Mallory Rubin Award: Did This Movie Need a Better Sex Scene?
Mike rejecting Petra
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- Petra’s visit should lead to sex after the breakup, according to Van, who imagines an alternate morning together. Jo is criticized as annoying and controlling; a Spider-Man 2 leisure analogy meets the objection that it does not cost 30000.
- Petra shares Mike’s poker knowledge, asks for money, initiates contact and offers to stay; rejecting her is judged implausible. Her exact offer is corrected from why don’t I stay to I can stay; his empty apartment makes the desire clearer.
- The writers reportedly called this their biggest mistake in 2006, explaining they wanted the debt to command immediate attention but now thought that choice wrong.