Glad someone mentioned this, it's an absolute masterpiece of visual storytelling once again.

This really should have more likes.

I'm certainly not someone who thinks characters HAVE to develop in order for the work to be valid. The issue I have is that Kring sounds utterly naive about how to tell a story on TV in the 21st Century.

"One of the issues of serialized storytelling"
He says it like it's a fucking problem not one of the primary goals of creating and presenting characters.

Kring's interview on here tells you all you need to know about why the show squandered any potential it had (which I still think was more inferred by most of us than ever implied) - he's completely clueless about what people want from stories delivered by television.
Thinking about it, it's not that's he's clueless…

If you're really digging this then yes. But it's not quite as good. If you're a reader then definitely give the novels a try, they are heavy going both thematically and stylistically, everything is oppressive and contorted but its so well done and sustained.

Holy shit, I see it now, True Detective is the US version of Red Riding. In fact it's like a purer distillation of the Quartet's themes than the actual the TV adaptation managed.

Utterly fucking astonishing. I love how each episode is getting progressively crazier and crazier and darker and darker. I know the AV Club is trying to to lead us all out of the dark triad type antihero worship that's characterised TV over the past few years but I think both this and Hannibal only prove we aren't…

Exactly this, I was studying that shot back and forth for about 5 minutes trying to work out what was so special about it and it's film, lush beautiful near alchemical film.

Funny you should mention Witchfinder General as the last time it got reviewed here it was also a negative one and about as offhand as this review as well.

Shearsmith is just outstanding throughout but the freak-on-a-leash scene is mindblowing, creepy and hilarious not to mention the incongruously beautiful score over the whole thing.

Man the utter gleeful sadism of Murphy's execution in the original is one of those cinematic moments you never forget, the joy on the gang's faces, the laughter - all so brutal, it made 9yr old me simultaneously terrified and excited about where the film was going to go.

I don't think you need to be sad, nothing has been proven at all.

Nice work, Ray.

The bed that whores people!

I think the song with the line "Watch out, you might get what you're after" over this trailer is pretty damn funny and telling in Von Trier's own irascible way.

His epically resigned "I can't compete with that" is brilliant.

Yes exactly. Ha.

Forget 4, forget 3 even, these last 3 eps have been charting the hallowed, back end of season 2 waters.

Walkouts? Good lord I hope it's because it's "too violent" rather than boring (it's 2h30m).