In the Jessica Jones series, Reva has a thumbdrive containing footage of the experiments Kilgrave went through as a kid. They don't explain why she had it, as far as I remember, though it's probably safe to assume she got it from the same supervillian weird-science corporation that funded the experiments on Luke.

I agree that the handling of all of this hasn't been very good.

Indeed, her short story caused a bit of a kerfuffle when it was published in Harper's a few years back.

Totally, I love that they seemed to set that up in this episode. "Say, just how did you manage to get up here on this rooftop, Turk?"

And TS Eliot is yours, Lost Generation!

Ok, here's my latest theory. Mr Robot is not a fragment of Elliot's personality. He is a malevolent AI which somehow has an interface into Elliot's mind (how this interface works, exactly, is the weakest part of the theory so far). He appears to Elliot as Elliot's father, and then later convinces him that they are…

I was wondering if that series was good. I liked the 1995 film a lot, its sequel pretty well but not as much. Any comment on whether the more recent Arise series and/or the new movie are worth watching?

I'm sympathetic to this viewpoint, but actually the web series at least managed to do a pretty good job of centering on a diverse set of people who typify the melting pot that is (middle class) NYC.

Well, the thing about things like the pi hole is that they will only work if you're connected through wifi, since they are effectively acting as a mini proxy on your network. When you're connected through your regular cell data provider (eg, most times when you're out and about), you won't be going through the proxy…

Gosh, it's almost as if they deliberately manufactured fewer phones than their demand predictions said they should in order to drum up press and project an image of the new phone as a hot commodity

Well, to be fair, Google's own AdWords program only uses unobtrusive text-only ads and has been pretty successful. Few companies are in the market position they are, of course.

If you're on Android, I'd recommend the Ghostery browser, basically a Chrome fork with an ad-blocker (and the Ghostery anti-tracking extension) built in. Much easier to deal with than running an external blocker, messing with /etc/hosts, dealing with a proxy service, etc.

On the off chance anyone is curious about the episode title, "init 5" refers to putting a linux machine into "runlevel 5", at which point it has full network connections and a GUI (hence Elliot's references to sound and color). "init 1" (the title of episode 3) gets you into single-user mode, with a terminal-only…

Wow, it's like the flop sweat is being flung out of my monitor!

This was pretty great. The only jarring note to me was that he would take his father's cab in the first place, when he could take the F train from Jackson Heights right to the party and he wouldn't need to worry about finding a parking place in the Lower East Side on a Friday. On the other hand, then there would be no…

God, I hate this franchise's tagline. If all crime is legal, then it is, by definition, no longer crime.

Yeah, 'cause if there's one thing the words "Deepwater Horizon" call to mind for me, it's "heroic oil company employees"

Ha ha! Mental illness!

I just finished that one and really liked it. I think a lot of AV Club readers would like it, it's got a lot of Norwegian black metal references and the protagonist is actually fairly interesting, and it doubles as a sort of travelogue.

… OR WILL IT?