"The past is unpredictable" is credited to Soviet intellectuals, and when you view the story through the lens of a government whose power stemmed from its control of reality, it's a fitting analogue. And yes, our recent history is fading away even as we watch it on the news.

Who would have thought that a show that was frequently so depressing it made me consider suicide would have a happy ending. Thank God they didn't explain the departure.

I'm surprised no one drew an obvious parallel: there's an expression to the effect that "when you get a pet you buy a tragedy". With the exception of parrots and turtles we all know that the loyal and loving friends we have had a close relationship to will predecease us, perhaps requiring us to choose the time and…

The Day After is on youtube and I've seen it a couple of times recently. I found the most chilling sequence to be that of the missileers preparing to launch, confirming go codes [they are seen for a second in this episode] without panic, or emotion of any kind. Just following orders and destroying the world with air…

My immediate thought when the dead appeared was gee, they look pretty fresh. The baseline the show has established is that the dead are now at least 50% rotted. Then we learn that it's because they needed the three intact heads. They needed to give us some explanation for the fact that all of these walkers were…

This is hardly unique to this show, but is especially true on this episode: when the villain has the knife to someone's throat, and says to good guys to slide their guns over, why do they do that? Was Great-Nurse-on-Nurse-Jackie at less risk with a gun to her head instead of a knife to her throat? Every time I see…

"Look at the flowers, Lizzie". That's the moment Carol turned into a gravestone cold killer who would always kill whoever needed to die. And I love her for it.