I was assuming Andy was investigating the hit and run on the kid from an episode or two back. That truck looks a lot like the one involved. And then of course the owner is scared about something and doesn't want to talk there, so Andy obliges him and the meeting isn't kept.

I'm sad that Jeremy Davies, in another wonderful turn as a slightly befuddled criminal who just isn't as scary as he'd like to be, doesn't even get a footnote mention here.

I think it's unfair to completely dismiss Lucas from any responsibility for the greatness of his early work, but when the big difference between that early work and the abject failure of the prequels and fourth Indiana Jones movie is that he has way more money and fame and way less oversight, it does feel pretty…

It seems unlikely because it sounds from Bobby like Evil Cooper killed him and burned down the station on his way out of town 25+ years ago. That would be an awfully long time for him to store a body without significant decomposition. I mean, all bets are off with the Red Room involved, but I doubt it.

It's like the universe gave us Michael Cera just for this role.

The character is dead, and while we've certainly had dead characters reprised already in the Red Room and environs, it's only been Laura and Leland Palmer and both were far more central to the narrative than poor Harold.

None of the three separate grocery stores I shop at in my area carry short-grain rice. I had to order from Amazon. It's insane.

Exactly. The main difference between Trader Joe's and other supermarkets is they only stock their store brand (with a few very popular name brand exceptions). But that means their store brand goes to much more unusual and tasty places than the generic top selling items of your average supermarket store brand.

Wow. One of my least favorite authors spearheading one of my favorite book series' TV adaptation with the channel that is currently knocking American Gods out of the park. So conflicted.

To me he will always be Jim Profit.

It wasn't peer pressure. It's the rules. The warden lady (/demon, probably) had specifically told him they wouldn't tolerate him being kind and loyal just a scene ago and his noticing they were watching via camera was when he joined in on beating Hitler.

I have no idea where you're getting any of that but it certainly wasn't anything I said.

It seems pretty clear to me that he misread the situation and thought her leaning on him and tucking her head against his shoulder was initiating romantic overtures when it actually wasn't. He's not the smartest kid, and he was obviously carrying a torch for her. It's not a very socially aware or responsible move and…

That's certainly possible, but if so it kind of ruins it being an excellent and rather elegant vehicle for backstory exposition, so I'm hoping it's not the case.

To me, the character origin the comics do for him turned an easy, puerile joke character into a really tragic figure. I freaking -cried- reading that issue. (And I'm not a Nirvana fan so that's not it.) Obviously they couldn't do the same story here (for timeline reasons if nothing else), but I definitely didn't get…

The comics went so gonzo that I don't think HBO would be able to do a direct adaptation, much less a more restricted channel like AMC.

Cassidy admits his flaws, and possibly feels a bit bad about them (or at least pretends to), but he really never makes any meaningful move to address them or make amends for them. What makes him likable is that he's deliberately being charming to ingratiate himself. Jesse is a much healthier and more rounded person.…

The show has a much rosier view of humanity than the comics, I will say that much. I mean, during the previous season we are given much more reason to care about, remember and empathize with characters like Sheriff Root, Fiore and Deblanc, and even Quincannon than ever happens in the source material where they are…

Yeah, that's one reason I was really hoping they weren't gonna change that. Oh well.

Yeah, Jesse isn't the best person but I don't think there's any reason to believe that he meant to be cruel with his instruction to Fiore. It's just that the Word is not a precision instrument, especially when your instructions are as abstract as "find God" or "find peace".