I think the two women who participated in that crime scene recreation were definitely sex workers he knew personally. So I think it's well established that he both employs and is friendly with them.

Once they found out where Savage was the only thing they should have been doing other than capturing and/or killing Savage was making sure something like everybody in the town being a Savage minion wasn't going to turn out to be true the moment they did move.

I do!

There was a famous case here in Quebec where this man is convicted on the strenght of the victim's identification and goes to jail. The victim would then go on to retract the identification when an incident makes her think that maybe it could have been an identical looking man. The case weakened, he's eventually…

I think that for the reason you describe, it's hard to say from just the one episode sample. There's no real sense of what the series is about yet, just of what watching the characters is like. Now that's promising, but we'll see how that works out over two more episodes with regards to holding interest!

Watched the first episode of The Knick.

This pretty much airs whenever, then?

But why.

The AV Club is a website and can't eat food itself.

The Hot Duke isn't going to be happy about this usurpation.

The clock may be symbolic.

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Yeah I really enjoyed the show as well, but I did have to actively work against the connection. Without the "This is a True Story" at the start of every episode it would probably have been easier!

I disagree that the film's focus was small. I think it's a story about the human condition.

Warlock crazy!

Have a birth!

I wonder if Malvo was meant as the Anton Chigurh kind of character of the whole Coen Brothers movie sampling thing the series apparently has going on?

About the psychics thing: is that Alan Moore's belief that psychics and such things really aren't fantastic but part of the real world? That's kind of how I grew to take it.

Yeah, Fargo the movie is like: evil is banal. Evil is some dumb idiot who wants to argue over a car with his criminal accomplice when he's sitting on I don't remember how much money nobody knows he has.

I'm so scared right now.