Unresolvable ambiguity …

… Bryan Appleyard —  Schrodinger’s Mob Boss. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The desire to Agatha-ise the show is a sign of literal mindedness, a phenomenon I noticed while reading some of the commentaries. There was, for example, a discussion of the ‘symbolism’ of the cat in the last episode. This suggested poor education. Writers do use symbols, of course, but only sparingly because a fixed connection between an object and a meaning  is an awkward and rather ugly concept.