Good points. All indicators point at Trey for now, for sure, but this being fiction and all, I'm always a little bit wary of obvious solutions.

Couple things:

From what little we know of him, George impressed me more as "tweener" - a somewhat effeminate man, often with social skill and/or drug abuse issues as well, in a hyper masculine culture, who's not homosexual, but not all that attractive or attracted to females either. In other words, he's a loner without many friends…

I think good ol' Trey might have had an even larger part in convincing George to lie. The Sheriff and Foulkes were likely just opportunistically going with the flow thereafter.

Thanks, as well. That exchange implies to me that either a.) neither one of them actually knows for sure who did it, or b.) they're both still playing their cards close to the vest, which would be a wise move either way if you haven't seen the other guy for awhile. It also strikes me as the sort of disconnected…

Ol' Trey's coming off sleazier by the minute. And of course he's the most seemingly "well-adjusted" one of the bunch. But that's how life is, too.

Unfortunately, one has to assume he might have planted it in Janet's house when he was there.

I agree for the most part, and as I said, the very nature of this story line and the degree to which they focus on individual characters makes it a different breed than most, which makes me think they might just plan on wrapping it next year if the ultimate goal is to resolve the murder mystery, as Daniel and…

It will be interesting to see where they go with this next, especially with only two episodes left in this season and presumably only six in the next, with nothing guaranteed after that. Assuming Daniel's banishment starts in earnest next season, that would mean McKinnon would necessarily be writing next season with a…

I'd say anything's possible at this point, especially considering the drugs and alcohol involved. As we've already seen, Trey and Daniel at least are still quite amenable to an occasional binge when the mood is right, and from Trey's description, young Hanna was certainly not pure as the driven snow either, although…

Well I think having sex with her at the scene - consensual or otherwise - indicates that he had something to do with the murder, even if it was just as a passive witness who did nothing to prevent it. But who knows at this point. I still don't know if Ray McKinnon will ever reveal what actually happened, as the focus…

That is a very southern small town Christian way of looking at things, though, especially for women, with the men typically being much more like Teddy in their skepticism. Christianity has always struck me as being much more appealing to women than men, with men most often "along for the ride" because their…

And it's glaringly notable that only Trey walked away from the incident seemingly perfectly normal and well-adjusted. Both Daniel and George were deeply scarred, but Trey sleeps "better than anyone else he knows" at night. He's quite obviously hiding something.

Trey seems to have been the ringleader for their little group, formal or otherwise. He could have just called the sheriff when he discovered George's body as well, but instead he concocted this elaborate scheme to cover that up and then implicate Daniel later, so I'm assuming that he shares some blame in the murder as…

I suspect that you're right.

Lol! I think you're getting it. The overall style IMO is camp, which is to say it's an ironic commentary on a dramatic theme once removed, delivered in a decidedly unironic style, all of which themes' may or may not be necessarily comedic or necessarily appreciated by all involved. As that least convoluted statement…

I think you're onto something. Read this like Pulp Fiction without the some of the "fun" and it's OK. Read it as straight-up dramatic commentary on current American life and I think I want to swallow a bullet with Ray.

The board wouldn't let me post an embedded link to the Wiki on 'Camp', so just Google that for a broader overview. It might be a lost art in our current overly-serious times, although The Brink is certainly flirting with the concept as well.

By the way, I can't imagine Frank walking out of this alive either, other than in my ridiculous ending I already have written up. No matter what, Frank Semyon's going to be seriously diminished before we get to the end.

Sure, dead pan camp (at least defined by me) is camp delivered dramatically "straight up" and unironically, a knowing "insiders joke" (wink, wink, nod, nod) if you will, where everyone is assumed to be in on the joke, but not necessarily are. Camp, as opposed to mere satire, is sending up a style as well as (possibly)…