Which was helpful, because California's climate makes it otherwise difficult to tell when it's winter.

I agree, even though I nearly missed the Lone Gunmen entirely; I looked away for half a moment and then I caught a mere glimpse of Frohike. It took me a few seconds to realise what had happened, but I didn't need the confirmation.

I just expected him to spend all night there, which made his choice look harder than perhaps it was—though it is entirely conceivable that he himself thought that might be the case. In the event he was (relatively) lucky and spent "only" two-and-a-half hours in solitary confinement.

It said "A law corporation", which was absurdly grand-sounding. You're right, though, he's no longer self-employed. And nice catch about the screws.

You are right, the practice has been in decline for some time now. I've done a little research and come up with a couple of interesting articles; this one even name-checks the Kardashians as a symptom (rather than a cause) of this trend.

That makes more sense. It's obviously better to honour someone when they are alive, but at least their death is meant to be an opportunity to remember and celebrate their life. It's a pity when it's ignored because a bigger story takes all the attention away. And it's not exactly a new phenomenon.

Apparently not. Mancini died three days earlier, on 14 June; the most notable thing to happen that day, according to Wikipedia, was the riot that erupted in Vancouver after the New York Rangers won the Stanley Cup. Their ticker-tape parade in New York City was one of the many sport-related events that took place on 17…

I did like the detail that, when Simpson was arrested and they cut to the District Attorney's office for Clark's reaction, there was a pizza on the table.

I don't remember where I read it, but someone cited the success of the Kardashians as one of the reasons why people with more exotic names (i.e. not from a major European language) feel more confident using them nowadays instead of simplifying them or Anglicising them somehow. I suspect this applies more to people in…

That was when I finally understood why they called him "the Juice"; I had completely forgotten that Americans sometimes refer to orange juice as "O.J.", and the nickname seemed quite bizarre without that little bit of context.

I see what you mean. I suppose it can seem jarring, though I can think of a couple of explanations. (For example, perhaps a large biomedical corporation acquired a programming start-up with the explicit purpose of integrating the latter's technology into the former's, having decided that they can make more money…

Huh. I'd never heard of George Grosz before, but I did notice the name figure prominently somewhere in the episode, probably as the name of a hotel (though Chickenberg I liked a lot more). I wonder whether you thought of the specific example consciously inspired by that name, or whether you didn't notice it and it…

I suppose this is one of the things the opening scene was supposed to address, apart from Ash's addiction to his phone: that medicine and programming had both made great advances. I am not saying this is all we need for the story to be plausible, but clearly the writers had it in mind.

Also very late, but I'd like to offer a footnote for the sake of completeness: the grainless woman, Helen, while talking about her gouging commented that her sight "held on fine". The link between the device and the eyes is clear and important, and it makes sense that a clumsy gouging has the potential to cause eye…

Half agreement here (though even later in arriving). When I realised that the scene after the climactic row was a re-do, I assumed Liam was watching it in a prison cell, having killed his wife; once it became apparent that this wasn't the case, however, I just thought she had left for good.

Even later to the party, but I've read all the other comments and didn't see this addressed: the obsessive gathering of litter. The reason I was thrown off by the forest in the end is because I genuinely thought there would be a scarcity of trees, explaining why paper scraps were so aggressively collected.* It is only…

Ricky Gervaris?

She still looked a lot like Alison, though; personally, I'd be more shocked to encounter the doppelgänger of one of my friends rather than that of myself, whom I've only ever seen in a mirror or in photographs and not actually standing before me.

Huh. She did seem familiar, but I couldn't place her.

My mother thought it strange that the abbies look quite so androgynous, considering they are supposed to have evolved from humans; it's impossible to sex them on screen. To properly explain to her how puritanical US network television can be, I had to enlist the recent example from Hannibal where parts of a…