It seems to me very likely that John Logan has lost control of the series to the suits at Showtime, who've told him, Eva Green shenanigans is all. Thus we have an alleged Ethan episode that supposedly is doing his back story but doesn't find him becoming a werewolf worthy of notice. Instead of being a man dogged by…

If only there was some moral gray. Dorian, Jekyll, Ethan, Murray, the creature and Bronastein are all multiple murderers. And Frankenstein is even worse, a male chauvinist! We can only speculate whether Ferdinand ever rented underage, but it would be entirely unexpected if he hadn't.

Praising with faint damns isn't a phrase, but it should be, I think.

Hecate did the dirty without the Magic of True Love to take the curse off. She's doomed.

Thr prissy little bitch Bronastein demolished is obviously incapable of holding his own against a real man like Jekyll. And Victor's too grossly incompetent to actually do anything successfully villainous in his "lab," aka nursery. The Frankenstein scenes fail because Frankenstein is the essence of fail. That's why…

A nitpick: The big Democratic Party bash is the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner for a reason. Jefferson is the founder of the party, even if there is a formal break in the lineage. Aaron Burr was pretty much the founder of Tammany Hall as a political organization. As Tammany was the great model for Democratic Party…

Historians, like audiences, tend to love winners. So Polk and Jackson being winners must mean they're great, or at least successful.

Oh, I very much agree that there is no mental illness on this series. Or even mental disorders. But I believe the show says there is. I don't understand how you can't see it when Seward's ludicrous talk thearapy is shoved in our faces. I feel that is somewhat insulting to people with real problems to relate the…

The artistic lesson here I think is: If you can't go smart, go big!

Stealing a generator and bringing unannounced a family to the door are not mature things to do, nor are they especially considerate. At this point in the series, we have to go back and wonder if Hawk worked a miracle when his stolen generator lighting up Ashley's room despite not actually being wired in. For that…

If Felicia is in the dark about Silas' trip, she doesn't know what Cal's motive is. For that matter how does she know any foul play didn't take place in Peru? That's why hinting at Cal murdering Silas suggests to me she did know…and why not asking questions seems so sinister. As you say it's a month later, and she's…

Because she hinted Cal was involved. "Foul play" could be a random mugger Silas met on one of his walks, something the show went out of its way to mention. And ruling out accident or illness without a thought?

I think the forgetting is a symptom of a prior interpretation or preferred story line overcoming the memory of the scene. We've all done this sort of thing, and it's very common in controversial subjects.

Well, it's not the way I'd fire Cal. I'd get Felicia and Bill on board first, then call New York and tell them Cal was needed for an emergency in Peru. If he comes, he's at a disadvantage. And if he doesn't, there's a public pretext to divide his popular support at the compound. Also, firing him doesn't require…

My apologies. (I am now laughing to make up for it.)

Yes, in some ways the Sixties were the peak. But it's amazing how insecure the segregationists were feeling before the New Deal was beat down, at least until LBJ tried to revive it with the Great Society. It was only the left wing of the New Deal coalition/popular front that split away in 1948. The Dixiecrats split…

In his youth Steve Rogers, from the lower East Side if I recall correctly, would of known of the notorious red congressman from the upper East Side, Vito Marcantonio, as well as the decidedly leftish NYC mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. He would have been familiar with Communist Party agitation over the Scottsboro Boys and…

Perhaps it's indelicate to say that need is a part of love. Soldiers need each other. In a society where in times past til now, masculinity was often interpreted as providing, not having needs for others to meet, army buddies might be the only relationships openly acknowledging need.

If Hawk is giving Cal the stink eye at the very moment Cal is talking about loving people who don't believe, then he doesn't care that offers a chance to change Sarah's mind about kicking out Eddie. All he cares about is losing Ashley. And he doesn't dare get mad at Sarah. He takes his vows to make Sarah happy, which…

I read the novel maybe forty years ago, and true crime reportage about Gein and my one re-watch of the movie about the same time frame I think.
So you're very likely right.