This show has GOT to be kidding.

I recap the episode at Tor.com as per usual. You will notice that there is yet ANOTHER mother figure.

It’s no mystery why they’re there, in general; mother figures have a built-in motivation, so they are a godsend for lazy TV writers since no one questions a mother’s desire to protect her kid. But seriously, the punishing of single mothers and the converse miraculous protection awarded to married mothers is going past self-parody to the point where it’s just insulting. When you know in the first thirty seconds that 1) this character must be pregnant because she’s a woman without a visible child and 2) that kid will survive because she was married, your show has a problem. For serious.

Also, you imply that mercury poisoning is easy to clean up as long as you take the mercury-filled fridges out of the water. I just, I mean, what…is WRONG with you?