I was 11 when that first season was airing, and I obsessively watched every episode and freaked out at every plot twist very dramatically. When they revealed Nina at the end of that penultimate episode I was jumping around the room yelling like crazy and I freaked out my mom. Ah, memories.

It still amazes me how the show SET OFF A NUCLEAR BOMB THAT KILLED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE in the fourth episode, and then it just kind of faded out of everyone's minds a few hours later. Todd VanDerWerff wrote a really good piece for his personal blog over the summer about how that was the beginning of the…

I'm also bummed by the lack of shout-out to Shohreh Aghdashloo, who IMO gave, pound for pound, one of the best performances in the show's history. She has that absolutely ruthless moment with her son's girlfriend, but the way her loyalty begins to shake as her son gets threatened by their operation, was just endlessly…

I remember watching that when it first aired and I was 12, and I did not understand the implications of that until I rewatched the episode with my sister, and my dad was in the same room and he went "oh shit!"

Oh man, I forgot about Weller's villain. He was so excellent - I mean in his first episode Jack tries to get an answer out of him by SHOOTING WELLER'S WIFE, and then Weller's character straight-up tells said wife "sorry, I can't help you." Fucking cold af.

The funny thing about Chloe is that I remember during the first few episodes of the season fans on the show's main message boards haaaaated her, because she seemed like such an annoying hot mess that was unlike pretty much any character the show had done before. Eventually people came around to her though, and she…

Isn't that her introductory scene? Where she does that to her hair, then when she finds out about Palmer's death she takes off to crash her husband's press conference looking like a hot mess? Because that was an AMAZING introductory scene. Just thinking about that makes me want to rewatch that season.

Tony showing up to save Jack and Chloe is also probably one of the best episode-enders in the show's history (up until that point in the season he was only the third character from previous seasons to show up), and the second most badass moment of the whole season (#1 is another moment the article forgot to mention:…

I think it's once the virus is released that that season kicks into high gear (end of episode 15). That last third of the season might be the best long stretch of the series's history (that episode where Jack has to execute Ryan, god).

I've always loved the empathy of this show, but this episode really, really highlights it. Daniel is the only character that has appeared in any episodes before, yet everyone feels like a whole, complete human being, even if they only have a few scenes to work with (the other guys at the halfway home, the artists), or…

I dunno, while most of the episodes probably could've used tightening ("Man Again Fire" especially), I didn't feel the bloat here nearly as much as I did when Arrested Development or even Community made their leaps to streaming. I think that's because each of these episodes take place within their own worlds, so the…

"Hated in the Nation" unseen, this was the only episode this season where I really felt the Netflix bloat, I think. I was amazed when I saw that I was halfway through the episode and barely anything had happened. Trim down that first half and I think you get a much tighter episode overall. That said, the twist and the…

I almost wonder if Booker is gonna deliberate avoid Pokemon Go because it's such a ripe target. There was a parody video over the summer already that combined the two, and Booker mentioned in a recent interview how people have come up to him saying "Pokemon Go is a very Black Mirror kind of thing, right?" I'm sure he…

Yeah, I agree on The National Anthem. It still stands as one of my favorite episodes of the show ("Hated in the Nation" unseen, it's in my personal Top 3), and a good ease-your-way-into-this-fucked-up-world episode - it and "Shut Up and Dance" have the least amount of sci-fi technology in them, but the commentary on…

Yeah, pretty much. The dancing in the moment resonated with me just because I'm the kind of person that is not good at dancing and might similarly get flustered if I was trying to impress someone, so when that added significance hit me later it caught me off guard.

When they cut to the directing credits with Yorkie driving off my split second reaction was like "they are NOT ending there are they?!??" but then they cut to Kelly starting the pass-over and I realized that they were doing a "White Bear" thing. Then the feelings started.

I realized the dance floor thing a lot later in the episode in the middle of the fight, just as my crying was calming down, and realizing that just started me up all over again. This episode, man.

I am not a cryer at movies or TV. I usually just well up a bit, and if something catches me off-guard and causes an overwhelming of feelings I'll cry for a little bit and then it passes (most recent example - Two Days, One Night, when Cotillard talks to the soccer dad). This episode, however, had me welling up on and…

That's a really good comparison. I agree that the lighting/general look of this episode was on point - you can see that Netflix budget working its magic, not to mention the inherent talents of McGarvey (so cool that Wright was able to get him to shoot this!).

And unlike Star Trek Into Darkness, her T&A actually served a thematic purpose!