She's manipulative because she's needy, it underlies everything she does even if she might not be aware of how much she manipulates. Anecdotally, the neediest person I've ever met was also the most manipulative because she couldn't ask to get her needs meet like an adult would. Luckily I was adopted out at a few weeks…

Off-topic (I can't add anything to your thoughtful analysis), but I wonder if someone like Woody Harrelson got into acting partially because of his criminal, absentee father… the ability to daydream and inhabit other lives (better than your own), to be someone else with a different story and past, to get out of your…

There is tragedy in Walker's death because despite his pragmatism and his arrogance in thinking he could get himself out of any situation, if he ever thought about how he would die I'm sure he pictured something more heroic than being shot down like a dog - and in the back - as he ran away.

From IMDB: "The Shield" s3 e13 (2004) episode "Fire in the Hole" is Natalie Zea's last appearance in the series.

Commenting just to agree.

I know I'm in the minority in not finding her scary at all, but maybe I'm just missing something y'all are seeing? Mags showed in action how dangerous and crocodile-cold she was but all Hale has done is talk sweetly while implying a threat, which I haven't seen backed up(?).

A male friend (we're in our 40s) lost his virginity at 13 to a much older, aggressive girl; his body was willing but his heart was not. While most of his friends (then and now) think it was "awesome, bro", he is still troubled, angry, and saddened by it and feels that at best he was taken advantage of/coerced and that…

Yes, but there can be emotional fallout when you realize your older sexual partner was just using you as a convenient hole, especially if - like Kimmie - you have an unsatisfactory/complex psychological bond with your parent.

But isn't that what the show is trying to hammer [ahem] home? That the meek shall NOT inherit the world and all the old institutions (church, state) and their rules are not only dead and irrelevant, but also maybe dangerous in the new existence.

I know a guy named Durl. I can't bring myself to ever call him by name, it's just so stupid sounding. Unrelated - the guy is 6'9"

Angry was I
that Daryl no, uh, let Carol shoot Noah in the marrow -
"Kid" did imperil he&Carol by
releasing feral walkers in a narrow
hallway to keep himself safe - why?
For no-other reason than his newly-"found" arrow…
A greed for which they all nearly did die!

Let go of Vic - Lem would have wanted you to…

Especially now that we re-elected him…

And moral cowardice on Beth's part, when she let Noah take the fall for (and get beaten for) something she did - even unwittingly. Yes, she helped him escape but she didn't "man up" when it counted (what if the punishment had been death?) and I will always dislike her for that unless she redeems herself.

I finally got around to watching "A Simple Plan" - and was blown away by Thorton's performance. He doesn't do just creepy or malevolent well, he masterfully does complex and compelling.

Titus, the 1999 Anthony Hopkins version, is also relevant.

But think of what an extraordinary performance Pitt's Mason would be if Ledger's Joker never existed - we would be as spellbound by it as much as the original characterization.

"because he didn't want to hide his eyes from God"

"And I wish we would’ve seen what happened after Will cut Hannibal down from the hook and straight jacket at the Verger estate."

I think the outlandish clownishness of Mason served as contrast to the refined and restrained nature of Hannibal, partly to highlight class issues - with Verger being gauche nouveau riche and Hannibal being Aristocratic Old Money.