I'm prepared to believe that it's either a technological or a psychic illusion. Agents of SHIELD has the face-duplicating mask technology, last seen creating what I guess is the MCU version of Madam Masque, but I'm leaning towards some kind of superpower.

My one claim to the most tenuous of connections with this show is that my sister-in-law is a friend of Celina Jade (Shado) through their shared background as dancers.

Which might explain why he, at least, doesn't care that their pipeline prison is a totally insane idea, although that doesn't let anyone else off the hook.

I would guess it's not the case for Donna, just because I don't think anyone would describe themselves as a theologian specifically if they weren't a believer. There's different terminology normally used for people who are experts in a particular faith tradition but aren't members of it.

Most professors of religion aren't theologians, even if they're religious. It's different in America, of course, where most wholly secular perspectives are found in sociology or anthropology departments, but here in Australia studies in religion is a secular discipline by design.

I imagine that Chuck got Jimmy a job there while he went through law school, yeah? I mean, I doubt Slippin' Jimmy already had his law degree when he was pulling scams in Cicero, or by the time Chuck bailed him out a few episodes ago.

Superhuman pickpocketing abilities? When I saw that scene, I was concerned that the older detective would see he had the notebook in his hand - it hadn't even reached Mike's pocket before he was passing the guy.

It's a McMansion, I reckon. I imagine the whole area was probably built by a developer to look impressive but be built cheaply. My family rented a home like that when I was in high school. It was big, but not nice.

Well, there's nothing to disagree with about the sentiment in your last paragraph. It's worse in the US than in Australia, but it's still pretty bad here, and our current government is still trying to reduce worker protections in favour of businesses doing whatever they want in the name of "flexibility".

That's not my impression, and presumably that's why Underwood needs so much money. If he's proposing to basically gut Social Security and Medicare to fund AmWorks jobs, they've got to be something like the PWA jobs of the Great Depression, even if they're fulfilled by private companies given incentives rather than by…

I don't agree with eliminating pensions - in fact, I favour a massive expansion of the welfare state and more taxes on the wealthy - but encouraging people to retire early doesn't create jobs, it creates job openings. Theoretically, more people working creates growth which creates more jobs - and people are living…

Contributions are part of your compensation package. I admit that American politics don't seem to understand this, given the completely ridiculous notion that employers should get to decide what kind of health insurance (also part of compensation) they'll pay for, but still . . .

I am super not having this argument, again, a year later. I made my point.

The America Works plan appears to be working, and even some Republicans in Congress are now believers, but it still doesn’t make much sense as a replacement for Social Security. Is there a retirement plan component to AmWorks? Who knows? It’s all kept very vague.

Ming-Na Wen is looking no older than 40 and she's a year or two older.

I think it would have been funny if they'd had her acknowledge that it wasn't the real Richard Dawkins by having her say, "But I don't even know what you look like!" I bet she wouldn't, any more than I have any idea what, say, Sam Harris looks like.

The best part is that Monsieur Mallah and the Brain are in a gay relationship in Young Justice.

On SBS here in Australia, American Ninja Warrior is followed by the best dating show in the history of the world, China's If You Are The One. Surprisingly good programming.

Bryan Fuller has talked about wanting to run a Star Trek series for a while.

The way Vince Gilligan put it on the podcast was like this: