Kamala Harris is awful. She'll go far.

I saved my money, which I'm sure will bring great solace to me on my deathbed.

Yep, the piece seems to boil down to a false premise. That many critics speak in an authoritative voice does not mean they are claiming objectivity; it's a basic stylistic device to entertain and convince the reader. I think Rife makes some fine points here, but they're all tangential to the central argument of a…

No sarc: "The Cheebahawk" would be a great SNL character. (Make of that what you will)

The bad guys (at least for Spike) are basically the yakuza, aren't they?

And there's not really a "main storyline," just some episodes more focused on a specific crewmember's story. People who like to start fights on the Internet should be more careful!

"Let's get Ti in here."
"He's not here yet."
"OK, and Sam is sort of the MVP of this episode."

They must still be picking up their buttholes off the floor.

Right, her problem was the same as most others (especially Kevin Sr, hence their fun relationship), that of wanting purpose. She can't help her patients with the Departure, she can't help John, she can't help Nora, she can't help Kevin. The call was a powerful reminder that she still has her kids, and even though she…

I imagine sharing the screen with Justin Theroux puts some pressure on getting that midsection friggin' shredded.

Well, it is a scapegoat. Which is another purposely ambiguous symbol that services both interpretations of the ending.

I was thinking more about basic provisions. With the massively reduced division of labor, what value is there in Mapleton?

I'm currently going with a) they came back because they never left, there was nothing magical, it's exactly as a rational person would expect (Nora got out of the device), and 2) their return makes the nun's "nicer story" pointless, as Nora's "nicer story" is pointless. She just had to go back to Kevin, and he…

SHAME

True for the most part. Civilization as we know it would not exist for long. And why would people in Mapleton continue to live there 7 years later, with most of the town reclaimed by nature? And the scientist would be able to scrounge up the resources to build another machine? C'monnnn.

Sure I can. Dorkwad.

And what the hell, Mad Men was just about a conman making a commercial for Coke? Some bullshit there.

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. Jerkass.

And the people of Gondor thank you for your service.

Because she knows it's a lie, so she assumes other people will sniff that out.