I just loved the flashbacks with Ginger and Pam. Looked like Ginger had an orgasm when Eric slo-mowed into the room with his puffy hair.

Yeah the episode gets an A for Pam. "Is it a shitty chair?" made me laugh. And the satisfied look on her face was classic "I'm superior" vampire. Yeah you came up with a good idea but I'm still going to shit on you by stealing it. "You bitch" laughed Eric. Vampires are just another anti-hero.

Between Joe and Oberyn the Red Viper, charismatic male bisexuality is in this season. They have too much libido for just one sex!

People like making connections and the two "oh wow" moments were when we find out the reverend Matt was in the car crash from the very beginning of the show with the mother at the laundromat and the discovery that the GR bought his church. They seemed to work. I also guessed that obnoxious guy from the casino would…

This episode seemed thematically similar to Mother Night. It focuses on one guy on a mission who loses his shit.

That sounds plausible. There was a flashback of him hooking up with someone.

Excellent points. Lisbeth had a traumatic childhood and so isn't very socially adjusted. But you're right she's not crazy.

Yeah it's weird how the hipsters of social democratic Sweden have a thing for Country and Western music.

If I were the Berry character, I wouldn't have deleted the footage. I would have come clean about maybe going stir crazy. Possibly a career-ender, but maybe you'd get some psyche help. Then I'd tell my husband and a journalist about seeing the dead astronaut. Maybe in the future there's some social media journalist…

Again, great opening song. Pleasantly surprised to see Franka Potente's name in the opening credits. Glad Sonya is still donning the pony jacket. Good that Buffalo Bill is still around. Didn't he retire?

Yeah she seems way more crazy than Lydia, more like Lisbeth crazy.

She was in Blow too.

Maybe. He killed the man to protect his brother and to give the finger to his dictator father. It wasn't out of a lust for power or some sadistic impulse. Then he left the country to escape the whole dynamic. It will have to be something pretty bad to turn him to the dark side, like some Tusken raiders killing his…

The dictator survived an assassination attempt. Jamal was mistreated by his father. The kids took the wife hostage because a brother was in jail without reason. The husband tried to kill Jamal because he ruined his life. The rebel group is rebelling for the usual reasons. Their region is poor and underserved and they…

"When he finds out that Jamal intends to have Ihab hanged in public, Barry leans in wide-eyed and asks John Tucker, “They still do that here?” When Barry calls Abbudin’s policies “barbaric,” when he incredulously states, “this is the 21st century!,” when Barry begs wife Molly (Jennifer Finnigan) to stay with him…

Or frankly upper middle class women. Just watch the View. Granted many men are just as cluelessly apolitical. It's all such a downer. Plus you don't want to seem controversial.

"but latching onto Tyrant’s often simplistic depiction of the region and its peoples as proof of one’s own unfortunate xenophobia "

That made me laugh when Big Jim was all happy cooking breakfast. It's all good under the dome!

"This is a species in mourning, for both the departed and the ability to pretend that everything has a rational explanation."

I had the same reaction after reading the first review. Haven't read the book and never got into Lost. I like my mysteries to makes sense in some way rather than just be "mysterious" for the sake of it.