Well, they were also limited to the photos they stole - they didn't have all the visual references, home movies,, etc that you need to fully capture the person.

But the "guilty remnant" is specifically about making people remember what happened on October 14—and its significance. It isn't just a group of doomsday alarmists.

Well, the NYC GR was definitely the case — the point of that New York shot (and, really, the whole first half of that episode) was to show that it's a national (perhaps international) institution and not just a few whack jobs in the suburbs.

But HE GRANTED KEVIN'S WISH?! So maybe he wasn't full of shit after all…

Upvoted for "blasian." I've always preferred that to "Blackenese."

It's funny, because I anticipate a lot of people saying Theroux killed it this episode, but I think he was so-so on some of the really emotional moments tonight (wasn't buying those tears during the burial at all - it reminded me of when Michael Scott randomly started crying during Office Olympics).

I see that now - I misread his post as Ann Dowd being the only thing that will convince him to stick around.

Well, her character's dead, but it's true that they also implied she's going to continue to haunt Kevin.

Ann Dowd's straddle gave me bad deja vu of her appearance on True Detective…

Loved the cutesy reference to The OC (at least I'm assuming the Laguna Beach thing was an OC reference…although I guess it'd be weird they went with Laguna rather than Newport)

It was the strings + light guitar that really brought it together for me, but I definitely thought Iggy held up her end of the bargain. She just has a presence about her - vocally and stage wise - that is fairly unmatched by anyone else in that genre.

I've been a pretty big Taylor Swift apologist/defender here, but I can't envision a scenario in which someone thought she was better than Sam Smith…

Even if they hadn't made the lip sync crack (which makes the judgment overt), doing this for Taylor Swift - who is probably not the only imperfect vocalist but the only one with a noted reputation for sucking live - is implicit judgment.

Beyonce sounds way better, but it still rarely sounds like anything I would actually tolerate listening to (there are some pretty painful moments on hers as well).

Yeah, I mean, the isolated track DOES expose that she was lip-syncing the chorus. I'd be perfectly fine if people wanted to criticize her for that (especially because I believe she has adamantly said she'd never lip sync or use auto-tune).

She wrote high school lyrics WHILE in high school. That was the key. The lyrics were shallow and immature, but they actually sounded like they came from a real teenager - because they did.

This analysis is so idiotic (Deadspin's analysis, by the way. AV Club seems to have missed the point of what Deadspin was doing, which actually works to AVC's favor)

I seem to remember there being a shot of him looking at the Capitol or White House or something that made it obvious…

Correct, and that fact similarly nullifies the "stray observation" about Daniel wanting to get the Senator to admit on the record that he coerced the confession.

I could have sworn the first episode made it clear Brody was guilty…?