She was actually 13 or 14, definitely into her teens at that point.

This was amazing for a second episode, which is usually a major step down from the premiere. I would say it was slightly weaker because the case of the week seemed kind of rushed, but it was still a powerful and memorable hour of television. It was genuinely haunting and had so many great moments… the closing was so…

That's… random. I was wondering where I'd seen her before. She seemed to be under the impression that she was on an episode of Sesame Street the entire time.

The stylized look and use of the color red in this episode was very reminiscent of Manhunter. If we ever see the asylum I hope it looks exactly like it did in that movie.

Indeed. I love this series but it's much closer to the book Hannibal than Red Dragon. Ultimately though I like it because the tone is so different from anything else in this universe.

I just cannot believe that anyone thought this was a good episode. From the cold open onwards my jaw just dropped from the horror of the trainwreck unfolding in front of me. The whole time I was asking myself questions… Why is this is so awkward? Why is there just silence for long periods of time? Am I still watching…

I am really starting to hate House of Cards because of how it seems to show up as the first result on every single search I do on Netflix now. And because it's a frustrating show, but that's beside the point.

The weird thing is he sometimes was credited as Stephen Rae on Farscape… I want to know the story behind that.

Yeah I think Todd is wrong on this one. People get naked on stage all the time… all of the comments made by people previously in regards to the scene made it sound as though he would be stripped completely naked. Plus that thing he was wearing under his clothes would already be considered underwear wouldn't it? It…

Dana was good until they felt the need to give her more screentime and some really horrible, unplayable storylines… I hope they don't go the same route with Paige and Henry on this show.

Michelle Fairley, the actress who plays Cat, was Nathan's mom in a couple of season 1 episodes.

Oh yes, I almost forgot about Leland/Bob's singing. Another interesting way that the series used musical performances. And now I'm considering the use of high pitches for the good or pure characters, contrasted with songs sung in low pitches which indicate evil/Black Lodge spirits. I'd never thought about it from that…

That wouldn't qualify anyway because it isn't sung by one of the main characters. That series had so many great scenes involving musical performances… somehow it kept going back to the well of using Julee Cruise songs to punctuate pivotal moments and it worked every single time. And then there's that bizarre scene…

"remarkably, the title, redolent of hot, steaming urine, is one of the lesser miscalculations involved"
Oh Rabin, once again revealing far too much about how your mind works.

Inflatable Shakespeare? I remember him having an inflatable version of the man in Munch's "The Scream", unless I'm forgetting something.

I have to give Todd props for covering this show, I don't think I would have ever heard of it otherwise. I've been a bit hard on it's flaws so far, probably only because everyone's been hyping it so intensely around here, but it all came together for me with these last two episodes of the season. For one thing we…

@Scrawler2:disqus I thought Mara was wonderful at the end of Brokeback Mountain, but I'm starting to wonder if that was just a freak occurrence. She was easily the worst part of both this and and the first season of  American Horror Story.

I just find the scope of the book, the character names, and the kind of loose, sprawling structure much closer to Dickens than Austen. Admittedly I haven't read the book since 2005 or so, so I don't recall that many specifics. From what I recall about the writing style it was probably closer to Edith Wharton than…

I'm going to say either Lexx's "Brigadoom" or Oz's "Variety" because those both sound absolutely insane and like they would be a lot of fun to read about. I haven't actually seen either episode (or show) but I'm very curious about them both.

@avclub-cfe912f5cb3aa572bd1c9ae2a9b82207:disqus That makes sense, I've yet to see that Wonderfalls for some reason, even though I loved Pushing Daisies. I'll have to check it out sometime soon, I didn't realize it had songs as well.