So, I feel like I'm missing something with Don's interaction with the madam.  He didn't actually grow up in a whorehouse, right, because he was given to his stepmother at birth?  Was he talking about hanging around one while his father was inside?  Also, what about him saying that and then being cute about her TV…

Where did you hear that the robot was told to take out the bolts and killed everyone because he was told to?  I thought the whole point of the story was the only choice he had was to follow orders or not.  Then exercised his free will in the one minute way he was capable of, which then lead to him causing everyone to…

@avclub-e249208a15291189fcbf4434d0bd3cdd:disqus I also thought there was a reasonable basis for a motivation, that a girl who was beginning puberty and getting taller and changing also saw her mother get suddenly much larger at the same time.  But, yeah, she does eat when Don is around, so maybe they're using it to…

@avclub-b3d6e130a30b176f2ca5af7d1e73953f:disqus I feel like the writers are intentionally putting in these multiple instances of the same idea either way, whether it's foreshadowing someone actually dying or a fakeout.  It could also be to metaphorically build up the anxiety of some big thing about to collapse, like…

@avclub-a81cad6cb8e49065dd6a3d16c3740f80:disqus Yours is a bit more concise, though.  Not exactly a strong skill of mine…

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Strangely enough, to me Ginsberg came off as a bit of psychopath for seeming to show such genuine disgust at the real horror in the crime scene photos and to the titillated reaction of those around him, but then turning around and using all of that stuff in the sexy panty hose commercial.  Maybe he's just good enough…

Stuff I have to say about everything to everybody:
Don's dream: Visually, he acted out what a majority of the other characters had been describing, the brutal and sexualized murder of at least one woman (or eight) by a man.  Superficially, it was clever (for the viewers) to reuse the horror tension element of someone…

I'm almost certain that some of the lines from the ex-girlfriend were actually spoken in Megan's voice.  Some were definitely said when the camera was not on the actress, but instead on Don, so a viewer wouldn't be able to see if her lips were out of sync.  At the very least, the lines I'm thinking of were things like…

With a stable job and bosses who respect her skill at said job enough to keep her job available to her after her pregnancy.  Who has been supporting herself independently with stable work for a decade.  Who continued working even after getting married because her husband was unable to advance at his job due to his…

Things actually revealed in the teaser: 
Joan is back in the office. 
It'll be a Lane-heavy episode.
Pete was lying in bed next to his wife weeping.

I had no idea this was a thing already, but Roger and Ginsburg at the window this week really locked this in for me.  Last week I was genuinely nervous when Megan was standing alone on their crazy penthouse balcony.  So, to be contrarian, my guesses are Megan or Ginsburg.  Or maybe Harry, since someone said on an old…

My not-ok-with-turning-even-more-40-something drama teacher was born in 1960 and explained to us all that he was the original Gen X.  Being a teen of the 1970s, the "X" mainly signifying that they weren't Baby Boomers and maybe a little to do with the bleak feeling of the late 70s.  His main point was that it was…

Regarding the tea leaves psychic and Todd's disbelief, I just assumed that was something that really happened at New York hotels in the 60s.  It seemed like a genuine memory from one of the writers.  Otherwise, why would they bother?

I thought she might be lying because of the whole set-up that Henry was right there, even home from the office specially for her, but couldn't hear anything. But the rest of the scene didn't really feel that way.  I liked the fakeout (or foreshadowing) of the standard 60s story about amphetamines.  However, I was…

I also thought the ghost baby looked way bigger than when it was born, but there's always the problem of babies on tv being too big/old.  It was definitely still smaller than Tate's child, but they already said he was the dominant twin, so that doesn't really answer anything.  For me, the only surprising thing the…

If anyone wants to know some more about Violet's musical taste, a few episodes back I looked up the lyrics of what she was playing and it was "Hate My Way" by Throwing Muses.

Because she's there to *teach* you about how men view women!  Never mind that she then has her own ghost rules that apply to no one else.  Also, I thought from the beginning that the older form was what she would look like had she not died, if she was late 20s in 1983 then she'd be mid to late 50s now.  I also thought…

Also I went and refreshed myself on "Croatoan" since I knew it's at least commonly believed to be an actual part of the Roanoke story.  It's the name of a Native American tribe and also the name used for an island.

Probably already been covered, but I'm just going to get my thoughts out before checking the rest of thread.  Thoughts I had about the psychic: