True. I guess father and son alike fear Sarah's disapproval more than they're worried about violating the faith. I agree with posters suggesting she could become the chief antagonist down the line.

It feels like the show is trying to reduce the action scenes so the final two or three are massive action setpieces. Maybe I'm wrong, but that feels like a reason this episode was so contemplative.

Positively vulpine of Fox to guilt us for piracy as a preemptive strike against us whining.

Yep, it is really a golden age of television… to the point everything on the telly is gilded. Just look at the glossy faces of those characters on Chicago Fire. Even the Photoshop couldn't mask their golden sheens.

I was thinking the same thing, though I could see the plane crashing or going through turbulence, the glass jar breaking, and the virus getting out. Then again, I don't think this show is into sensational stuff like that very often, so I'm expecting Martha to make it to Russia. Like Nina, maybe Martha actually has a…

I was thinking of Chekov's Rat breaking in flight and infecting Martha, but maybe they'll infect her intentionally. I'm not seeing the logic in that, though since I thought the rat was doing an adequate job containing the pathogen. Also, infecting Martha means the pilot would also get sick and potentially crash the…

Those are all good points. I just hope Alicia doesn't backslide (or have more fits than starts) as she moves into the next phase of her life. Namely, I don't want this to be a typical anti-hero ending where the more things apparently change, the more they stay the same. That'd be a dull conclusion.

But he threw the bread into the garbage next to the man. That's gotta put Dan at least one notch above the axis of assholes known as Stalin, Mussolini, and James Franco, right? Whoops, I meant to list Hitler second but wrote Mussolini by mistake.

Maybe Jackie is secretly ill?

As the final shot, it'd be fun to see her just catch a flight on her own to an unknown locale. No men, no children, no cameras, and no law books: just Alicia looking to explore the world on her own terms.

Alicia isn't happy right now, though, so anything to get her out of Chicago would be a first step towards reinventing herself and reevaluating how she sees the world.

The guards should be the next ones to go. While they may have hated Doran, they pledged their loyalty to him. With them proving themselves to be disloyal, what good are they to the new regime? I think attacking the Sand Snakes might have been the better play for them.

I think the review is making a mistake suggesting that the cultists necessarily murdered Rebecca. She was not the first victim, if I recall, and it is possible that Proctor or Burton killed her and covered it up using the serial killer as a scapegoat. This might be a leap, but it certainly would help to remove any…

No, letting Martha off the hook would leave Philip exposed long term.

At this point, it's only a matter of time before Philip bites it. He just doesn't seem to realize that this game is all give and no take with the Centre.

He claims it was done for Martha, but really it was about Philip needing a connection. For at least the past 10-12 episodes, he's been adrift more than before and revealing himself to Martha is the same type of move as talking with Stan's wife: he needs someone outside of his world — relatively — to help ground him.

I think we need a Boyd Crowder sermon to grant us a glimmer of hope and a few answers in these dark times. And they are indeed dark. First, there was the Glenn fakeout, then the Negan fakeout, and finally the return of the snore inducing zombie spinoff that we all torrent because… well… because dammit.

Granted, why should they give the audience credit when they're still tuning into this dreck. I guess that includes myself, but whatever.

I agree that France hasn't been as interesting as Scotland, but I think the reason the show withholds Scotland from us is so Claire and Jamie's eventual return is even more epic. I was worried the mystique of the first season would partially disappear as the setting became business as usual. By expanding Outlander's…

Maybe Louis C.K. should have considered, you know, filming the show somewhere less expensive with plenty of tax breaks. This seems like a lesson in creative needing to stick to creative and suits being the most suitable… oh har har… at attending to business, distribution, and buying the cast coffee and cigarettes and…