Yup, I agree with you on that as well - I'll usually give the nod to something starting from scratch versus an adaptation or a remake. My original comment was solely in reference to the idea of not seeing something akin to True Detective again in your lifetime.

Your distinction between the originality of vision in TD and Fargo makes complete sense. What I was saying is that TD, while an original creation of the author, doesn't (at least to me) warrant a saying that is was so overwhelmingly original so as to never be encountered again on TV. It was really cool, but it…

i understand it's meant as a compliment, but I don't get the "I don't think I ever will again" comment people make. Doesn't the fact that you just saw TD this year suggest that it's possible for people to make things like this? And I don't know how old you are, but I'm in my late 20's, so I'm fairly confident that…

Da Mayor's courtship of Mother Sister throughout "Do The Right Thing" is maybe my favorite aspect of that movie. it's sometimes silly, sometimes harsh, but their genuine chemistry and affection is so detectable; just very sweet scenes amid that day's turmoil.

I am finishing up Jeffrey Eugenides' "The Marriage Plot" which I'm mostly enjoying, then I will read David McCullough's "1776". I'm trying to maintain somewhere in the range of a 3:1 Fiction:Non-Fiction ratio, and it's about that time again I need to get me some facts.

It's a BMW. Not that it changes a thing, but… Also Lester is driving a VW these days - is there some thing there about evil people driving German cars?

i am finishing that book up right now actually, so this news was kind of odd seeming to me. I am glad I'm reading it at this point in my life - I could see a younger, less patient me becoming frustrated with the overlapping names and seemingly drawn out happenings but right now I'm just entranced by it.

I think it's Lt. Welsh who says that? Don't he and a baffled Luzz go first and when they duck behind a building it's still just the two of them? I remember at one point in the show Luzz (sp?) distinctly goes " I have NO IDEA" in a hilarious way responding to someone, I assume it's there.

Fair enough - I feel like I've seen different names for both credits on movies, maybe not. Though I have always kind of wondered how they could really be different, makes sense that they're not.

I think the implication is that cinematographer is not the same as photographer or being a movie's director of photography.

This makes me want a Fawlty Towers-style spin-off single season by Anderson.

I just finished "Swamplandia!" which I liked, though I think I wanted to like it more. Would anyone who's read both recommend her short stories if I was only so-so on the novel?

Isn't there a whole separate timeline they are going to introduce? This is all 1995? And the interviews are 2012? I was under the impression there's a middle section, and this might be a catalyst episode that sends Rust into a place where the case gets pursued rapidly and we arrive at that middle ground? I dunno. …

I think alot of the rave responses this episode is generating right now is for how pulse quickening that final segment was, and in particular drawing attention to the acting, cinematography, logistics of carrying out that steadicam, etc. I enjoyed it because it was a great turn in the story and executed tremendously,…

Was this filmed after McConaughey did Dallas Buyers Club? I'm sure it was written in this order, but I feel like this is the first time they introduce some real physicality to Rust, and I wonder if it was to correspond with him getting his weight back after being gaunt for so long.

I was watching The Master just last night… This is tremendously sad. Not even that he was just a titanic talent, but his moves were almost always interesting as well. From PTA to Kaufman, Mike Nichols, recently Bennett Miller - such a great player has been lost for so many future great movies.

It's a downbeat sports movie for sure, not unlike Bull Durham in highlighting the glories of success at the sport as the pinnacle of their lives because it has to be, since the rest is almost psychic existential drifting. But it also has some incredible laughs - I don't think I've guffawed more unexpectedly at a…

"Say what you will about the tenets of (insert philosophy here), at least it's an ethos."

I heard "Nymphomaniac" drew alot of people out of the showing for "The Raid 2", which I'm hoping is just a result of the former's allure and not a knock on what I hope is just an awesome action movie.

Not entirely the same, but there are definitely instances where composers like Hans Zimmer and John Williams recycle themes and they continue to get recognized as "Original" seemingly every year. It's obviously much easier to point to a screenplay, identify a pre-existence of either the work itself or characters, and…