Still, it looked for a short while that it would derail Sevigny’s career. Her agency dropped her, essentially saying they didn’t represent porn actresses.
I was a huge, huge risk for a movie that went nowhere financially, and whose artistic merit was hotly debated.
Kind of a hijack, I know. Back to the show.
No problem, Mr. Moto (and others). As the OP, I enjoy hearing about Chloe’s career. It has a direct bearing on the show because everything she’s done has brought her here. And I agree that she is an incredibly immersed actor. Last week in the kitchen with Margene, Nikki was panicking about how her relationships with people would be damaged if word got to Barb that her father made the call. There was the end of a line when she said, “… and BILL!”. Packed into that two-word phrase was an enormously powerful panoply of emotions. She reminds me a bit of Elizabeth Montgomery, another underappreciated but very talented actor. But Chloe is even better than she.
I can believe Bill took the risk of having Nikki and Margene name him on their kids’ birth certificates and giving them his last name. Remember what a big deal he made about his father “not even giving him his name”? Hospital records would be confidential, but aren’t birth certificates a matter of public record (ie can anyone go to their local vital records office and see who was born to whom 
)? Even so it’s always possible that Nikki and Margene could’ve gone out of state to give birth.
My favorite moment was Nikki quizzing Wayne on simple arithmetic, then using a calculator to check his answer. Presumably girls growing up in the compound weren’t encouraged to learn math? (Although it stretches credulity that someone with that level of ignorance could even remotely function in modern society.)
I think it’s really interesting the extent to which Nikki is so defensive about the compound, to the extent that she can’t view any other religion, or the people associated with that religion, in anything other than an extremely negative light.
Wait, hold up? Ben too controlling?
His eighteen year old girlfriend essentially coerced him into losing his viginity when he wasn’t even sure he was ready. And he’s the one who’s controlling? Brynn sends up huge red flags to me.
Re: the laundromat, yeah, I got the sense that it was a front/scam when Lois said they hadn’t even opened its doors. I can’t really get a read on the uncle guy, though. I don’t trust him.
It would be a good twist if it turned out that Rhonda was telling the truth about the older boyfriend trying to rape her. The part about her saying she prayed to Jesus and then he stopped makes it sound pretty implausible, though.
What are Heather’s parents going to say about her bringing Rhonda home?
Also, agree–it’s skeevey to think about polygamy when you actually think about it in terms of them bringing someone in. Like with Margene. Essentially Bill was screwing the babysitter and then decided to marry her. Sure, the Principle sounds noble in…well, principle, but when you actually see it acted out, it comes off as a little sleazy.
Somehow I think that the waitress is too smart to fall into the polygamy lifestyle. She reminds me a lot of the Russian character, Svetlana, on “Sopranos.”
I think Heather’s dad is a Highway Patrolman.
Of course girls would be taught basic math in the compound. How else could the figure out vital stuff like how to plan a meal or expand a recipe? 
I’m surprised they haven’t made it clearer in the past exactly what kind of education Nicky received on the compound - clearly comparative religion was left out, but can she, like, do percents? One assumes she knows a lot of functional math, like how to double or halve a recipe.
She used the calculator to check “1 + 1”.
You think correctly! He is. He actually came over to Barb’s house to pick up Heather once. That was rather a tense moment.
Yeah, the 1+1 with a calculator was pretty funny. No wonder she got herself into so much debt!!
That’s exactly what I was thinking at the time! 
Six dollars. Sixty thousand dollars. It’s all the same.