Sometimes I imagine Michael Smiley playing the role, and that helps.

I dunno - I'm sort of torn. I appreciated the attempts to dig into American zealotry and the hypocrisy of the god fearing when it comes to the ease of killing fellow brethren, but it was a little on the nose. The part where Mexican Jesus was shot was heavy handed. But it's Starz, so I guess subtlety and shades of grey…

The Adriano Celentano song "Prisencolinensinainciusol" from the premier was in my head for a week. There's a terrifically 70's euro-creep video that looks like Hawley could have created it. I can't recommend it enough.

In the trade we call that a "murder kit"

Michael Cyril Creighton is so heart wrenchingly phenomenonal in both episodes he appears in (the new and old). His performances really make this show for me. I can't give him enough praise. Really wonderfully subtle undertones and one of the most natural and quietly human characters I've seen on TV.

Good point. This show prefers inexplicably malevolent psychopaths over pragmatic leaders making hard choices. There's almost no gray area in this show these days (bye Shane!), and the characters who are a little bit morally ambiguous like Carol are seems as having a handicap. We rarely get a look at the kind of…

Didn't love the clumsy celebrity guest star injection with Bob. No stakes, no challenges, just an almost-sanctimonious monologue from Bob, who is clearly capable of much more. The web series direction was similar - way too cautious with "important" topics and bigger celebs with a tendency towards curation rather than…

I like that theory. Some of the best scenes with Russell were when we saw him being a graceless manipulator, despite the tough talk and assured strut. One of my favorite aspects of the Hill/Sanchez world is a willingness to dwell on mediocrity and weakness and how they interact with vanity. When Lee gets caught…

Saw an early, semi-improvised version of this at the Annoyance in Brooklyn and it was defnitely funny. The crew that's doing it has a very specific style, so maybe not for everyone. That said, it's balls-out and pretty nutty without being as self-aware as I think Tim and Eric's stuff can be.

Well Jospeh Mawle is credited with being in the next episode (but only as "Borther Beyond the Wall"), so I guess we'll see…

I love your work in this thread.

What I just realized is that all of these communities somehow are within a few hours drive (horse ride?) from each other. I can understand the fragmentation of society if survivors are geographically isolated, but for some reason all of these people are coalescing in the rural/suburban south?

You know what I miss? Moral ambiguity. We're building a new society, but one made up of individuals who would still have an innate desire for law and order. They wouldn't have forgotten democracy or the value for consistency in leadership.

No bagpipes in the Rilo Kiley track, and that's just a regular Highland pipe in the Korn clip. Northumbrian pipes are very sweet sounding - for reference, NSPer Katherine Tickell is featured on a few Sting songs (the opening to Island of Souls is worth a listen). Surprised that Belle and Sebastian or Dropkick Murphys…

I think this show says a lot about the power of delusion. The first few episodes invite us to laugh at just how rediculous Chip is - it's something I think we're used to from Galifinakis and collaborators like Tim and Eric. But the introduction of Christine (and I think the US as seen through the lens of…