I wouldn’t bother with this show if it were just another show about serial killers, a topic that’s almost as worn out as zombies. What I find interesting is the lead characters, especially Holden, and how they battle a stilted bureaucracy (and even more stilted dialogue) to try to achieve something of worth, without…

1700s? He wasn’t just the father of our country, he was our very first immortal vampire!

Roger Wade might have gotten away with that stuff because authority figures were given a lot more leeway in those days. Nowadays of course it would be stopped immediately, but then it would have been a marginal case. I think the board wanted to get rid of the guy and having a snoopy FBI agent asking questions was just…

One quibble about Wendy’s argument for the need to keep their work quiet, and keep the killers cooperating: why should incarcerated serial killers care about others still on the loose getting the death penalty? Do they have some kind of union? I would think they’d be sadistic enough to get a kick out of the idea they…

This is what happens when Starfleet gets its time travel machines cross wired with the transporter.

Maybe she believes Homer was real, even if he isn’t (and finding a video of him proves nothing - she could have seen that video before, and it might have inspired the whole fantasy.)

Hap must have some seriously high-level contacts in Cuba. He could sneak in and out of the country I suppose (how did he get out, with drugged, unconscious Homer in the passenger seat?) but how do you get in and out of a police state with prisoners in tow?

Well you missed the part where she and three others were being held captive by a lunatic researcher because they all have a preternatural ability to be killed and resurrected multiple times, to provide proof of an afterlife.

How do they do a second season? Easy. Prairie is on life support, and the gang from the high school have to save her. We also see visions from her perspective, of living in a mental hospital with the various characters as doctors or patients there (with the implication that this may have been actual reality all…

I loved The OA (although I did my fair share of yelling at the screen). The beauty of Netflix is that they can make a bunch of crap any one of us will hate, and will still have enough left over for us to watch. I’d like them to stop making schlock like Fuller House but some folks like that, so...

Forget the serial killers, for me the most disturbing thing was the way Holden weasels out of responsibility for destroying Principal Tickler’s life. Hey what if Tickler, unemployed and despondent, becomes a serial killer as a result? Isn’t that just the kind of trigger that would set him off? Huh, Holden didja think…

Superheros as metaphors? What will those crazy kids think of next!

They had plenty of money, they didn’t need Netflix to help fund Hulu. They just didn’t know Netflix would be such a success. Now they know and they are scrambling to stop Netflix or at least compete successfully.

Yeah. They didn’t realize back then they were feeding the beast that would destroy them. Funny thing is, the beast knew it. That’s why the beast started growing its own food and storing it up...beast ftw.

Just wait till they start in with the †’s and ‡’s.

The more meaningful metric is that CBS renewed the show, so it is apparently accomplishing what they wanted - get signups for their streaming service. Now they need to fix the myriad technical problems and beef up their library to make it worth subscribing to on an ongoing basis one day.

Oh yeah and that black agent from Atlanta they didn’t hire because serial killers are racist crackers and wouldn’t approve? Not to post spoilers, but I can think of a future scenario where the guy might return to the show in an I Told You So capacity.

This was the episode where the show really started to click for me. Not in the interview with Budos - that was great stuff, but I expect the serial killers to be morbidly entertaining.

Honestly that would be absurd. Serial killers are unusual, these people aren’t going to just stumble across them in their everyday lives. Now if they start being changed as people because they’re jumping at every shadow, that might be different. Stay tuned.

Which makes him all the creepier...