@avclub-54d29188fe85ae6a66b5ffaa043f799f:disqus Much be the Jazz then. It's a gateway drug for '20s nostalgia. Jazz and Hemingway.

It's going to be digital at some point in the process, and probably stay digital up to and including projection.

Sure, but that's also about fixing your own past, which kind of limits the choices, but I guess "Cliffordville" plays by that rule too.

@avclub-08ae6a26b7cb089ea588e94aed36bd15:disqus Sure, there's some of that, but a lot of people whose childhoods included the Great Depression did not develop that type of nostalgia for it (my parents are an example). Even the kids knew things were bad and experienced some of the badness themselves. Maybe that helped…

@avclub-eac75edc18b8546c46893fe4b75ab995:disqus I think some of that was coded resentment of the New Deal. There's a reason the "All in the Family" theme song is also about nostalgia for that era.

Janitors can be assholes too. For all we know janitor Feathersmith's hobbies were dog kicking and child molestation.

Ray Bradbury has some of that too, and he was only four years older than Serling. I think it's a generational feeling.

It's especially frustrating because the same sort of change was done very well in "Back There", a 30 minute episode.

When installing your own private wax statue collection, make sure the Good/Evil switch is not set to Evil. So many tragedies could be averted that way.

If the dot com bubble had been caused by a bunch of time traveler investors from say (2075) frantically buying everything Internet related, it might explain a lot. :-)

About the small town nostalgia in the '60s. The US had just completed a rapid phase of urbanization moving from a mostly rural to a 2/3 urban population distribution in the course of a single lifetime. So a large portion of adults had either moved from the countryside or small towns, or had parents who had. With that…

I think people tend to idealize small communities, and I don't know if the show is reflecting that or simply falling into the same trap.

I don't think the town is supposed to be super small. Even before they get help the police department has 10-20 officers, doesn't it?

The creepy, 1890s-understanding-of-genetics-and-purity that is alive and well in dog breeding and leads to so many purebred health and temperament issues is ripe for a send up, so I wanted to like that part of the episode more than I did. It never quite fired on all cylinders for me. Still, it was probably the most…

Review is spot on — Ryan's finances make no sense — I wish the show would just out him as a trustifarian and let the self-knowledge that he's wasting his life be the sole motivation to change. Who kicks out their tenant at the START of their job search?

When we all know Tony Stark is the violent boozehound…

Is it lack of talent, lack of integrity, or lack of taste that leads to things like this?

Clearly, it's the Brain Surgeon who's the new hero of the show, ridding us of PsychoBiebs is the season's hallmark act of virtue.

She managed to contaminate every current lab project with sage soot. That's good work.

A few thoughts about the Sam/Bill protection racket: