Regarding your third point, Jeez, I hope you don't watch The Americans!! The plot hasn't moved there for approximately two entire seasons. I think there's plenty of narrative action in this show, tons.

Your experience was rather similar to mine, except that it was actually "Hands All Over" that I saw late one night on MTV at that same time (also off "Louder Than Love") — It definitely made an impression on me, that song; it was different and there was an edginess to the song and video that I liked… but I didn't get…

Great post. I hadn't thought about your last point; it *is* disturbing!

I totally disagree. The scene was heavy and dark enough with just the *sound*, the knowledge we had, and Sy's horrified reaction. Why would anyone enjoy watching Nikki get beaten?! I thought the director handled it brilliantly.

It's interesting how much confusion there's been on this. I too had thought it was pee-drinking. I wonder if the director missed the mark there leaving that vague — I'm guessing it wasn't their intention for it to be ambiguous. What we thought we saw is a retty nasty direction to go, so I'm assuming it was just…

Now that was a pretty dark episode. Not that I'm complaining; I love the new season (regardless of whether it will ultimately equal the first two).

Still, I was pretty disappointed in the lovable-though-flawed Sy for taking off like that and not checking on Nikki or calling for help. My Sy let me down.

Act, shmact, I feel Sanctusfilius's pain. Have you *seen* Alexandra Daddario?

The season is mostly over? (Just checked, it's exactly half over. We've got another ep before it's "mostly over"!)

I just don't get it when I hear this… There are SOOO many killer songs on the first two Audioslave records. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

Overall a lovely eulogy to a great talent, but I couldn't disagree more with the assessment of Audioslave. That marriage worked *perfectly* in my opinion. Sure, there may have been a few throwaway tracks throughout the three albums, but there were far more gems. That band ended up far exceeding what I thought it…

RIP, Chris Cornell, one of the greats and gone WAY too young at 52. Lest some lump him in as just another grunge-era singer/guitarist, he was not. He was much more. There was a richness to Soundgarden's music that always eluded their contemporaries. While their sound derived from Zeppelin and Sabbath (with a bit of…

Yeah, see, I don't disagree with what you're saying in theory at all. I too appreciate long looks, pauses, silent tension slowly building… but I'm not feeling any of that in these last couple of eps — I'm flatlining. For instance, what were we meant to feel during the Oleg supper? How was it earned? I feel like that…

It's Sy's world; we're just living in it. When he's pointing at Ray, in full rub-your-face-in-it victory mode, and then can't open the door of his Humvee? Man, pitch perfect, I howled! Stuhlbarg needs an Emmy. Not even to mention the "No one here called the police" scene wherein he was somehow channeling the very…

I love these characters, and actors, but does anyone else feel like there's perhaps never been a show with less narrative momentum than this one?! I honestly find it stunning how little the piot advances each week. I've come to expect the "A" review in here every time, but for me personally, I've sorta had it with…

Gotta disagree with you there. Whether this season achieves the greatness of Season 2 remains to be seen, but I'm thoroughly enjoying it (less so episode 3, but it still had a lot of merit). Right from the get-go, it has had great lines and interesting characters and feels pretty damned Fargo to me. Whereas True…

I see what you did there!

Up-voted for Lode Runner. Obsessively wiled away hours and hours seeking mastery of that game on my college roommate's Commodore 64.

I'm not usually "that guy" who gets stuck on these sort of continuity details or what have you, but this one is stuck in my craw a little. To have a character who we're told should be 47 be 20 years younger is kind of inexcusable. What happened here? Someone get Noah on the phone; we, the fine(-ish) people of AV Club,…

That was an interesting diversion, but I missed Sy. (Even though we did get Sy Ableman, his nemesis from another dimension).