I actually remember Army of Darkness being well received pretty much as soon as it came to video. Apparently the whole "cult" thing started earlier than for most, either that, or I just have exceptionally geeky acquaintances.

The sketches with the mayor tend to have sound effects for some reason.

"I've never seen that cat."
"Uh-huh, okay."
"I have a cat."
"You do? What's it's name?"
"Just Pussy."

Can I hitch a ride on this train too?

Firstly, love the handle. Major props to any aficionado of English history.

I thought when Liam excused himself for bumping into Juliette after he planted himself down in the middle of her overlong soundcheck that it was foreshadowing for when they finally get drunk and make awkward accordion noises together.

Broadcast network TV ain't what it used to be and if they axed everything that had a less than satisfactory rating according to the same yardstick they used just ten years ago, there wouldn't be any TV left at all.

I loved Rayna's fake kick to the face at Liam on stage at the opening of the episode. That playfulness made it harder to accept when she did it figuratively later at the party.

Agreed. I was so disappointed this review wasn't up last night to say just that. I feared that AV Club stopped recapping it and thus left a comment on last week's episode. Whew!

Good point! She should have sent an assistant to Costco for a whole case!

Where's this week's recap? Please don't tell me A.V. Club stopped covering this show just as it had its best episode yet and the show is finally coming together!

@avclub-087970e21971cc19e2427e2fee6ba71c:disqus  I did consider that Padma would need an obvious clue that she had what she was looking for, as would the audience at home, but at the same time, it seems to fit Nolan's character so well. No reason it couldn't have served a dual purpose.
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I love that the potentially devastating high tech app (that
has a shadowy cabal plotting and scheming to possess it) has an ASCII welcome screen. Nice geeky old school touch there, Nolan.

To each his own. I personally like having a bi character on TV who isn't a woman playing at being "bicurious".

"This is Annabel. Leave a message at the beep. Fuck you. Beep."

I like this theory, though there's nothing in the movie that would suggest that this is the case, but that could be part of their narrative gap problem.

Particularly since when he was asked point blank by the archives woman early on in the movie if he believes in ghosts and he replies that he doesn't. That "scientist" turned on a dime!

It was a sad ending, but by the time the movie got to that point, I had been pretty disappointed by the previous 45 minutes or so, and somehow the ending ticked my overall impression of the movie up about a 1/3 of a grade. It wasn't expected, that's for certain. Also, I've never seen a horror movie that made me…

@avclub-db0c35ce2663c0e8c4b3f38642a49748:disqus Yeah, when Mama started grinding and singing "Justify My Love", it got really uncomfortable in the theater.

There were plenty of narrative gaps in this movie! The most annoying one for me was the fate of the doctor. He went to the cabin, got killed…and then when Not-Jaime Lannister and Brunette Rocker Chastain both go to the cabin near the end, where's the body? Where's his car?