That's the least of it. They needed 100,000+ phones in order to store all the insurance company data and move it off Azure. If all those phones explode (or the users uninstall the app), the data will be lost.

And no wound under his chin where Waterston had just wounded him.

But there was a signal in Alien: Covenant. They picked up David/Elizabeth's transmission.

Great film. It has my favourite movie quote of all time:

It didn't strike me as particularly conradian at all, setting and African colonialism aside, as Conrad was never one to prop up the suspense with oblique mysteries or fantastical elements. I got more of a kitschy, derivative Count of Monte Cristo feel (the book, not the many terrible adaptations): The mysterious man…

Can anyone explain how Sherlock discovered that Culverton Smith was a serial killer? It's not like he had any evidence at all.

Sherlock wasn't "dating" his sister; he just took her for a walk. She did, however, seduce Watson.

Toby Jones actually played Truman Capote in "Infamous"; while Philip Seymour Hoffman was great in the part, Jones has the benefit of actually *looking* a lot like Capote, and his performance is very true to life; he definitely nailed Capote's famously affected, high-pitched manner of talking. Here's the trailer: https:…

In the last scene, she says the real therapist is tied up in the closet.

Also: The part at the very end the T-1000 is shot with some explosive bullet, and he's stand swaying as an exploded mass of metal. It was three different quick cuts, all practical effects, and the longer shot is a (very convincing!) puppet. https://www.youtube.com/wat…

There are surprisingly many effects in T2 that are in fact _not_ CGI. For example, the sword arm thing — it was a physical prop. Only the last closeup where the tip morphs back into her hand is CGI.

That's hilarious.

"Dangerous" in this case doesn't mean fall-over-and-die-dangerous or even side effects. It just means that it's toxic in the long run and will probably result in liver damage. But it's common for patients in remission to stop taking their meds. Again, if you suddenly drop off steroids for a dermatological condition,…

He was shown coming back to the support group and gushing about this new treatment. Of course, he may have been wrong, and maybe the herbal treatment did nothing, and it was the cat that helped. That said: He had no idea what the Chinese quack gave him, and it's quite likely that such a guy would have legit medicine…

Nothing herbal is going to clear up eczema like that (and I'm sad that the show would even imply this). There's a reason why he was back in the support group.

The show doesn't quite explain it, but my guess is that the Chinese "doctor" gave Stone a huge dose of unregulated corticosteroid (technically the same kind of stuff his regular doctor prescribed, just a more concentrated dose), which will certainly clear up a skin condition, but is too toxic to keep using for long…

It's definitely being marketed as a miniseries ("an eight-part limited series"): http://www.hbo.com/the-nigh…

I don't think that's accurate. A plea of guilt is an admission of responsibility for the offense that the pleader is charged with. It's not a mere legal formality; you can't say "I didn't actually do those things I'm charged with, but I plea guilty because reasons". Cornell's law dictionary defines guilt as "an…

Not a lawyer, but I believe a plea deal as shown in the show requires that you admit guilt. A different, rarer form of plea is called the Alford plea, whereby the defendant does not admit guilt, but recognizes that there is sufficient evidence of guilt that a jury would likely convict them. A notable example is the…

This series is a drama, not a procedural; it's about Naz' experience being caught in a legal apparatur that isn't concerned for the truth or anyone's well-beign. It's not about a Hollywood gumshoe working to uncover the truth. Are you so imprinted and conditioned by classical noir structure that you feel a plot hasn't…