I also enjoyed the parallelism of Marty quitting because he didn't want to look at horrible things anymore, while Rust watched the video and swore "never to avert his eyes again."

I'm not sure why you think that "rich person murder cult" is the solution to the mystery. If that were the solution, it seems like they would have held it until the last episode.

The lawnmower man isn't THE man with scars on his face, he was clearly just scarred by the same terrible ritual or rite in Tuttle's "other family" that created the Yellow King's face.

What, no Ted Mosby?

Also, how great was Seeger at Obama's inauguration?  He got to play This Land is Your Land—the real, whole version—to the entire country, and I think he just about exploded from happiness.

I've been an Ochs fan since I was, I don't know, sixteen, and I've always preferred his political songs the most.

This is actually something that makes me love them both. Seeger is a minor American hero, dubious pro-Soviet politics and all.  But Ochs is so human.  He wanted to do good but he also wanted to be personally successful, and when both his political message and personal ambition were met with apathy, he broke down…