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Clothes back then would never, ever be tossed. The amount of labor and resources that went into producing them was just insane. Cotton or wool had to be picked or sheared and then cleaned. Then spun into thread. A lot of thread. Then that thread had to be woven into cloth, which then had to be dyed, cut, and hand sewn into clothing. Even if you had money and purchased the clothing or at least the cloth from a store rather than producing it, it was way too expensive to just throw away because it was dirty or stained. At worst if it could not be cleaned or cut down into clothing for children or others of a smaller size, it would be recycled into rags.

I think they were meant to be a proxy since Steven is dead and Cary is in prison so neither could be interviewed. I wanted to learn more about Cary’s life before the murders. Both of Steven’s kids referenced not having seen their uncle in years, so I wonder what he was doing.

Of course. Who would ever think it’s realistic that a full two years later, COVID is still going on? (…) **sob**

I was dying when Darryl compared Mark and Deanna to some Star Trek or some such villain. Boy was snarky as fuck, and I would love to join him at the Mexican restaurant for some margs and more snark. on a more serious note, what struck me about the women who were so successful at it talking about how busy and stressed they got and how little time they had for their families. So…just like corporate jobs can be, huh? It was ironic given how they all got into it because they wanted a flexible job that let them be SAH moms. And didn’t one of the women at the beginning say she’d tried to corporate thing but hated always being away from home etc (they showed her with a bunch of people at what looked like a work dinner)?

Username definitely checks out, pigs-in-space! I watched it too, and really enjoyed it. Was not expecting to see Ralphie from The Christmas Story—had no idea he was there.

Not sure if it was this episode or the previous one where Jack called the Senator to get help to go to London instead of back to DC, but there was some serious #badDCgeography during that call. In about 4 minutes, the Senator walks from the old FBI building in downtown DC (9th and Pennsylvania Ave NW), to Russell Senate Building (a good mile away). And then hilariously from Russell he crosses the street to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB, right by the White House). Except that's a 2 mile walk in real life.

No, it would not.

Might be a random question, but when they all rushed in from the party in the grandmother’s yard to watch the emergency alert on TV, did the (disabled and using a wheelchair in the rest of the episode) sister walk in? We thought we saw her walk in, and then they do show her sitting in an armchair rather than a wheelchair, so it just caught us off guard and were trying to figure out if it was meant to signal something, or if perhaps just like for some people in real life, she only needs the wheelchair sometimes?

Ha, spoken like a true Southerner!

Cement actually cures, it doesn’t dry! So you can actually cure cement in a mold entirely underwater if you need to, much less in the rain.

That seems rather unnecessarily nitpicky...

Netscape wasn't founded until 1994, and the first browser released in October of that year, so not sure how you were able to use it in 1984 (present day for this episode)?

Agree on both their voices being oddly hoarse, especially Gillian's. I even looked on Teitter to see if others were noticing it because I really wondered if it was just me (it wasn't). I did laugh out loud when Mulder and Scully were talking to the administrator at the (Catholic) hospital to try and get to the creepy company founder, and said that the hospital might be under investigation, and Mulder just smirked and said, "Obamacare" with a knowing sigh. Ha! (As context, I work in healthcare, and *everything* is now blamed on the ACA, even policies that were in place during the first Bush Administration practically, so it got a real laugh from me).

For what it's worth, about 4,100 people a year (http://www.cdc.gov/meningitis/bacterial.html) are struck with bacterial meningitis in the United States, and 500 die from it, so it's not completely unbelievable that Jerry died from it by chance.

Best quote from the episode regarding the book--"That title is such bullshit there's even a colon in the middle of it!" Love. It's scary how well this show gets DC sometimes...