Read that as "unmarried" ass, which given the evangelical puritan rabidity in this country might be an apt Freudian slip.

And when Franklyn sartorially tried to emulate his beloved therapist, he ended up looking like a Midwestern Community College Lit 101 adjunct professor…

What is especially interesting is Will's ability to empathize with Mason in that scene: the horror he feels for this terrible human being who has caused him such great pain is written all over Will's face.

Mason Verger would have been falling-down drunk on all the MarTEARnis he could have made from my crying with joy when I saw that redhead sassy pain in the ass still kicking!

When Norma grabs his hand in the car, Norman's clutching her purse strings and he gets out of the car carrying it, although in the next scene as they're walking down the hall she has the purse. Not the same as apron strings, but I thought it was such a great little detail.

Parentification/emotional incest to be PSYCHO-babbly about it. That's not an uncommon dynamic if Norma has Borderline Personality Disorder and Norman has Dissociative Identity Disorder.

I liked the use of "teenage victim trips/falls while being chased in the woods" trope, with Mother being the scary Monster he's trying to escape… You can't run, dear boy, she already caught you years ago.

Haven't seen, so I should amend my judgement of his inherent creepiness until I do. Thanks!

Or even Oldman as Stansfield in "Leon" - a hammy congeniality as a mask for a terrifying and insane brutality.

After seeing Pitt in "Funny Games" and now here, I'm 100% sure he is a psychopath who plays an actor…

I agree with both you and George - "that's bullshit": I think people with Borderline Personality Disorder can sometimes act out of self-absorbed insecurity, thinking other people's problems aren't as bad as their own while simultaneously feeling not-good-enough.

During Norman's Great Escape scene, I found myself yelling at the Ford goons "DON'T YOU DARE HURT HIM!" in a very Vera verisimilitude voice; Mother is "living inside" of me now, too…

I was more disgusted by that scene than the corpse horse abortion…

We need a word that means "the complex emotion of dread anticipation of whimsy".

You know, with your phrasing*, you've right put me off cunnilingus for a while, and I love me my cunnilingus like Hannibal loves him some ruderoast.

With all of Gideon's identity issues, Hannibal was being a competent therapist by getting him to internalize his self.

Didn't Gideon kill his wife and in-laws at Thanksgiving dinner? So perhaps he sees it as his "just deserts"…

Couldn't stand Timothy Olyphant in "Deadwood" - partly because he was so damn humorless nearly all the time - but can't imagine anyone better to play Raylan Givens.

"There is no reason that people who've successfully overcome the zombie threat can't make the post-zombie-apocalypse world into a peaceful, productive (albeit primitive) place…but they don't, and that's the great tragedy."

Yep.