Now I want to go and grab ep. 4x01 on OnDemand and see how much of that West Coasst Herald article I can read on my big screen.

I'm sure you're right. I was thinking that, as well. That he wasn't going to make the mistake he made with Martha again.

I assume Gabriel put MIscha and his uncle together. That guilt is still eating away at him! And…if the Jenningses do return to the Soviet Union, I sure hope they shop somewhere other than Martha's local market. Because that could get awk…ward. More awkward than Stan and Aderholt making small talk with Sofia and her…

But if Kevin was going through with it all those times he self-suffocated, we'd be seeing his wacky adventures in the not-quite-afterlife. They've made a point of showing him there both times he *actually* died.

Yeah, that really pissed me off. I don't think the season-opener teaser tells us for certain that Nora didn't go into the radiation machine, but the previews for next episode certainly did. Way to go, HBO.

I thought we were going to hear the sound of the boat's motor starting up, and then the sound recede as it headed back towards shore. The captain didn't seem to want to be out there too long — because of the coming storm — so I have to wonder how Laurie worked it out with him. Did she tell him directly, "I won't be…

That was a fantastic piece.

I have that same problem with "The Double Deckers" — (which probably makes me 15-20 years older than you) — I remember it fondly, no one else knows what the hell I'm talking about.

Allergies! I have…allergies!

It's also the sound design, and the overwhelming menace of those long takes. The establishing shots for the first New York scenes were just gloriously, 100%, darkly, creepily Lynch. Which is an amazing thing to accomplish with a simple flyover of a skyline that's been flown over literally thousands of times in…

I cackled out loud many times, from joy, from shock, from unexpectedly having the floor slip out from under me… And yeah, I found "Eraserhead" much evoked for me over the two hours. Peaks is back, baby! I think we need it in 2017 more than ever.

Ditto that.

Yikes, that would be totally crazy, because right now, *only* civil marriages are legitimate in this country. The religious ceremony is just that: a ceremony. The state will only recognize it as a legal marriage if you obtained a certificate from city hall (or your county, or wherever). In most places in the US, there…

I actually took that to mean it was a flashback. I mean, can you imagine the current Commander saying that to Serena Joy, or to *any* woman? He's so entrenched in his role as subjugator in the show's present timeline.

Don't feel bad; I didn't parse it that way initially, either, because of the pained expression on the actor's face. At first I thought he was saying something more along the lines of "You shouldn't be doing anything different for my benefit," and that *he* didn't get June's joke ("I wore it just for you"). Once they…

Nah, because if they were in cahoots, they would have had to make her *look* beat up for it to be effective. I think they thought she was Sy's chippy in the side, and the beating was meant to be a warning to him. It's more effective to leave her alive and make him scared and complacent. Killing her makes him…

Yeah, what with the sounds we heard, when she crawled out I was like, "WTF? I thought they were beating her up??"

True, but it's a nice parallel, with the brothers both having events going on around them driven by their partners-in-crime (both literal and figurative).

He's an interesting character. I wonder if I'm the only person who heard his name, the first time he introduced himself, as "V.M. Vulgar"? David Thewlis pronounced it like "Vuh-guh" that time, and I was *sure* he'd said "vulgar"! Which would certainly be an appropriate name for that character…

Was that a mistake, though? I assumed it was a deliberate attempt by the character to redirect from "shit" to "salt."