Except for the part where he was convicted in the first place, and had his first appeal denied, and has had fifteen years stolen from him and countless relationships undoubtedly permanently destroyed, and a permanent cloud of doubt will hang over him even if he wins his appeal.

It was there, but it wasn't foregrounded at the start. It was just a dimension of human society, much like it has tended to be in real human societies. It certainly wasn't explicitly correct or directly relevant to the concerns of the characters except insofar as having religious beliefs shaped the characters in…

I don't know that it sounded that much like Al, actually. Plus Carrie has a comment about him being Chinese and Hood tells her nope, but doesn't clarify until the man himself comes on the scene. Definitely Fat Au.

The hitchhiker is clearly a take on the ghost hitchhiker legends, but I can't see any tie with the husband, so either we're missing something or it is weirdly different from the others.

There were no demons in this episode. The slit-mouthed woman (which is a Japanese urban legend I was decidedly surprised to see pop up in this episode, and which is the basis of at least two horror movies), hitchhiker, and husband were all ghosts, not demons. I'm not sure where you got that idea. And they're all…

CHVRCHES has been my second favorite discovery this year, but apparently Purity Ring's album Shrines was released last year and I'm just behind the times on that one. Both absolutely blow my mind in a way music hasn't done in a long time.

The original UK House of Cards series (w/ rest of trilogy) is also still streaming on Netflix (where I originally saw it.).