Before the book starts, the backstory is that Jack has broken his son's arm, lost his teaching job because he hit a student, and while drunk, run over a bicycle and couldn't find the bicyclist.

Yes, that's a really good point.

I think in the book, Jack revels in the hotel's sordid history and can't get enough of reading about it. He doesn't struggle against the hotel because he doesn't realize the hotel is anything but a building at first. He dives into the legends and history full bore, and then when he catches onto the supernatural nature…

Green Mile goes on forever though. Just sooooo long.

In the book, Jack even thinks about how his father was right to beat up his mother, and the book he's writing is about how he was right to hit the student he was teaching. He's really not likable on any level. I get that we see his mind deteriorate—it's possible he didn't start out on chapter 1 thinking his Mom…

Yes, exactly! Z Nation does a better job with the groups they run into!

They just said "some part" of Glenn will survive so I'm thinking flashback when Maggie has his son.

You're either a Daryl person or a Glenn person. My daughter and I both almost screamed "Why couldn't it have been Daryl?"

Ha, I was complaining to my family that they were going to start this huge fire and burn down Alexandria's surrounding area, no fire department, don't they realize what setting off a feed factory would be like? And at the end of the episode, I had to admit that my fears were unfounded because no fireworks factory.

As a Buffalo "fan," I can't upvote this enough. We know how to lose right, dammit, and this isn't it!

My favorite part of the episode was him trying to talk Tara into taking the church over and turning into a machine shop.

I have to disagree. People like Aaron and Heath have been scouting and purposely making a point of shadowing groups and checking them out to make sure they're not bad people. Why would Aaron take the time out that he did to watch Rick's group if they thought it was all sunshine and roses?

Enid, Ron, Carl, Sam … it's a nursing home bridge game!

Seriously, Aaron goes on raids and follows groups around to see if they're evil or not. And Spencer's brother used to let people get killed. And yet Spencer is still like "But … but … the world is like that?" There's a difference between naive and functionally brain dead.

I agree with pretty much everything you said except the Wolves could hear the guns going off. Morgan wasn't telling them anything they didn't already know.

I totally agree. Last season Sam told Carol his father beats up his mother but the bruises never show. Now we've escalated to he permanently maimed his teenage boy. Next week I expect to hear that Pete ate the family cat.

I thought he was leaving Alexandria, too, but maybe to report back to Rick. But maybe not. I actually disliked this episode but I'm curious to see what Morgan does next.

I believe she apologized to Tyrese right after the "look at the flowers" scene. I can't remember if it was a real apology though or actually a confession.

Hot Fuzz is great. It's on Netflix, too.

I didn't care for The Haunting of Hill House, but if you can handle the slow pacing, it has its moments. For my new scary author, I just discovered F. Paul Wilson. Sims was very good.