I'll second that rec for Under the Shadow, but add that you're really gonna want to change the language settings so that it uses the original Persian audio track with English subtitles. The English dub is just godawful. We're in a war zone and being haunted by evil spirits, and everyone is talking in the same tone of…

My theory is that doom metal and sludge thrive in New Orleans because 1.) it retains more of the Black Sabbath blues influence than any other metal genre, and 2.) it's slow and miserable, thus perfectly representing the way Southerners feel during the summer (which, in New Orleans, is 8 months).

Yeah, Aubrey Plaza just seems to have the one voice / expression / mannerism.

See, I've never in my life gotten an emotional boost from exercise. Those endorphins that are supposed to be produced by exercise don't work on me. It just makes me tired and sweaty.

The not-legal kind.

It means wanting to fuck teenagers.

Depends on your genre tastes. If you want a horror movie, keep looking. If you want to watch two pretty-but-sad young people fall in love sadly while listening to '80s New Wave, and also one of them is a vampire, it'll be right up your alley.

Non-metalheads don't know the difference. "It's all loud screaming shit, right?"

I get that non-metalheads can't tell the difference between black and death metal. That's fine. I'm not into electronic music, and couldn't tell you the difference between, say, techno and house music.

Or the Sex Pistols, for that matter.

In the novel, that blasé attitude is attributed to being dead. She says something at one point that hurts Shadow, and is mildly surprised. "Oh, was that too much? Sorry, being dead kind of makes it hard to see the line." (I don't remember the exact quote, but that was the gist of it.)

More to the point, the showrunners couldn't afford realistic mammoths marching across a realistic Bering Strait, so they ditched realism for that one scene and made it a CGI cartoon. I don't much care for the end result, but it seems like that was the only way they could put that scene into the show.

Huh. So a 61-year-old man in a mesh shirt is wrong about something? Weird.

The showrunners seem competent and familiar with the story, and they enjoy changing things up and surprising those of us who have read the book. So if it seems like they're getting something wrong, or failing to set something up properly, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt that maybe they're just not…

This question is impossible to address without getting into some massive, all-encompassing spoilers.

His name is given in the credits and that's it, I think.

"Spicy, medium, or chunky, they get a choice of course, OF COURSE! But they… are buying… salsa."

My main takeaway from this episode is "Gillian Anderson, godDAMN."

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't rats unable to control their bodily excretions, and just piss and shit wherever they happen to be when the need arises? That's what I heard when my ex got a pet rat, but I don't know how true that is.

You just can't underestimate the American people.