Having paid attention at the time, I can assure the author that every criticism she uses in that article was made at the time against Seinfeld.  (Well, OK, not the one about Julia Louis-Dreyfus' grandfather.)

Wait, there are people who don't like the laser dance scene?  Where are these people?  Are they seeking treatment?

Apparently so.  Ryan mentions it in either a commentary or an interview (it might even be the after-the-finale interview with Sepinwall).  Ryan wanted the strangling-the-cat moment to be the limit of Dutch's obsession with knowing serial killers.  Ryan gave Karnes a great little piece of direction for that—after…

Oh my fuck yes.  The Sopranos did everything it could to distance you, The Shield did everything it could to pull you closer.

I'd say the same thing. And every time he interjects in the way I've cited, the book's subtitle becomes The Outrage of Errol Morris and not The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald. It's Oliver Stone-type stuff (who Morris rightly slams in the book) and Morris is better than that.

Just reread the parts you like, and you'll piece together your own understanding. That's what I did with this and Infinite Jest and other huge-ass books. If you want a more definitive guide, check out A Gravity's Rainbow Companion, an exhaustive work mining all of Pynchon's sources. It's really straightforward and…

Just read Errol Morris' A Wilderness of Error and it's…good enough, I guess—you do come away convinced, as Morris was, that innocent or not, MacDonald was unjustly convicted. A lot of elements that were great in The Thin Blue Line are here: drawings of objects, repetition-with-variations of key points, and discursive…

I am happy for you and impressed as all fuck. Keep up the strength, my friend.

It was clearly Heat: the series, and ten minutes in, I said "Tom Sizemore IS Al Pacino as Vincent Hanna." It felt a little too derivative on its own, but now it feels like a massive preparation for Collateral, so it gets my respect.

I love the look he gives when (I think) Glenn Morshower tells him he doesn't have to go back. You can see the thought is "sir, I have no idea what the fuck you just said."

He sounds like a Mann character now…if Mann remakes Straight Time (he did an uncredited rewrite on it), Sizemore has to be the lead.

Um, yikes.  Are you OK (at least healthier) now?  We care, y'know.

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wallflower Is Listening To. . .

@avclub-a171d9b078d8fd668b699188db001042:disqus : if there was anybody who could scheme his way out of prison and pull a full Monte Cristo, it'd be Ronnie.

Repo Man and To Live and Die in LA look like inspirations for the visuals…both have that sun-blasted junkyard look of non-glam Los Angeles. (That is, most of it.)

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Shawn Ryan kept having to tell the writers "Vic is not a serial killer!"

Season 6 is so underrated. Those episodes are the tremors that are the foreshocks of the apocalyptic earthquake of season 7.

@avclub-22eda830d1051274a2581d6466c06e6c:disqus : that's close, but I'd give it to "Kingdom Come" to end the fifth season opener.