1. Elizabeth Hurley
2. Fuck you for undoing the entire point of the first movie just so you can repeat the same "Austin is a horndog ladies' man" jokes over again.
3. Seriously, lazy-ass sequels suck.

Ah, so it is. Looks like Mann is closer to twenty-five than thirty, so that's a little weirder. But if the idea was for him to look fresh-faced, maybe they felt they had to go younger? May not have been the right call. As SabreDJ points out, it's not unexplainable, but why even create a moment of dissonance that needs…

Yep, that was the main connection I noticed as well. Maybe it's something about how people can't just turn themselves off when an inquiry reaches its end? Gloria knows that her journey to L.A. ultimately had nothing to do with anything, but it's going to continue to haunt her — so much so that she's literally driving…

If I've identified the actor correctly — it looks like the kid who played the eleven-year-old version of William Miller in Almost Famous, Michael Angarano — he's actually almost thirty. And my sense was that he was supposed to be around that age, old enough to be an established, award-winning novelist, but rather…

It's the same actor, Frank Deal, as Isaac Breland. I had the same confusion at first, but that's because I was thinking of the actor who played Breland's colleague Ted Paaswell. Ted is the guy whose open house they visited and whose phone they initially bugged; Kimmy was his babysitter, not his daughter, but after…

I dunno, you guys, he made a strong case for rap not being a real art form when he vomited out some shitty rhymes a third-grader would be embarrassed by and then congratulated himself for sounding just like a real rapper.

That's a good point. I think it also comes off worse in the show because it's sixteen years later. Circa 2001, thinking you were good with computers might still involve working with local files in a way that made "undelete" a potentially meaningful concept. But today, in the era of cloud computing and "the Internet is…

Absolutely. I just take issue with the kind of uncreativity he exhibited. Ranting about, say, normies and redpilling would be no less cliche, but it would be the sort of cliche that's more appropriate to the character than obsolete technospeak.

Good point, but I feel like there's a middle ground between accessible and authentic, and I'm not sure the episode always managed to stay on it. Really, though, it was just one line that bugged me, the "Undelete is not an option" thing. That felt so painfully inappropriate to me; if there's one thing the Technical Boy…

I'm so used to seeing her play, like, sour-faced prudes and killjoys that I was surprised that in this role she was . . . kinda foxy.

I'm a little iffy on the Technical Boy as well. It's the character I've been worried about most, to be honest, because it's the one that most needs to be updated for the waning 2010s — and thus the one that offers both the most room for improvement and the most room for crash-and-burn error.

"If you think of this movie as [thing that it is], it's pretty good, but if you think of it as [other thing, which it is not], it's lame."

Yep. I feel like it's one of the ways that the concept of Lecter tends to erode as it goes along. In Silence of the Lambs Lecter is considerate of people he considers worthy of his genius but absolutely contemptuous of those he considers intellectually or socially beneath him. But the longer the film series went on,…

That's the theory, and the show's creators seem to have all but acknowledged it. In the DVD commentary track for the episode where we learn Pryce's real identity, the writer of the episode discusses how he came up with the name "Daniel Wormald." He says that "Wormald" is in honor of a relative, and that his first name…

Nope, he definitely says "stepdad."

My assumption has always been:

That would be the Kansas City Mafia. Though the implication is, I think, that "Moses Tripoli" (i.e., Hanzee) dismantled their operation and took over the Fargo syndicate, only to have his empire destroyed in turn by Lorne Malvo. Though I suppose it's possible that Hanzee only overthrew their northern branch, and that…

Yeah, I've always referred to season 3 as "the year the circus came to town." The problem wasn't just with Langrishe; Milch got so distracted by all these random new characters (thrill to the mystery of Some Woman Staying at the Hotel!) and bizarre storylines for the side characters (watch as the N.G. carts Steve the…

The follow-up story is not great; it doesn't really add anything new to the original story except to update us in the most general sense on where the characters are now. It's mostly focused on a group of new characters who at first intrigued me because I thought their story was going to counterpoint Eli and Oskar's,…

"The President's approval rating is rocketing because of his manly Syria sleight-of-hand."