I had more fun watching the show than the movie, and I liked the movie a lot. I'm looking forward to this one so hard.

Yes—forgot about that scene. That was good. He and Jackson (as always) stood out for me.

I got the feeling that critics were really afraid of shitting on a Tarantino movie when The Hateful Eight came out. All the hoopla around the format distracted everyone from the fact that the movie is one hour and five characters too long, and a complete tonal clusterfuck.

Tarantino is throwing some Crisco down to help with this late-career post-Inglourious Basterds slide. And yes, I'm making terrible jokes to cover my deep disappointment about his last couple of movies.

The characters' actions on this show bring up all sorts of questions. To get hung up on all of them looking for a reasonable answer would be to

I don't follow. Is there some library of Pynchon interviews I've been missing out on?

The characters were better, no doubt. But I thought it was a mess otherwise. I think the novelty initially distracted me into thinking it was better than it was.

Excellent observations.

The kind of narrative chaos the reviewer takes issue with (I think a legitimate gripe) has always been the show's M.O. From a narrative perspective, the first season makes very little sense. One action doesn't necessarily lead logically to the next. Digressions and loose ends are everywhere. Characters and story lines…

Thank you. Disagreements about this particular point aside, if understanding a work requires reading articles and interviews by the creator(s), the work is a failure.

Fartective is a deep cut in the Netflix Originals library. Unspecified origins. Actors you've never seen before. Space detectives. Three stars.

Over the course of a couple months, he's managed to make me watch and actually enjoy a superhero show, and make me tired of Fargo and kind of wish it doesn't come back for another season. I don't know what's true anymore.

Counterpoint: nothing anyone does on this show makes sense.

He's doing a great job with a patently ridiculous character.

I count that twenty minute chase scene as proof. You're suggesting that Varga is somehow working with the cops?

"This whole season seems like some stunt Malvo would play just to fuck around with people," i.e., bad writing. The first half of this episode was great as a standalone, and I just had to ignore the fact that nothing about it made any narrative sense. But the Varga / Sy business felt especially unnecessary.

I could see that if they could do it on the sly like DJ Qualls attempted to do—even then, the cops would become interested in who wanted her dead. But hijacking a bus to specifically take her out opens up a whole new can of worms.

I saw that the review linked the bowling alley to Lebowski, but didn't mention Sam Elliott's narrator showing up to discuss matters with the Dude. That's the most direct reference I saw.

Man, I hate to be this guy (again), but as great as that first half was, one thing keeps bugging me: Why did Yuri & the Gang go to so much trouble to get Nikki? Didn't Varga want her to take the fall for Ray's death? She doesn't know anything about Varga. All she knows is that two guys beat her up. I need to know what…

I could come up with something more articulate, but the truth is I just thought it was dumb. I didn't mind the little nods and oddities throughout the season, which gave the sense that something/someone was watching them. But that big reveal felt silly, and even sillier when it was barely acknowledged by any of the…