I am not sure they can make this go on like an anthology, but either way, it's well done so far. It's proven Hawley is talented and has given us a new potential star in Tolman. So, so far, so good.

I liked when he was questioned at the station and he pretended to be a minister, Gus called him out on being Lorne Malvo, and instead of just staying in character, he get some bodily tics that indicated he knew someone wasn't fooled. Given how supernatural he's portrayed, I liked this.

I thought so, too, but then the smile revealed what happened.

From the green screen? I didn't see anything.

What if the guns weren't set up right away or at least not loaded with bullets? And maybe I am wrong, but I don't think the show showed him setting up the wire at any point. We don't know when, exactly, he put it around the house.

I don't think the cops would have left the scene despite not more shots being fired right away. They'd approach, one way or another, and they'd trick the wire. In other words, the plan depended on them moving in on the house at some point, which of course they would have done and eventually did.

It just hit me now, but really, what another horrible, totally dickheaded way to drive home how helpless the guy is. He had to know he would try to shoot him, and he stood there waiting for it to happen. The guy had a brief moment of hope, only to see it immediately dashed by Malvo.

It was really that good? I'm pretty bad at keeping up with movies I want to see, but I like what I've seen of the Coen Brothers stuff and wanted to see ILD.

I don't know if she's dead, but either way, I doubt gender politics had much to do with it. We don't know if Gus will redeem himself, should she be dead. You could take it as one indication that he's suffered another loss—first it was his wife, then someone he connected with, including on a potential romantic level.…

But does he really need to kill Chumpf in such a violent way? Given the design of the shots fired, you'd think they'd still be fired because the cops would eventually approach the house. The set up makes sense, but the fact that he had to essentially torture the guy was unnecessary.

I've driven home from work in a pretty bad snowstorm more than once, including one time where I had a small triangle of my windshield to see out of, as my heating broke down (where people still cut me off, despite me being in the right lane; thanks, NY drivers!). Maybe it's me, but I thought, wow, it really does look…

I so hope they get to try to crack the deaf guy next week. There are so many possibilities for hilarity there.

I don't think it would have mattered as much if they went in the back. He was unable to move, and they would have gone in the front, too, most likely, so he would have still likely been shot.

Not sure if that was intentional, but this is:

I have to watch this episode again, because I missed a few things since I watched the repeat—I thought Chaz might have been a dream, when he appeared at the hospital. But anyway, I am pretty sure Lorne Malvo didn't fire shots directly at people. Before he slipped out, of course, he had to trigger the police to come,…

Oh, absolutely. Every so often, we get to see the unaired pilots for these shows, and I hope we get to see that for this, if it's not picked up. DC and AS, among others, probably aren't suffering from a lack of work, so you have to wonder what was a draw about the show.

I think it WILL come back at some point, unless Dick Wolf is determined to make Chicago, anything his new franchise. I can see CPD lasting a while, and there's word they wanted to do a medical show set in the city, probably within the same universe, but how long can Chicago Fire really go on for?

EXACTLY my point. I'm all for more butts and boobs on television, but I get why that won't happen. Why not just show him putting on his underwear or something, or, if that's too much, just show him putting on his shirt, as the show did?

I loved how them just wanting to insert themselves into a situation, for one reason or another, ended up being such a problem. All they had to do was pick up some damn food, and they couldn't do that. Instead, they managed to get themselves together, fight as they got drunk, and then cause more personal drama to be…

Hehe, my bad. Back in high school, I used "cry fowl" in an English paper rather than "cry foul," and my teacher wrote CHICKEN! on the paper, saying it was the best student error she had seen in years. Still got an A on it, though.