I should add one thing that I really liked, which was Wednesday's discussion of how factory workers are sacrificed. "It's as good as throwing them in on purpose."

…so to speak.

I could work with that if Fuller himself hadn't said the exact same thing, completely matter of factly, 3 or 4 times in interviews that I can remember over the past several weeks. I'm pretty sure he genuinely thinks this is how it goes.

Hmm, that could work for me, even though afaik place names don't come after "bin."

I hope so! Actually one of the questions I have from this episode is what happens to gods who are physically killed when they're strong and have lots of believers and power, as opposed to mostly or completely forgotten. I have no trouble with the idea that if something happened to Czernobog, he'd just be gone, but…

Right, which is why I was hoping his delivery on "protection from people trying to kill you" would be bigger! Maybe it's just cause I'm not Christian.

I was sort of hoping Jesus would come through with a little more than catching a couple of bullets, but it was very beautiful.

I didn't notice, but that's great.

Nah, he and the Djinn just switched spots. The Djinn is still a djinn and Salim is still a human.

I need to watch this episode again, because I was so distracted by two things. First, that line about Salim getting thrown off a roof. Fuller has tossed that out in several interviews and it's always bugged me, but now that it's in the text of the show it's at a new level. Executing gay men by throwing them off roofs…

The fact is that most people, shoved in front of a camera and asked to deliver lines, go wooden, or freeze, or laugh. "Playing yourself" is still a significant skill.

sigh

Yes, okay, fine. Indigenous peoples. Peoples who were here prior to colonization.

I have no particular skin in why he's looking at horses online EXCEPT for the "daughter taking lessons" theory because it makes no sense in terms of how anything to do with horseback riding in this day and age works. That's all I'm here for. I'm petty, but at least my petty has a lane!

Is this going to happen literally every time Laura is discussed because it's 2 for 2 already

Yes, and we were there too, where she was explicitly told "You believed in nothing, so you will go to nothing."

Malcolm McDowell has the kind of face I want for Hinzelmann, though obviously he doesn't meet my other criteria.

I've read the book many times, and in the book tbh I don't think it's that clear either—I could never entirely tell if it was supposed to be conspiracy theories, or the actual security forces that said theories often involve. (Maybe that says something about me.) But it seems to me that the show has deliberately taken…

THAT WOULD BE INCREDIBLE

I know Crispin Glover is a weird guy and a lot of the character's affect here is very much like him, but that doesn't actually make what he's doing not acting.