It's just we're, in the US alone, losing about 90 lives per day, every day, to auto accidents. Does anyone realistically think that hacking is going to be anywhere near that dangerous?

This is one of those pieces of writing that is hard to even get through because the ludicrous assertions just pile up and up and up. Great click-bait, though.

That was a nicely reinvigorated episode! Had been a bit worried that the show was losing specialness lately (and still agree about other cast members being wasted). I do like this new Alicia. I think all the Alicias have been fairly believable, but I enjoy it when she's believable and makes me root for her, which…

So has everyone piled on to criticize Joshua's plot-following skills already? Josh, c'mon, pay attention! Did your DVR cut out or something? That seems the only way you could have missed the fact that Matt is not back in Jarden and is in fact now voluntarily locked up naked in the stocks in the shantytown.

Let's remind ourselves that Matt's never been shown to be smart. Let's call a spade a spade.

Agree mostly. Especially since it echoes Matt's first season misery tour episode so much… I didn't love it as much as everyone else seemed to back then, and now this just feels repetitive without adding much. Same with the acting.

Yes, this type of conceit (these flimsy bracelets completely disassociated from anyone's identity are the one and only thing that permits reentry) can work well in a deliberately unrealistic art piece. But it clashes clumsily with the quasi-realistic world the show has actually built. It's an anti-McGuffin, and a…

Huh. I'd say 30% of that was quite fun, 50% of it so-so, and 20% of it godawful.

The strongest clue is Patti guiding Kevin to where his phone was, completely invisible under the mud. BUT THEN AGAIN, maybe she just represents the part of his subconscious mind that was in control when he jumped in the lake, which remembers where the phone dropped. Love it.

Yeah, she's great. The chemistry Nora and Kevin have together is genuinely affecting for me—it sort of only makes sense in terms of them both being so profoundly damaged, but on those terms it's very vivid and believable. The unhesitating readiness with which Kevin submits to the handcuffs at the end was what really…

"Aside from the crying baby in the opening scene of the pilot, Evie and her friends are the first characters we’ve actually gotten to see before they disappeared."

Counterpoint: abstract threats are more complicated and interesting than concrete ones, and "layering mysteries upon mysteries" is one of the things I really like about this show!

Heh. One of those "overbearing" religious music selections was Victoria's "O Magnum Mysterium". Get it? :D

They may have premiered at the same time, but wasn't it the case that both networks were interested in doing Addams characters but only one of them had the rights? Hence the Munsters coming off as "Addams family lite." The Munsters wikipedia article even claims Mrs. Munster was recast after the pre-production test…

I'll see your LtROI controversy and raise you "The Ring"/"Ringu".

The Addams Family was a fairly seasoned incarnation of the marvelous original comics.

Could you give an example of the dark awesomeness lurking beneath the surface of LITB?

I'm a few episodes behind on this season, but with regard to Morgan's prominence, I totally get it. He's the Jerry. Ummm, Parks & Rec Jerry, not Seinfeld Jerry. The fact everyone secretly mostly cared about Jerry made it totally fine to laugh at lines like, "Everyone just pretend Jerry was never born."

In case anyone comes here looking for a clue whether the show got better in the next episode: nope.

[obvious spoilers, I guess]