I disagree. They played fair. Everything was there if you looked for it. I agree that the murders were just McGuffins to set the stage for exploring the most fucked up television family of 2018, but I still think they did right by the murder mystery side. There was plenty pointing to Amma being the killer, if you were…

I could see Amma dumping the bike, but I couldn’t see her getting the hog farm worker to lie under oath. I’d think that only Adora would have the leverage to do that.

The shot of that dollhouse floor will haunt me for a long time to come.

This is my theory. Adora framing John Keene doesn’t make sense unless she knew Amma did it and was protecting her.

The first episode bored me, and the last episode went a bit too over the top with Guy Pearce’s character, but otherwise I was really engrossed by this.

Reminded me a bit of Midnight Special, especially the first half of the season, but there’s also quite a bit of “Cloak & Dagger” in there.

If you’re falling short of one of the most acclaimed and controversial short stories of the twentieth century, you’re still probably doing pretty good.

Correct. When Camille imagined Adora as the Woman in White, she was drawing the connection that Adora was responsible for Marian’s death.

Given what a monster she is, I wouldn’t be surprised if Adora is involved in the deaths of Natalie and Ann, but it’s far from a certainty. I think it’s more likely that someone…

Richard walked in on his lover more or less immediately post-coitus with the teenage suspect in his murder investigation. He was not in a position to take a more comprehensive view of things.

It speaks to this show that the big reveal about Adora felt more like confirmation than a surprise reveal. Once you know what happened to Marian, so many things start to make sense.

I think that was the show using its subjective reality to trick us. When we see Camille teaching Amma how to climb over the bannister to avoid the creaky step at the top of the stairs, it looks like the out of focus head in the foreground is Adora’s. And then, when the cut to the other angle from the top of the…

The “considering the available alternatives” qualifier was key here.

They got to live together in peace and harmony for decades. Admittedly, some lonely decades, but considering the available alternatives they did pretty damn well for themselves.

Whatever faults one might have with this show, it knows how to pull off a fucking finale. When Dean White’s directing and Jason Rothenberg is writing, you know you’re probably in for something special.

I don’t know which is worse: Adora telling Camille she never loved her as the latest joust of nearly unfathomable cruelty, or Adora — grateful that Camille has returned her favored daughter to her safely — deciding to show Camille the courtesy of stating her feelings toward her frankly.

I can’t imagine that Adora’s…

One of the most subtle but effective bits of pure visual storytelling so far came near the end of this episode; Camille has just discovered that Amma is almost certainly going to be the killer’s next target. Frantically, she runs upstairs and discovers Amma’s bedroom is empty. As she races downstairs back to her car…

It’s a widely accepted fact that Kinja is a frustrating, poorly designed and executed platform that fits AV Club like a square peg in a round hole. No need to be smug and passive aggressive about it.

A tremendous character drama that delivers on the superheroics when required. Olivia Holt and Aubrey Joseph are tremendous separately, and have terrific chemistry when together. I love that this first season is about developing their friendship, not shoving them into a romantic relationship.

Whereas even the adults on…

“Jessica Jones” (both seasons) are currently my favorites, though the first season suffers from that stretch around the two-thirds to three-quarters mark where the show spins its wheels by piling more misery onto Jessica, and the second season was a bit too slow to get going.

If this sticks the landing with the last…

And the thing is, the current “Supergirl” writing team likes to make a big deal about taking on social issues within the episodes, instead of just doing it.

Ideally, Nia will be a trans character played by a trans actress who will allowed to be a living breathing three-dimensional human being, where being trans is an…

The fascinating thing is that central to Camille’s inner turmoil — along with whatever the hell those boys did to her in that shack — is taking these two girls under her wing and having them die on her, and now a third one is circling her orbit as a serial killer preys upon the town.

Marian she loved deeply, but didn’t…