Random question: did you get that "so deep in the closet he lives in Narnia" line from the Rifftrax for "Sherlock Holmes?" If so, I applaud you. I can't tell you how much MST3K/Rifftrax quotes I've assimilated into my everyday vocabulary.

Give her some skinless fried chicken and she'll be any kind of mom you want.

And his son IS his son, as he said. Well, maybe not. But still is.

Most likely he was secretly wearing a bulletproof vest. Either that or his melodramatic nihilism acted as a sort of shield that protected him against everything. Except…love.

If it isn't already. I think that's part of the reason HBO put her first episode performance up on YouTube. They had to recognize its meme potential (totally a real scientific term).

I think the story elements improved, and there was a bit more levity. But some of the dialogue continues to disappoint, Ray's conversation with his ex-wife and Frank's "I had to kill a rat, life is meaningless" speech being the biggest examples.

Maybe it was just his least favorite tie.

Fair point. Maybe not a monopoly then. Maybe the "Ham-Fisted Dead Cast Member Cabal," headed by Damon Lindelof and Damian Lewis.

Absolutely, that's what I'm saying. McConaughey brought some "lightness," for lack of a better word, that managed to mitigate some of the overwhelming melodrama in the dialogue. Here with this cast, it's just not working.

A real cigarette evidently bullies you into smoking by transforming into a loud, overweight guy in a wife beater. At least that's what the most recent commercials have taught me.

"There's a cool thing that I read in one of my pessimist philosophy texts, which shows just how meaningless our universe is: the darkest thing a writer can do is kill off a character early on, then fake the other scenes used in the TV promos just to mess with the audience. That way, EVERYONE'S living their least…

Hearkening back to dead people in a ham-fisted manner? I thought "Homeland" had a monopoly on that.

Maybe she's done some mediocre work in the past, but I certainly wouldn't call her work in Rectify "middle-of-the-road." Other than Daniel, her character is the heart and soul of the show, and pretty much the most supportive sibling in TV history.

Hey, don't disrespect a Southern gal like that! I know from experience. Plus, she's in a completely different part of the country than me, so it'd have to be a pretty big room.

You're probably right. I don't know, guess I was too disillusioned by the whole Vince Vaughn melodrama-fest at the beginning to remember all the other bad dialogue. Either way, it wasn't a great line.

My pick for worst line of dialogue would be "we were good at being decent" that Ray's ex-wife says to him. Which pains me to say because, you know, Abigail Spencer.

"Why do I always have to kill the rats, huh? Why can't someone else do Frankie work?!"

I cannot wait for the return of "Rectify." Aden Young needs to win an Emmy before the show is over. Also, Amantha is my dream Southern belle. Although it could just be because I'm in love with Abigail Spencer.

"Don't ever do anything out of hunger. Well, except for diminishing yourself."

It works well in some of his written works like Galveston, which is a very good novel. Not so much in TV format, especially when you have an actor who delivers it in such an overwrought and unappealing manner. It would be one thing if it was someone who added some form of nuance or levity to the delivery. That's why…