Duct tape is never for repairing your HVAC system. You want your aluminum foil tape for that.

The gun is clearly empty though. Lester put it there to give the cops a reason to get a search warrant for Chaz's house, emphasis on his gun collection, straight to the planted evidence. IMGDO.

But if there's one person who's not going to fail at being a cutthroat it's Malvo.

I didn't see him turning Mr. Numbers over, so I think he was just feeling for a pulse. So he wouldn't have seen the throat cut open (though the blood must have been seeping into the snow).

The moral of Joe Schmo always works out to be, look what a swell solid guy our Joe is, even with all we put him through. (And he always wins the cash prize, because after all he's the only real contestant.) Doesn't sound like they're playing these contestants that way at all.

The longest part of her monologue about why she hates school is all one take. All one take! And very natural, like she's pulling it out of her head instead of reciting words she's memorized. It's like she's already a method actor.

And the cop was like as not deliberately trolling for gay propositions, so he'd get to batter and arrest someone.

Don't impugn the great Fred Rogers like that! Not his fault Lou wears a cardigan.

Peggy's crisis gave him the opportunity to be the father figure he'd so wanted to be to his "niece" last week. Except he so much better understands what Peggy needs than he would have what pregnant hippie Stephanie did. (Or, for the most part, what his actual daughter does, though he's doing better on that front…

I got Beth too. Probably because I selected "Truth" instead of "Knowledge". (But some of the questions were impossible. I wouldn't join any of those clubs—)

She was obviously pouring the bowl of pretzels for him. I'm glad she has some kind of family (less creepy than when Betty befriended a boy about the same age!).

After the Martian speech, if anything, I was surprised Ginzo held it together (more or less) as long as he did. It was a deeply schizophrenic moment for someone who wasn't on hallucinogens.

Psychology isn't her discipline. Good thing too.

Hey, the play audience got their money's worth.

That wasn't a Dyad henchman Sarah was fooling into opening Rachel's apartment, that was the concierge. You know, the "really cute concierge named Troy" that Felix told her about and volunteered to distract?

The Americans also did a competent polygraph scene, also showing how not-magic the whole deal is.

Couldn't miss that. But then, I was a tiny baby Cubs fan in 1969. Sigh. But, good omen for Don.

That's exactly the character I'll always associate him with first. Actually.

So Art's got a kid. Or possibly a niece or nephew that he's close enough to to give all the real estate on his fridge to their artwork, but probably at least some kind of kid in his life.

"Reverse the polarity" doesn't come from old Star Trek, it comes from old Doctor Who.