I don't know about the s&m angle, twisting/bending necks and the appearance of firearms seem to take it beyond role playing.

Don't worry dude, I have it on good authority that Treme's third season will introduce some exciting new elements: lycanthropy, voodoo and time travel.

Those fifteen minutes were my first exposure to True Blood beyond seeing its promos.

I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
Harley's last song and the title of Earle's latest album.

No you're not that cynical, Davis' heavy-handed political satire and whiney voice kind of kill the momentum every time they get a groove going.

This season of Treme takes place during the Saint's 2006 season. This most recent episode was referring to their surprising post-season playoff run in January 2007 which, sadly, ended in the NFC Championship game in Chicago.

Green card marriage
Will Janette marry her sous chef? Or has she already?

Unclear on the murder investigation
This went a little too fast for me to catch, might need to watch again unless somebody else here has an explanation or different interpretation.

Goddamned handsome devils
Why doesn't this fucker ever age? He's looked the same since The Outsiders. Come to think of it, so do his costars, Tom Cruise and Matt Dillon.

Ah yes, the Dickensian angle.

Sonny & Annie aren't Zack & Addie
The phone conversation that David Morse's character has with the New York Times reporter should dispel the theories predicting that Sonny and Annie are surrogates for the real-life Zack Bowen and Addie Hall and would meet similar fates.

True, had a lotta neighbors originally from the Ninth Ward when I lived in the Parish.

Yeah, again I fully realize that NO was in economic decline (some might even say nosedive) even before the flood. It's one of the underlying reasons why I left a decade before.

"under no circumstances can you say it has experienced a comeback"

Damn, never realized Lobsters is a NO native, kinda makes me a little ashamed. Then again, so was Lee Harvey Oswald.

The beginning of the end
I'm probably just being recklessly pessimistic, but this sounds like AMC is being diagnosed with a cancerous growth. Not the kind that necessarily kills right away, but one that will lead to increasingly bad decisions and ultimately to the moral corruption of a once fundamentally decent entity.

I'll probably watch 10-15 minutes of it three years from now on basic cable.

Kinda feel like he's being imposed on the American audience against our will.

Just looked up Diablo Cody, guess I was wrong about her being a teen screenwriter phenom. Doesn't change my opinion about Juno.

Didn't realize that Juno was written by Diablo Cody. She's the teen writer that Hollywood threw a butt-load of cash at in hopes of enticing the kids away from their computers and back into theaters, right? With that bio, she was bound to get a backlash regardless. In this case it seems deserved.