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An excellent meta-story, but also a great introduction to the rich world of Slavic folktales - Gaiman really hits the whole callously chilling, rule-bound, descending-into-ever-stranger-territory feel of them.

I have also (successfully) used Ramadan to get people reading Sandman.

I have also (successfully) used Ramadan to get people reading Sandman.

The "Lord of Pain" is just a flat-out terrible, completely half-assed antagonist - what's needed here is a classic "oh it's clearly Satan even though they don't say his name", rather than the wan, toothless wannabe Gaiman cooks up here.  But every moment with Norton is just so perfectly realized, giving real life and

The "Lord of Pain" is just a flat-out terrible, completely half-assed antagonist - what's needed here is a classic "oh it's clearly Satan even though they don't say his name", rather than the wan, toothless wannabe Gaiman cooks up here.  But every moment with Norton is just so perfectly realized, giving real life and

The hometown travel ad is definitely my favorite fake ad of the season. ('Not-pizza' was last season, right?)

The hometown travel ad is definitely my favorite fake ad of the season. ('Not-pizza' was last season, right?)

I thought it was a wasted opportunity to have Nasim Pedrad in a black neoprene catsuit.

I thought it was a wasted opportunity to have Nasim Pedrad in a black neoprene catsuit.

A few seconds into "Cool Drones", I thought, "This has a real Superjail! thing going on".  And sure enough, it was by Augenblick Studios.

A few seconds into "Cool Drones", I thought, "This has a real Superjail! thing going on".  And sure enough, it was by Augenblick Studios.

^^^Badlan has it. MIB stuff has been a conspiracy nut staple for generations.

^^^Badlan has it. MIB stuff has been a conspiracy nut staple for generations.

I was just watching a show the other day that featured star chef Dave Chang explaining his latest invention: brick-hard fermented pork slabs that have to be shaved into fine strips, look disgusting and take weeks to make, but the shavings can be immersed in hot water to make an instant pork broth. So therefore the

I was just watching a show the other day that featured star chef Dave Chang explaining his latest invention: brick-hard fermented pork slabs that have to be shaved into fine strips, look disgusting and take weeks to make, but the shavings can be immersed in hot water to make an instant pork broth. So therefore the

Awesome!  I'd frame that notice, if I was you. 

Awesome!  I'd frame that notice, if I was you. 

So, it is great that they're fulfilling my wish of using former Fringe cases in (almost) every episode - so it got me thinking, as I watched Peter's Observer-vision: perhaps they've utilized the probability-mapping of the unfortunate subject of "The Plateau" and refined it until it simply presents the most stable and

So, it is great that they're fulfilling my wish of using former Fringe cases in (almost) every episode - so it got me thinking, as I watched Peter's Observer-vision: perhaps they've utilized the probability-mapping of the unfortunate subject of "The Plateau" and refined it until it simply presents the most stable and

I wish that Walter had "accidentally" spread the hand into a "live long and prosper" sign as he pressed it to the scanner.  Would've reinforced the Vulcanization (wait, that's actually a thing - Vulcanogrification?) at work in Peter, too.