I still think Te'o was in on that from the beginning and probably having an affair with that Tuiasasopo dude. The willingness of the media to accept his story was shocking.

Look up the case of Empress Elizabeth of Austria in 1898, who was stabbed through the heart with a file, and kept walking until she passed out from loss of blood. She was wearing a corset.

They are so broadly hinting that Rust is the killer that it will be a disappointment if he is the killer.

David Lynch should probably work up his own HBO show. "Twin Peaks" was an HBO show that didn't realize it was an HBO show, back when HBO was airing "1st and Ten".

"I think Hart basically has Rust's number on this front, which is simply to ask why Rust can't stop thinking about these things if he's already made his mind up about them."

I am definitely not rich, but I make a good enough wage to afford HBO, and I have a spouse, and I've taken one unborn soul and brought it into the world as a person, so yes, I think Rust is more than a little bit over the top.

Yes, it's a painful shot of human reality. Of course, if we are all meatbags waiting to die, it's hard to see the emotional stakes or dramatic purpose in a show like "True Detective". After all, Dora the hooker and Rust and Marty will all be rotting corpses one day, so what's the point? Let the crazy dude kill…

I don't know, all that nattering from Rust is about the best advertisement Christianity could ask for. Atheism isn't all that attractive if it leads you to be that burnt-out, antisocial asshole. (I'm an atheist, BTW, but Rust is not doing us any favors.)

Does anyone else feel like Rust's soliloquies are getting kind of ridiculous? And in fact have been ridiculous ever since the first episode? There's probably a bunch of 19-year-olds in a freshman dorm somewhere similarly ruminating about the futility of existence. I don't think the show wants us to sympathize with…

That campaign, of course, led to the greatest bumper sticker in the history of American politics.

Well, now I've seen it—Alexandra Daddario should lift every episode one letter grade.

I haven't watched the episode yet, but I did watch last week's episode last night, so I'd like to say this:

Yes someone did and I'll tell you what I told them—breaking the 4th wall does not mean you are a mockumentary. There has never been any other hint of a documentary format on this show.

I don't think there's any basis to call it a mockumentary. Other than breaking the fourth wall all the time there's nothing that marks it as a mockumentary. Shakespeare's characters addressed the audience.

two words: Donner Party

I think the best John Redcorn episode was the one where Nancy dumps him and re-commits to Dale. But yeah, the one with his band was pretty good.

Well, someone did it, we know that much, and I'll take the lady who was present in the house and had a motive and had previously tried to buy a whole bunch of arsenic. Bill James brings a certain kind of skepticism which is useful when trying to determine if, oh, RBI are a good way to measure a hitter's value, but…

I hate that this is described as a "career reinvention", as if being a dramatic actor is somehow more worthwhile than being an incredibly gifted comic actor.

I'm glad the review mentions "King of the Hill", because this episode straight-up stole the whole Andy plot from that episode with John Redcorn and his band—Redcorn's hard rock band quitting on him in frustration, Redcorn finding himself entertaining kids, Redcorn ad-libbing G-rated lyrics for his dirty songs, Redcorn…

Classic example of Bill James overthinking things.