Episode 8: Marty and Rust interrupt the murder cult, upsetting one of their rituals and letting something terrible into our world. They are then devoured by an Old One as the first of many, many people to lose their lives to what they've unleashed. Oops.

Putting together what he says here about episode five with some spoilery things he said on the latest Nerdist Writers Panel episode… WE ARE DOOMED. DOOOOOOOOOOMED.

I'm so happy we won't have to wait till the whole thing's aired and then some to get these sort of insights like we usually do!

MY BODY WAS NOT AS READY AS I THOUGHT IT WAS.

MY BODY IS READY (to be made into something delicious and far prettier than I am)

I'm sure this will be a sensitive, thoughtful, and remarkably stereotype-free portrayal of what it's like to live with the conditions they've chosen to give the characters……….

This will be the comedy smash of the summer!

Trust him…. to reduce me to a shrieking mess once a week starting in a few more weeks….

I'm not really worried about Fuller using elements from post-Lambs books. He'll change/drop the shitty or dumb (or both) stuff, I'm sure.

I always took how batshit that novel is as Thomas Harris being kind of "fuck you" in response to his publisher/the movie studio saying, "You write another book with Clarice in it, or we'll find someone who will," after the massive success of the SotL movie.

Starling's the biggie, obviously, but MGM also has Jame Gumb and Benjamin Raspail locked up, I think. It's all the specific-to-that-one-novel characters that they'd have to get permission to use explicitly (rather than doing Shmarice Shmarling as Fuller's said they'll do if MGM won't play nice).

WATCHED THE TRAILER WHEN IT FIRST WENT UP. STILL FLAILING.

Also, now I'm going to get all hyper emotional when I rewatch old episodes and see the freeze frame about Britta owning a used iPod nano…

If last week's was, "Yes. This is definitely the show I love." This week's was, "OMG. THIS IS DEFINITELY THE SHOW I LOVE [heart eyes emoji x 10]."

So that pretty much perfect. That entire montage might as well have been a super cut of hilarious episodes that will never be (OR WILL THEY).

I still don't know how to feel but is definitely laughed more at this than at that first commercial thing.

I… I would kind of be down for that.

I was kind of actively angry at this for even existing until I saw who's directing it. Monsters isn't a perfect movie by any stretch, but it's really great by "no budget, barely any script" indie standards.

I… I still have absolutely no idea how I feel about any of this. The only thing that jumped out at me (aside from the funny whiskey joke) was that the audio on some of the recorded dialogue sounded odd. I'd just assume that's due to not working with final mixes yet when making the trailer.

The show's low-rated, but it's a critical darling and also extremely cheap for NBC to buy. It's funded via a different sort of studio deal than most shows and is sold overseas as well (apparently S1 was a hit in South Korea?). On top of it being cheap for NBC to pick up S2, Fuller's said that during the period when it…