I’d rate this higher than a C+, I think. The writers’ intent wasn’t to wow with something new, but just go back to these very likable characters doing their thing. The episode was a setup for the main mystery and it did its job. Given how well researched The Knick seemed to be, I wonder if the supermarket layout stuff…

Oh, it’s still a violent, very traumatic experience, but it’s not rape, which would have been more violent and traumatic. Both are terrible of course, but rape is worse.

Attempted sexual assault. As soon as they captured Ellie, that horrible thought did flash through my mind, but I figured the game never did that and the show wasn’t going to, you know, to a 14 year old girl. Still, very, very traumatic to Ellie and she’s probably gonna be haunted by her own justified rage: you could…

Well, the show certainly raised my bloodlust sky high. If I were Ellie, I would have stabbed him a bunch more times. They kept increasing David’s pure evilness. First he’s a violent, narcissistic authoritarian, then a cannibal, then a pedophile. (Real world priests and authority figures are usually two out of three of…

Of all Charlie’s movie’s references throughout the season, my favorite was in this episode. When she wakes up from her injury in the motel, very out of it, she mutters “I have always been the caretaker.”

Morty may not have even left Charlie behind. She could have gone to the police, told them Trey killed Chloe Jones, then gotten the reward money. Trey, anticipating this, kills her.

I hope we see a lot of Legs, er, Lilith.

Is this another example of film nerd who couldn’t get laid in high school and college gaining power to live out his arrested development fantasies?

I hear they’re in Cocaine Bear. Or one of them is a star of the movie is and the other makes a brief cameo.

Not the Infected in the mall, but the guy in the building they climbed to the roof of, who had that bottle of booze next to him. Look again at his face. Looks very much like Alexander Skarsgard. Hoping the IMDB credit is a fake.

Ramsey should win an Emmy. Probably will.

I’m pretty sure that was Alexander Skarsgard as the dead guy in the building hallway who had the booze and fell through the floor. Craig Mazin now has had two Skarsgards in two of his shows.

Terrific episode. I wondered if Lyonne had co-written and directed it just as an excuse to work with Nick Nolte. Who was quite poignant here. Lyonne directed the heck out of this episode; it felt like a 1970s horror movie, or maybe giallo. I especially liked the zooming in on people’s faces and closeups. The final…

Sorry, I thought you were criticizing the comment.

Sure, everybody has that fantasy. We’d all love to righteously tell off assholes at the moment they commit injustice. And I didn’t mean it in a sexist, “protecting the lady’s honor and virtue” kind of way.

Well said. I don’t think I agree that they’re a legacy or nostalgia act; I never thought of them that way. They’re decidedly not like the Rolling Stones or even Dylan, replaying the hits over and over again, coasting on their past laurels. Or maybe they do do that; I haven’t been to a concert of theirs in ages.

I was hoping for a new U2 record of original songs. It’s been about 6 years since the last one. I think Bono said they had made another album but it hasn’t been released yet for whatever reason.

She was terrific in Poker Face. Reading the HuffPo article, I’m baffled anyone thought she was unattractive. What that producer said and what Harold Becker did are infuriating. If I had been a random guy on set, free to speak my mind because I wasn’t working there, I’d have yelled at those assholes.

I didn’t think Keith tried to kill Davis with his sabotage; I think he just wanted to win the race. He didn’t mess with the seat belt, which Davis did, knowing that the inevitable crash would have greater injury on the driver. By killing Katy and using Charlie to get Keith, Davis knocks out both father and daughter…

Crap, she is. Teenage me had a big crush on Sarah, and her arms.