One complaint about the show - that it's so white male oppressive in the narrative - I also think that's part of the point.
Someone talked about it as meta fiction to say, "this is Maggie, but this is also Maggie the put upon and marginalized wife" who, as Marty noted he thinks is supposed to make a home that is geared around his needs.
At first I thought... oh, he's really a jerk - but, in terms of where people exist in a story, WHO exists in the story, WHAT story is told, what is ignored - that whole scene takes on a whole new level of meaning, and the complaints about the narrative being sexist and racist in its failure to develop the other characters - is also a point to be made.
Coehle is trying to talk Marty down and put him on the case when "the hot young girlfriend" blows up Marty's life with the remark about "With all the d you swagger, you couldn't tell crazy...kitty?" (those are meta quotation marks since I'm not actually reproducing the text but pretending I am... lol. or something...)
ANYWAY, Marty was the one who was acting crazy with jealousy and then acting like an ass when she was angry with him for what he did. But the traditional narrative is the hot girlfriend is crazy - it dismisses her.
So, yeah, I wanna re-watch all the eps again too!
(oh, and I didn't realize until the other day when talking about this on another thread... DU HAS THE YELLOW KING in custody as a smilie. 
eta: - At some point, I think we'll see Marty at a Promise Keepers meeting, since he mention the group. That whole idea of male as the dominant person for a "relationship" is a big part of that whole right wing religious world. I wonder if they have "purity balls" with their daughters... if there's something that is unintentionally creepy in a Lovecraftian horror kind of way... it's purity balls with dad.
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