That same line of thinking grew in my own head as I watched. The topper, though, was in the episode's final moments, when the quasi-conspirators vow to dig into his presumably shifty past, setting us up for water-torturous slow reveals about his history.

What do these guys have against Android?
I'm tempted to get a used iPad just to check these out.

PBS is the only thing I legitimately miss since unplugging. Their Roku channel is kind of a mess; I really hope they develop a better model for streaming delivery. (Or maybe they have, and I've just missed it.)

I saw a History Channel doc on the Oosterscheldekering and Maeslantkering. Very impressive, but they also claimed aliens were responsible.

"…documentaries, which generally don’t feature what we think of as “acting.”

I'm thinking Jeremy Renner in Fargo season 3.

I used to live in an old apartment building on the north side of Chicago…a place called The Sovereign. One the way to the elevator you passed the entry to what looked like an old-style ballroom…or something…with red curtains and sconces. Needless to say, I never went in….

If you've got Prime, you're happy to get anything new.

Gilligan's Island needs to be here. The S.S. Minnow was named after Newton Minow, who likened the state of broadcast television to a "vast wasteland"…and this in a speech presented at a convention of the National Association of Broadcasters. So it was a very inside, knowing joke…a preemptive thumb to the eye from…

True. From this point forward, I'll do my best to view pop-culture artifacts through a pair of Cheetos-dusted theory glasses.

You needn't drag Trump into the discussion to prove the relevance of that scene. Scenes like that will probably always be relevant; anyone thinking otherwise is being naive…something to which the author admits.

With these last two episodes, I feel like the show is slipping away from what had been a disciplined (if somewhat languorous) narrative, and heading more towards inconsequential back-and-forth between story lines. And while it seems a little simplistic to pin this change on Spotnitz's departure, the timing of his exit…

Pitchfork? Why are they reporting this? (Or is Thom Yorke heavily into Vine?)

I can't help but wonder why Peterson's attorney, during the initial trial, never questioned Deaver's credibility or his claims regarding, for example, the number of accident scenes Deaver had actually visited. Some of what's revealed during this new hearing seemed like it would have been fairly easy to check at the…

I appreciate the intelligence of this show, and how characters are allowed to think. When Smith kills the doc, his wife immediately figures it out. When she questions him, Smith warns her not to pursue but, when she steamrolls over that, he immediately confides in her. Any one of those moments could have been drawn…

The 'paid interviews' thing is really muddy territory. As best as I can tell, A&E has different standards for documentaries than it does for docuseries…though the distinction between the two seems dubious at best.

Have they considered using SPOILER tags?

OK, I'm literally three minutes in, and the smug cheesiness of the production is unbearable. Does it get better?

I passed on the chance to see Lou Reed play the Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh. I later found out that only about 50 people showed up, and he called everyone around the stage and made it an informal song-and-chat kind of thing.

Have you tried Plague Dogs? Easily the most powerfully depressing ending to a film I've ever seen. I couldn't believe that's how the story of these tortured dogs was intended to end, so I walked to the library that same day and read the book's version. Guess what? In the book, the dogs get rescued. Unfortunately,…