Yeah, I passed tenth-grade American history too, thanks. But given that it's a fictionalized movie, and given that I've yet to see an article on this site without a typo or two, it wasn't an unreasonable question.

My favorite tiny detail was Eleanor's punch card from the creepy groper-dude's coffee place: it looked like a woman's bikini-clad/large-boobed body. I laughed like Phyllis Diller at that one.

whose best friend is a Chinese railroad worker
Uhh, was he? Byung-hun Lee is South Korean (and the character wasn't defined beyond "his kind").

…You seem more like a "licky-boom-boom down" type of informer than a regular one. Which is to say, not a good one.

Well, Nigel-Murray's gone to a better place: the new Kevin James sitcom.

My favorite "good" thing was something like 'wrote a Facebook post about the death of David Bowie, then choose not to post it because no one really needs my thoughts on David Bowie.' I'll definitely stick with this one for a while.

This is the one I was thinking of, yes. I agree that it's annoying when one has to do lots of extra 'homework' to understand a show (beyond, like, just watching the show itself), but with such a deeply enigmatic character as Whiterose I just assumed most people (especially reviewers, gotta say) would look that stuff…

BD confirmed that Whiterose identifies as female but 'masquerades' as male when it suits her purposes after the character's very first appearance in season one. Not sure why multiple reviewers seem to be unclear on this.

Holy shit, I didn't notice that. "My favorite part was when Superman flew all the Jews out of Egypt!"

He's still gorg to me, but it's a startling effect. It makes Naz look kind of feral and yet somehow (more) vulnerable.

Ha, it was! It would've been even better if he'd jumped up and said "I can't watch no more Toddlers and Tiaras! I won't support the sexuation of baby girls!"

Well, of course that by itself isn't a big deal, it's the fact that it's the first significant thing that he's lied "to us" about. Up til know we've thought that we know everything that he knows (plus a bunch of other clues, though nothing definitive so far) and we've thought that we were 100% aligned with him from a…

Oh god, the TV thing. I was sitting here going "oh, don't. HONEY, DON'T" out loud. (My roommate's out of town, it's fine.) And it makes a horrible kind of sense; he's always been shy and felt shoved aside by the alpha dudes ("I'm kinda on the team…I'm on the coaching side of the team"). Now finally he has a form of…

Oh hey, Ben Siemon! Gillies, what do you think about hot oiled dudes?

I refuse to believe so. I think we're getting a few unpleasant shocks just to deconstruct this image of him as a totally saintly victim — everyone has their demons and all — but I still don't think he did it.

A+ pre-suckiness Dexter ref.

This was somehow both the most unbearably tense episode yet — just those tight tracking shots of Stone walking through the bodega made my stomach twist up — and also the funniest. I mean, it's an easy joke, but I was laughing out loud at his Viagra wackiness and all the awkwardness with the cat and no one wanting to…

I said "HEY!" out loud when the shelter guy called the cat "ugly" — it's just a normal-looking cat! I'm not here for these feline beauty-shaming tactics!

It was quite a relief to be able to laugh at that line, I must say.

I totally thought the cat was going to be a clue in some way — relating to his asthma or DNA in some way — and then it was just the cruelest possible red herring [probably]. Yikes.