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Something that has me a mite confused. Was the first version of the farmhouse story, in which everyone died, meant to be the actual, real-life version?

Damn, I thought that Banshee was back tonight, but it looks like it is not until 1 April.

Down with this sort of thing!

Oscar and Lucinda is great - wonderful characters that I really enjoyed spending time with.

I'd love to believe that a character called Jimmy Barnes was a shout out to all the Cold Chisel fans, but that seems like a stretch.

As kids we used to holiday in an old mining town in the mountains (a friend's grandparents' house) that was part of the Victorian Gold Rush. Being at the end of a road, so with no through traffic, it had a 'town that time forgot' quality to it. Lots of open mines to explore, ruins of old shacks with broken Victorian

One of my proudest adult moments was admonishing a guy who dropped his bottle in the street, and managing to be authoritative enough that he said 'sorry Miss' and picked it up again.

You're right there, I lumped it all in together, but S2 was definitely better.

I'm pretty excited for the return of Black Sails. I watched all of it in the last few months - it was often pretty boring, but I slogged through it for some reason, but then loved the finale of S2, and am interested to see what is coming. The episode, along with the main character, seemed to be saying 'Screw all this

Ah, I haven't seen them all yet. Thanks.

That joke may be my favourite part of that show. I like to imagine the actor has to do the scream every time.

They all got that cold, too.

It's a while since I saw it, but from memory the documentary The Celluloid Closet talks about Gilda, both the actors acknowledging they played it that way, and more generally it talks about coded language in films of the timethat indicated to those in the know (ie. the gay men in the audience) what was going on, while

Speaking of Flight of the Concords, Jemaine Clement wrote a really nice piece about Bowie and writing the Bowie's In Space song/episode: http://thespinoff.co.nz/13-…

Who wouldn't dance to Golden Years?!

Thank you, will try tonight…

Please share the trick! Just clicked on Netflix to continue watching something and it is gone…

That caption is superb.

I only discovered that song recently, thanks to iZombie, and I LOVE it so much…

I remember Aaron Eckhardt being cooked over a fire in a giant bag, and that's it.