Well, she's also gone just a bit crazy. One of my favorite moments of last episode, which of course the reviewer didn't even mention, was Zilpha proudly informing Delaney that she'd killed her husband "like you asked me to" and Delaney going, "And when did I…" and then thinking better of finishing. I'd find that a bit…

There's just no need to go that far to explain what's happened, especially on a show where pretty much everything has been exactly as it was presented. There are mysteries, but they're not layered twists, they're things that the characters know that haven't come up for the viewer yet and the curtain is being gradually…

I think you're seriously overthinking this. The ship he bought was a former slave ship, yes, but it's unlikely to be the same one because it's implausible that they'd rescue it from the ocean floor at this level of technology and it would be both unnecessarily overcomplicated for it to be a cover story for some other…

To be fair, this one actually admits that a bunch of stuff happened before complaining about the handling of all of it.

Yeah, Archie vs Predator was amazing. Although I come to it (and this show) as someone who's never read anything else Archie, so grain of salt.

When I first saw the review of episode 1 I legit thought Alice Cooper was playing a character on the show and didn't realize that Betty's last name was Cooper.

It is troubling but I think (hope) it's meant to be troubling.

Oh, Banshee is absolutely luridly, absurdly, gleefully pulpy. Disbelief must be suspended and suspended hard. But if you can do that it is fucking amazing. And not least because it's so over the top.

You are correct. It is not his birth name, it is the name he adopted for professional use.

This is my take also. As I recall, when people in the first episode tell him they thought he was dead, his standard response was "I am". Which yes, could be a shock tactic. But I think it says a lot about his mental state.

I don't know that we absolutely need to ever get a full on look at Delaney's past or the workings of his magic, etc. We've gotten enough hints already to sketch their influence on his character and have at least a vague idea what might have happened. But certainly we need to eventually get a fuller picture of his…

"it's really weird to describe a show as uneventful and then describe mutilation and magic and heists and astral projection incest and fistfights and debauchery in the same damn review. and not even touch upon half of what happened."

Yes, The Guest is where I know him from and he's amazing. The movie develops a few issues at the tail end (I was not wild about his actual origins or some of the way the ending played out), but up until that point it's top tier and Stevens is a big part of the reason why. (Maika Monroe also highly excellent.)

It's pretty cool so far (particularly in regards to atmosphere). It's a BBC show, though. FX is just licensing it in America.

I heartily disagree that the show is -better- than the books (I still feel like they're fundamentally missing at least one of the core points of the books and that first book especially is flipping amazing), but the more it intentionally and confidently diverges the more fun it is as its own thing.

Exactly. It's super not a secret.

Which, to be fair, is still an option given the way they're acting up right now.

Having read the whole series as a set of three gorgeous hardcovers, two arcs per, I am confused by your statement that they don't exist. Did you maybe mean a collection of all the issues in one volume or something?

And of course money went a lot further back in the 1960s before five-plus decades of inflation, so a 1930s US dollar was a lot more valuable than a 2016 US dollar. It gets tough to parse when we're talking about the hypothetical value of a currency in an alternate history that probably doesn't even have a functional…

At first when he looks at the gun I thought he was realizing it had been fired recently - at the crown prince. It was the right caliber, after all. But no, apparently it was a fake gun.