Helena seems to be a one-season wonder given the finale, but I sure hope not. She was probably not the finest of the clone performances by Tatiana Maslany but she might have been the most fun one.

Hope springs eternal! I am right there with you, dude.

Last week a lot of commenters were hating on Diane Kruger's character & performance but I don't get that & hope that starts to fade. I think she is doing a nice job at creating a human but troubled character. And if you aren't fascinated with/ attracted to a beautiful woman who is smart and hard working and passionate…

Didn't Cronenberg already make that movie?

Yeah I wonder why they didn't talk to Jackie Mac, who is a current espn employee! Maybe she just doesn't like to label herself like that. But you'd think her perspective is different—unlike all the other pioneering female sportswriters who as it was pointed out in the documentary eventually changed careers (possibly…

Sharknado and the Temple of Boobs

I think this is a nicely creepy movie, not scary as such really. And Scott of course is good. The one scene I think that didn't work—and this really isn't his fault exactly, but just is sort of the problem with casting him—is when he starts yelling at the ghost. And suddenly you basically have Patton shouting down a…

"So you're against me now too? Is that how it is boys? The whole world, God almighty, and now you."

Carlos Castaneda's work was sort of psuedo-anthropology. A lot of it was devoted to his supposedly studying with a mysterious shaman, ingesting hallucinogens, and traveling to alternate planes of reality, which could be construed as a form of time travel, I guess.

By the way for some reason I am always obscurely very pleased when someone on the av club boards refers to me as "E.L." or "Evil," like that is my real name. Dunno why.

The writers could have mistakenly thought Castaneda was Brazilian, like I guess I did. But if everyone is sure that's not the case I guess it's not. But I agree W.E.M., that is absolutely a wildly random line.

Huh. Well that's weird. This episode is still pretty much the greatest thing ever IMO though.

Sharknado 2: Tara Reid and the Temple of Boobs

Shannon Doherty and Danica McKeller, maybe?

The random Carlos Castaneda reference is one of the most out of left field ever Simpsons references for me. (That is who the Brazilian person line refers to, right?).

I am going to vote for the stem-breaking deer with hands from Adventure Time as the creepiest one of those

Did we know before now that the different books were seemingly different copies of the same book, not books with different information? I feel like I didn't know that….

I still can't decide if we should be more scared of Bill or Gideon. Bill certainly seemed far more powerful, but Gideon is sort of relentless & did get the deed without him (and what was it that Bill wanted from Gideon??)

Sharknado, to me, exists in a very pure place that is beyond concepts like "good" or "bad." It just is, and that is enough.

Weirdly once the bikini waitress gave her version of Robert Shaw's Indianapolis monologue you realized she was this story's Captain Quint.