If they don't do just a straight line-for-line remake of the scene where Jimmy pretends he can walk to save Ashley from a treacherous banana peel, I will be so disappointed.

Agreed. Jay, if you ever try out for and make it to Jeopardy, we'll rouse an AV Club group to go to a taping. Or at least petition Todd to put it in WOT.

I thought it was a incredibly compelling first 40 minutes, and then a tonal shift to a sad and bleak conclusion. I don't know if it was the filmmaker's intention to not get into the dynamic of Harding's relationship with Gillooly or if her adamant defensiveness meant they couldn't even broach the subject, but there's…

Did you know that two of John Tyler's grandsons (without any 'great's in front of it) are still alive? Maybe they can get "my grandpa headed a militia in the War of 1812" plates.

From what I remember reading, they rushed it through editing to squeak in under the Oscar deadline.

We had a smog day once.

Ok, your two avatars and disparate capitalization are throwing me off. Do you have an evil commenting twin, @avclub-5c7646b1d39fc0715f330479e4e5f254:disqus? Or is NuDisqus up to it's old tricks?

I see what you did there.

Ugh, why did I just go back there? WHY, Scrawler, did you remind me?

There's two different questions in what your asking: 1. How many women want to do the work the job requires (ie, create films) and 2. How many women want to be a member of the profession (ie, being a member of the group of people that do that work).

Jesus tap-dancing Christ.

I like her in lots of things, but so far I find her character pretty grating and unbelievable.

I hope not. But I do want to point out that the scene in the bar where she denies it was Boyd should be on Walton Goggins's Emmy reel. His eyes went from true fear to menacing calculation without even a beat.

I don't know—I think @avclub-5e5b51d1d76bc0e9c3b57f2a46415e57:disqus is pretty right on. The stakes are higher for Boyd, always. He'll lose his life, his crew, his freedom, or his fiancee. Boyd v. the world, really. Raylan's challenges are by and large internal. His laconic attitude distances him from the things he…

Critics say Milton invented the anti-hero with Paradise Lost, and I'll be damned to his very hell if Boyd Crowder isn't the best modern take on Milton's Satan I've come across.

Yeah, this is the key for me. Intentionality and agency. Raylan's killed a lot of people in the name of good. So did Dexter, so did Walter White. But unlike those men, Raylan hasn't (up until Nicky Augustine) let his own desires be what defines "good". The true North on his moral compass is external to himself and,…

That's why it's interesting that Boyd's the exception to the rule. He may be any number of things, but a fucking idiot he is not.

Gosh, which studios are even left in Hollywood proper these days?

I'm basically hoping the final season will be a full-on Deadwood reunion show.

John Hawkes, John Hawkes, John Hawkes!