To show how different reactions can be: a number of people on my flist reacted to the first two episodes by complaining about how sexist and demeaning the series was because Alex was being portrayed as drunk and promiscuous.

Gene's finale speech I still find yucky, you can say that in other episodes we see the downside of that attitude but certain right-wing political press TV reviewers and web blogs were going "PREACH IT, DUDE!" the following day.

And yes to the messed-up Electral stuff between Alex and Gene.