You’re right. Billy is Erin’s first cousin once removed, and would share about 3% of her DNA. I’m not sure this would be noticed by this lab, or considered unusual in such a small town where many people are likely to share a similar level of DNA.    

But isn’t Billy just Erin’s dad’s cousin, not her uncle? I think that makes Billy and Erin first cousins once removed or something like that. I’m not sure if that’s a close enough relation that it would show up in DNA results.

My mom has a great recipe for Angourie rice.

Mare is going to give all the credit to Colin (because of course she has to ... she was only there in a “consulting capacity” due to her suspension) and he’ll be lauded posthumously as a superhero cop for closing TWO high-profile and locally infamous cases.

It’s curious that everyone seems to have read that scene differently. Here’s my take (and it’s not entirely dissimilar to EricMontreal’s analysis): Zabel is a young detective who happened to solve a big case by working the case (and himself) to death. He watches Mare at work and he feels unworthy of the praise he…

As an actor and a (frequent) drunk I appreciated his choices in that scene.

I feel like he does have some self-awareness he’s middling. His recounting of the investigation that made he locally famous seemed rushed and incomplete, as though he’s hiding some basic facts that would underline he probably lucked into the resolution or was coached along the way to it.

If Sharp Objects was going to go that slow they should have just Malick-ed it and had slo-mo shots of roller skating and wheat and shit

Frank is a fucking dipshit. He was married to Mare, he should know that if she comes in wanting to speak to you right now, and you’re with a group of people, you don’t blow her off; you promptly excuse yourself and go talk to her outside (like way outside), because she will make a scene. I was yelling at him, “What,…

my longshot pick for “the killer” has to be that relative of Erin’s who went with them when Mare told Erin’s dad about her death. He always seems to be looking around nervously and getting much more face time than you’d expect from a C-level actor in this cast.

How about the daughter with Down syndrome?  Wouldn’t she be “the person you least expect”?

I noticed that, and on a show like this nothing is an accident. So yeah, she is definitely nervous about her fiancee. She seemed concerned in Ep 1 when he and Mare went off for a private conversation on the front lawn. I like Frank a lot, and hope that he is just a good guy who got divorced from Mare and has stepped…

Like when Zabel seemed to have made a very drunken pass to Mare and she just looked at him and sent him on his way.

Horror is my favorite genre and it takes a lot to scare me, but I find Bly to be perfectly creepy. It’s definitely my kind of horror. It gets under the skin. I usually lock my cats in the basement at night but after watching this show there’s no way in hell I’m going down there. 

I’ve been enjoying these reviews so far and there’s plenty of good observation in them, but I could not disagree more with that paragraph about Jamie and Dani. it’s a gorgeously rendered romance, my favourite on TV in a long long time, and there is clear chemistry between the actors. (we really didn’t need Carla…

Finished “Song of Achilles” in a week because I had to return it to the library and was gutted.  Like, actually wiping tears away on the bus, despite being a mythology nerd and knowing exactly how things pan out from the start.  Preferred “Circe” but that’s a purely personal preference.  Now I have to plow through…

Based on the Hulu interpreatation I’ve decided to re-read High Fidelity. Crazy to think that it is 25 years old this year. I loved it back when I was a teenager, but I imagine I’ll find Rob a bit more of a dunce this time around. I might’ve re-read it back when the Cusack movie was out, but even that is 20 years old…

Finished Drop City yesterday. It’s about a hippie community that up and moves to Alaska to live in the wilderness in 1970. The book takes a good beat to get everything laid out and get going, but it really comes together once it does. I really enjoyed it.

Yeah, the film appreciation on this site seems to dissolve, wouldn't you say?

I think Sam Rockwell is one of the best actors we have with us right now. He adds character to supporting roles, and in the lead (Moon, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind), he's just fantastic.