And suddenly we seem to have jumped from Oedipus to the Atreides.

It was truly Jessica Lange-worthy, in fact.

Every time you kiss your mother on the lips, you'll taste my Oedipussy!

You were thinking it; I was screaming it at the television.

What, did you try to bang the DM's sister or something?

My brain keeps trying to turn Anne Heche into Joely Richardson.

Or Thomas Jane could just go back to literally prostituting himself.  I'm good for at least a week's worth of sandwiches.

This whole Masuka underling thing is extraneous beyond extraneous, no?  I mean, what, is he going to try to kill Angel's sister, or is he just banging her because he's not quite boned out enough to try to bang Dexter?

My gasping is actually pathological, but no less appropriate for the dreckitude that was this episode.

Along with his plastic peen!

You're right.  I'm slow at remembering Coppola at will.

You would be correct if we were talking about a network that actually sells commercials, but we're talking about Showtime, so that's not a valid excuse for lazy writing.

You may be on to something there…

Again, just because she's a Federal attorney who's not on the take, she has to be a total prude?

I'm down with that.  Wanna go doubles?

Except that Patinkin probably wouldn't be any easier to work with unless they recast him as Cantor or stuck him in as Jolson.  Patinkin, FSM love him, is a major diva.

I thought Buscemi, at 5'9", was fun-sized.  Ado was made back in season 1 about how much shorter Nucky Thompson was than Nucky Johnson.

I was definitely getting Murder by Death vibes. And he even references Cromwell in his self-written IMDb bio…

It strikes me that this kind of thing is typical with series that run less than 20 episodes in a season.  Must… smash… narrative… into… thirteen…

Exactly.  But this show is never subtle in its parallels, either.