For me the issue wasn't following along (which was a chore), but the dreadful pacing. As you wrote, it feels like Pizza-alota sprawled a complicated narrative but hadn't given much thought to how to resolve it in a satisfying way. So instead of 'showing' this pulpy mystery developing and then being resolved, he…

Hey, don't go injecting relevant criticisms of narrative into a perfectly tangential discussion of narcotics.

Was the shoot for 'the seagull' also the site of the fuckfest? I would imagine Corey Stoll's hairless scalp would be quite popular in that kind of setting.

join us on the dark side. you're missing out on all the hallucinogenic orgies.

I thought the same but I just read a pretty great article about why today's MDMA is actually better than pre-2000s. Basically comes down to economics and chemists figuring out how to make inexpensive precursors from legally obtainable chemicals, which reduces the incentive to cut. With darknet marketplaces, i don't…

I think if I was a crusty old man looking to sport fark a young, nubile, drugged woman, i wouldn't want her emotionally open and earnestly telling me how all people are connected and beautiful. But, hey, i'm just a wig, what do i know of your human reproductive behavior.

"This contract- it's full of words and stuff."

Did one of those 'good moments' involve detective big love finally getting to the airport to move to California?

I always find the drug scenes in these kinds of shows amusing. 'MDMA is a great aphrodisiac…' said no one ever. It'd be more likely to result in a flaccid cuddle fest than any kind of soft-focus HBO orgy.

I think people are just giving a residual stink face because of the 'Sharkaconda' line from last/a couple episodes ago.

Buscemi AND Urkel as co-leads. Urkel will play Ani and Buscemi will play gay-CHiP.

Don't forget the something something diamonds that were briefly mumbled about some indeterminate number of episodes ago.

Rust to Falconback: "Now get on out of here. You're classing the season up."

How could you possibly dislike interminable shots of incompetent detectives staring moodily out of rain streaked windows? Are you going to also try to convince me that you didn't learn valuable life lessons, like 'don't steal your adolescent nephew's favorite gold coin in order to buy narcotics?' Preposterous.

I broke the arrow up button on your comment. imo the best example of the harrelson-mcconaughey-fukunaga dynamic elevating the written material is the scene in episode 7 (I think), in which mcconaughey launches into a long soliloquy ending with the term 'sentient meat' and harrelson replies (after a comedic pause)…

I got two [Colin Ferrell mumbled] words for you "god warrior."

LA boning implies fight club rules. Or, as a sad Vince Vaughn might say, 'prefigures.'

To be fair, I too assumed that Colin Ferrell was powerless without his mustache.

If I was God, I would instantly add a scene to every 80s cop movie of an angry police chief demanding that the renegade cop lead hand in his badge and mustache.

Unfortunately, the ninjas will all be sad middle aged men given to long bouts of soliloquy-itis during their fight scenes.