I disagree. It seems that a good bit of Norma's lines are intentionally fucking HILARIOUS. It drives the point home that crazy people are just…well…funny (see Milos Forman's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"). And when she breaks down and says "I hate this town!", it's so believably coming from a person who is just as…

OKAY. Here's the problem with this show: Vera Farmiga. Her performance in this show is so deft, so dynamic, so PERFECT, that it eclipses everything else around it. 
Freddy Highmore lays on the Norman so thick, it's almost as if he watched Anthony Perkins in Psycho a couple times and decided to perform a (poor)…

You wouldn't lie to me, would you Uncle Martin? 'Cause if you did I'd be so angry I don't know what I'd do.

You wouldn't lie to me, would you Uncle Martin? 'Cause if you did I'd be so angry I don't know what I'd do.

This show gets SO much better. I'm finishing the last season right now, and I can't wait to read the reviews for it. That said, you'll get tired of Kira, Zach, trust me. She's kind of an abrasive religious/nationalist zealot.

CITIZEN RUTH!!
It must be done, Rabin.
This film hasn't quite gotten the due it deserves as one of the greatest comedy films of the 1990s. Laura Dern churns out a classic performance and there's a killer fucking Burt Reynolds' cameo. Not to mention that no other film has quite captured the absurdity of the abortion…

animation lovers…
the simpsons is certainly an old flame, who, even though she's gotten lazy and dull-witted after all these years, is still close to yr heart and hard to let go of.
king of the hill is a girl you know is pretty smart and sometimes funny, she just doesn't quite get the job done like yr old lover.
family…