"The biggest problem with the way the show does these themes is it invariably seems that they cast the season, then decide what theme to apply."

The milk thing was because he doesn't have electricity. Milk probably doesn't last too long in that cooler that passes for a fridge.

For me, the hard ones are the people who die too soon, with decades of potential never to materialize. Phillip Seymour Hoffman is a hard one; I constantly wonder what Jim Henson would have done had he lived. If the creator lives a long, productive life, I'll mourn them, but their deaths won't traumatize me. I…