I can't believe they didn't stick with "Killer's School" as the title.

So has anyone seen a good real world explanation for how this show deploys Abby? Starting last season it seemed like they found increasingly arbitrary ways to keep her from appearing in episodes. But this one really elevated it. How many times did they mention Abby was asleep off-screen? I assume there is some…

It seems doubtful that Snyder knows anything about the list. The "blackjacks" are operating beyond even the Governor-General's pay-grade. As we saw in this episode, Snyder is not operating on their level. It is also unclear why they would care about relatives of people on the list. They shot the people with the guy in…

But unlike Charlie in Santa Monica, Bram never really learned anything in the prison camp. He was just serially used and manipulated by opposing forces, and never really did much of anything for himself. In the end he survived because the camp administrator likes his dad, not because he had gotten tough. So he largely…

Makes sense. I think it will be something specific to one or both of them, and hopefully we'll have a good sense of what it is by the end of the season.

So Broussard doesn't actually have "the gauntlet", right? Someone killed Hennessey and took it. So before they go anywhere they will need to track down whoever did that. Which I guess is probably the Red Hand. Should be interesting.

The drone sparing them on the wall remains a mystery. It seems like there are three and a half major options.

Yeah, she tells her partner the plan is to "bail out" before the drones spot the plane. So she always knew it would be shot down, and they had presumably jumped before the drones got there. The second half of the plan does seem to essentially be "Find Hennessey and ???", but desperate times…

Yeah, I always assumed that Clementine's prediction at the end is essentially accurate. The same problems will manifest again. Revisiting this ending brings to mind the ending of Arrival. It is a bit more literal there, as Louise can actually see and understand the full loop while Clementine and Joel are left to guess…

Yeah, I would assume this pays substantially better. And at the time she was cast FTWD looked likely to be a hit (which I guess it still is, more or less). It was a pretty obvious move, career-wise.

she has never been ''officially'' in charge of anything other than the 100.

Agree completely. We have term limits already. They're called elections.

If you look at the full scope of American history there are surprisingly few presidents affected by either the informal two-term "tradition" or the 22nd Amendment. Of the two term presidents, the only ones arguably young enough, healthy enough, and popular enough to seek a third term were Jefferson, Grant, T.…

Every season I wonder if Al Michaels will be hanging it up, it will be a dark day when it finally arrives.

The median age of a Bill O'Reilly viewer is 72 years old. Seriously. So if Tucker is bringing in 60 year olds then he is skewing the network younger.

Well, I believe they said in one of the early episodes that no one had died in 35 years (since Arnold). Which is ridiculous, as you point out weird stuff happens even in apparently safe environments. Someone would have died at some point whether or not the hosts ever became sentient. I suppose they may have only meant…

Yeah, it seems wildly implausible that no one ever dies here, even if the hosts can't intentionally kill people. As you say, guests could inadvertently kill each other. And at some point in 35 years you would certainly have a "road rage" type incident where someone tried to intentionally kill someone else. And you…

I certainly hope not, given that I number among them.

That's a classic example. Many guests seem to assume he is just another God-less coastal liberal elitist.

Yeah, the interview with Gibson was rough. I don't necessarily blame Colbert for that, but Gibson came across as self-pitying and not in any way genuinely apologetic. He seems to view all of this as something that happened to him, rather than something he did.