The point nobody seems to bring up is if you leave your characters alive at the end of a story you can always bring the pieces back for another go around. True Detective seems to forgo this conclusion by either nixing or driving the characters to a venerable end, but a good many shows leave plenty of their characters…

The murder itself is the technical McGuffin here, she as a character and the plot she set in motion stems from her murder. We're splitting hairs over why agent Cooper even goes to Twin Peaks which is the point of the McGuffin. Much of any plot is easily interchangeable, it's the fact that Palmer's murder being…

In a general way, yes. But her core mystery of solving her death was the driving force that kept the series momentum. It's why solving your main mystery in any show too soon before characters become worthwhile to watch on their own is dangerous. You don't do that in anthologies for better or worse, the story is the…

His only problem I've seen with AHS is that he tends to lose track of plot around episode 6/7 and forgets he only has 13 to finish it in and tends to cram everything into those last 3 to tie things up. As for 'going to shit' he's still getting positive viewership so until that number sinks it seems your view is in…

The rest of the world does short anthologies as well. Murphy didn't 'invent' it anymore than bring short-format series to the US.

Loose ends are really McGuffins and pretending that every good show has a slew of them that make storytelling unique is foolish. It makes me think of Twin Peaks who wrapped up their McGuffin too quickly and killed their show because of it. The reality is most dramas that work with McGuffins like that are usually…

. . .You know, this is one of those times where I know enough about ballistics to just add to my discontent. A single shot which would have destroyed it (and at worst damaged the drive train but realistically he could have put the barrel to the actual piece, so it would have gone straight into the ground/curb near…

They played like a deus ex machina for Frank's problems. They always felt awkwardly everywhere and the complete lack of real interaction showed them to really just be a slapdash approach to providing a villain he couldn't overcome.

I honestly didn't realize there were only 8 episodes until I was on episode 5. This season could have gone to 10 episodes without suffering. The show kind of prides itself on not letting you be an omnipresent viewer and forcing you to see the detectives through the detectives so some of the storytelling in a noir…

mmmhh, I completely forgotten about the 'dream sequence' which I would agree with. I also would agree I think when he sees the CHP (or some patrol SUV) that he basically agrees to shoot it out by himself, far away from a public place. It all feeds into the analogy and mythos the story setup but it does ignore the…

That's exactly what I felt. It's implied it's been on there for some time and he noticed it due to the water, so they've been following for X amount of time….but it implies that if his Charger was only tagged AFTER they went into hiding (since they could have easily found him) when did it happen?

Combinations of mass ego and constant fear of rejection based on significant amounts of time in competition and superficial relationships really impacts gamers. They function in a place that is like a constant game of pickup basketball or football, the people rotate, you pat each other for a good play, but nothing…

A taped on smartphone/flip phone I would actually buy. He tried to pry that thing off with a knife and it was implied to have been either bolted or somehow affixed the car in a structural way and as another person noted: If it was put on at the school the water would have been disturbed and that bright red light…

I'm frustrated and saddened by the ending but it seemed how it was supposed to end. Velcoro and Frank had committed great evils in their past, they were characters written with borrowed time as their center-piece. It still made me frustrated though because they went for the 'somebody is magically one-step ahead of…

Ok, lets wind that back a step. The majority of the Western World is actually fairly liberal. The US is the one exception where social conservatives have a strong position due to the history of Anglo-Saxon Protestant dominance. But given that, it was likely Woodrugh was in a very socially conservative and…

The homosexuality denied story line actually is really spot on if you reflect on the two places Woodrugh spent most of his time: The military/Mercenary squad & the police force. Neither are exactly progressive centers of thinking and the hyper-masculinity that pervades both would have made his outing that much more…

Kind of….kind of not? It was a subtle nod to the whole underlying racial tension and even a guy who is actually relatively famous within the metro area (He was on TV no more than a few months prior over a huge gangland shooting….that had to make him atleast relatively well known) still got killed in the hail of…

For the record: F-Troop was set after the Civil War and is aimed at the post-Civil War Indian wars that would occur and were the settings of most Westerns. It was a lampooning of the 1960's and Westerns all in one…

I'm glad he didn't do Shrek in this case, his interpretation of him is a truly terrible person in so many ways. Where Myers' all-purpose Scottish accent is volatile it never comes across as truly hateful. In 2 1/2 minutes Farley made me feel like I didn't want to watch him deal with Eddie Murphy for an hour and a…

Except it isn't all that accurate as it came about during the Black Power movement and represented some honest and different views without necessarily being heavy handed. It wasn't Porgy and Bess that played into the minstrel concepts.
It definitely is a product of its time and represents a dated image in some…