Would one rather be in Town and Country or Architectural Digest? I suppose, like all things on this show, it's a matter of taste.

Mann always devotes plenty of space to professionalism in his characters - some would say his entire career - and in the book that is the first point of contact between Reba and Dolarhyde. In the film, he allows that space, and thus allows the actors (Joan Allen is just great in this role, as is Noonan) to fill that…

I'm rereading Red Dragon along with these episodes, now that we've finally arrived at the source material proper, and I thought I'd share some comparisons, as I've always really liked Harris' terse, suggestive prose, and the clever ways FullerCo uses it.

Well, a giant red-hot mausoleum lit up with neon lights, while the rest of us get the equivalent of a morgue drawer.

Ah, a gimmick poster I never knew! I guess there are some things I missed about the old place.

I have yet to see it, but in general I am pro-Harmony Korine.

Aww, wook at the wittle Lamentation Fork.

Is this in PA? If so, where?

Actually, I think the Terrigen bomb is setting up AKA Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and other shows to come that feature superpowers. After all, the conceit of Alias was that she got powers, decided to be a hero, but it didn't work out - a story that makes a bit more sense in a world where powers are more ubiquitous and…

Respect.

If the May vs. Mockingbird fight were longer, it would have been better than any of those.

One thing that's pretty much always been good on this show: fight choreography.

I suspect it's also a bit of an homage to this famous pin-up:

Even as I could see the story beats coming, and could easily predict characters' actions - I was still moved to tears by the end. Which hasn't happened in quite some time. And it is precisely that predictability that made the Root/Finch storyline so effective - we know so well the forces inside them, conflicts and…

I'd agree, and to add - I will miss the Platonic dynamic between the two of them. It was one of my favorite continuing interactions on the show, Iris trying to figure him out and John being John. (Wrenn Schmidt is very charming, I find, at birdlike inquisitiveness.) I would have much preferred her as confidante…

I saw an interview with her that had her talking about different ways to fuck people up using random items nearby (she was a career martial artist before turning to acting). It was very endearing.

This show is my first regular exposure to Ms. Palicki, and I've gotta say: that woman is the most superhero-y looking person I may have ever seen. I don't think she could pick a piece of paper off the ground without it looking dramatic and badass, and she has this easy aura of presence and strength that projects…

Really, this show is just reviving a bit from classic allegorical science-fiction, the neutron bomb: a weapon that wipes away people but leaves the material world intact. It was tacit in stories from the likes of Bradbury and Vonnegut that the neutron bomb was just a setting convenience, so implausible it pushed the…

What I'm really disappointed about? That the show decided it needed to fill a straightman role. I like the concept of using the apocalypse to put sitcom tropes under duress - but I had hoped that it was going to do so on the fringe of sanity. It's the end of the world, there's three people left, and anything they…

Perhaps the virus is a scheme of the dastardly David Lo Pan?