"It’s his first attempt at writing and starring in his own series."

The funny part is science doesn't care whether God exists or not, either. It's got other stuff to worry about.

There're a lot of great moments in that book - eg. it spends an entire chapter on Nirvana's first gig, because that's the kind of thing you actually want to know about - but yeah, I don't think it says a single bad thing about Love which is clearly an oversight.

It was a great episode but I rolled my eyes when I realised the end was going down the very cliched horror movie route.

Agreed, but is the Monster Truck World Title like baseball's World Series: in that the rest of the world doesn't participate?

I certainly don't hate Brandon Flowers, but he's very unremarkable. It's hard to imagine hating or loving him, really.

"Patton Oswalt nailed it when he said True Detective is like good food truck ribs, while Hannibal is like a strange gourmet restaurant. They're trying to accomplish
different things."

I liked the episode with the fight, but Todd's right: once the flashback framing device was done away with, the show lost something essential to its allure that that it never quite recovered.

Pretty much my feelings. I hope she can recover and live a happy life but I have no reason to hope she'll become 'famous' again. If that's her raison d'etre then her problems will probably never go away, and things like this reality show don't bode well as far as that's concerned.

Totally disagree - the show became less interesting to me when it turned into a thriller (ie. the last two episodes). Its strength was its dream-like quality, which the flashback framing allowed for.

Honestly, when he intimated that he felt his daughter's presence in some
kind of spiritual afterlife, a few alarm bells did go off in my head.
But McConaughey sold it and the script was smart enough to leave it at
that.

It's not a show to binge on. Watch it once a week and let it wash over you.

It's like a classier Golden Globes.

I think Pharrell's become…

I'm still not entirely sure why it's cool to hate on Franzen. Sure, Freedom was just a retread of The Corrections, but at least The Corrections was a darn good book.

2. Is actually the CID colleague from '95 who Rust memorably slapped in the pilot.

The grade may be harsh, but the episode definitely had a nagging sense of ordinariness. I missed the flashback framing device. I've never really bought into the idea of giving an episode a pass for setting up the next one, because if that's how it feels then it means I'm not especially engaged with what's going on.…

I happened to watch that again a couple of days ago. Still one of the best comedies ever, really.

And yet it's totally true. The writer described the show as a two-hander. It just happens that the two leads aren't women.

I'm surprised we didn't get more on Rust's girlfriend seen in the previous episode. It's far too incongruous for her not to be mentioned/seen again. Or maybe I'm just saying that because the actress was interviewed for the HBO preview which led me to believe she might actually be important?