There's nothing endearing about Katsuji at all, I agree. I half want to sympathize with him cause he's clearly so angry or insecure and kinda broken, but then he uses his pain to lash out at others and all my sympathy goes out the window. John at least doesn't TRY to hurt other people (although he may have during his…

It's less a mystery and more a sign that her story was fictitious.

True, but the sheriff or whoever also called him Hap. So why hold back? Why couldn't she tell the FBI every little thing she knew in order to save her friends? Tell the FBI what he said his full name was, and that he went by "Hap" regardless of what it stands for. And the kids could have been googling…

That's what she said he would do, yeah, but there's still no reason to keep his identity from the FBI. What if they couldn't get it to work and they were all still trapped? Why not tell the FBI his name and have them break his door down to look for them? Why did she assume they'd successfully open another dimension…

Forgive me if I missed a huge discussion on this, but isn't the biggest sign that her story is BS that Hap told her his full name at their first meeting? If he was real, that's all she would have to give to the FBI. And that's all the kids would have to google.

Yeah, I'm not sure I would have caught if if I hadn't read that article and thought, "Wait, so how are they going to address it in a way you don't expect? What does that meeeeean?!" It was so subtle but I love it when showrunners and writers have that much faith in their viewer's intellect that they don't hammer you…

You never actually see it happen but per this (http://www.vulture.com/2016… interview with Mandel where he says the finale will address who sees Catherine's documentary "but not in the way you think", you can extrapolate that Selina's denial of the hard drive early on in the episode and Gary and Selina both later…

Gary took the hard drive.

Oleg must be really tall, since I can remember Stan towering over Philip in a couple scenes. And maybe they played up Oleg's height as a way to demonstrate the power imbalance in the moment.

That was very difficult to watch. I wanted so badly for Philip to let him go, even though I knew he wouldn't.

A 'bottle episode' is designed to take up as little money as possible. The easiest way to go about this is to use only the regular cast (or even just part of the regular cast) and set it in a single location, especially if you have a main standing set. This keeps production costs down, because no one needs to scout…

You define a bottle episode in terms of a production method, while I define it in terms of story and setting. Neither of us are necessarily wrong..or right.

"I wish the episode had gone into more detail about spices—because my guess is that seasoning is what made Nick win and what sent Shirley and Louis home."

Marry me.

I used to feel this way until I remembered how my partner's peen is the same one he's used on a bunch of different ladies before me. That ain't no detachable penis.

"Troy lines" describes it PERFECTLY. He was such a robot in tonight's episode.

I agree with you about Troy/Britta being lifeless. Which is weird, because I recently watched Season 3 and was surprised how cute I thought the buildup to their relationship was. The execution is a disaster.

I watched it all in one go and thought it was fantastic. I think it benefits from an uninterrupted viewing.

Al and Johnno sounded like mumbling muppets the entire time. I had to put in headphones just to understand 65% of what they were saying.

As to the birth, I think GJ's repeated "the body has incredible knowledge" (paraphrasing) was supposed to assure Tui and the viewer that her body would take over when it mattered. Yeah, some women have hellish births but it is possible for it to be relatively quick and easy. And if it it wasn't quick, we didn't see…