I'm pretty devastated that this is the second-to-last episode of the second-to-last season. And the last season is shorter! I'll be very upset when this show ends.

Or ever, ha, True!

Yep. Just because he's a quiet, kinda reticent guy doesn't mean there's nothing going on under the surface in his case, exactly the opposite. Still waters run deep with that guy.

True. And maybe Gabriel lost his fluency only speaking English for 20 years? (Doubtful though.)

I actually did! My older brother had a tape about Gretsky and the Oilers, and part of it showed Gretsky's friendship with Tretyak in the 80's when they both still played. I texted him about the Tretyak shoutout tonight.

I've heard a bunch that he wrote the one of the best tell-all memoirs, I really should read that.

And all in Russian. I'm probably in the minority, but the parts when only Russians are speaking are some of my favorites; I love listening to the native-speaking actors. They can dub Allison Wright and Frank Langella.

No way, Paige is the one I've always sympathized with/worried about the most. When she flipped and pushed Matthew tonight after he grabbed her hand, my heart sank. Her parents are going to fuck her up, and flash violence is one of the worst and hardest to erase behaviors she could learn.

Dennis, we've known Aderholt's name is Dennis for awhile, and he is not nondescript and ineffectual, how dare you? Jk, but he really is very sharp, very on the ball, and very good at his job: he actually scares me the most for the agents. He discovered Gaad's pen-bug, he was the first to sniff out Martha being…

Okay, yeah, that was my understanding of the traditional meaning of an indentured servant- we were taught that there were a lot of them in the American colonies, previous to and concurrent with actual slavery (like I think one reason for the proliferation of slavery was because they were loathe to have to ever free…

God, Disqus has really been fucking up on this page for me. Can barely follow the convo. Anyway, the fact that the girls' friendships are probs over is actually freeing for me as an audience member too because now I don't have to pretend to care about this one's problems over this one's, or take one side over the…

That seems suspect, right? Like, everything I know about history screams that that's impossible. Surely the further back in the past you go, the less civilized it becomes, not more? That's what i'm afraid of. Anyway, I have my radar up for something bad to happen to shatter that veneer.

Well, this episode mostly answered a few practical questions i had after watching the first episode and being terrified for prostitutes in the 1700's- how do they protect themselves from ending up pregnant and with deadly diseases back then (the only one I could think of was the biggie, syphilis), or were they not…

By indentured servitude did it mean the equivalent of sex trafficking? I was kind of unclear on that whole thing: The judge says he needs a pure girl, Quigley wonders about what happens to her "after", she's worried about a "hanging offense", the girl is locked up and haggled over/sold off, Quigley mentions Margaret…

Also, as a huge Penny Dreadful fan, I'm really glad to see Danny Sapani in what will hopefully be a good role for him.

I just discovered this show, glad it's only two episodes in. It seems like my type of show- probably in a lot of ways b/c its created by women. I'm glad it's being covered on Tv club too, I really hope you do the whole season and don't drop it part way, which happens a lot. I look forward to it!

Ha, I guess the paralysis didn't even occur to me because my mind had designated that as payback for the first 2 seasons worth of pushing Forrest into nuking his life, but he's done even more awful manipulations this season. I hope Forrest doesn't have to go back and live in his garage after this, although, if…

Maybe he does know that they're horrible, I'm not convinced, but I think he likes the horrible things. Because he's horrible, ya see.

Great, thanks! I hadn't yet looked to see if their was a movie because I thought it would have been more well-know if there was. But I'm glad I didn't know, I like later-day Katherine Hepburn especially, and hopefully maybe, since I hadn't heard of it, it's a smaller, more intimate film. There's something about that…

Yeah, since I wrote that I've come to think I was probably not being fair to Catherine. I haven't seen her in enough to say whether she's a true actress or not, so I shouldn't make a decision unless I do.