I didn't say it wasn't believable, just that it was a convenient excuse for casting. I am sure it is not unusal to come across Americans in Baja, but do you know what is far far less unusual? Coming across Mexicans. So far this season most of the new characters with significant speaking roles have been not just…

I noticed the cake too, but not the dirt. I think during the elevator segment I was more distracted by the terrible directing. When the walkers first arrive at the elevator they stop walking and reach out to grab her while she is swinging, as if they knew that by continuing to walk they would fall so they better stop.…

I noticed that too. Had to go back to hear the Curtis-Chris conversation because I was so distracted I wasn't paying attention. That's sloppy editing.

They sure keep finding convenient excuses for having so many American survivors in Mexico. The bros on vacation Chris and Travis meet and the wedding party from hell, just a couple of groups of Americans that mean they don't have to make the new cast members all Mexican, even though that would make more sense.

"I feel in the real world Naz would have just been found guilty…. But Night Of seemed to want to play it safe and give a somewhat happy ending in that Naz goes free."

Ratings update: The show dropped another 5% from the previous week, which had been the previous lowest rated episode of the entire series. The ratings are still in free fall with no bottom in sight.

Only if you buy the "he did it while so high he didn't know what he was doing and then blacked out and didn't remember it" theory. But the theory that Nas did it was always based on the motive being rape. We know he didn't rape her so he had no motive. He actually had less than no motive because he really liked her,…

"Why would you think otherwise?"

"Based on her hesitation" - At best that shows she doubts his guilt, and she has seen three other possible perpetrators on the witness stand in addition to what she knows about the boyfriend. Nothing there says she is sure the boyfriend is guilty any more than any of the others.

… and we don't know if the boyfriend did it or not. All we know is Box thinks he did and Helen thinks there is enough evidence to try him. But they thought that about Nas, too. The step-father, Duane, and even the undertaker were never cleared. Leaving the question of who did it open at the end serves to highlight…

The show very clearly took the "an innocent man's life was sent on a ruinous path" position in the first episode. It never wavered from that position throughout the next seven episodes. It ended with that still being the position. If you thought otherwise, you were just projecting your own false assumptions about what…

"I don't disagree,"

You think she was convinced based on what? Yes, we know Box believes it, but he believed it about Nas before, so he is not barometer. She declined to prosecute again because it was 6-6 and the parade of other possible perpetrators convinced her that reasonable doubt would stick. Remember she wanted Box to reassure her…

You'd suspect wrong. In the UK series there is a definitive conclusion about who did commit the murder. In the HBO series we are left with maybe it was the step-father or maybe Duane or maybe the boyfriend or even maybe the creepy hearse driver.

I disagree. De Niro, yes, but Gandolfini, no. Turturro was much better suited for this role than Gandolfini.

I got the ex-couple vibe when Helen was cross-examining Dr. Katz. I think it might just be something about her style.

In the original British series the Stone character has eczema merely to show how he is a kind of dirty gutter lawyer who represents drug dealers and hookers. In the HBO series they expanded the subplot to mirror Nas' journey throught the system. Just as every cop seems to have a different way of doing things and every…

"Also glad that, Box's doubts finally overtook him and we find out who the real killer was."

I like the idea of releasing the cat. He could even say "Ok. You're free now. Go live your life." or something like that. Of course, I don't know what the life span of a stray cat in New York might be, but if the cat is a metaphor for Nas and the last we see of him is him taking a hit off the pipe it might amount to…

Then you must feel like an idiot for watching the show at all. Poor you.