I related like a motherfucker to this account. 
Stuff that totally altered my consciousness forever when I was a wee lad in the eighties:

How else will future generations remember the contributions of Mr. MOTHERFUCKER? 

See if this works: every time the chorus pops up, replace "…Baby come back!" with "Baby-got-back!!!"

There's nothing about encephalitis - the only thing that could possibly match from Red Dragon is that Will was hospitalized/institutionalized after the killing of Garrett Jacob Hobbs…and so far, I see little evidence that he won't be.

I also love that this show is the cow that hasn't come home yet.  I hope that bit of scheduling quirk carries over.

Interesting counterpoint.  One of the allures of serial killer fiction is the displacement of the "deep illogic" you refer to within human possibility, setting the terrible wrongness of serial murder loose in the world of sanity (which is one reason why they're so often procedurals, where they take methodical steps to…

More than anything else, I fear that a Monster of the Week format might start to seem formulaic as the writers strive - inevitably, too hard - to come up with another topper.  The closest parallel would have to be Fringe, especially with the use of the perpetrators' motives and methods as metaphors for themes the…

I actually was glad to see the forensic team get used as the Third Option between Jack and Hannibal for once (at least, Hetienne Park) - I think they make a much more natural buffer zone for Will than Alana. (Plus, more Scott Thompson is never a bad idea.)

One thing I've been really admiring about this show is how it is gradually stepping further and further away from reality, but using a psychological grounding to do so, making Will's slow slippage into madness our journey as viewers into a fractured interior mindscape.  I can't say I'm terribly familiar with Fuller's…

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That is very, very much how I've always pictured an A Scanner Darkly scramblesuit.

I put "Amit Gupta" through Google Translate, and it came out as "Mary Whitehouse".

The one thing that could never hurt us…

Caught her on Craig Ferguson last night - let's just say she came off as an incredible woman on multiple levels.  (Crushers will definitely want to Youtube that segment.)

*Groot slumps dejectedly as "Christmastime is Here" plays*

Honestly, I feel you - I love reading the reviews and comments here, but I haven't been able to keep up with the episodes, and all my memories of DS9 are as old as their airdate. 

So I totally thought that this practice went back to at least the Silver Age, but apparently it's Byrne's "Man of Steel" (1986) where it's established as canon.  In hindsight, I should have known that the Silver Age explanation is way weirder - Supes only grows hair (or nails) when powerless under a red sun…which…

Nye says he grinds 'em off - so what could be more badass than using an angle grinder?

I totally swooned at that one.  Oh my god.

I've been thinking a bit about this new Netflix model of television - where all the episodes of a season/series are released at once - and what that might mean in terms of content being shaped by format (as has always happened to television).  I hope it paves the way for more gradual, layered works, with more densely…