Having suffered through reading this dreck quite some time ago, I'm shocked to find myself enjoying this show. It's very well acted and nicely paced… far better than an Atwood novel deserves, to be sure.

I'm at a loss to understand the general 'disappointment' this season is eliciting.

I'm not mad, per se… but do keep in mind that some of us do not watch the previews, so a 'spoiler alert' would be super neighborly thereabouts in the future, don'tcha know.

If Nixon broke the people's trust in the Presidency, then Warren Harding must be thinking "What the hell did I have to do?". Or Grant… or Jackson…

Whenever I see Pastor Tim, I'm reminded of Christopher Hitchens saying that 'Pastor' is a title to be lived down, not up to.

True enough. I was more thinking about his accomplishments (EPA, China/Russia, Title IX, ending the draft, etc.). I mean, compare that to Jimmy Carter (a man who was certainly more affable and pleasant), and there's really no comparison.

What bothered me about this episode is how trivially it portrays electromagnetic hypersensitivity. I'm not saying there's nobody feigning its symptoms, however a great many people, such as myself, do indeed suffer from it. Unless you have this disease, it's impossible to understand the pain and anguish it causes…

Since she was reintroduced, I've done a reappraisal concerning the receptionist. I now believe it to be entirely possible that she doesn't turn into a nasty, bitter woman, but instead, is still a nice person. A nice person who just hates Walter and Jesse. Which is entirely reasonable, if you think about it.

You seriously wouldn't kill a child to save tens of millions of children? I find that frighteningly immoral. Now I'm not calling you Leopold II here… but damned if I could tell you apart by your actions. (Note: I would wager anything that the childhood indoctrination & inculcation you suffered is paramount to…

I wonder if the ever-present overarching praise given to fantastic female and minority artists… is just a tad bit patronizing, given that it's no longer done for similarly fantastic, straight white males. As if overstating the former, and/or understating the latter, will actually do anything to diminish prejudices in…

And hugely disapointing for folks who checked out of Lost somewhere in the 2nd season… after deciding that the huge-cliffhanger-followed-by-nothing-actually-happened routine had grown tired after its 20th iteration.

It's not entirely wrong… but there's also nothing wrong with that.

NOOOOOOOO!!! This is one of those occasions where a reviewer was just the wrong person to review a show.

Well said. After I watched this episode, I thought, "Wow, I guess I'll find out if the A.V. Club gives out A+'s.

I'm curious to hear others' impressions of the significance behind the cancer/kid question. I wouldn't call it a theory, but when I heard it, I found myself thinking that barring psychopaths, everybody would kill the kid. Then I thought about some Christians I know, and corrected myself. They would adhere to 'Thou…

It's in interesting theory, but I'm pretty sure it's incorrect. The question was "do you nod", and I fail to see how her method of answering would tell them anything about her.

I had to look that up.

When you believe in a God, it's pretty easy to imagine that God is behind the things you want to believe.

Don't feel bad about the 'they all look the same' thing. Multiple studies on our ape and monkey cousins have found that they too identify individuals in their own sub-groups with significantly more specificity than others.

Is it actually good? I find that difficult to believe, but I'm open-minded.