Have you read Everyone Hates Ted? It's a New Republic feature solely of quotes from people who dislike him and it's amazing.

Between Heaven and Hell. I haven't read it but suspect it's a better idea than book. :/

Pretty sure they said Norman Ott didn't recognize her. They seem to deliberately leave her background and everything else vague to create a more terrifying villain. As far as I'm concerned, it works.

I'm not sure he knew until she confirmed it. He was observing her pretty sharply and it happened after he saw Morland bribe the bathhouse owner. I thought he was confirming both that Morland had bribed the DA and that Joan had kept it a secret.

He actually wrote a few very nice essays about addiction, e.g. "My life without drugs" or this piece on Philip Seymour Hoffman's death.

Ah! So they did discover the Returned are living across the lake in this episode. I'm going to continue believing they lived in a Hades-like realm that they got to only by crossing the lake. Otherwise, it just seems too strange that the Returned were right there and yet no one ventured over, saw movement, etc.

Somebody has a lot of business to attend to. Who are you? Barbara Corcoran?

You kid, but Ken Burns made a short documentary on Eugene Mirman with Larry Murphy narrating.

I finished watching the series last week and now can't separate the two final episodes. So now I don't know what to say. :/

And just finished watching the series since I couldn't hold off any longer. I liked it and am pretty sure I will love it once I re-watch.

Nothing to add other than great review. I can't believe I missed all the crosses. I've never thought of this as a particularly Christian show, but this season is making it clear Christianity of one kind (Father Jean-François) or another (Milan and Pierre) is important. Not at all sure what to make of it.

He's still doing it, even more explicitly. It is glorious.

There's a nice little book called On the Take: How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health about how even small gifts like pens can make doctors feel obliged to drug companies. I can't imagine politicians are any better. Almost certainly many are far worse.

I barely remember him. What makes you think that? Economy of characters?

Awakening is one theme of this episode, but I wonder if guilt isn't another. When Mme. Costa's husband tried to burn her alive and then killed himself, I think it's likely he did so out of remorse for helping Victor and his family be killed. He was no doubt along because he blamed Victor for his wife's death.

The ending worked for me because I didn't feel it was to shock. It was more a promise of what was to come. Ever since they threw him in the lake I figured that scene was coming. Heck, it's inevitability maybe even added to its power. It could have been a cliche, wasn't to me.

Could be. It's been too long since I've seen it. I was partly going off the suggestion from this episode that the priest in the past wasn't fully honest with Simon and maybe betrayed him somehow.

Supposedly he committed suicide right before he was to marry Adele. I believe the priest witnessed it, but it's not entirely clear it happened as he said it did.

"I hadn't put this together till now, but with the drawings on the wall at his father's place it's clear that he had been living there during that time and had to seek out another guardian when his father went into hospital."

I assume the show was also referring to fascism of one sort or another. Her excuses sounded a lot like those someone who lived fairly well under a fascist regime might say. It might also be referring to how France treats immigrants. I'm thinking particularly of the Paris Massacre of 1961 where Algerians were drowned…