Such irony in all these "beta cuck" talking fanbois throwing their support behind an *incredibly* thin skinned man. Trump's ego is pure gossamer - his confidence relies on his heroic feats of self-deception and constant self-aggrandisement. Any criticism though, from anyone, no matter how insignificant, and he has to…

I'm pretty sure its a variation on one of Mac Quayle's motifs for the show, though it might be reminding you of Nine Inch Nails, which is clearly a big influence on Quayle.

Oh I misunderstood at least part of your complaint and lumped you in with some other comments. Fair point.

Great post. I think part of the discomfort, for me at least, is the sense that my 'maturity', in the form of ironic detachment from such certainties as offered in Elliot's monologues, is really a salve for my own failures to live up to the ideals I once held. Its self-serving. That for all my sophistication, my horror…

Have to say I'm enjoying how horrified some are by the fact that the school shooter was a random. Because of course in life major events that occur to us are always from someone we've spent the last 8 weeks hanging out with all the time.

I hope you're on to something there, because the scene as stands is bafflingly pointless for one that requires very odd behaviour on the part of a character (i.e. Elias being in OA's house in the middle of the night).

Well said, its the drab and parsimonious glimpses into the kids lives that makes the show for me, and do in hindsight give a grounding for the attack on the school. When the show struggles, as in the weirdly truncated ep6, its because there is not enough of that anchoring from the kids and their lives, and the mad…

Don't get your hopes up about Frank gone - no body, no death. That's the rule of TV.

Have to agree with the "give us a suitable reviewer" crowd. I stumbled across AV Club a few years ago and its been a companion for my TV watching ever since. The last show I watched was Mr Robot and AV's writing on it was superb, truly insightful. By contrast, Scott van Doviak just doesn't get the The Man in the High…

I agree that the reference to the showrunner leaving every other review is rather tiresome, particularly given no one, including the reviewer, knows any details about it. Can we just focus on the show maybe?

Yeah the sex scene is utterly baffling, both in terms of how completely awful it in its half-arsed, soft-focus, fade to black presentation, but also the fact that it is there at all. What, exactly, is the point of the scene in the grand narrative? All the more bizarre given how rushed many other events are in the last…