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I was seriously considering bailing on this show, but I was surprised to realize how cathartic it is to watch a president like the one Keifer gets to portray. This show may be my Xanax.

I was going to quote those lines too. I took it to mean the abortion option was quickly covered and dispensed with. But then I forgot that: …which serves to support Bernadette's response. This may be the most tactfully handled social issue on the show to date.

Heh. There was a woman who flirted with him; they went into his office, and something almost happened, and I think maybe the detectives thought it did. And there was at least one other time when sparks were flying. But I recall Barney saying he was a married man. The writers kept his character on a pretty short leash of Virtue.

Wow, there were some Atlanta housewives on tonight, and what a bunch of grumps. I don't watch those shows, but it seemed like they didn't want to be near each other. Nobody shook hands. It was distracting. Steve barely managed to ham it up.

I happened to watch most of tonight's—my first episode since #2. My boyfriend was drafted in the lottery, so coincidentally they were covering the year he was there. I kept thinking I saw him in the background. When I realize how much of this I read about, saw on TV, or saw in Chicago at the time, I have to wonder if I was in some sort of fuge state, or almost a split consciousness. I never thought he was in danger or just shouldn't be there. How did I do that? I just kept sealing the envelopes and putting them out in the mailbox at the end of our driveway 6 days a week, putting the little flag up on the mailbox. In a movie, would the raising of the little mailbox flag symbolize patriotism or surrender? ETA: Oh Gød. Now I'm picturing my teenage self only raising it half way and…

That was my first thought too. And since Melissa Rauch is pregnant IRL, it would be a great fakeout for the audience. Plus: I agree. At this point the actors are so well known that it really could be hillarious. There was some of this on Seinfeld when Julia Louis Dreyfus was pregnant IIRC, big potted plants in incongruous places and whatnot. And also: It could be a great drinking game, or a pass-the-chocolates game. Anyway, since they're most likely not going with the false pregnancy test, another baby does give Stuart and Raj more to do. But they did focus a lot on that pregnancy test stick, which gives me a little Chekhovian hope.

When I heard Chance the Rapper was on, I stayed up to watch because of his financial support of Chicago Public Schools. Who knew a rapper could be such a sweetheart or that rap music could be so moving.

I wrote and mailed a letter every day, which were delivered in packets only once a week. The boxes full of weekly letters I received back were destroyed in the mid 80s, about the same time the writer committed suicide. Unintended symbolism. I've still only watched the first 2 episodes. This wouldn't be the first time I've failed to watch a show that was released in rapid succession or binge style.

My daughter had to replace hers about 8 years ago, and we first had to replace her birth certificate to get the social security card. I don't know how she managed to lose it all and not get her identity stolen. If you don't mind sharing, what state were you in, @Haleth? We were in Illinois.

My father didn't find out that what he thought was his first name was actually his middle name until he enlisted in the Army, but then he was born in 1923, so that's more understandable. I don't have a problem with knowing the moment, since I know when all of mine happened; it can depend upon what sort of birth control you use, how easily you conceive, etc. I have bigger issues with the Only On TV trope of the mother not knowing who the father is because she doesn't know the exact moment of conception.

Do you mind sharing in what town or city this was?

There was one head on shot of Abigail in this episode where I thought they were trying to make her look leonine. She either has superhuman healing capabilities, or the writers don't think it's necessary to show effects of gunshots. Didn't we find out earlier this season that she's a hybrid too?

I heard part of an interview on NPR with Ken Burns and Lynn Novick this week. She was recounting how she was at (IIRC) a viewing of their last project, and when asked what was next, she said "Vietnam," whereupon a woman came forward and said she had those tapes. Novick expressed how grateful she was for that serendipitous happenstance. If you can still locate any of your tapes, @meep.meep, they too should be digitized and preserved so that someday (whenever you and your family decide) they too may serve to, in some small way, prevent this history from continuing to repeat itself. I felt they gave an intimate immediacy that was heroic without the vain glory of accounts altered by memory and years.

David Bowie's "Space Oddity" would have fit much better than Sinatra's "Fly Me To The Moon," but it would have probably cost a bundle more. Maybe the Cliffhanger of Seemingly Infinite Variables was supposed to show the network execs that they could have their pick of outcomes—including romantic pairings. Or maybe the writers knew the ratings had doomed the show by the time they wrote the finale, so they decided to let everyone's ideas see the glimmer of day.

He did manage to survive being thrown out of an airplane that was in mid-flight (although I can't remember his explanation to Jamie for how he got out of that situation). Well, Abigail the Zombie had the tank that not only kept Mitch alive for 10 years after a fatal attack of the razor animals, but enabled her to turn him into Duncan. So if the show comes back, maybe Logan will be Dunce.

Which would amount to abandoning a tropical aboriginal tribe in Antarctica. But with Santiago Cabrera looking so adorably chill about the situation, no worries.

Jaimie the Assassin is left to play kissy face with Mitch? No wonder Abigail got the baby and the hybrids were running amok. Likewise, Jackson had to waste precious time he had to shut down the beacon to snog his girlfriend and then to drag her back to safety. Again, no wonder the hybrids took over the central command. So I guess if they were going to name the baby Max, it needed to be done before they forgot about him.

LOL! Although I suppose they have 3 years of space diapers.

LOL. Maybe they need to enlist Walter White and Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad. Valid points, but what can we expect from TPTB who do continue to renew Zoo? I was unfamiliar with Santiago Cabrera before this show, so it was worth it to get to see him. He was particularly charming in the finale.

Yeah, you can only add the parent thread of SPECIALS, TV MOVIES & OTHER ONE-OFFS to your PTV customized home page. That's what I did, but then I do regularly check that page.

Well, no shortage of action. Or palace intrigue or political drama. I really do hate to ask (but it seems somebody has to because her mother seems to have forgotten about her): Where in the world is Zoe Barrows? Africa, I hope, or at least not at Tanz properties. More importantly, where's Grace's dad? Huntington's Disease? Bummer. So is Sasha Roiz the secret leader of Re/Syst? Any chance of the show being renewed? If so, will they come back One Year Later with a little Grace and Harris baby? And a little Jillian and Liam baby? Ostensibly betrothed to each other? Please. No. Writers, do not go there.

For those wanting to slog through Ken Burns' currently airing, 18-hour The Vietnam War at your own pace and time, see here: http://www.pbs.org/show/vietnam-war-not-edited/

For those of us home this afternoon, at 5:00/4:00pm Central, the beloved "Hash" episode is airing on Antenna TV.

I had decided not to watch (the Vietnam War was the backdrop that ultimately determined the fate of my high school Romeo-and-Juliet romance) but mentions here of the music caused me to at least watch the first episode, which is available free online: http://www.pbs.org/video/deja-vu-1858-1961-7tmfea/ I just watched part 2. I was wishing they'd given at least a brief account of Vietnam's centuries-long history of conflict between the north and south, and also the earliest colonialism by China and other countries. When I learned of that history in the 90s, I was amazed that McNamara's "meat grinder" ever got going. But then both educated and uneducated presidents alike seem doomed to preside over similar foolishness.

Good point. Maybe Zoe is adopted or a stepdaughter?