As Abraham said, "A bold play."

"[Bob] goes out an optimist"

"I spent five minutes or so being disoriented and wondering if I'd started the wrong screener first."

Dude pees. Penis falls off. Dude amicably turns around so we the audience can get a look. Nothing's there. No genitalia, no urethra; just a smooth, solid patch of flesh. How shocking! But then … where did the urine, that less than a second ago was passing through his penis, come from?

Yes, especially since urination would have been impossible without a source for the urine. Of course that totally would have ruined the cool "penis falls in the toilet" scene.

Yes, but why? The "virus" is already loose and spreading, and in fact would have been regardless of the cover story. What's the point of perpetuating it, other than giving the bad guy something to do?

I understand his penis fell off. Men generally don't store urine in their penis. Well, I speak for myself, anyway.

The three-episode story arc so far: a plane full of dead(?) people lands, nobody knows what's going on. I mean nothing has happened. The pilot should have ended with this week's closer.

At this point, I think watching a show about the normal, day-to-day life of the exterminator, especially as played by Kevin Durand, would have more zest.

And we never see the old man actually fighting vampires, just coming back home all disheveled and covered in blood, and the audience wonders, is that what he's really doing?

Just goes to show, I guess, how hard it is to recover from something like Rudy.

Even Jamal is getting boring. His story arc so far:
1. Puff out chest and act menacing and mighty; if at possible, assault somebody.
2. Fight with brother, but grudgingly concede to his every demand.
3. Fight with the rest of the family over accusations of being weak.
4. Go back to #1.

He's already got the uniform; just give him a pipe!

Seems to me it's nothing some electrodes on the balls wouldn't fix!

Beware the black swan.
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In fact, has there ever been a film or TV show where a polygraph has worked like it's supposed to?

So that figures. I actually thought this was the best episode so far, though that isn't saying much. And not because it actually did anything better, but because for the first time it feels like it's setting up stakes that actually mean something in Tyrant's world (however generic and cardboard it might be), and was…

"You called it a coffin!"

So, what's the difference between staving off the vampire apocalypse and being in the middle of a child custody hearing?

Ugh. This show is so facile that, as the reviewer said last week, it's insulting. The problem is less one of racism or being an accurate representation of tyranny — whether it is or isn't, I'm really not in a position to make a judgment call — but that the incidents of tyranny aren't at all about telling the story of…