He even managed to suck the romance out of Paris.

It said the suspect had a history of producing LSD and meth. I wonder if he was just tweeked out and tripping balls, while in his cooking gear (i.e. a too-soon very derivative Breaking Bad callback). It would make sense as a red herring to make the audience think he's doing some crazy cult shit, but it turns out he's…

Maybe there is no perfect rule on how to handle a failing relationship. Maybe a divorce is very complicated and not the always the answer, though it seems to be in Marty's and Maggie's case as he doesn't keep his ring in later interviews. "Everyone who cheats is garbage." That is a very universal statement. …

I don't think Rust is a copycat killer. If he is, this show fooled me and was all a cliche ridden joke from the start. I do think he may have set up a girl's body to make it look like another murder so it would reopen an investigation he always knew ended in the wrong guy being caught.

Yea, even though some of his dialogue on the show comes off as it could be delivered in speech form (mostly his weird nihilist philosophy), none of it is presented that way. It's all conversational, and even mumbled sometimes, as though he knows his partner is barely listening (let alone a home audience). Were this…

The political pressure was definitely there. In the 80s and 90s those "occult" investigations were a huge thing. They swept up big news ratings because people (particularly in the Bible Belt) were sure evil cults were a real thing and it was all a part of the Spiritual War happening (mentioned in episode one). The…

I've actually wondered if either of them (or both) might be unreliable narrators, especially since we know we're getting the story from 15 year old separate memories. Has anyone noticed any contradictions between their flashbacks? I definitely noticed Marty talking up Rust as a great detective, in spite of any "how…

Yours was in Latin; Mine in Changspañol. If we learned anything this week, Greendale (and message boards thereof) are not places for overachievers to cast judgement.

I got maybe Wickerman or just anything where he goes insane screaming. There's a Youtube supercut of Nick Cage losing it that sounds a lot like that.

Y tu Brute?!!

I can't believe the show didn't even reference Adaptation (yes, Todd, the very best Nick Cage role). I feel like the show has such a meta spiritual relation to that movie. I actually even believed they may be able to get Nick to show up at the end. He will do about anything for a check (other than a movie about his…

That is an interesting way of seeing it. Still, Google and Microsoft have high stakes in users staying with their service. It's all cost/benefit analysis. Both pump advertisements at users, but Google is polite about it so you will keep coming back. They lose the ad revenue if you don't. But, then again, so does…

That's pretty ridiculous, considering Netflix has licensed tons of Asian movies. Just about every Asian film that American critics label as a "must see" seems to be there from my personal experience. I also see lots of anime on there (I don't know anything about anime, so I can't speak to their titles' quality or…

I think that compulsion with his affairs ran along the same lines as his alcoholism this season. It just all got away from him, one fuelling another, and he lost complete control. Recall how hammered he went out and got when Sally first walked in on him and Sylvia. He came home to dinner and Meagan smelled his…

I think it's the fact that it's an almost entirely female cast, and it bases its story lines on social issues. A lot of plotlines revolve around the repressed women in the prison fighting the oppression of their male overlords. I do think it came full circle at the end of the season as a pretty damn good show, with…

I had some of this in a reply below, but it's starting to make me think after writing it. I really do love this film but it is arguably the darkest psychological horror story set at Christmastime since SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT. Everything happening really seems to exist in this world of psychotic operatic symbolism.…

I completely agree on the Lynchian dream design purposefully overshadowing the plot and I think it works terrifically. Even as a terrified little kid, I could tell that huge parts of the movie made no sense, and now it is clear they were never really meant to- just because many are so obvious. How did the Penguin…

I think Sorkin is guilty of the sin the show persecutes most of all, which is using the media to tell a skewed version of real world events.  The show's characters and plot are almost secondary (possibly on purpose) to the show's central conceit of "telling the news from last year the way it should have been done to…

If you recall, drunk Maggie clumsily edited and sent to air the Zimmerman 911 call (like NBC did in real life), but she immediately felt guilty for it. She ran right to Mac with it. Then the entire team just knew in their hearts they had to drop everything to correct their mistake on air and give an entire segment to…