That's funny, I also had that thought recently.  Maybe from this episode?  Or next week's preview, even?  Just a weird little vibe.  Would certainly be an unexpected twist.  And it'd be a second Bored To Death parallel!

This things I believe!

Maybe Monty Burns is in charge of the local power plant.

The cuts this season have been pretty lousy pretty often.

Especially the moronic and dickish kind.

Lookin' round the room, I can tell that you are the most beautiful movie in the
room.
In the whole wide room.

Where's @Murray—Present when you need him!

I'm the Tough Brets!

You did have to be paying attention, though, which many casual TV viewers do not.

Morons and dicks really seem to flock to IGN's comments sections, for some reason.

Damn good list.  Here's a banana sticker.

I was thinking maybe Louis will go on TV to expose Dexter, and then Brian's ghost will call into the program and tell all of Miami to kill Louis Green or else he'll blow up a hospital, and inside that hospital will be James "Two-Body" Doakes, who'll be set free by Ghost-Brian, and then go and attempt to kill Captain…

Oh, good point.  I forgot that that suspicion was common knowledge.  It really seems like it shouldn't be, considering that the cops have, like, zero evidence of Gellar being the killer, aside from that book, for which there's no chain of custody.

(Incredulity means unbelief, not unbelievability.)

It was the prosthetic hand of an amputee hooker.

Stupidity is blind to age and sex and race and creed. It's one of the equalest-opportunity traits there is.  I haven't watched Enlightened since the pilot, but I thought this character's problem was more insanity than stupidity (though the two traits do often have similar manifestations).

I think HBO has enough room in its schedule, and enough appreciation for cult shows that draw lots of praise, that it doesn't necessarily need to cancel abysmally-rated shows like these.  But then again, there's nothing wrong with a short-but-sweet series, especially if HBO gives the showrunners time to actually craft…

I noticed both of those issues as well.  The cuffs thing, I couldn't remember for sure if there were actual manacles there or if it was just a chain wrapped around his wrists.  I chose to believe it was the latter, which made it a bit more plausible that he could slip out of 'em like that.  As for the Quinn GPS thing… …

I thought that shot at the hotel was pretty well-orchestrated.  But yeah, there were at least a couple eye-rolling moments in this episode's score, and that was one of them.

@avclub-20788f405e0ea98bab0017f5dd373cdb:disqus Good point.  But I still think the prequels look pretty good by today's standards.  Not so much the Yoda and other CG creatures, but the space battles and such are still pretty impressive to me.