teenagers. Max strangles Fidelia for cheating on him and taunting him for being too scared to have sex before marriage, and is still convinced that he's "not the bad one" because he kept his celibacy vow and she didn't, even though he literally committed murder.
  • Informed Wrongness: When the charges against Peggy are dismissed, she proclaims to Kim Greylek that she was right to say she was innocent. Greylek contemptuously tells her "there's a difference between charges dropped and innocent", and then goads Peggy into attacking her just so that she could charge Peggy with something. Except that Peggy was charged with a crime she didn't commit, didn't participate in, and one that didn't actually occur (assisted suicide). By legal definition, Peggy is innocent, no matter how unpleasant she is.
  • Never Live It Down: While virtually every character has an incident that the fandom refuses to forget, ADA Greylek's actions (where she antagonized the suspect who harassed a pregnant teenager into committing suicide and then goaded her to attack her after she was found not guilty of the crime) is usually the first/only specific thing most people remember about her. Regardless on where you stand on the situation (the suspect was a Jerkass with a short temper), one would hope that a seemingly important character would have a positive impact on the show, especially since she replaced two vastly more popular characters.
  • Retroactive Recognition: Britt Robertson plays Tina Bernardi. This was two years before her Star-Making Role in Life Unexpected.
  • Unintentionally Sympathetic: Peggy Bernardi. She's a jerkass... because she's upset that a schizophrenic man got her daughter pregnant, and that her daughter's friend Fidelia was the one who encouraged her to do so. Add to that the fact that she has to deal with her son being the one who killed said schizophrenic man. Given that it all started because of Fidelia, Peggy's angry emails to her, while a bit excessive and dickish, are far more understandable than the episode tries to portray.
  • Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Greylek's antagonization of Peggy Bernardi until she tried to assault her was supposed to be an awesome moment for the new ADA. Instead, most viewers saw this as a moment that made Greylek the bigger jerkass, especially given how Peggy was legally innocent of any involvement in the death of Fidelia Vidal...and this fact made Greyek upset instead of her just acknowledging that she was wrong to accuse Peggy of involvement.

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