We'll see. At least brain surgery and/or a coma, I think.

Yeah, nasty stuff. Gus is probably right in the above video—that mailbox sounded ominous—like the closing of a crypt. Chuck may be fucked.

Be grateful. You've been lucky.

Well look, we could swap anecdotes all day. A friend of mine fainted in a basement, and had his jaw wired shut afterwards. Obviously, the danger depends on where you are—the surface you're standing on, the number of sharp edges or corners around you, etc. Passing out in a small, enclosed space like a shower stall…

(wince)
I feel terrible for Chuck, but at least, from a more detached perspective, this face-plant will have consequences, apparently. In 'Breaking Bad', Walt passed out and fell from a standing position at least two or three times, without suffering serious head or dental trauma, which simply isn't realistic.

I watched this episode after an eight-episode binge of 'The People v. O.J. Simpson' (not quite finished yet), and, dear God, the two series (a heavy-meta sitcom & a just-trashy-enough dramatic recreation) are soulmates… the line between juries and focus groups is blurry at best… a character in each series changing…

That's exactly what I said above: before the Civil War is "Frontier" and after the Civil War is "Western". And regarding your second remark, that's exactly why it's important to distinguish between the two: at one point, not that long ago, the Western was one of the most popular, most common genres in Hollywood, to…

I've been noticing a slippage lately, especially with internet coverage of THE REVENANT, between the "Frontier" genre and the "Western" genre — they are not the same thing, and THE REVENANT is absolutely not a Western. "Frontier" stories take place in the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries (single-shot black…

Fisher's not blaming any individual or generation of individuals for our current state. He's coming from a Marxist, materialist perspective, which looks for the cause of the "postmodern condition" in socio-economic and technological tendencies which are apparently beyond anyone's control: neoliberal capitalism,…

I don't necessarily agree with Fisher (known in the blogosphere as "k-punk"), and his arguments, in this excerpt at least, follow a familiar, well-trodden line of thought regarding postmodernism: that with postmodernity, our sense of historical progression breaks down and our sense of time or temporal milieu flattens…

Also, I appreciate the SAPPHIRE & STEEL reference! Here's a few words from a professional egghead who uses the last episode of the series as a metaphor for Time in today's late-capitalist world, if you're into that sort of thing:
http://thequietus.com/artic…

Yeah, I suppose that killing someone, anyone, should never be easy, and should involve some moral struggle. But if stopping the JFK assassination is all-important, to the point where you're willing to sacrifice your life in the present, and to burn through years of your life in just two minutes, then extreme measures…

I guess, in general, things don't go as planned, when it comes to time travel. Especially when THE PAST ITSELF is working against you. I mean, he can't even attempt to contact his father without a car flying through the telephone booth, and this guy thinks that he'll be able, that he'll be allowed, to stop the JFK…

Ah, I didn't read the series review. But for sure. And even, like I said, try killing that Russian guy. If he truly was the liaison between Oswald and the CIA, then it should have an effect. If not, then it rules him out and you can move on to another lead.

The fact that history resets with every trip to the past seems like a plus to me, and a wasted opportunity to learn by trial & error, on the part of Al and Jake. Instead of waiting around for two or three years, why wouldn't you just kill that Russian-oil-tycoon-guy in 1960, and then return to the present and see if…

The pilot was fun. And it makes perfect sense that Stephen King would write a time-travel story where the past itself is the Evil or the monster. But in terms of suspension of disbelief, once Chris Cooper's character told me that TIME ITSELF—the friggin' UNIVERSE!—would actively try to stop me… well, that's when I'm…

This episode (Ep. 6, at around the 46:40 mark) provides at least one strong set of suspects: Scott Tadych (the guy who was either extremely confused or just plain lying on the witness stand) and Bobby Dassey. As one of the defense attorneys points out, we have here two people with full access to the salvage yard…

This whole case is so frustrating, due to the conflict of interest. If the Manitowoc Co. investigators had passed their duties on to Calumet Co. and avoided the crime scene altogether, as they declared they would, this could've been a clear(er)-cut case.

Finding remains at that third site, in a "quarry pile" a good distance from the salvage yard, is extremely fishy. It's possible that a scavenging animal carried the two pelvic fragments there, I suppose, but highly improbable. I think that the one defense attorney laid it all out for us in Ep. 6: "The only reason you…

I enjoyed both THE TRAP and ALL WATCHED OVER BY MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE. I haven't seen BITTER LAKE yet — it's in my queue. It wouldn't surprise me if Noah Hawley is familiar with Curtis's work.