IIRC there was a scene last season with Carrie and Astrid where it was made clear that Astrid was a spy with a diplomatic cover.

Hannibal had a dramatically more graphic version of the Mason Verger self-mutilation than the R-rated Hannibal movie. As Prank Fembleton said, Hannibal always "wins."

To me, it looked like a combination of both: A stuntman doing a body burn combined with some added CGI elements in post.

Does The Chain really count as non-iconic Fleetwood Mac?

He WAS the gay/lawyer brother.

Inoki working out his issues through Nakamura was literally the thing that turned me off to NJPW for years. Didn't help that Pro Wrestling Noah was much, much, MUCH better at the time.

…and the less-chaotic route is the whirlwind marriage to a guy she barely knows.

From the premiere and the taping I went to, you're right.

There's no laugh track as far as I know.

I went to the taping of a later episode (Jack gets June an iPad and it spirals from there) and yeah, it was a mess. The afternoon session ran really late, as did my evening taping, to the point that I had to tap out when the taping I went to wasn't done at almost midnight on a Thursday night. They were handing out…

How is she supposed to know if she can't remember?

The problem is not "black characters die," it's the ostensible quota where a black character dying leads directly to the introduction of a new black character or vice versa.

She didn't even get abortion pills. She got morning after pills, took a ton of them, and tried to will herself into having an abortion even though it doesn't work that way.

Did he know Martin was a cannibal at the time or did he "just" seem like a sociopath?

It would be a lot easier not to see skin color if the introduction of a new black character didn't always signal the impending death of a black character.

More realistic than you think. Modern digital cameras, even cheap ones, take photos that are easily high enough resolution for posters.

That is possibly the best thing I've ever seen written about Mr. Rogers. As in I made a point of saving it in Evernote to be able to read it again when I remember it and shared it on Twitter. Kudos.

Yes, and he wasn't remotely vague about it. He said something about working his way up from the bottom, "and then I'll kiss you on the lips so you can taste yourself."

He hasn't been seen, but he was mentioned in some of the printed out texts from last week.

Life insurance not paying for suicide is a TV myth. It won't pay for suicide for a certain amount of time after you buy the policy for obvious reasons, but it does if you bought it years ago.