The Conversation: Answer the Caul

Live. Die. Come Back As Ghost. Bust Said Ghost. Repeat.

The first season sort of fizzled by the end in my opinion, but Jose Padilha as a showrunner is good news. His previous collaborations with Moura have been pretty great.

What a Hachette job! Because the guy's name is Hachette!

Well if you feel that way you should wait for the Jedi Death Star spin-off to buy all the Bothan figures.

I read these two comments as "boobs" and "pubic" and it still made sense. Am I having a stroke? Oh shit, "stroke". Ha, ha.

Shit. Fine.

Boiling myself like a frog exercise-wise was the way it worked for me. Started with 5 minutes of light exercise 3 times a week, over a few years it ballooned to almost 90 minutes of vigorous training 3 times a week. It was gradual enough that a new "upgrade" never felt huge or much more time-consuming than the last.

Not saying it was high art, but why should the show give you a clear resolution of every loose end? Is that what life is like? Does every piece of media have to spoon-feed us? I think it was pretty clear what happened, the show just wasn't too on-the-nose about it.

It was brought up by the defense in an earlier episode, but the cop on the witness stand said it was not unusual for a killer to ask something like that.

I thought his first appearance was very Law and Order-ish. A familiar actor appears for two minutes as someone seemingly tenuously related to the case? I wonder…

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That was nothing compared to Bodie's testimony. Every word that came out of his mouth was gold.

I guess somebody read "Save the Cat".

I don't know whether or not they just imported the character arc from the original series, but they really screwed up with Chandra in these last few episodes. We didn't even get a small scene with her at the end, because I guess her character only mattered in relation to Stone and Naz.

Great points, and that openness to interpretation is a major part of why I liked it. It's one of those stories where I know if I rewatch it a few years from now, I'll see a lot of things differently.

I almost want to upvote you for "I haven't even seen the movie and can tell it's factual". Almost.

The Sunset Limited is such a good movie but watching it, I felt like Black had to have had an answer for White's final monologue, as I'm sure he's come across nihilist arguments before. Although admittedly he wasn't really trying to win an argument, but to change the other guy's outlook on life. There's no way to…

The censorship gnomes' eyes just glazed over as soon as he started talking about "180-gram audiophile remastering".

Yeah, the title of their last album, "Hitler Did Nothing Wrong", could also be easily misconstrued.