Then Glenn: How long you been out here? [emphasizing 'out here' to imply that it is something on the other hand from what they were just discussing]
Abby: Six weeks. Does it get easier?

I thought that too… though thinking it through now, not even Rust Cohle's a cynical enough bastard to make his partner watch his own daughter…

That felt so much like the final scene of the season that I had to double-check that it wasn't. The entire episode spent searching for the scar-faced man, and it's somebody they already met, come upon by two minor characters. It's almost like they had that in the penultimate episode to reassure us that it WOULDN'T be…

Is this going to join 90's fuzzy-flash in having every single episode be a variation on supervillain discovers method to mind-control Flash?

except Harmon drinks vodka, not scotch…

Ah, OK, I see it now. I just had to scroll past 17,000 posts of people talking about Hannibal and The Wire and Breaking Bad and every other tv show in the world except True Detective before I found that discussion…

With all the Twin Peaks comparisons getting thrown around, am I the only one thinking that Aubrey was the victim of sexual abuse? It seems pretty foregrounded, if not underlined:

Did you just send the most powerful man in Westeros to bed without his supper?

GoT is like the mythical hydra. For every character GRRM gleefully murders, he introduces four or five more.

I'm really surprised how much people liked this episode. I thought it was terrible, especially given the introduction of Larroquette should have made it better, not worse. It literally made me angry how poorly written it was. Yes, I'm in a full-on nerd-rage. Let me share it with you:

Cool story bros: the first time I watched that sketch, one of my housemates thought the thimble-knocking-over was so funny he insisted on rewinding so we could watch it again (our housemate who'd already seen the sketch -tried- to stop him…)

THAT'S the movie I was thinking of! Smart bullets that can chase a man around corners— already done in the 80s

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Further thought: if Hand is Jeph Loeb, does that make Coulson Joss Whedon?

Up until this episode I was convinced that Chad was an overcompensating closet-case. I kept waiting for him to get Felix alone and make a pass at him…

ALSO: Reading this review reminded me of media critic Thomas DeZengotita's theory that all television shows are actually about television writers— that the rhythms of tv dramas, whether they're set in a hospital or a police HQ or the White House or wherever else, are actually the deadline-driven rhythms of writing for…

Tell me I'm wrong: More and more I'm seeing MAoS as a ripoff of the first season of Babylon 5. Coulson is Sinclair, who can't remember what happened to him (he has a hole in his mind.) He gets kidnapped by baddies who hook him up to a memory machine (RED WIRE! RIGHT TEMPLE!) to wash his mind to a blinding gleam— erm,…