"an uncomfortably grimy and tonally unusual tennis match"

Maybe he talked all the time about optimism, the nobility of humanity, and the innate worth inside every human heart.

What must their budget be like on this show? They don't save money any of the usual places. The recurring set scenes (LSP headquarters, Cohle's apartment, &c.) are only a couple minutes of every episode. Most of their shots are outdoors, on location, and in a dozen new settings per episode. Lots of aerial work. And…

Cocaine's a hell of a drug.

Alright, I'm officially done describing this show as "Durham County in Louisiana". Much as I love Durham, it never did anything as cinematographically breathtaking as that tracking shot. My main worry now is that there are only four episodes left in the season (and given the anthology format, with these characters).

Oh sure, I'll pay for local pizza. Papa John's is exactly shitty enough to rob the delivery man for.

I was looking forward more to the potential The Game-Zimmerman boxing match.

You, sir, owe me a new keyboard. (Don't worry about the shipping, though. X has promised to deliver to me.)

It can cover the period of Wynn's Canadian exile late last season, and be entitled: Wynnipeg.

Whoops. Right you are.

Greek for sure. Which is interesting, because while Canada certainly has organized crime, the Greeks aren't very big players.

I kind of expected she was planning a major double-cross on Boyd, after their last interaction. She had something seriously shifty in her eyes, beyond just the fear you get from being in prison.

Well, he is a cop, and in the South to boot. I grew up around those parts, and I can say that as much as we'd all like to think otherwise, even Raylan and Tim probably listen to Rush.

6 months late, but — I assumed they named him after David Mack, one of the cops involved in the Rampart scandal. (He's now back on the street after serving 13 years for bank robbery.)

Yeah, it would've been more appropriate to have them stand back a few feet from the congregation.

I'll probably say this every week, but it reminds me most of Durham County. Twin Peaks was far more whimsical; it had the Black Lodge, sure, but it also had the scene where Cooper explains Tibetan rock-throwing crime analysis.

At first I wondered why the show had fictionalized the notorious then-governor Edwin Edwards* into Edwin Tuttle, since Edwards was enough of a character on his own to make a great period touch. Now that they keep dropping his name, I'm wondering how deeply he's involved.

The scene felt either oddly framed or oddly mixed to me, though. They were less than a foot away from the parishoners, speaking at (what was mixed as) a normal conversational loudness, with the call-and-response turned way down, as if there were a soundproof invisible box surrounding them.

Hugh Dillon, yes. Let me know what you think of it.

Flashpoint. Boy, is his character different in Durham (which is also Canadian). He's not the strongest actor in the ensemble, but fortunately they give him some amazing foils to play against — Louis Ferreira, Michelle Forbes, Michael Nardone, Laurence Leboeuf…