Really wish now I had kept my username "standswithapfft" so I could have replied, "You called?"…

Duh, I should have thought of that!

Tularemia doesn't seem to be contagious between people, according to the CDC. So it'd be a smart idea to infect her.

Tularemia can be transmitted several ways, the most relevant here is when the person comes into contact "via the skin when handling infected animal tissue [or hair or skin]". Also, you can breathe it in or ingest it.

Sorry! I haven't seen it. Now I must.

I did get a signed headshot, which I taped up in my special, secret hiding place - inside my closet (literally, not figuratively), a place of honor where my best playing and dreaming took place.

Right, those strings! It stirs something so primal now because that has become part of our cultural DNA.

I don't know if I'm allowed to link vids in Disqus, but Hitchcock gives a great answer on the distinction between mystery and suspense, the latter at which he excelled, because it was about provoking emotions; I think he would be proud of how faithful "Bates Motel" is to his aim and artistry.

From the moment I saw the mausoleum-like gates of Pineview through to the tracking shot of Norman's almost funereal procession, up until the last bird's-eye perspective of the house that will become Norma and Alex's crypt - I had a cramping, burning dread in the pit of my stomach: a pit as deep as where Emma's Mama is…

I don't know what this means/who this is! Gordon Ramsay? The Swedish Chef from the Muppets? Julia Child? Tell me!

But is Philip going to actively betray or is he going to get cornered into doing so or is he going to get set up? I don't know anything except I don't worry about that stuff except in idle speculation because I am willing to take whatever this show gives me, I trust it that much.

Outsiders looks good, I may have to check it out. I think I remember you are a big Justified fan? I ask because it looks like both deal with deep country folk (although in a different way).

Interesting subtext with Aderholt when paired with Stan, that others might assume a difference in competence based purely on physical attributes:

Ways in which Martha is the titular rat:

We may have discussed this ages ago when I was standswithapffst but Hurst was the only thing about SOA that I liked.

I get what you're saying, I misspoke in limiting it to just Mother persona (I meant it's very helpful for Norma).

Norma/n is charming because that is a very effective way to control a situation (especially if you look like Vera Farmiga): it deflects scrutiny of what is being hidden.

Whoa. Glad I was an '80s teen on an island in the Pacific - no one ever locked the doors. Of course, they did shoot missiles at us from California (the SDI program Regan was talking about on the tv), but for the most part they missed.

Arkady [with frustration and disgust]: "[Nina] got chance after chance."

Mike is one of my favorite characters in the BB universe, but there was something so predatory and implacable about him watching Tio - Mike's eyes hooded and self-satisfied, a croc who knows its meal doesn't see it and can't escape - I felt viscerally afraid of him, a cold stone weight in my stomach.