Don't mind me, just upvoting every comment in this thread in solidarity.

I was wondering why the show had cast Djimon Hounsou but wasn't using him for much more than a haunted look to punctuate the end of a scene. And now we know! Great job, great episode.

THE SYSTEM IS RIGGED WAKE UP SHEEPLE

I really enjoyed the show lampshading its Chekhov's wedding invitation with an actual gun.

I've been working up an organizational model based on the Byzantine Empire - it's not perfect, but I'm getting close…

For all the flaws in the writing, the direction of your average Wayward Pines episode is usually pretty great, and this one was no exception. I particularly loved the way the episode was bookended by contrasting scenes: the idyllic "Planet Earth" PBS doc-style Abies in their natural habitat, versus the supremely eerie…

"I was making useful zoological comparisons."

I'm assuming the writers' room has at least half a dozen whiteboards reserved specifically for Jian-Yang prank calls and disturbing Jared lines.

There are no crickets because the first casualty of the apocalypse is your conscience.

How do they know what year it is? Where's the proof they are 2000 years in the future?

Incidentally, this finale proved conclusively that if you use Philip Glass's "Metamorphosis One" in your tv show, I WILL cry.

Rectify! Thank you! THAT'S where I've seen him before.

Count me among those who were much more positive on this ep than the reviewer. I thought it was fantastic. In fact, the Rachel/Coleman scene might be my favorite scene of the whole show so far. Drawing him out, getting him to open up, then cutting him off with "Hey, Coleman, just so you know: That's how you make the…

Tip of the cap to Krystal's unnamed friend who helps keep her idioms straight:

MVP trophy to the foley artists who provided the perfect liquid-sloshing noises before Wheatus's brain leaked out of his ear. [shudder]

"The Shield's Danny Pino" #deepcuts

Let the puppy have a turn in the showrunner's chair. It certainly couldn't be worse!

"I agreed to one black guy. Four is just beyond."

"I have single-handedly reintroduced romance to a lovestarved nation."

"You look like roast pig" is easily my second-favorite Helena moment. (All-time favorite is Helena pouring sugar into her jello. That one is untouchable.)