First time I've seen mention of The Essex Green in a very long time.

Poe's law strikes again. I saw a troll on FB post almost that exact same thing yesterday except he was being serious.

Of course Rachel survives, killing off a well developed villain is something that most writers never do if they can help it. Besides if she ever gets arrested the reading of charges at the arraignment and the reactions around the courtroom would be something. It would be comedy on par with the misadventures of Vic the…

Then they're in for a bit of a surprise.

Helena, I've noticed tends to talk in riddles. Lies mixed with little bits of truth that sound like nonsense. All mixed with a childlike persona, aided by apparent lack of command of English. I suspect that if she where speaking Ukrainian she would come across exactly the same. The thing is that it's all a put on that…

Helena got shot and nearly died for that action. A sequence of events that eventually landed her in that cult compound. So I'd hardly say it was without consequence.

If for no other reason than the girl who plays Kira is going to age out of the character. So far the events of the show seems to have taken place over a period of a few months. Sooner or later a time jump is going to need to happen. That could be what they mean by a soft reboot.

I agree with you on everything but the science lesson being lame. That set up the scene with the improvised air rifle. They had to get the message to Sarah while making it seem totally innocent.

She's on an airplane with lots of automatic weapons on board and we've seen how fast she she can get out of handcuffs. It will be perfect for her because they will be under orders not to harm her and nowhere to run.

What happened to Rachel was caused by her making it personal. Needling Sarah when talking the Kira knowing full well that she in the next room. Then going into the operating room and smashing those vials. The #2 in the eye was a bit of well deserved karma.

I'd say what happened in episode 9 counts as a divorce.

Helena in Alison's perfectly maintained house, watching the kids, introducing them to such Eastern European favorites as sardines in mustard sauce or pizza with pickled eggs and cabbage, while systematically wrecking the place. This is high on my wishlist for the next season.

Keep in mind is that the 0.58 million number is just within the US and BBC America hasn't been around as long or is in as many cable packages as MTV. What impact the international aspect of this show has plus the increasingly important number of people who DVR everything is not clear?

The ultimate neat freak meets chaos incarnate. Anyone care to guess the odds on that fight once the fists start flying?

Not really, it seems more like her actions were nothing less that a declaration of war. I fully expect the next episode to have an exchange where words to the effect of "I should have allowed the trigger to be pulled on you when I had the chance" to happen.

Think about the character of Alison, in real life such a person would be a colossal pain in the ass. A persnickety type A personality with major anger issues plus alcohol and drug problems. And it's a surprise that she'd be married to a walking doormat with the brains of celery? Just saying.

She had thought herself separate and special within the program. Now not only is it revealed that she's just the same as the other clones but she's actually the control subject, kept from outside influences that might effect the ultimate outcome of the experiment. That does sort of cast her cold detached controlling…

I believe that the deal that got cut with the Israeli government with the scientist mid season corresponded with similar events. The scenes in the Contra training camp was based on the School of the Americas, very real in this time period. As was the mining of harbors in Central America. We all know that this leads…

It's going to be interesting how they bring all the threads together in the last episode.

A lot of people who saw that episode wanted to shoot out the screen. The whole "Just say NO" thing still has the power to induce either annoyance or snickering amongst people of the age group it was supposedly aimed at.