Sense8 has a crazy production schedule, and one that started very late after a very late renewal. I won't expect until the second half of 2017 at the earliest.

That didn't seem clearly like the intent when I watched it. The words that man were speaking weren't repeated by her, but were heard over the intercom when she was in the chamber.

Barb did three things: was Nancy's original good conscious, brought Nancy close to Jonathan (and thus the main narrative, via being indirectly responsible for her disappearance), and established the dire stakes for Will.

I wish the flashback scenes with Eleven in the lab would have revealed something more about the experiments. We still don't know what her purpose was there, or what Brenner was trying to accomplish. There's loose talk about Eleven being a weapon but with no real evidence.

In hindsight, it is redundant to have three groups of characters gathering supplies for their respective missions (Nancy & Jonathan, Mike and the gang, and then everybody for El's deprivation chamber). Especially considering how the end result of most of these really did not require the build up that happened on…

Very thinly.

At the very least some of these characters have understandable motives for not communicating with one another. The kids don't trust the adults will believe them, so they're on their own. Sibling rivalry keeps Nancy and her brother from being on the same page. Joyce is seen as a mother in grief who's an emotional mess…

Actually, more than two people have disappeared if you pay attention to things. As a viewer, you are supposed to take the information that it's a cover up, per the state coroner, or the state police, etc all suddenly managing parts of the investigation and/or finding information that creates a narrative.

I can drink to that!

I'll give you that technically she underwent some of those changes, but the performance itself didn't draw many differences between them. We may simply disagree fully on this.

There was only one level of distraught though. It didn't ramp up, she didn't hit a wall of exhaustion, she didn't stop eating or get disheveled, or accelerate into total manic search for her kid, nor were there real attempts to convince her other son about being able to communicate with Will, etc.

Hey guys, I didn't rewatch the scene, but wasn't it actually Steve's friend that did the spray painting slut shaming? Steve was guilty by association, but technically he didn't graffiti anything.

I'm with you on this. Her character was severely underwritten. She essentially had no other gear other than "distraught mother" and the story isolated her from nearly all the other characters. Winona was actually at her best when she was able to interact with the younger son in the limited flashbacks, which allowed…

Lily's random moment of prostitution murder needed more context. She did not display enough recall memory for her to automatically fall back into line of work, let alone for her decision to embrace casual murder.

The lack of noms for the Leftovers is very surprising. That season was full of worthy performances.

Laurie Metcalfe is the biggest surprise here. She did fantastic work on Getting On.

It's a shame that the truly fantastic second season of the Leftovers didn't make anything happen for those actors. At least folks are finally paying attention to the Americans.

Slightly off-topic, but why is the back page of the newspaper she's holding in the story image blurred out? I don't understand why a screen still would need to be censored here.

It's arguably more difficult to write a nonstory of bullshit quotes on diet, fashion, lifestyle, etc than going for the extremely narrative you just put together. Are writers that pressed for time and clickbait that they don't even want to be happy with their product anymore?

Look, I barely know this actor's history, but even I can glean a good angle for a story with a cursory glance at her IMDB credits. I don't care about the hollywood cycle of blonde actors churning through the system. I don't get why any writer would aim for the most vapid and barely held together article when something…