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    I tried the first episode and it really was awful. Steve Coogan's accent is really strange, and his performance felt like the kind of fake-acting he does in Cock & Bull Story and elsewhere. The whole thing just felt like it was trying so hard, which was perfectly epitomised by that middle finger at the start. C- from

    I disagree about Len being unsympathetic. No doubt, his reaction to Maura was bad, but I saw it more as just a sign of ignorance rather than active malice. His wife just upped and left him for someone else - I do kinda feel sorry for the guy.

    Totally agree - I just finished it, and the narration was ridiculous. The attempts at bathos are so thin, I ended up enjoying [spoilers] the parts set back on Earth a lot more.

    My friend had a great theory on the title track, that being that they came up with the album title first, then decided to record a title track. A coked-up Lindsey Buckingham crashed the studio with a brilliant song called Tusk to fit the bill, but they realised late on that the song didn't actually reference a tusk at

    A convoluted series of events should also lead to this shooting taking place in a large, cylindrical space made of wood, somewhat like a giant barrel, for absolutely no reason other than that it is a painfully obvious physical manifestation of an overused idiom.

    Can I just clarify… What exactly was Sam's plan if Julia hadn't spurned his advances? They get to the bedroom and… what, he's a never-nude? Can't remove his shirt? Or he does, and the scratch marks are just… What? What?

    I've not been loving this show all that much, but one trick I've found is to view Malvo as a demonic, all-powerful entity - it's actually a lot more enjoyable than questioning how he could possibly get away with all this stuff. When viewed in this way, little moments like the *click* as someone tried to shoot him and

    I've not been loving the show all that much, but one trick I've found is to view Malvo as a demonic, all-powerful entity - it's actually a lot more enjoyable than questioning how he could possibly get away with all this stuff. When viewed in this way, little moments like the *click* as someone tried to shoot him and