From the Department of Yes! Fucking finally! :

Todd VanDerWerff fails all polygraph tests.

The shot which terrified me was when there was a sudden jump cut from the cascades of blood out of the elevator to 2 twin girls standing and looking into the camera.

Oops, missed Nephew of Anarchy's comment.

And the first season is on Netflix Instant.

"Seems about right for this crazy, loopy, addictive show."
 
I have a metric for shows like this:  if every show in this genre were this good, or even this good on average, would it be an improvement?  And yes, Luther is an insane show, but much better than the average TV cop procedural drama.  Actually, better than…

You can get a taste of it from the first 20 seconds or so of dead greg's 2nd link, just below.

It's been a while, so I don't remember the exact passages.  Oh, I nearly forgot:  Joe Son reeled off a few more quotes in his introductory video before all of this.  Contra Oh the Possibilities (although I kind of get where he's coming from), it was pretty damn weird, even by early UFC standards.

Anyone remember his UFC fight?  Joe Son entered with his entourage holding aloft placards with Biblical quotes (to the confusion of the color commentators).  His fighting technique consisted of taunting his opponent (a ninjutsu guy, if I remember correctly) by leaning forward and pointing to his chin.

I believe it was "rata" — a rat, because he went to the DEA.

Along those lines, "Truth" by Alexander in the scene where the cops are at the scene of Gale's murder.  Great song, great use in the episode.

Half a pack a day, here.  I probably would, to within 1 or maybe 2 cigarettes.  But Jesse isn't as OCD as I am.

He divines that his partner Ripley, who Cameron kidnapped at the end of
the last episode, will keep him alive only if the police ignore
Cameron’s pleas for attention.

ingest an unknown white substance

Thanks, Full Metal Jackoff, Gern Blanston, and Lack of Name.  When I read that line, I was kind of hoping for something along the lines of Chris Rock in Head of State, but the truth is apparently far more boring.

or Anthony Hopkins is playing a black man for some reason

Yeah, but if he keeps playing guys who've been imprisoned for years, he's going to get typecast.

Also:  all right, all right, all right.  And all right.

All right, but even if I were on the show, I wouldn't necessarily expect that question.  And think about it:  it's precisely the sort of question where the faster someone answers it and the more put-together the five examples are, the worse that person would come off a lot of the time.

She asks him to list five good things about himself, and he gets out,
“Five good things about me? I’ve never cheated on a woman. I’m honest. I
have good values. Morally, I’m great,” before she cuts him off and
points out how these are more empty bullshit platitudes, then storms
off.