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They are just having some fun with it. This show doesn't seem to take itself as seriously as TWD.
It is like Big Little Lies on bath salts
She got gang raped in high school and I'm not sure if she ever tried to report it. Plus her mother was always guilt tripping her over her dead sister. The cutting itself gave her emotional release, but cutting the words is something she did out of spite.
He's the owner of the pest control business who ends up selling to Walt, Mike, Jesse.
He is dead. The ending of the episode before this one, he went into the house and everything was wrecked, and this is when Ruth shot him. The very last scene of this episode was on the day he first came back to her house and began their relationship.
Yeah, it's similar to the "sin eater" concept in The Green Mile. In that film, he swallowed something that took away the tumor of the warden's wife and later spit it back out into the guy who was already pretty messed up. In this show, it's like touching him takes the suffering that is already there and amplifies it.
He's not going back, it was just an excuse for him to leave. The one thing everyone in the group has in common is they are all runners. Madison was the opposite, she was always looking for somewhere her family could stay safe. After the dam blew, she found them and brought them back to the stadium.
It looks like that's where they are going with the story. A group of runners who all started out in different places ended up together in episode 8. And this half of the season, they each have to work out whatever they are running from so they can stay together as a group. Because like they said in earlier episodes, they finally realized it didn't matter where they stay, just that they were together
They have tornadoes in the Austin area. Hurricanes can make landfall in Galveston, but they'd never keep their strength long enough to hit Austin as a hurricane. If they have moved east since the stadium burned, they could be close enough to get hit.
The interview was a ego thing; Jimmy's special skill is persuading people to do whatever he wants, but he doesn't really want that job because he knows those guys and that job won't challenge him. He does not see them as being worthy of the privilege of being his employers. We saw it in earlier seasons when he (and sometime Kim) would run scams on people in the restaurant. Kim was satisfied by just imagining the scams, she sees many of the same things as Jimmy when planning them out, but Jimmy is only satisfied when he takes action to see them through.
Could be a way to launder money. Just buy up expensive collectibles and somehow slip them into the collection of an elderly person about to die (or dead already), then "inherit" them in a way so that their true value is unknown. Later on he can "discover" their value and probably sell for more than he originally paid, and the tax would come out of the difference.
It was the lines that showed how much was withheld. His previous jobs were as a cop and as a parking attendant, both blue-collar type jobs where he came to expect a certain percentage of the gross to be withheld. This job puts him in a higher tax bracket with a lower take home percentage. The revelation leads him to think more about the tax situation (the whole reason for him to be laundering money), and how he believes he needs to do more to cover himself in case of scrutiny.
whenever they say dea, I think of Tortuga
There are cases where people are sensitive to electronics, radio waves, etc. Not sure if anything has been found to be physically wrong with the people, I would guess it is psychosomatic. That's definitely how it is portrayed on the show- caused by resentment and fear.
It can always jump to the Cinnabon store and stay in the present.
She could go back and stay at the new guy's house, the one who got Emily out. If anyone were in a position to take down the system from the inside, it would be him.
Max because Mia has to deal with unruly humans, but Max has to deal with unruly humans + unruly synths.
Looks like that's gonna be season 4.
She sorta did, but it was more like finding a workaround because the situation was a lot more complex than jumping herself into traffic. She was able to chain together a series of permissible actions before her override or whatever kicked in. It's a fairly common problem in cybersecurity- the programmer is responsible for an infinite number of scenarios in which a system could be compromised, but an adversary only needs to find 1 way through.
Last season it went into some of how it happened. It was incremental, like one day enough of them were in the legislature to pass a law that closed the bank accounts of women. Then women started getting laid off their jobs. A lot of people got out of the country, but once they had control of the military, they shut down travel and started executing protesters in the streets.
There are places like Jezebels where they do things for pleasure, but it's not out in the open. Most of Gilead in what used to be the plains is a wasteland, like what we see in the colonies. They are trying to dig away the toxic soil so people can grow there again. They look to their religion, which tells them their previous way of life is what caused all this destruction, and came to believe their survival depends on their faith. Take the men, put guns in their hands and call them guardians, they will believe what they do is critical to the survival of everyone. Take religion and make it law, and they now have justification that they are doing the right thing.
Well, we know everyone isn't all in on this idea, but enough of them in power are true believers to hold it together. And the ones who don't believe, they have different incentives to keep up appearances. Some might not want to give up their relatively comfortable lives. Some are afraid to collaborate and start a revolt because they have no idea how many out there would join, and anyone who overhears could turn them in.
Or others are in a situation like June- remember Lydia took her out and showed her the people hanging on the wall and told her those were the people who tried to help her escape. Then she said June would be executed like that after she has the baby, June is the one responsible, but Offred was not. Offred had a place in the world, without their blood on her hands. She makes the choice to be Offred as sort of a penance to herself for getting those people killed, but she is also grateful to be given the choice and keep her place in that world. Since then, she has sorta gone back to being June, but she's taking a slightly different approach by going directly to the people who have power over her and appealing to their humanity, and so far getting some mixed results.