Agreed. And the plot with him and the ghost(?) audience was splendid; probably the funniest side plot all season, for me.

Are we surprised? Are we? Not even a little.

Good to know. I'm only a couple episodes in. Perhaps I'll keep it up; though because I'm watching multiple other shows as well (including Lost for the first time), my pace will probably be slow.

Wait, Terrence Stamp is in this? It just went from something I'd actively avoid (I don't get the appeal of Kurt Russel or Matt Dillon, and the whole thing has a vaguely straight-to-DVD vibe) to something I might take a look at some day.

2 months later, so am I. These recaps are handy, as sometimes I fail to catch plot intricacies due to being distracted while watching. This has yet to turn into a show to which I give my 100% undivided attention, ala Breaking Bad, but this episode certainly pushed it in that direction.

Now I really want to see a version of Three Amigos with Gilligan subbed in for Chevy Chase.

Just start watching this on Netflix, and was pleasantly surprised by the general quality. It was very … competent.

Excellent! One of the best-acted characters this season.

Everything I know about vocabulary I learned from Justified.

Yeah, that moment made me sit up and pay attention.

I imagine I'm not the only one who kind of wished in the back of my mind that Jay and Roscoe had indeed been able to take over from the Crowes as Boyd et al.'s right-hand-but-not-so-trusted men. In just one episode, they seemed much more interesting than Daryl and Danny.

There's one particular word in this post that made me upvote it. I think you know which one it is.

Agreed agreed agreed. They're both fantastic. Anna Kendrick is also very good in it.

Hodor.

Usually when I see articles headlined with "win tickets to . . .", I ignore them without a backward glance. BUT THIS IS ELBOW. Probability to the blackest pit—-I emailed.

Oh, well that would do it. So it's been me being a philosophical terrorist/cult leader all along? I should have seen that coming. There were so many clues! Your username being one, certainly.

I'd say those descriptors apply pretty well to Top of the Lake, too, although I'd have to add "intermittently quite disturbing," because rape is a hefty part of the subject matter. Also, the ending is not as great as everything leading up to it, in my opinion.

Yay.

Agreed. It was a movie of splendidly-acted, fantastic moments (the comb-over, Cooper's C.K impression, Lawrence's Live and Let Die), that never really congealed into anything particularly meaningful.

See, I felt like last week's episode did the whole "weirdly grounded character comedy" thing pretty well, which I enjoyed tremendously. Whereas this one was pretty so-so.