Daddy Issues Alert

It's not an AV Club comment section without a comment like this.

Malvo does absolutes, I think. To try and keep up the ruse could've _probably_ worked. Maybe. But considering that Root is taking him to see a brother it Witness Protection, it could've just as easily put Root's hackles up, and thrown off the whole game. What the scene made very clear to me is that the guy doesn't…

Yeah, like I said in the review, it seemed like _someone_ was gonna die, and I didn't think Malvo would get his ticket before next week.

The word is still "robot." That's what makes his pronunciation so delightful.

This is true. Also, Flying Circus reviews have never had grades, so I wouldn't start them now. (Also also, the entire run of TNG is graded.)

I'm pretty sure the flashback doesn't happen because they can't afford it, which makes it even funnier.

Agreed!

Wait, what? How did I get in on this.

Wow, that is an incredibly insightful and unexpected comment. You really nailed an entire zeitgeist. I've never seen language arranged so expertly, and to such magnificent effect. A++, would read again.

Yeah, that ending never played as contrived to me—to me, it's a more interesting story if the racist asshole has just enough humanity left in him to remind us that he used to be a hero. (And if he had killed the kid, than the bit with the door closing on him in the end would've been too easily triumphant, I think.)

Nah, a flash-forward is something that implies a return to the "present"—the Breaking Bad example we list just jumps time, it doesn't jump ahead in time and then go back to the time it left. (Like, say, it did in Season 2, or the start of Season 5A.)

So much has changed!

Ah, you're right—it's only a few weeks, but I definitely should've mentioned it.

It was so great!

Did they not show the bit where her happiness spins out into an uncontrollable fury, leading her to spend money wildly and turn on anyone who tries to get her to calm down, before finally crashing and turning bitterly, hideously depressed?

Oh, I have no doubt it does. I just don't always get to things right away, and I have to be in the right mood to watch Mad Men.

It was to a lot of people I respect. Just not to me, and it honestly makes me cringe to hear it described as such.

Well, it's a short book.

I hated White Noise so much I read it twice just to make sure I hated it.