I love that feeling as Canti goes red and "Little Busters" revs up and you can't help but think "oh shit, here comes the payback."  Practically brings a tear to the eye.

Watch, then read, then watch again.

Don't beat yourself up for not catching all the layers here.  This is a 6 episode series with a 4x density.  It pretty much requires multiple viewings to unpack it all.

Please make this a real thing, AV Club.  Please.

Safe from the reach of the most dangerous creature in the past:  Man.

I realize how stupid it is to pick apart details on a show as painfully dumb as this one, but this has been really bugging me.  So at first they couldn't control where the portal appears, right?  Ok, that's fine whatever.  So they send over the parts to make a portal stabilizer.  Awesome.  And they build the portal…

Did anybody else think they retconned the immortal dog in this week's flashback?  I seem to remember him being full-grown in the earliest season flashbacks, but in this one (where Amanda is going away and Jack vows to take care of him) he's just a wee pup.  Methinks somebody in the writers' room has been doing the…

I hope this doesn't result in him turning the gun on himself, but let's not rule him out as the potential victim.

I vote "lazy".  This is a show that isn't bothered by what the CIA can and cannot do in reality.  It treats the agency as a form of magic that is only limited by whatever is necessary for the plot at any given moment.  These are people that routinely travel to far-flung corners of the world and appear to get home in…

Yeah I'm pretty sure Augie wasn't asking for re-assignment for himself.  He was requesting it for the girl (who's name I can't be bothered to recall).  He wanted the Peace Corps to send her somewhere other than Wehateladiesistan or whatever.  Then he changed his mind (I guess to show that he respects her wishes or…