"turgid diegetic dirge"….good vocabulary! :) (though I have to go look up diegetic).

Thank you for explaining it. How terrible that the victim not only suffers not only the abuse, but also the guilt.

I ultimately enjoyed the season, so this is just nitpicking, but I guess that's what these forums are for, so….. one thing that didn't ring true was Ani's confession about her childhood trauma. "He didn't force me", "I was proud that he thought I was pretty," etc. That might seem plausible if she had been 13 or 14,…

Lol, all those putting down Chad for playing Magic cards or Warhammer or whatever in the schoolyard…..are probably going directly from commenting on this forum to their nightly raid on WOW. (I say that affectionately — I have a soft spot for nerds). :)

I thought that part about the phone message was so bleak! At least the writer could have thrown Ray a little bone and let the phone show "message uploaded." But showing that his message never made it was just one more defeat for poor Ray (and Chad, who never got to hear it).

I was puzzling over the "I'm doing it for his sons" line….thinking, Who is she talking about?….so I loved the reveal in the next shot when we see the baby.

I agree, I loved the salute. I think Ray deserved that last good moment with his son, and it could have been way more cheesy. I've seen way too many movies where the kid would have run up to the fence and sobbed, "I love you, Dad…" or something like that. This was subdued and just a "moment", not an overblown…

"if the kid is that quirky, it needs to be established beforehand…" The kid was nothing BUT quirky! From the first time we see him he's an awkward misfit who is bullied at school. And he's not a teenager! He's in elementary school (they don't have playgrounds in high schools). I agree that carrying around a…

I think Frank knew he wasn't getting out of the desert alive. Refusing to give up the suit was just his final "F U" to the Mexicans.

I think others have mentioned the fact that Joe seems to have forgotten his parents' existence. There was NO grieving on his part when the outside world seemingly was destroyed. They actually rubbed that fact in when Julia said (at the beginning of this episode) "There's nothing left out there." Cue to Joe, who…

Norrie has had that same look on her face for literally 90% of her scenes. I think Rachelle Lefevre is actually a decent actress —- I give her and Dean Norris credit for sticking with this thing and giving it their all. I think that's why their scenes together lately have been so fun — I can picture them offscreen…

good theory!

Last night was full of bad dialogue, over-acting, and laugh-out-loud moments. Oh wait, I was watching the Republican debate, not Under the Dome!

LOL. I love "Bulia" because it sounds vaguely like a disease!

One thing that keeps bothering me about the plot…isn't Taylor Kitsch's character a highway patrolman? It seems implausible that a sheriff's deputy and a little town cop (Bez and Ray) would be assigned this top-secret investigation, let alone a highway patrolman whose only contribution was coming upon the body of a…

I thought exactly the same thing when he said that line about "you're gold inside." lol

poguemahoney, I had to look to see who you were replying to, because I didn't see anything rude or bitchy at all in the previous post! You seem to have taken it very personally when I don't think it was meant that way in the least.

so true! And the guy who just announced he was running for governor was there, was he not? I know that politicians are caught In hanky-panky situations all the time, but for him to show up at a huge orgy seems beyond belief. Maybe if the show took place 30 or 40 years ago….but today — NOTHING is secret. It would…

I'm enjoying the show as well, particularly the actors. I do think there's a little too much going on. We have each detective's back story, plus Frank's story, plus the rather murky mystery involving Casper, the mayor, diamonds, missing girl, rail line shenanigans, sex parties, and hippie communes. I'm hoping it…

Because then they wouldn't have had an excuse to put makeup and a sexy dress on Rachel McAdams. Every cop show known to man eventually sends its hot female detective "undercover" in some kind of sexy getup.