There's no good justification for this, I'm pretty sure. My best bet is the showrunners didn't want to clutter things by adding another manifestation of death. They certainly didn't suggest that she actually believed in the Egyptian gods, given her incomprehension of the scales.

In one sense this is shallow, but I loved, loved, loved how they kept up the motif of the flies throughout the episode. There were three key images: flies/bugspray, hot tub, and grave. When Mr. Jaquel was ushering her toward the hot tub it took me several shots to realize it was the hot tub and not a coffin. And the…

She's not apathetic anymore. That's the "old" Laura (though not the book Laura, because the book doesn't have any "old" Laura).

Did you notice when Ibis and Jacquel let her into the mortuary room, not only is Ibis carrying the arm but he's holding hands with it? I love that touch.

I believe you're right.

Betty Gilpin has astonished me with every appearance. I watched the pilot again last night and her big graveyard scene loses absolutely nothing with repetition (this was my third time).

no need to be rude to someone expressing their enthusiasm and fellowship

No, I thought that too, but then I decided that when Jake was in witness protection he was able to translate his separation from Amy into a Die Hard/action movie style narrative that would obviously obsess him, whereas a day to day reality might actually wear him down.

Sense8 is such a roller coaster because there are many things I love about it and so many things that are just…terrible. Language is one area where things are more terrible than not.

I certainly agree, but these changes are always very slow.

Certainly Muslims know about jinn, as they're mentioned in the Qur'an, but I wasn't sure how prominent they were in people's cultural imaginations outside their region of origin, so I figured I'd make a limited statement rather than something broader I couldn't back up. Thanks for adding that!

I figured you might not. They're types of fairies from back when fairies were something people believed in and even feared.

So I've been told!

My constant state is being bummed that most Americans have so little knowledge of or appreciation for folklore except in these sanitized pop culture (or messed-around horror fodder) manifestations—not only jinn but golems, the entire body of Celtic fairy lore…it's all so much cooler and more powerful than most people…

The actual Arabic was great. The Russian and Irish accents, yeah, not so much.

He's just a dude who knows what jinn are, as most any Arab would. It's like meeting John Henry or Johnny Appleseed, sort of, if they were part of a whole species instead of individuals. (A closer approximation for Anglos would probably be some kind of fairy—maybe a puka or a brownie—but fairies have been dumbed down…

They go up around midnight on Sunday (aka late Saturday night) EST.

Congratulations on your sexual preferences being catered to at every turn of your existence until now

1. Not a comic book show.

No, Shadow was buying time and also following through for Wednesday; we saw in the previous episode that he does actually care that Wednesday seems to need the guy.