Don't know if it was too short, because I don't know how much farther it could have really taken its premise. But I also disagree with the idea of "it wasn't scary because it wasn't gory." Why does gorier equal scarier? I guess some people just don't go in for the idea that what you don't see can be so much scarier…

I sensed it was on purpose - like the director wanted to be a bit playful with horror movie tropes.

You'll enjoy a lot of rich camerawork in the film then. Very sumptuous. Reminded me of The Virgin Suicides a bit, what with wringing beauty (and rot, too, of course) out of its suburban Detroit setting.

Ditto what phillyd said, but beware some really nasty nudity too.

Yeah, the "It" as STD reading is a bit too facile. I mean it's there, definitely. But that's not all that's there. Like this reviewer said, there is also the loss of innocence element. Maybe even hints at a plague of parental abuse.

Do sweet, good natured people engage in infidelity they are fully aware is going to hurt multiple parties involved? And was there not physical intimacy happening on screen by the end?

Self-destruction was a big theme of the episode, no? Again, maybe even Brett is driving off to do something self-destructive instead of driving to Sacramento at the end.

I assumed it was supposed to be a bit ambiguous where Brett is headed at the end. As many other people have pointed out, that's a long drive to Sacramento. So maybe he's going to see Steenburgen's hippie character again?

At least Kanye didn't lip synch.

Best line ever of any Wes Anderson film.

Nice, thanks for ID-ing that song. It was really bothering me. I knew I knew it but couldn't place it. Thought it was a Dum Dum Girls song but then realized that wasn't right.

Perhaps Linden and the kid weren't standing there outside the window. Perhaps Seward, with his head certainly swirling at that moment, only imagined he saw them. Or perhaps I just want to have that ambiguity being there because I also thought no way could those two be allowed/think it was a good idea to stand there.

Yeah, this was tough to get through. Still not as jarring to me as the ep of Southland when the two cops got kidnapped. I seriously thought I was going to throw up watching that.

Yeah, I think the finale is actually set up to be a disappointment after these last two really good episodes. They are just going to wrap up that the real serial killer is Riddick. I think we can see that coming. To me the one still interesting question is why Adrian was drawing that picture over and over of a…

Nice.

Yeah yeah yeah, but when is the new season of Eastbound and Down starting?

I plowed through Will Hermes' chronicle of the NYC music scene in the '70s, Love Goes to Buildings on Fire. That was great, especially since I'm a huge fan of so many of the artists profiled in it. Just finished Joseph Mattson's Empty the Sun since it was what got the ball rolling on the recent L.A. Weekly Best L.A.…

Thanks for the info! I figured I could probably find it with some digging around on lyrics sites, but then I thought why not just ask here.

Yeah, I definitely took it that way too - that Holder was going to go wail on Mills but then changed his mind when he ran into the lieutenant.

I still think Moms knows more than they've gotten out of her. I was thinking the grand irony of the season was going to be that Bullet and druggy mom ended up doing the footwork that finally revealed the killer, and now with Bullet gone, druggy mom better step it up beyond just flyering cars.