Technically, in that example, you don't buy it at 85—you borrow the shares and sell them at 85. That's why it's called short selling. Then you buy the same number of shares at 30 (or whatever) and return them to the entity from which you borrowed them, which is called covering your short. Obviously that causes…

Yeah, I called shenanigans on impoverished upstate Sandicot having a Barnes & Noble, then noticed they were shooting near City Center in White Plains. Also silly that they mentioned 180,000 as supposedly tiny Sandicot's population—that would make it one of the biggest cities in New York.

Yeah, I was thrown by the misdirection for the first episode or so, but it's all in and around Bridgeport. I did find it a little strange that they gave Bridgeport itself something of a small-town feel when it's really the biggest city in Connecticut (which admittedly isn't saying much), but it takes on a little more…

Seriously. I commented on this before and it's still wrong throughout, suggesting Kyle doesn't read the comments or doesn't care about the English language. Super-annoying. (Also, it's Karolina, not Carolina.)

Yeah, it's two more years for Real Pete. And you're right about time passing slowly on Graham Yost shows. I think all the seasons of "Justified" took place over 18 months or so, not counting the finale flash-forward.

Kyle, you have to stop referring to the Bernhardts as the Bernhardt's. No apostrophe—it's not a possessive and it's not replacing any missing letter. It's just a simple plural. Pet peeve of mine. Otherwise, loving the reviews and the show.

Absolutely. They're all just possible futures (or twists on the present, as with "The National Anthem" and "Shut Up and Dance"), not a smooth progression within the same world. And the Easter eggs are fun. Don't overthink it.

I got the sense that Mull's character was supposed to be a David Gergen type, a cross-partisan Washington wise man but at heart (to the extent he has one) a pragmatic Democrat.

She did know who he was—I recall some line about how he must be terribly busy. After all, he hadn't provided his phone number on the donation form, but she called him at the White House.

I think flagship sci-fi planets like Battlestar Galactica's Caprica are often meant to be Earth-like, even though in practice they're reduced to just their capital city.