Edit that: I confess to responding flippantly as a technicality and not seeing your overall point.

Sorry that this is from a year ago, but Bing was required to drink the same thing. As far as creative props go, they could have done without it, but date rape is far too specific.

Ah, thanks.

I really hope Netflix Canada is able to acquire the BBC rights to the first two seasons. It's great that they've made it available in the US, but come on, we share a Queen.

I had that thought as well, but given how easy it would be for the real selves to send them into solitary for godless amounts of time, they'd either learn to be compliant or damn well get it right the first time.

I would have given a pass of science fiction to the rest, but for the absurdly twisted ending for Joe's copy (who also didn't technically do anything but presumably work in the Arctic for five years).

Well, thanks, now I'll have that question forever.

My only (but significant) beef with this episode. It wasn't even a sentence, it was an arbitrary measure given and received in the real world as light humour. Completely soured an otherwise great episode for me.

Loved this episode for the most part, but can't get past Joe's fate. Unless I viewed it wrong, Joe didn't intentionally kill Beth's father, merely punched him in the head. That's manslaughter, not murder. In perhaps absent-mindedly leaving her to fend for herself, Joe is justifiably anguished with guilt over her…

I've only seen the third season, but of that, I'd recommend both "Shut Up and Dance" and "San Juperino" for thematic contrasts.

I don't think they necessarily neglected to mention it as much as the trial itself was compounded. You're right, though, that they did seem to use the time they talked about Blue to talk about Nick. You'd think that would warrant as much or more sympathy than a purported suicide (Though she would have been more…

As self-interested and portrayed as an asshole as he was, I read the line as, "This is obviously more urgent right now!"

I think it's 100% implied that he died with the other 378,000. It would be pretty thematically tacky otherwise.

I just Blue myself!

Men Against Fire's boringness was actually the red herring for me that led me away from the twist, and probably why I like it more.

Exactly. The subtext doesn't have to bowl you over for the episode to be good, even great. As Ebert said, there's nothing wrong with conventional so long as it works.

Well, bees, but fair enough.

Strangely enough, I've taken the opposite approach than the reviewer to two episodes now: In Men Against Fire, I was one of those rubes who didn't see the twist coming, but mainly because I was somewhat bored with the episode, and thought it would either be another rumination on PTSD, or Stripe would become 'infected'…

I agree, and regret doing so. Each requires a shake of the head, and I kept falling for the next being a distraction from the last.

Just binged it, myself. For fun: my own rank:
1) Hated in the Nation: Less so for social commentary and more so for blending such with a good procedural format and horror reminiscent of The Birds. The last 15 minutes, indeed.
2) Men Against Fire: Credit to you if you predicted that, but I did not. I'm normally good at…