Wait... Jonathan Hickman (The Black Monday Murders, East Of West)

Clement: “There’s only one way to settle this.”
In my head: “Rap battle.”
Clement: “Rap battle.”
Me: “YES!”

Cary: “Stop fighting.” Kerry: “That’s like me saying, ‘Stop worrying.’”

My lute!

Any show that could take a song that you have heard to death (U2's “With Or Without You”), and make it sound as gut-wrenching as it did the very first time you’ve heard it - has to be doing something right. 

I don’t think you could have stuck to the landing more than The Americans did in its final season. Especially the finale. A close second would have to be The Larry Sanders Show. As humble and likable as Jon Stewart was, there was this pall hanging over the entire season. Stewart wasn’t deliberately gunning to oust Larr…

The Americans. After a very slow 5th season the show completely blew everything up and it landed really well. 

The final season of America was kind of a downer, but with the seeds of its end planted at the very beginning, thematically appropriate.

Saw Sparklehorse only once, in a tiny pub in Sydney in 1999. But I won’t ever forget it.

To be perfectly honest. I’m surprised a show like this even got greenlit much less lasted beyond one season. I think that’s why every season is so herky jerky in terms of plot development and pacing. They only have so much time to tell a story so they skip to the end. I think this would’ve been better as a netflix…

The last 2 episodes have knocked it out of the park.

Personally this just isn’t a show that I enjoy because I can emotionally connect with the characters. I can’t even say that I care for many of the characters, and yet I don’t see that as a bad thing. I love this show the way that I love old Looney Tunes episodes. I never found myself needing to know Bugs’ childhood…

I rewatched Season 1, and this has been the direction David was headed for a long time. He’s sympathetic as hell, but we’ve been watching a tragedy.

It was so poignant to me that in all the times & ways Lenny tried to escape the Shadow King & his control by killing herself, her coming into her true self & freedom allowed her to do just that.

Also looks like their return relates to the Woodcutter’s tale that the coffee machine told Melanie in S1. When I saw that stuff in the next on footage, air remembered the way Syd mentioned Melanie filling her head up with lies in her convo with David before their body switch. I’m wondering if we’re finally going to…

I think Syd was being honest about no longer being mad at him. She’s moved past anger into acceptance (though unlikely into forgiveness). She does still love him - but that doesn’t change the fact that he’s a monster that needs to be put down hence trying to get Kerry to kill them.

I also think it is highly likely…

“Your plan is dumb, & I’m gonna sabotage it!” Farouk

Legion is far from a perfect show. It’s practically imperfect by design. But damn I’ll miss it when it’s gone.

CHOICE music tonight, hot damn. They really went full Claremont there in David’s mindscape - that’s (closer) to the specific brand of wild stuff I’ve been waiting to see since the first episode!