He's Beeman on The Americans. Yes, Jenner — the name escaped me.

If we're here talking about tv and we went to college then — yes.

Ha. Yes, although I assume convenience plays into it as well.

The nurse was frazzled because a) they'd had two deaths in one morning and b) she's confused at the way the doctor and his team reacted to Nick's neighbor dying. She's still in the dark. So this is something only some people at the hospital are aware of; it hasn't reached conspiracy levels.

Maybe this is the reason they are so anxiously insisting that this is a TOTALLY DIFFERENT SHOW. They want us to miss this huge inconsistency.

The credibility of a tv reviewer's opinion depends on the amount of tv said watcher has viewed. We are the audience. We decide if we like things on our tvs or not. And, dude, we ALL did some writing and acting in college. All of us.

I imagine flu shots and dirty needles will both be speculated to be causes within the show, but we will never find out what the real cause is.

Rewatching that episode won't help because we didn't hear what Mr Beeman (CDC guy who is also on The Americans) actually said. Everyone speculated about it and comic book readers spoiled it for months until the following season when Rick told the rest of the group that CDC guy said everyone was infected.

How about the shot where a car drives slowly past with kids looking out of the windows and it's somehow foreboding?

The disaffected teen girl is never messed up enough to be an actual problem requiring any of her parents' time. She always has friends and is going to a good college.

I wouldn't say bland so much as seen-before. The show doesn't need to develop these characters; they are tv stereotypes. We know who they are and what their motivations are.

Fake outs with homeless people and drug addicts at least illuminate the fear the characters (and audience) have of homeless people and addicts. But Kim Dickens had no reason to fear the principal. Even for TWD that was gratuitously cheap.

But there was an extremely weak jump scare fake-out with the principal which makes up, in a bad way, for the lack of other jump scares.

I was thinking the canal thing was from Grease.

Was the daughter's boyfriend not one of the kids from The Wire? I recognized that guy and thought it must have been from the School Season.

When you've been dealing with an opioid addict for a while you do get to where you stop yourself from listening to anything they say after an incident or episode because they are good at obfuscating and manipulating you out of whatever plan of action you have come up with to help them. So I bought the initial reaction…

Sunshine is one of the most visually powerful movies I've ever seen.

I usually wade through all the comments before saying anything but I have to vent about how sick I am of the Surly-but-Has-her-shit-together-and-is-really-just-sensitive teenage daughter.

I think that's the fault of the directing more than the writing. We aren't being shown WHY Mary loves the neighborhood, so it's easy to see her as a hypocrite. That scene where she drove to the building that was going to be torn down could have been shot so as to give us more of a sense of loss.

I agree with you but I think Haggis's directing is less "in the greys" than Simon's writing.