The flashback to 4 months after the blackout at least acknowledged that it's difficult to live without electricity, something that the show has otherwise forgotten.

@avclub-f3165be83d2dd835403b494eb7185ce2:disqus , it would if you over-extract it, or if you use too little tea.  (I forget the ratio, so I can't help you there.)  You could always taste it after 12 hours if you're worried about waiting the full 24.

I don't even really like Sam Adams.  I just wanted to sound indignant about your choice of beer.

You may pub crawl like a beer snob, but not like a LOCAL beer snob.  Drinking California beer in Cambridge?  Sam Adams is rolling over in his grave!

Earl Grey vodka is the easiest thing in the world to make.  Just put some tea in the vodka and strain it after 24 hours.  Add sugar syrup if you prefer a liqueur.

I'm getting tired of hate-watching.  Revolution isn't fun anymore.  They never did a good job of showing a post-power world, but that's barely even part of the premise now.  It's a show about soldiers with automatic rifles and helicopters, who shoot each other between dramatic monologues.  There's plenty of that on TV…

I had a sour rye ale brewed by White Birch of New Hampshire.  It's literally available only at the beer store near my house, and it was excellent.

I love Sofia canned sparkling wine!

But the same episode had the Plains Nation bazaar, which looked appropriately like a Wild West trading post.  The idyllic small town looked like a generic set, with no concessions to the Revolution world except for turning off the lights.

@avclub-6ee934260c80f2e2f9098dcd3e44c032:disqus, there was a guy in the Plains Nation pedaling a bike to do something.  Probably grinding grain or running some kind of machine like a loom.  Maybe that's where all the bikes went; people would rather use the parts for machines than transportation.

Monroe's unnamed home town sure looked like a nice place.  It was full of healthy-looking people, dressed in clean, modern clothes.  (And one extremely fat guy.)  There were shiny, clean, rust-free cars visible in the background.  Interior sets still had the useless lamps and decorations that nobody has moved or…

I think they referred to "tall ships", implying sails rather than steam.

I know that it's possible to have transatlantic trade without electricity.  But that required a degree of technical and societal sophistication that shouldn't exist 15 years after the power went off.

I'd bet that the nanites do more than just suppress cancer.  They probably have all kinds of curative powers.  Some time in the next few weeks, someone will be injured, and Rachel will surgically implant the device.  The nanites will flow in and save the person's life miraculously.

There is absolutely no reason for Georgia to deal with England, and it's beyond incredible that they would even try.  How many ships do you think there are in the South that can sail across the Atlantic with no technology?  And how many sailors who know how to operate and navigate those ships?

The prize wheel also included a DVD player.  I wanted the Belchers to win it, to hear Jon Benjamin yell "DVD PLAYER!"

I would love to talk about grills, even though I'm late and nobody will read this.

Oh, I must have misheard.  Too bad; if the nanites actually produced electricity, that would close a plot hole.

Didn't they also say that the nanites can be reversed to produce electricity?  So they're actually storing it somehow.  At least that explains why iPods and electrical devices turn on automatically when a pendant is around; they're being powered by the nanites, not by their ancient dead batteries.

Georgia is very advanced.  They've even opened up trade with Europe!  Georgia's large population of master shipbuilders has constructed a fleet of old-timey ships that work without electricity.  And the many skilled sailors have used these ships to cross the Atlantic.  I'm sure it's worth all the effort to get…