Jean Smart has always been one of my favorite actress.
I loved her as Charlene on Designing Women and she was hilarious as Frazier's wacko girlfriend! She won 2 of her 3 Emmy's for that role. Same character but two different names.
She's killin' this role of Floyd!
It's funny nobody seemed to notice that Joe Bulo…

She dragged Ed down the rabbit hole the minute she brought home a mangled victim on the windshield of her car.
But, I don't know… there's something off about Ed….more to Ed and Peggy's story….

Well, I was only 1/2 right. He tells Floyd, alright. But he gets hooked into some embellishments furnished courtesy of Dodd.
Dodd tells her The Butcher is a Kansas City killer.
Bear is sitting at the kitchen table too…and he shoots Dodd a look at the end of the scene. He knows Dodd can't be trusted.
And she doesn't…

He tells the Gerhart's about Ed and Peggy.
The previews for next weeks episode… which I can not wait to see…just the title alone, The Gift of the Magi….show Floyd ordering the death, a horrible death, of the butcher.

Ohanzee has the same sort of eerie presence as Malvo……he didn't even pick up his pace when Lou was coming to the front door of Ed and Peggy's house.
Pure malevolence as he coolly cruised by Ed and Peggy in the alley.
Ed noticed in a big way…and I think it goes to show how flighty Peggy is that she didn't.
Back to Ohanzee…

What? Nobody noticed the first time you said that? It's a cattle PROD, not pod

It also allowed him to avoid using his last name.

Ya know, he almost always plays an asshole, a real sleazy jerk, in his roles. And though I can think of many other actors who play villainous type roles, you know that the good one are so very good at it because they are very good actors…..and then there is James Woods….and you think ….it comes naturally to him, from…

"His" Twitter troll? I thought James Woods was a Twitter troll? Yes?

I thought of the tv show, too. Plus, it was around at the same time as Rawhide….the rollin', rollin', rollin reference above.
Keep those doggies movin
Head 'em up and moving 'em out

Yes. It was. He also walked like someone with CP

Exactly….plus, like it said in the review, the only way for Dodd's story to end, is for his mother to end.

"The AVclub SJW writers of the time (I actually remember reading a Cracked at the time which introduced my young brain to how we were supposed to bleh at Nixon) were trying to lay down the legacy of tricky dick while the rest of country probably recalls actually voting for the guy."

Your "minor infraction" line just slayed me!

It's only a metaphor, but I immediately thought of the lobster claw facacta when I saw Bear's sons hand. It is very claw like.
eta: I mean, I think people are right, Bear doesn't want his son involved or hurt….so his kids claw like hand is the pincher, and Bear will be the one to crush Dodd?

I'm thinking the same. Before he left to go to the butcher shop with the body, he looks wrecked sitting outside of the garage… and here comes Peggy, pplaying the concerned wifey, flounces up to him and gives him a fake/empathetic squeeze of the shoulder.

Again, I don't see Peggy struggling with the MORAL aspects of this crime, at all. Logistics, yes. Morality check? Nope.

If you watch it online at FXNow the commercials are cut out… there are slight breaks, but much better than the choppiness with all the frequent commercials. The breaks are very brief.

Peggy wasn't really feeling guilty…. she just wanted Ed to think so…she was busy fussing to get her curls perfectly styled.
Also, is the girl Noreen the butchers daughter? When they closed up the shop, the butcher went one way, left, i think, and she took a sharp right and straight into the door next to the shop…as if…

i bet there is a tiny bit of evidence on the tennis ball