Did you notice he explained he had been an alcoholic then? Your Hitler comparison is really silly; this character is sheltering people from danger on his property, not attempting a violent revolution (which is how Hitler became prominent in Germany).

An interesting read no matter what the interpretation—thanks for letting me know about it

I see what you mean. It didn't seem like they killed a number of people anything like what Nick was traveling with while he was there, and also did not seem as if he knew anyone else in the holding area waiting to be killed. I may have missed something since the episode moved fast, or maybe he just decided to focus on…

You conclude from explicit signifiers of sleep in other episodes that a scene without any such signifiers in a different episode is in fact about sleep? Unconvincing.

Little note: Jimmy's car is not a Subaru. It is a Suzuki Esteem.

I wonder why people didn't assume she just drove off the road because she was thinking too hard about other matters. She was not shown to be sleepy, but her mind was shown to be elsewhere.

I think the guy has set up checkpoints in the surrounding roads; I doubt the armed men we saw were all of his forces.

I gather it's less because Troy "hurt their feelings" and more because Troy is still there and has displayed a willingness to kill them both.

How is the guy a freak show? What has he said that was so unreasonable? If he's so terrible, why is his ranch sheltering so many people?

The cat got quiet and listened to Ray Wise at the right moments! Was that some kind of effect or was it just a VERY GOOD ACTOR OF A BABY KITTY :D

This is an important point. But the other issue is, the show wants us to think he's an overwhelmingly attractive lothario for whom Claire actually considers taking her eye off the ball. When was that earned?? I am imagining someone in the writer's room saying "WOMEN WANT HIM AND MEN WANT TO *BE* HIM!" and another…

"That said, the sight of a white woman lecturing a black one about anything is always going to feel gross."

Perhaps they read the passage in the book wherein June explicitly denies that sex with the Commander is rape: "Nor does rape cover it: nothing is going on here that I haven't signed up for. There wasn't a lot of choice but there was some, and this is what I chose."

Here's why an episode like this worked, as opposed to some of the earlier episodes of the season. Season 2 got really weird. It started with some weirdness, and got weirder, but the undertones were even more serious than Season 1. After you take the series to that place, you don't expect things to be quite as…I don't…

It was indeed easy to miss. The viewer is probably meant to think he is reacting to the neck wound, but then the camera (briefly) pans down to reveal the mortal wound, and Alicia experiences the realization.

No, it is true. You can check out the publicity materials for the third season to see for yourself.

I have no idea why they wanted to do a show about a blended family, and then removed one half of the blend in short order at the end of the second season/start of the third. Maybe the Chris actor left to do other things and then they felt the Travis character didn't have enough left to do on the series to be worth…

She looks great for her age.

What was said is consistent with their behavior as shown, but it sounds a bit silly when one spells out the arbitrary conceit that makes all modern "masterless" zombie fiction work (although the zombies *were* shown eating their own fallen in the original Night of the Living Dead film).

Yes. It has to do with traffic on the reviews rather than how good they think the series is. 12 Monkeys is a great example of a series that has gotten stronger since episodic reviews were discontinued.