i'm saying: sorely underused.

why was colin salmon in this season?

seriously i had to do a double-take when i read that. didn't expect the review to pick up on the split diopter shot during nina's polygraph, but that's straight out of the 80s carpenter/de palma playbook. the style isn't flash or tacky, no - "sophisticated" is the right word. the visuals make the show's narrative…

I would describe this song as "ugly" and not in a perversely appealing way

he did, yeah - there are parts on that album where the guitar is just this obnoxious redlined wash of noise. lifeson likes to do "atmospheric," sure, but it's like rubbing pebbles on a microphone.

this is a band that used to divide tracks by "guitar noodling," "guitar noodling with ride cymbal," and "gradual wash of feedback." have perspective!

seems a mite churlish to complain about the sub-three minute closing track - which, really, lays its cards on the table with the name "siesta" - as a "stretch of blandness"

the last three LPs were really hit/miss for me, but this is fantastic all the way through. Anyone know the difference between the black cover Sargent House version and the other one with the cat (i think?)?

Absolutely. Entire album rips like a motherfucker - if you listen to this in any kind of car, it automatically transforms around you into a '71 Mustang.

Well…good thing he didn't try! :-/

I really liked The Woman….but I am not surprised Dowd didn't.

lord is it so hard to do a simple in-camera severed arm

Note Fuller's answer re: Margot and his sensitivity to the gender issues at play with her book counterpart and continued hesitancy to exploit sexual violence…

Katherine Isabelle!!!

Gillen's accent has always been mad overplayed, but that scene was somehow even more ridiculous. It was like he forgot how to do The Littlefinger Voice and was fishing for it the whole time.

was it all worth it: FUCK YES

I liked Taurus live but their first LP was kinda subdued in comparison. Digging this though (despite Wrest's involvement…dunno about that dude).

Coming in late to point out that not only is the cast multicultural but also evenly gender-distributed: of course Hannibal, Jack, and Will (all men) are not going to be killed off so it's the peripheral characters for the meat grinder. Which entails women. Which is fine on a show that has taken great pains to avoid…

I got dizzy trying to follow his logic here. What's - song - problem - ratchet?

Right - if we take Dowd's reading to heart, it funnels all the possibilities of the film into a (appropriately) masturbatory ode to Von Trier himself, and that's really not what I wanted out of it.