"Tonight’s episode doesn’t make clear how much time has passed since last week"

A quick google shows it is real (and clearly predates the episode, so its not a case of reverse engineering). I would think the most common use of it would be in describing someone else.

When I saw the hand washing scene my first thought was Lady Macbeth. She can wash as hard as she want but she will never be clean.

Just because we don't find out for certain what really happened in the season one crime does not mean it is an incomplete ending. After all, the story isn't a "whodunit?" By the end of the season it seems quite clear that the point of the story (or one of them, at least) is that regardless of who did the killing, how,…

"now that she knows the truth that he’s gay"
You are assuming way too much. Taylor has been dating a girl and when she says that he is gay he says he is not. He also says he is trying to figure out how he feels about her. It's unfortunate that the possibility that he is bisexual is so easily dismissed without any…