It did lose a step near the end. I didn't mind the extended hospital stuff so much as I was bothered they just rushed the plot out the door to get to this extended denouement. The case Marty and especially Rust had been obsessing over was far from resolved. The Tuttles were denying everything and there are god…

Breaking Bad was always great at mixing the cartoonishly absurd (exploding meth bombs, magnets, the car gun, ricin stavia, other MacGyver like hijinks) with very real emotions about a fear of dying, hubris, scorn, jealousy etc. Of course those worked because of a great cast led by Cranston. I could tell it was still…

I won't dispute that the show did an amazing job as a character drama with the two leads. That was truly astounding. But I need a little more. Considering the dramatic emphasis and screen time devoted to turning over the stones of this big cult mystery, the big cult mystery deserved a little more resolution. This…

Praise for the string of words, "proceed to wreak untold havoc on the craft services table."

I never saw Lost. I loved the time they spent on the lives and relationship between Marty and Rust. But this show did really fumble with the plot in the end. Almost all of episode 7 was devoted to a buildup of expository connections between murders and people in power. A lot of time was spent hinting at the…

Rust also genuinely believes he had a supernatural experience with his daughter. For him, that may have outweighed all of the science and logic. To use a cliche', "Seeing is believing." He's always been susceptible to intellectual manipulation. If you remember, Rust smugly condescended to Ledoux for quoting …

Agreed, to some degree. I liked the turn they took with Rust's evolution in the end. He really did have a great arc.

I was more interested in mood/character, but I was a little let down that in this eight hour movie, with all of the plot breadcrumbs they laid out, they spent too little time characterizing what the cult was all about and how deep were all of these people's involvement.

People get can get stabbed dozens of times, even in or near vital organs, and still survive. Some people get stabbed once in an artery or organ and die. Just depends on the person and the precise position of the wound. He should have known to leave the knife in though.

I get the impression Errol probably just went a little loopy there and got pretty audacious with his ritual, as I imagine lunatic serial killers are prone to do. But, you are right, the plot gets pretty flakey looking back. were it not for, beautiful camerawork, great character writing, and (most of all) amazing…

And I wasn't so surprised with Rust doing it, considering the climax of his decades long obsession was right in front of him. But where is levelheaded Marty to say, "No you dumbass, cover me. This shit is like Texas Chainsaw Massacre."

Yea, Rust even ends a monologue with "and then I woke up" at some point near the end. Those are Sheriff Bell's final words in No Country for Old Men.

Season 1 could have some gorgeously shot and totally entertaining pulp- 8s and 9s. The last season would keep solid 1s and and 2s. A 0 for the so bad it's good finale.

(SPOILERS?) I just watched this episode again. That is a great analysis. I think it also foreshadows that if he does die or go to prison at some point in the near future, Carm and the kids might soon realize that the cupboard is almost bare. The way he keeps losing, you get the feeling he might been running very…

(SPOILERS?) I just watched this episode again. That is a great analysis. I think it also foreshadows that if he does die or go to prison at some point in the near future, Carm and the kids might soon realize that the cupboard is almost bare. The way he keeps losing, you get the feeling he might been running very…

Well, apparently Harold Ramis just died, so yea, it's looking like one of those weeks.

That character was completely one dimensional. Many of the best writers/directors have a voice intertwined with their own experience. Spike Lee's best film is Do the Right Thing. Scorsese's is arguably GoodFellas or Taxi Driver. People generally sight Manhattan as Woody Allen's best (though I tend toward Purple…

I would call it political correctness if he is writing a perspective because he feels societal pressure to do so, even if he feels he can't do so with same quality- like a kind of self censorship. This certainly goes back to the problem lack of diversity behind the scenes in film and TV, but as a "white, straight,…

That's a fair point. While the acting was great and everything, I just felt like the immediate woman scorned/femme fatale act was too much of a plot device. It even seemed out of character that she would act so deliberately through the whole situation. I think it might have been better if she was drunk and hurt,…

I think she's coming in to play in the next episodes, so that may be important. I forgot all about that. Considering Marty was a hero in the newspapers after the shooting, she may have been a prime target for The Yellow King and his minions.