Season 4 is great on its own, but it gets so much better after you've watched the whole series and can see how it fits into the whole story.

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I'm afraid this percussion-heavy music will lead those two young "hepcats" to smoke. . .marijuana.  Like a cigarette.

This. I'm pretty sure Elvis Costello rated it as his best song.

What I noticed was that someone had wiped the blood off her face and then reapplied makeup to perfectly highlight her cheekbones.

It did slip, after the shooting in the hospital.  Apparently (Christian Bale ran into this problem in American Psycho too) it's hard to maintain a false accent when you're playing stressed.

Yes, this.  Dancy's Graham is already so twitchy that a few more weeks of empathy is gonna send him straight to a mental hospital for observation.  This show is trying to play the emotional weight of killing, but if it keeps doing this every week, Graham would realistically have to break.

It's perturbing me too, because the lines are often placed in a very different context. Last week Crawford said "I wouldn't put him out there if I couldn't protect him. . .well, if I couldn't protect him eighty percent."  In Red Dragon, that line comes when we all know Dolarhyde is hunting Graham.  Last week, I keep…

A "rather forgettable" miniseries pleases you, as a King fan? That's quite the low bar. I supposed you're thrilled that the Under the Dome miniseries "exists."

Holy shit. Dr. Robuttnik is Thomas Pynchon.

OH DEAR GOD keep your voice down.  If that gets remade with a bunch of emo brat Abercrombie and Fitch models I'm blaming you.

It's the reason I am such a hardcore fan of the Book of J (the first draft of the Bible).  God is such an amazing and believable character there—full of power but not understanding that the Creation won't do what He wants it to do.  The idea of a just God comes later, with the Priestly text (let alone the merciful God…

Well, I can't deny that it was an adrenaline-fueled thrill ride, but there's no way you could cause that much mayhem and not incur a substantial amount of paperwork.

@avclub-ba9fab001f67381e56e410575874d967:disqus :  it's an idea you see in Joyce, Neil Gaiman, here, and (I think) Milton:  Hell is only, and horrifically, the absence of God.  The torture was invented by people to justify that absence.

May Kathryn Bigelow open up an IED-style can of remotely detonated whoopass on anyone involved with this shit.  And I think we can all agree, whatever our politics, that torture is absolutely justified on this occasion.

It's such a great and overlooked film, and Stamp is fucking gorgeous in it.  The repressed homosexuality subtext is barely sub when he's around.  And Robert Ryan has an L.A. Confidential-worthy last moment.

From the Troy/McNamara Plastic Surgery brochure:  David Duchovny (before)

Artistic fat joke:

My introduction to them was hearing "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight" as music for a dance in Torrance.  As I knew very little of Mr. Gibbard, it was one of those "wait, what is that?" moments.

Please Kill Me is fantastic.  I should probably check out the new Richard Hell book too.