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I'm absolutely blown away by this grade. It wasn't as terrible as the first two seasons (and I'm guessing on the second one, since I watched three episodes that year before giving up), but it was still a far cry from engaging television.

"I find a lot of their reporting (be it on their website or HBO) at the very least interesting, and at best eye-opening and informative."

"HBO's new series based on the magazine is full of global atrocity porn. But is that totally a bad thing?"

Seriously, what the fuck? That nearly ruined the episode for me.

For his last three or four projects, I've only found out about them after their release. It's always a pleasant surprise. The dude is super prolific, and when he's not putting out his own work, he's collaborating with somebody else, it seems.

The Nocturama comparison is pretty apt. Both albums have a kind of middling, uninspired quality to them, like Cave has exhausted his bag of tricks and is now going through the motions.

This album is a plodding, pretentious mess. It takes all of Cave's flaws as a writer (trying way too hard to be cool) and composer (trying way too hard to be a Cohen-esque crooner) and puts them front and center. I've been a Bad Seeds fan since I was a teenager, but this album finally has me convinced that Nick Cave…

I'm an idiot.

I'm an idiot.

I think it's an okay show.

I think it's an okay show.

A thinly-veiled autobiography masquerading as fiction from an MFA graduate with three names that necessitates an explanatory essay where the author name-drops David Foster Wallace?

A thinly-veiled autobiography masquerading as fiction from an MFA graduate with three names that necessitates an explanatory essay where the author name-drops David Foster Wallace?

So I take it you've never run a marathon before?

So I take it you've never run a marathon before?

It's clunky more often than not. And in that way, it's not terribly different from most prestige British TV dramas, maybe.

The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret reminds me of a joke that I heard on It's Not Funny called "Tasteless, Odorless," where Cross concocts an elaborate history for this sheet of culinary gold leaf that blankets a dessert he's ordered at an upscale restaurant.

"That is not a reasonable supposition. Most illegal workers in the United States send money back to their families so that their family members can come here too."

1. Gus could spend the cash to send them back to Honduras, where they may labor in relative obscurity, never talking about the underground laboratory they saw in New Mexico. Or they could come back to America and turn him into the authorities, or let the information slip to somebody in power (either in the Mexican…