The moral of the story is actually that cats can cure all stress related illnesses (like eczema) better than any Chinese remedy, pharmacological drug or DIY treatment ever could. All that murder trial stuff was just background.

Yeah, it sounded to me like her offer was to make him an investigator for the DA's office? That's a thing that exists, right?

Which, if they had bothered to investigate anyone besides Naz sooner, they could have probably gotten ahold of that bag (which I'm assuming was filled with bloody clothing and the murder weapon) he was disposing of in that video Box finally found. THAT would make for a truly open and shut case right there. But, they…

Because she still thought she could win the case, if only she could make the jury see the version of Naz that she saw. And since that good kid from a good home version of Naz could not be up on the witness stand sweating and shaking and wracked with withdrawal symptoms, she figured she had to get him a quick fix. I…

Yeah, I'm not sure what the point of the drugs was, if they were just going to use the stupid kiss anyway. They could have totally skipped the kiss and used the drugs instead, and none of us would be having this discussion (because really, I could see a really green attorney thinking that having her client perform…

Well, and maybe this isn't the case with severe cat allergies, but don't most people develop a bit of resistance to specific individual cats they're around a lot? I have several friends with relatively mild allergies who have pets, and are fine at home being near their animals and even sleeping in the same room/bed…

Yeah, they don't go bonkers usually, they just get kind of mopey and sad. My cat recently had to have some treatment that required he be quarantined with little to no physical contact with us for like 3 or 4 weeks. We built him a little fence so we could all still be technically in the same room together but separated…

And the scratches on his back in the photo were still smeared with his own blood, which, if he'd showered post-murder, they wouldn't have been (at least in real life, where superficial cuts, like the kind you would get from fingernails on thick back skin, never really bleed all that much to begin with and usually stop…

Well, he's clearly too emotionally attached now to take the cat back to that shelter, so I'm not sure what could happen to it at this point and still feel realistic? Maybe I could see it escaping his apartment while he's at court and we never see it again, but I think the cat is going to be Stone's redemption for…

Well, and you wonder just how many of the jurors have done similar things. It's a risky move on Weiss's part, because anyone bullied in grade school is now going to identify with Naz a little bit, and anyone who's ever taken some adderall to concentrate better or smoked a bit of weed to relax or partaken of whatever…

They might be falling out of fashion now, but there was a glut of them in the early/mid 2000s, so there must have been some people into them.

I've had cats my whole life and never gotten a scratch any deeper than a paper cut (even while attempting horrible atrocities like trimming claws or trying to force them to take gross tasting medication)… I think the significance of the cat begins and end with back door that doesn't latch properly (or the cat is just…

Ugh, that drove me bonkers when True Detective ended. Why all the easter eggs if you're not going to do anything with them? It just makes things feel sloppy to me… I was watching Hannibal at the same time, and that show had few if any symbols that didn't mean SOMETHING (whether a clue or an insight, or just an inside…

But wouldn't, say, the bathroom be the more logical place to scoop poop, if you have to move the litter box?

I am a cat person, and I wouldn't be able to stay in that apartment for more than a few minutes.

At least the wolf is hidden under his court clothes. The knuckles seem like a really odd place to get your first tattoo though, even you are playing badass for the first time in your life.

"If he's innocent, this is more like a commentary on how it's really bad if you find yourself under a mountain of circumstantial evidence with means and opportunity while high."

But having the actual killer be the obvious (to us) pick would actually totally fit with everything this show says it wants to be, as an anti-Law & Order. Because on those procedural shows, it's never the obvious person, but they always catch the actual killer anyway. In this world, maybe it IS the obvious person, but…

I kind of agree, but I also think it was clever for a show that dances on the edge of realism and melodrama to kick the show off with a situation that could have easily been the beginning of any by the book rom com. Someone as naive as Naz could totally understandably fall into the web of this contrived meet-cute with…

But Stone also said "…not since before you were born," in reference to the inhalers with amphetamines. I'm sure those things have expiration dates, and 20+ years seems like it would definitely be long enough to cause drugs to lose all potency. Maybe they still show up in a blood test, but it seems kind of doubtful and…