"Beauty will redeem the world."

I don't hate the sheriff. I think he's a thoughtful man who tries to do the right thing. He just happens to think Daniel is guilty, as would most lawmen in his position.

I have always been thinking how great Ted Sr. has been, and I said it out loud as he held the coffeemaker, looked around at the wreckage, was about to say god knows what, took a breath and just quietly said, "Filters."

In a different show, I'd bet it would be soon, but in this one—

Maybe being able to have casual conversations in German with Franka, off-camera, is making her more comfortable. (Nah, but it must be nice to have the option.)

In some ways she's been as confined and socially impoverished as Daniel while her life was defined by his being on death row, and from a younger age. No wonder that she's going through a painful adjustment as well, and it's a beauty of this show to see that.

He recently did a WTF podcast, and was really likeable on it, so I was glad to see he was funny and charming on this, even if I never go to one of his concerts.

Just Young's reading of the line "Please" when she asked if she could hug him. It killed me. So simple, but it killed me.

Keep watching. It's worth it.

Oh, stuff like this:

That was Neil Campbell?

I really really didn't want to see Wilfred take the dog suit off, even though I knew it was a hallucination. Shows how far this show has suspended my disbelief.

Yes. But of course it was still humiliating, scary and traumatizing, which I think Daniel has realized outside the heat of the moment and was trying to start to make amends for.

Good review; just one little thing. The medication wasn't "forced". The prison medic wasn't authorized to prescribe, or apparently even officially recommend, anti-depressants. Daniel had to specifically request them, himself.

You know that subtle little yank at Daniel's upper arm has to have hurt those broken ribs like hell. He really, really didn't want Daniel to talk about that symbolic coffee rape in the tire shop, even (or especially?) to get an apology.

I think she's going to sign it anyway, just because she feels bad about how alienated he is in the marriage these days.

The reason the Herzog costume was so disturbing was that we saw Paul F.'s naked upper lip. That was—disorienting.

So far the atmosphere of this show is not working half as well for me as, for example, "The Returned". That one caught me right off; this one hasn't. But it seems like the kind of show I should like, so—I'll try another episode, anyway.

A dark, but understandable, undertone. How many people could have been through the abuse and torture (this year even more than last, I think, they're showing how solitary confinement alone, as studies—and a recent Frontline documentary—have shown, can cause real psychological disintegration), and remain stoic to…

It's still an assault, with a sexual component, and pretty damn traumatic. (Not to mention that he was choked out.)