This is all fine and well, but can someone please explain to me who the Amish riverboat captain is?

I don't know, I thought the pilot was ok. Artful, even, compared to where the rest of the series went. How on Earth the show gets the ratings and reviews it does now is a complete and utter mystery to me, though.

This makes the 3rd time today that I've read someone making reference to a given show falling off like The Walking Dead.

Yeah, between eating all the fucking chickens and tonight's zingers, Rory McCann's definitely getting some of my favorite dialogue this season.

Holy hell, Poacher Diaries. Such a great selection of Converge songs. Locust Reign, They Stretch For Miles, My Great Devastator & The Human Shield.

My first impression was that True Detective was comprised of elements I've definitely seen before, shades of NBC's Hannibal series and other thematically-similar shows and movies. However, by the end of the first hour, those comparisons didn't really detract from the show in my mind, due to how well McConaughey &…

The thing is, until these last two episodes, I almost felt as though the writers had realized some of the more glaring faults in the show and set out to correct them.

What? There's nothing weird at all about her playing with Glen's bloody lung butter. Completely normal adolescent behavior.

Oh wait, he was totally 'Father of Dead Baby' on an episode of Carnivàle!

I was thinking this, exactly.

I felt like he momentarily became the Barbarian from Diablo III.

Wait, wait - "dagnabbit"?

Just a big ol' blue-eyed boner, Stevie was.

Yeah, myself, I'm not really understanding why we need a Big Bad to make for compelling narrative.

Lady fingers they taste just like lady fingers

Not sure if it's been mentioned yet or not, but one of my personal favorites is John Turturro's performance in Barton Fink.

It was put up by a marketing agency. The conspiratorial side of my mind thinks that they're likely collating data based on hits to the page or some such.

"HOLY SHIT! Oh my god, I just spent eighty thousand fuckin' dollars on a car! What the fuck am I thinking?" "Kenny, this blue books for ninety seven thousand, it was a steal! Worst case scenario, we torch the fucker and collect the insurance!"

Er, Phantom Zone, maybe?

Who is this is?