Amen. I feel sorry for the way a lot of the people here must treat their own families. Mom gave up some of her dreams to take a job that would let her raise you better? "I never asked you to do that." Husband cared for you in your old age at home, at great expense, rather than sticking you in a nursing home to rot? …

This is a peculiar view of how obligations can be incurred. If a bystander gets badly burned pulling your unconscious body from a burning car wreck, is your response to say "You chose to do that. I never asked you to do anything."?

It's available on Amazon, for sure. Season 3 is only 9.99 for its entirety.

On one level, it was sweet that he thought to try to do something nice for her, even if it was done on about the level of a six-year-old. On the other hand, she gave up her life to fight to prove his innocence and bring him home to his family, to which he has responded by pleading to the murder and leaving the family…

I really enjoy his body language. His climactic fight with Tawney was incredible, the way it went from teetering precariously close to violence, to hunched and childlike, was really phenomenal acting. As was his scene in this episode with Janet at the door.

Things get very complicated when a person cannot even remember whether or not they committed the crime. Is Daniel 'guilty' for something he cannot be certain he even really did? More to the point, if he is convicted on the basis of a coerced confession, in the absence of his father and an attorney, coached on the…

It's absolutely true. There are some who have no tolerance for those types of questions to begin with, and others who essentially react with what, in essence, is some version of "So, you think you're better than me?"

Got it. I just figured that it might be helpful to know that it's part of a specific literary tradition that includes Joyce and Beckett, rather than some purely idiosyncratic affectation by the author.

Not a Joyce fan, I take it?

I think it's more like Melville than Hemingway, personally.

The Crossing, which for some reason was the generally least-liked of the Border Trilogy, I found completely emotionally devastating. It'll always be one of my favorites.

"Boy, you are nvts. N-V-T-S, nvts."

I don't know, I probably would never have discovered the comic, if the name hadn't drawn my eye because of already knowing the band.

It's also a John Wayne and Rock Hudson post-Civil-War Western.

Elysian Fields the jazzy dream-rock band fronted by sultry-voiced Jennifer Charles, versus The Elysian Fields, the Greek death metal band. Has led to some unexpected bathtime music.

Koji Yakusho is the male lead, and he's probably my favorite Japanese actor still working. If you haven't seen Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Cure," you're missing out on some fantastic slow-burning dread.

Yes! I have seen the name pop up in music news and gotten excited and then immediately disappointed way too many times. I mean, who hears "Max and Igor Cavalera team up with James Murphy!" and thinks "The LCD Soundsystem guy?"

It made perfect sense in the exchange in which it happened. It meant that it's not being "cold" to face a hard truth. Here's the full exchange.

There's nothing unintentional about the hilarity of the haircut. The Coen Brothers laughed their asses off at it constantly, according to the 'making of' featurette. But on the other hand, they chose it because they were looking at old mugshots of criminals from the era and region in which the film took place, and…

Followed by CS Lewis, Lewis Carrol, and Carrol O'Connor… wait, where am I?