Some cough syrups contain a compound called dextromethorphan (DXM). It is a dissociative hallucinogen related to ketamine and phencyclidine (PCP). They're all psychologically addictive and adversely affect memory. I'm guessing the story line is that Hunter Parrish's character is addicted to DXM and committed the…

I was thinking about what she did to Gemma. It affects a lot of people (Gemma, Jax, Wendy, the kids, Wayne, Nero, the lawyer). It may be justified, and it may be the right course of action for her kids, but she can still feel guilt about what she is doing to achieve her ends. I'm sure it's going to have many…

The best episode of the season (so far) didn't have Clay in it. Who'da thunk?

She certainly has a lot of self-confidence, but I'm not sure she's displaying much self-awareness in this situation. Whether her actions are justified or not, she's going to have a lot of guilt to deal with. And I'm not sure she's going to deal with it well.

Yes, good points. Though I would disagree on one: Jax is trying pretty hard now to try to make things safer. The club was bombed because he was trying to get out of guns. Unfortunately, he doesn't have very much control over his current circumstances.

Yes, I agree with you that she has many reasons to protect her kids. All I'm saying is that she seems to think the problem is wholly other people, when she herself is a big part of the problem. Jax didn't start killing people after she arrived.

The problem with Tara is that she thinks she has no culpability in her son being in a dangerous situation. That by cutting off Jax and family, her problems will go away. She chose to live in this situation, and continued to live in it with a young child for quite some time before deciding for the better. She won't…

It was a 36-hour game of pinochle, according to the Pietrusza biography. He was $300,000 in the hole.

Not to mention that it was a dog that arrested his suicide attempt. I think he can kill anything, if he thinks it is bad and deserves to die. The dog may be suffering, but it isn't bad, and so doesn't deserve to die, in his mind. He's an obliging moral debt collector.

Scrawled in red crayon across ballot slip: ‘THEY ALL DIE’

Maybe something like this [Rabbits - David Lynch]:

I wasn't suggesting she doesn't understand that she is adopted, only that she wouldn't associate the word "home" (a word with emotional qualities, associated with comfort and family) with anywhere but Cameron and Mitchell's house. But I could be wrong/too pedantic.

A hypothetical focus group participant. No source.

‘It's OK that they're gay, as long as they do it behind closed doors.’

Sure, it's a joke, but it isn't faithful enough to the character to be funny (for me). It's coming from a legitimate tension, one the series has tried to address as you say, but it isn't a tension for the kid (not yet, at least). Maybe that's part of the joke (she's stating her parent's anxieties in a very…

The joke was cheap and misplaced. It wasn't faithful to the character: Lily was adopted as a baby, and would have little/no conception of Vietnam, and would certainly not think of it as "home". It's also discounting adoption, and perhaps a little racialist, in the implication that an ethnically Vietnamese child cannot…

The writer-director of this episode, Peter Gould, directed the TV movie Too Big to Fail which was based on Andrew Ross Sorkin's book of the same name.