I was kidding.

Look, HBO has a CEO of Tits, ok? That's where your #problematic begins.

Perhaps AV Club should get someone to review the show who doesn't hate its premise. Every week we're treated to a tirade about the show's #problematic issues. The Charles story line was about a man's failing struggle to stay faithful. At the end of the episode, he gets kicked out of his own house because a woman sent…

No, I understand that the lodge and the shack are two different buildings. I'm just curious who owns the lodge. That will be revealed next week, I assume.

lol, now i need to rewatch the whole series

That's sensible. See, I thought the diamonds belonged to Caspere. They were missing from his safe deposit box, right?

That didn't even cross my mind. Playing Weekend at Bernie's with the body of a man you just murdered is incredibly dumb. I guess you might say the killer was trying to make a statement by placing the corpse in a public place. But, no one seems to have been able to decipher what statement was being made, so the…

Very tough balancing act for sure. But, if the writing is good, the two detectives talking out the issue could have shed more light on what Dixon was trying to do. It may be that we'll learn more later.

Two questions about the murder shack: (1) whose sweet abandoned lodge was that they found? Chessani? Also, its exterior appeared to be in stunningly good condition for a place that no one had visited in a while. (2) Why wouldn't the killers clean up their little torture hut? Or burn it down? They had plenty of time.…

That's true. It also didn't have a gigantic constellation of characters and plot lines.

I got that he found out Dixon was corrupt and had some other interest he was working for. What I didn't get was their talk in the car about pawn shop lists and why Dixon did what he did w/r/t blue diamonds. If you know, please tell me. I'm all ears.

Ok good. That makes sense. But, while I'm watching it, I rewound two or three times to try and make sense of it, and couldn't.

One pet peeve of mine with a lot of these prestige dramas, particularly on HBO, is that characters get into these discussions of pawn shops (or something specific of their world) and the different lists that they keep, and I'm supposed to know what the heck they're talking about. Sorry, but I don't think I've been in…

Oh yeah. IMDB's summary of his career is on-point: Auteur of sometimes well-acted, but always moody and over-long cop procedurals that epically fail to deliver satisfying conclusions to story, thus deeply alienating the viewership.

I really hated the first half of the episode, but the second half featured much-needed plot developments: the discovery of the murder scene and an epic beat down of a character whose name rhymes with Hitler.

Serious?

Per the show, the land was polluted by old mines. The Vinci Illuminati would have had to have some amazing foresight to predict that an arsenic mine operating in the early 1900s would one day allow them to buy the surrounding farm land for cheap (due to the then-unimagined concern of "groundwater contamination" and…

I hope you're right. One of the most interesting things about Season One, which we haven't gotten yet in Season Two, was seeing the characters at two very different points in their lives. The contrast between past and present Cohle was particularly remarkable.

I didn't find the shootout to be realistic. In the real North Hollywood shootout, the cops were outgunned by two bank robbers armed with AK-47s who wore armor over their entire bodies. Both of them were killed, and no cops (or bystanders) died.

I suppose that's possible, but the EPA guy said that the land was contaminated from old mines that were operated long ago by now bankrupt companies. So, there's been no indication in the story that anyone was shipping toxic waste "up north" from Vinci.