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As nice as they were, I've grown a little annoyed by HBO's must have gratuitous nudity rule. After reading an article about how HBO always has a producer on set pressuring directors to get a little more nudity in, with extra credit for full frontal, it just feels trashy to me.

It is dull and it took some effort the first time I saw it to realize just what made it so great. Bicycle Thieves came out during Hollywood's Golden Age when everything was polished. You had American Studios releasing Singin' in the Rain, His Girl Friday, Adam's Rib, etc. Even the downer movies like The Best Days

Jesus. She doesn't really look that bad- certainly not like Goldie Hawn- but it's not her anymore. If I saw that face blown up as full movie poster, I would have no idea who it was. I would assume she was some actress from one of those network shows I don't watch, like Scandal, making her move to the big screen.

I do love him in Election. That is because Alexander Payne played on his natural strengths as a walking head trauma patient.

Shia LaBeouf is a very bad actor. I really enjoyed Nymphomaniac, but between his unplaceable accent and his barely resonate emotions, he almost sunk the ship. It's fine if some actors are meant to be movie stars more than serious thespians. But he is an awful movie star. He has no charisma. Bruce Willis, Sean

I just finished the series, which I commented on just above in the thread. I get the feeling Milch might not have had complete control to go nuts on this show. He is rarely listed as the writer or director of an episode, though I know showrunners have very degrees of control over exactly what happens. He also isn't

I actually just finished the series about an hour ago. I am putting somewhere in my top five of all time right now, with the likes of The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, etc. This may just be some immediate aftershow gleam. The character building was great, when Milch stuck with it. The dialogue is the best to ever be on

Best hint at this episode's connection down the road. It's the first time Lydia says, "always with the drama." A.J. says the exact same thing in the finale, in his grandmother's exact tone. Though I think a lot of it is retrofitting, the show did an amazing job of connecting the beginning to the end. I think Todd

I guess those are answers I can generally agree with, but not completely. How do we know The Yellow King isn't also a man. How do we know it's just Tuttles and Childresses? Obviously some sleazy meth cooks and the guy they had on a murder charge were in or around the cult to some degree- not exactly exclusive

They just should have planned some kind of ending a little better. It's not like they were making it up as they went along. Still a great show overall, just really missed the landing in a lot of ways.

Too bad we're done with their story after this season. It really does feel unfinished.

There's a great walk through the Carcosa art design here. It was such a nightmare, with the oversized devil catcher's and other ornaments from the earlier episodes large enough to cage the protagonists. I love how a lot of the set design seemed so crudely put together, like a really creepy oversized fort a kid would

I can't be okay with abandoning the larger conspiracy because that has been Rust's obsession for years and Marty's recently. They just blow it all off because they get one bad guy and survive knives and hatchets. That's what makes the ending unearned to me.

Another big complaint I realized and have pointed out more than once on here is that Marty and especially Rust have obsessively been digging back into this case to get to the bottom this cult and the conspiracy surrounding it. By killing Errol, they have cut off a lead and left all of the powerful people to deny their

The 1:50 mark of that trailer makes it apparent Rust set the fire in the first scene of the first episode.

I think it was the big old house in the woods. It looked like it once belonged to somebody important but now it's inhabited by a family of freakish ritual killers with arts and crafts made of human remains. The sister/wife is very reminiscent of the weird aunts who live near the house in the TCM remake.
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He had green hands. Or the man with the scars with green on his hands. Green paint on his hands. Not great, but plausible maybe and not nearly as shitty as green ears. Even a novice of paint knows you keep that shit away from your orifices.

So, do we call that plagiarized or an homage?

I've touched on this in other comments, but I think one of the biggest issues with the unresolved questions is with Rust and Marty being satisfied with just getting one piece of it. Rust was obsessing for years over not just one killer but this massive conspiracy going to the top of the state government. I know they

You just wonder what made all of these people fall for it though. The Tuttles- supposedly good Christians or at least smart enough to realize the money they could make selling this evangelical bullshit, meth cooks, the old black maid they interview, and whoever else. What about this stuff gets so many people from