I could see a whole First Blood inspired "soldier who thinks he is still in 'nam" gag.

Just started and was renewed for 2 more seasons.

Depends on what they are into it.

The clip sounds like Let England Shake Pt 2. Hopefully she hasn't entered the "This is what I'm going to sound like for the rest of my career until the album preceding my death" phase.

Other than the framing device I'm thinking that was the point. You could argue that the entire thing was a feminist take on horror movie moralizing. It's all about men not bothering to understanding women and paying the price.

During the last "Pitchfork is a male privilege bastion" episode was I the only person who was shocked to see that Pitchfork is still around? I thought they died with the last garage rockers to come out of Urbana.

Lyrically that was probably their peak.

This. I'll probably skip next week and watch them back to back.

I kind of like it. It gets back to old Who where you have a little time to establish villains and flesh out the universe. Best to think of it as a bit of strength training for a show that has gotten weak from monsters of the week and a bad back from long season arcs.

The Charlie Rose interview at the end made it work.

Not evil, just unbearably banal.

Yeah, gallows humor doesn't work as well when you remove the gallows.

Not to mention the next time we see his wife she is doing her own "damned spot" routine for a moment at the sink —only seconds later we realize it was just a regular spot and she didn't even know about the murder.

I was thinking the same thing.

I like that "our Jerry" was the only one who seemed to comprehend how condescending the whole idea was, even if he ended up falling intro the trap of easy emotional manipulation. We are Jerry. Sigh.

"Also, I would have liked more explanation as to why and how these
various elements contribute specifically to the Film Noir genre."

That adds to some of the appeal. MacMurray always kind of came off as a creepy asshole and the extra white bread on top just makes him more creepy.

There were always glimmers of it later on in his career, but then those glimmers turned into sad echoes. It's hard to forget the kid driving through South America who had nothing but compunction for owning a nice wallet.

Does everyone on AVClub write for Medium now?

On the opposite end the Mojave was kind of a boring location. With DC I was constantly wondering what was around the bend.