Or the insurance company repossessed his parents'/sister's house, or wouldn't pay  his father's/mother's medical bills, leading to his/her death, or something like that. Personal, not business.

I didn't actually understand Charlie's reaction. What was it? He seemed to be overwhelmed, but I couldn't tell if this was something they were in fact going to follow up, or something he fears is yet another wormhole like the sarin thing, that they'd better keep away from for now.

It wasn't Will today. It was Charlie.

Yes, that's right. The independence of South Sudan, well before Darfur. Nevertheless, Todd's point is "why not just say so?" In addition to the fact that we may get a different result (e.g. Nyborg negotiates a settlement such that Darfur never happens years later) would be the fact that this puts the historical moment…

Kharun is barely fictional. It's clearly Sudan. Even its name is a riff on the capital of (now North) Sudan - Khartoum.

But not in its closed captions where it is always written "SH__". However, on another show in the past few days - Breaking Bad, I think - it was written out in the captions.

It is, though. For the most part, only the most brilliant lawyers become barristers, and they can do this. They will often meet the client and solicitor after the solicitor has prepared case, in advance of the court date. Though sometimes circumstances (the barrister's cases in other courts lasting longer than…

Mr. Gerbik, without further explanations I think a few Americans might be a bit confused about your references to "Federal" and "State" courts as a venue for barristers, since this discussion is taking place in a British context and you haven't said anything to the contrary. I'm willing to bet that a number of people…

The people who hired Matt Weiner and Vince Gilligan (Mad Men and Breaking Bad showrunners) at AMC are long gone. They were all forced out a few years ago. Rubicon was the last thing they greenlighted - someone else canceled it.

I wondered too. I watched it again, bit couldn't make out what the thing is, and certainly not if or why it matters. Paper note (cub)? Maybe, but not too helpful if so.

Closed Captions spelled it "Motherflecker". Yup. Many times over.

Where does Gedman's preference come in? Did I miss him being asked to choose?

This is the silliest program. Its whole premise of a bunch of youngster federal agents yukking it up is so absurd. I do watch quite a few USA shows, so I have reasonable tolerance for unreality if it's clever or smart (Suits, White Collar, even Covert Affairs, barely), but this is just plain silly. (Yeah, I never…

Yes, it's just as 1derer says.

The doctors saw something amazing in Kira's X-rays, but we don't know what it was. Just the lack of serious damage after her serious accident, or something else?

Montreal, yes, and I haven't actually lived there in a very long time. But I frequently travel back there, and to Toronto, Ottawa, Halifax and Vancouver. One of those is not eastern Canada. No one ever takes their shoes off except boots in winter.

I'm trying to work out what Sarah's backstory can be. Unless Mrs. S. is her monitor, which seems extremely unlikely not least because they became estranged for so long so she couldn't monitor anything, it really looks like Sarah's story is different from the (other) clones. As someone pointed out above, all the others…

Well, I'm Canadian too (though living now in the US), and taking off your shoes indoors is not something Canadian, except of course in winter when you have to take off your outer boots. But if they're the type of boots that go over shoes (mostly men), you leave the shoes themselves on.

I just saw a commercial (during Orphan Black) advertising Broadchurch beginning August 7 on BBC America.

There are quite a lot of candidates waiting in line, though. Now we know there's a reigning king ("Which king?" "Your father"), then Eric, maybe some other legitimate siblings we don't know about, any children of theirs, undoubtedly numerous cousins (siblings of the king/father, and their offspring too, and any…