You're incorrect re: point 1), Maka556; I can assure you that neither Diane Kruger nor Sofia Helin have ever propositioned me for sex.

Yeah, his name is Gus (that's short for August when it's in English, and possibly Spanish, right?).  He was in the pilot, playing games on his computer, like August was when he was introduced in the original. Marco (the Mexican Martin Rohde) got mad at him for buying a joint from a friend who's the son of a cartel…

But only because he can't cash his check from that out-of-state bank.

I never thought about how oddly specific that was.  Or, how oddly vague the quote from Denny that subtitles this article on the home page is:  "I just needed some money to pay off some stuff."  There really aren't very many lines, no matter how trivial, that aren't completely incompetent, are there?

I'd probably move on and try to forget about it, acknowledging that it was a disaster when it was brought up.  I also wonder at times whether the ironic fandom of Tommy himself rather than his movies is kind of turning him into a freakshow, a fact of which he's only too aware, but then I learn things like the fact…

This episode drove home for me how incredible this entire cast is.  Like Todd said in his review last week, pretty much everyone feels like a fully realized character.  Like even that lady that the crazy guy looking for Steven Linder the Wolverine-burns guy feels like a character with some depth rather than someone…

Regarding Sonya having casual sex with some random guy at a bar, I felt like it was a pretty well-handled bit of characterization.  Correct me if I'm off-base here, but while a lot of people on the spectrum might not be comfortable with casual sex, that doesn't apply to everyone on the spectrum, right?  So, maybe it…

Yeah, this might have been made slightly more explicit in its presentation in the original, but I get the sense that this look into Sonya's sex life was, rather than pointless, actually good characterization into what motivates her.  She's extremely interested in the case that she's covering, which is pretty…

Because most people find sex more pleasurable than masturbation?

Yeah, outside the two main leads, Ted Levine's police chief is probably my favorite character.

I like the part where the dude asks her if she's done this before after she abruptly and awkwardly starts undressing seconds after handing him a glass of wine, to which she replies "Yeah.  Have you?"  And then his bemused response of "Yeah."  I found that fairly amusing, in addition to being a good moment of…

I feel like the ratings will probably already have taken a pretty solid hit judging from the people's divisive reactions to Sonya re: her likability.  But yeah, the world-building has been fucking fantastic so far; I hope that most other viewers feel the same way.

This guy seems too emotionally invested in what he's doing.  Chigurh doesn't give a shit one way or the other about anything he does, he just cares about upholding his horrific modern-day-The-Judge-style sense of ethics.

Yeah, one of the things I love about the Danish/Swedish original (and, thus far this version), is how uniformly excellent the show's B-and-C-story worldbuilding is.  And don't worry, all the seemingly unrelated stories will eventually connect.

Ha, thanks, I think I probably just have way too much time on my hands.

@disqus_oaLJ5MNIyo:disqus I think the pilot was an hour and a half (like the pilot for The Americans and presumably other FX dramas?), so I expect the pace should work better for the hour-long episodes, but then again, I thought the pilot was pretty good as it was, so maybe this is coming from a frame of mind about…

But how did the special effects of Pacific Rim compare to those of Sharknado?

I just hope they follow it up in the coming weeks with using the names of other Icelandic recording artists as profanity.  The dearth of monosyllabic (or household) names among the members of Sigur Ros, Of Monsters and Men, and the non-Bjork members of The Sugarcubes might make this a little more difficult to put into…

Yeah, I've always assumed that Jake being in his late-20s/early-30s means that he ages like a normal human (or in whatever arbitrarily chosen way a magic dog ages), otherwise he'd be pretty ancient for a dog, and not good for much more than waiting for Odysseus to show up before dying, or something like that.

It was pretty impressive the way that somebody wrote out an entire page-worth of the dream journal, considering the fact that it's only visible for a handful of frames, and that part of the page is obscured at all times during this stretch.