The way they used the speech by James Baldwin was powerful in the first episode, but I don’t feel it worked as well this time. 

I’m finding the episodic, almost “monster of the week” format coming from an HBO series quite refreshing! As someone else mentioned, it does feel like a collection of short stories so I’m curious to see what this leads to.

The one thing that bugs me is how George was able to find the secret library by... simply touching a book he liked on a bookshelf that was filled with books he likes. Was that intentional? Did someone know he’d find that secret library? Because if not, wow, that’s like locking James Bond in a room with keys to his…

I was shocked by the inaccuracies in this review, and completely confused by the paragraph where Joelle kept referring to George when the scenes were with Atticus.

I'm actually enjoying the pace of the show, because it's unexpected. The way you describe is how one would assume it was going to go down. I'm glad we don't have a couple hours of filler with the characters stuck in the house and talking in circles about the predicament they're in. 

That’s good. Unrealistically revealing attire would have undermined the horror and my sense of her as a character. 

I kept thinking “Montrose is going to shit a brick when he gets that phone bill.”

The sheriff was toying with them. 

Great opener for the series. I cannot imagine what is was like (and still is) to be Black and traverse this country. From what White people consider mundane, like stopping to buy gas, food, or use a restroom, to worrying about being hunted down as sport - it is shameful. A movie simply pulling back the covers on that…

This first episode was just so compelling, chilling, and beautifully shot .

As kids played in the open spray of a busted fire hydrant and the army recruited young men outside a busy shop corner, decades blurred into a single never-ending moment.

Rule#1 of being a Mythos investigator, always have a camera, a flashlight and Listen skill over 45%.

+1 for the Sea Captain joke

I don’t think I could have asked for anything more in a series premiere!

The minute I saw Atticus reading ‘A Princess of Mars’, I knew this show was going to be for me. Loved most of this pilot. Great casting. Incredible atmosphere. Some amazingly tense sequences. A very rich, promising milieu for future episodes. If I had one criticism, it’s that I wished they spent a bit more time on the…

When you mentioned Baldwin’s speech and the variousi that they were showing, I was hoping you would have referenced the subtle nod to one of Gordon Parks’ most famous photos.

DEJAH THORIS tossin I’M GONNA LOSE MY SHIT

I wonder who Atticus was talking to on the phone. Definitely a woman. She said Atticus shouldn’t have returned home… Could he be hiding his mother for some reason? Or is this an ex-lover? So many mystery women in this series!

What a riveting hour of TV. Letitia fuckin’ Lewis, indeed. And I would give anything to look as good in a white shirt as Jonathan Majors, goddamn. The Shoggoths looked cool as hell; excited to see where the show goes next. 

I imagine that the red woman is Dejah Thoris seeing as he was reading about her.