"The Witch's Office", a collection of fan-fiction covering the 375 years between between the two.

I never watched Buffy, but Justified was actually the anti-example of which I was thinking.

I'm trying to think of another show that so early on sidelined its protagonist/s and allowed supporting characters to shine through. I agree with a previous poster that the first novel in the series was perhaps the worst to adapt first and I think the show should have started with a stand-alone episode that introduced…

"The Witch" is a fantastic film, but having Chris Finch in the role of the father was a serious piece of miscasting for the ten of us who'll never remember than actor as anything but. I half expected him to throw a pair of shoes over the scratch built cottage.

Thumbs up for Cro Bar, but I don't think anyone can actually afford to live around there, can they?

The most shocking part of that story is that a band could once afford to live in Central London.

I've also seen ep4, and have a feeling I know of what you speak, but let's save the discussion for that episode's recap.

So I went to check something in the novel and ended up re-reading it. Man, so little actually happens - but I guess that's the charm of East Texas Noir.

From the review "It turns out Trudy convinced Hap to refuse to serve (but apparently not as a conscientious objector?), which left him in prison for two years."

I don't think I explained it very well. Hap and Leonard, at times, are almost like dad jokes: they're lame, but they tell them anyway. The disconnect I'm trying to highlight isn't in the writing, but in the performance. If you try to sell the line as the greatest joke ever told, it's going to come off wrong. If you…

The jokes and one liners in the book are also lame, but Hap and Leonard are self-aware enough and a lot of the time snip and bite at each other because that's what guys do. They do it a lot when they're tense/nervous, often right before a fight, as a way of psyching themselves up. Yes the lines are lame and stupid,…

Totally agree and said something similar last week. Hap and Leonard may not be outright successes in life, for various reasons, and they wouldn't fare well in an "office environment", but when it comes to semi-legal (outright illegal) down-and-dirty activities, they're far better than most.

Huge Joe Lansdale and Hap and Leonard fan here. I so wanted this to be good and it's just not - or not as could as it should be. I'll keep watching because hope springs eternal, but the episode just wasn't good. What happened? Nothing that couldn't have been conveyed to us in ten minutes. Neither character nor plot…

See I was way off and thinking of the underrated Robert De Niro/Charles Grodin film "Midnight Run".

Leyner has written some of the wildest/funniest passages I've ever read. It's interesting to think that Foster Wallace and Leyner were both trying to achieve something similar though wildly different means - even if DFW took ML to task for the latter's style.

"Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun."

"Bobby, what nationality are you?"
"American."
"Then why are you holding your cigarette like some kind of European Nazi in the movies?"
"Why's it matter?"
"That's not the right sort of attitude for you to have. Whatever you do you should do right, even if it's something wrong."

You could almost phrase that as: "Who watches the Watchmen?"

…but then again, who does?

For all his flaws, it's a damn good essay. That last line is axiomatic and no less powerful for it.