I come to the AV Club solely because it's the type of place I can find Xavier Dolan described as a "sentient art-school haircut." Shine on, you crazy diamonds.

Jonah Hill is a talented guy, but he looks very out of his element here.

The miniseries was a four-parter and was probably one of the best King adaptations ever, so there's that.

If it does, it won't be because of the source material, which is fantastic.

The book is fantastic, part smartass MacGyver comedy, part high-tension thriller, and all hard science. Scott will probably have to jettison some of the internal-monologue comic material to make the film work tonally, but while I was reading it all I was thinking was what a fantastic IMAX 3D thrill ride it would make.

Yep. As a Christian I'm angered by this tactic and embarrassed that so many of my fellow believers fall for it. All the while they reject real and challenging cinematic art from devout Christian filmmakers like Malick. Even the film that started this boom, Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ" was a piece of art—not…

Far too many coincidences (Sonya just happens to show up just as Eleanor's dad gets the upper hand! Linder just happens to be in the truck stopped by Hank!) and far too many botched tie-ups of storylines for this to get any more than a C- from me. This was honestly one of the sloppiest and most haphazard episodes of…

I think the D&D connection was from the fact that Eleanor saw certain people as demon-possessed and the DEA agent's use of a D&D collection in his garage as a place to hide some of his clues on the CIA connection.

Setrakian is Armenian, but those scenes took place in Albania.

I think you missed the point of my comment.

Excited for this one. Count me as another person who thinks PT Anderson is our greatest living filmmaker. That being said, I really hope this is masterful enough to wash the taste of 'The Master' out of my mouth. That film was as technically astute as anything Anderson has ever done but felt like a giant reactionary…

"Are you sure this is the final draft of the script?"

Ah, OK, I see what you meant now.

I don't think the Hoodie Vamp Gang works for the master.

As terrible as his character is and how much the scripts have failed him, Corey Stoll has played his role very well.

That silver-haired getup looked like something that was thrown together for a SNL skit that came on after a very short commercial break.

History lesson for 'The Strain' writers: in 1967, Albania was an autarky (an especially introverted version of communism where a country basically tells everyone else to fuck off—see 'Korea, North') lorded over by a man named Enver Hoxha, who was the head of a cult of personality that Josef Stalin surely would have…

I love the warped humor on this show, and that was one of the best examples of its entire run.

What's really cool about Monty is that Eleanor actually backed down when he brandished the pistol. I get the sense that respect, begrudging or otherwise, is something Eleanor doesn't show to many people.

I'm not sure you're right about that. I didn't get that Monty was kidding about his marksmanship and he certainly gives off the 'human cockroach' vibe that suggests he'll be left standing after Captain Trips or nuclear winter.