That shot of her in the cabin that made it appear as if she has antlers coming from her head sealed it for me.

I lost it when Misty was blasting Phantom of the Opera in her car. Delightfully deranged.

Come on. We gotta shout out Alan Ruck. He is constantly benched on the show, and he plays that need for recognition so beautifully. It feels like we all undervalue his work on the show, and this episode gives him a great ending to his season arc.

Misty setting up the whole thing for attention is too obvious, but boy she sure did spot the weird symbol in a random assortment of disorganized Polaroids fast.

The Grace scene in Talladega Nights is a better time capsule of the Bush years in America than any biopic about Bush ever could be.

Talladega Nights is an oddly lovable evisceration of American exceptionalism. I think all of his Ferrell movies have some degree of satire (and are all better than any of his post-Ferrell movies), but Talladega and Other Guys are definitely the more focused endeavors. 

Oh yeah, Blueshammer is still my go-to nickname for any bar band playing a blend of “blues, punk, rock and metal” while some dude gurns his way through some boomer-bends on a Les Paul.

“I don’t want to meet someone who shares my interests! I hate my interests!”

I need to revisit this. Back then, which I guess is keeping with the source material, I liked it okay, but...yeah, I grew up with the precise kinds of townies in that flick. I did not care for them. Fuck, replace “dicking around with nunchucks” with “inexplicably doing shirtless handstands outside of Store 24 (for…

In hindsight it’s crazy that one of the most significant events in 90s pop culture was Kurt Cobain’s suicide, but I don’t recall any particular emphasis as a teen on destigmatizing mental illness or promoting mental health (beyond overtly religious, unhelpful “concern”). My age group indulged in that awful “Romantic…

As a late period Boomer I liken Enid’s end to Jimmy’s in the Quadrophenia film - not suicide, but a symbolic acceptance of having to navigate the “real world” on its own terms. The white “blues” band may be the best satire of cultural appropriation ever (as well as the frat boy in the audience craving some Reggae).…

there’s a whole right leg theory going on. the symbol indicates someone with one leg, and there’s been lots of storylines around missing/injured right legs.

I imagine the reddit theories discussing the potential of cannibalism is very heated.

I think the girl with the broken leg was in the montage of the reporter talking to people in episode one (“It could have been me!”)

She had a wine glass in her hand and seemed a lil’ bitchy.

I’d like to propose a theory now to explain some of the events we see:

I think the running girl seen at the beginning is Lottie, and she’s not being chased by the others, but she is in the grips of a psychotic break by running out of her meds (I’ve read elsewhere that she’s taking pills for her schizophrenia, but I’m…

As she swings the axe into his thigh, her cheeks and glasses are splattered red and it seems Misty’s true face has been revealed.

I don’t know ... in a way, all of Paul Thomas Anderson’s movies are super hero movies. Adam Sandler in Punch Drunk Love? The Hulk. Daniel Day Lewis’s characters in There Will be Blood and Phantom Thread? Hulk and Hulk. Mark Wahlberg’s penis in Boogie Nights? You guessed it: Hulk.

I was so impressed by this pilot that I fervently hope they tell their story in one season and that’s it. The thought that something that seems so good (albeit after one show) could be dragged out a la Orange is the New Black or Big Little Lies and more or less neutered is kind of a bummer.

It will go down in history.

Can’t wait for the theater episode!