Thanks for the link.

Given that Caleb was seduced by the witch (physical consummation isn't explicitly shown but it's hard to see how that didn't happen,) Caleb's return is itself interesting…did he escape or was he being displayed to his parents? Mercy and Jonas begin the witch hunt at this juncture. William begins to confess.

The elder son comes back naked. How can you think the theme of sexual repression has nothing much done with it?

People are slaughtered by the thousands for being a lower kind of person, not just then, but today, by the US government, either directly or by its clients' armies. They are most certainly conceived as nothing but a ravenous, murderous mindless appetite. And that takes a lot of fun out of zombie movies for me.

Hawkgril is the interesting version I want to see more of.

Well, I thought the butter churn incident had two people in the room without a hint Sam was crazy. If it was supposed to be a fantasy or a dream, I missed that and have no idea whose fantasy or dream that was supposed to be.

Hour long comedies are always flabby, especially when those vile commercial interruptions distort the flow. I'll complain again: A minicliffhanger before commercial break is the wrong way to go, it should break on a punch line.

In the novel the twins each have their own voice in diary entries. But the twins' existence isn't explicitly revealed until considerably later. I'm embarrassed to admit that I thought it was just inconsistent characterization (something you get used to in serialized TV) for 150 pages.

Must have seen Hannibal too many times, like Will Graham I'm curious…CONTINUING STORYLINE [hah!]

Philip K. Dick, Gameplayers of Titan wasn't it?

And zombie movies imply the mob (aka black people) really are monsters who just want to eat "US."

That a "notion of a sin nature" can impose "lack of agency" seems kind of abstract compared to the lack of agency from the threat of starvation in winter. And the agency she has within the family is quite real. Thomasin certainly exercised it in dealing with Mercy, didn't she?

So far as the movie's senses of salvation and damnation are concerned, the key scene is Caleb's, not Thomasin's.

Trying to trade being a slave for being a slave owner may be human enough to relate to. Trying to portray it as a model of liberation? Who really wants to go there? [confusing backwards order in sentence reversed]

Probably the most important thing to put in a review is the hint that when you buy the DVD, use the subtitles!

The jokes are amusing enough but this was another weak episode, precisely because it was all continuing story line. The continuing story line is convoluted, therefore weak. The characters' motives in the continuing story line are confused, therefore making weak in a different way. The continuing story line is premised…

The only plausible dramatic action now centers on the decision to try Taylor as an adult so he can be executed. Well, efforts to charge Anne with some sort of a crime too, especially obstruction.

Well, yes, you're right that "procedural" is really just a mindless pejorative. Unfortunately it immediately tags anyone who seriously uses it as a hopeless nitwit. Pointing this out just seems counter-productive for discussion.

Well I think they are radically misunderstood as procedurals. It's why so few critics understood how ER or CSI or Mr. Robot (which really are procedurals) were different.

Well, a lot of the review is perceptive enough. But it still make zero sense to insist on calling something a procedural so that you have to start off by emphasizing the show isn't interested in procedures at all. The routines of daily life, aka procedures, are fine for a realist drama, but this is SF. SF isn't a…