Thought it was great how the shared murder of D by Will and Hannibal was framed as the ultimate consummation [read: replacement for boning] of their ummm, unconventional, love.

I love Carrie and SK too but the show, while not bad, isn't as good as her or her band in my opinion.

Can't argue with that honestly.

I mean I'm playing devil's advocate here because I don't think the show is especially great but the show wasn't ever specifically about 'hipsters' so much as the the absurdity of the notion of subcultural authenticity - that a person could find a radically different and better self within a dedicated subculture. They…

Seems accurate - though some of the sketches aren't THAT bad.

Honestly I never really interpreted it as being about Portland. The show seems like a funny but less incisive TV adaptation of Hipster Runoff.

There are definitely some sketches/characters I love.

People just generally find him annoying?

I've noticed that a lot of people seem to actively hate Portlandia around here. It's not the greatest but i think it's occasionally amusing and regardless seems pretty innocuous - why all the ire internetz?

'My So Called Life' aka 'Waiting for Tino'

That's right I forgot that Manhunter has Will kill D in his own home and save Reba.

Plus, despite his smarm, I know I sort of like him as a character (or at least enjoy watching Raul Esparza do amazing things with the character) so potentially more empathy for him than your run of the mill murder/mutilation victim. Though most of the victims on this show are people we've gotten to know in one way or…

1) Fuck NBC.
2) Fuck Football.
3) I watched it on COZI TV whatever the fuck that is.
4) I'm not sure why having your lips bitten off feels like the most unsettling thing i've watched on this show but it does.
5) I like that details of character motivation are being shifted around from the book/movies - for example, this D…

I guess you didn't see her at the end during Tony Chessani's swearing in as mayor - she's up there on the far left of the frame. If you didn't catch it, when we first meet her Ani sees her briefly in her room looking at a bunch of maps. She clearly helped her brother in his plot to murder their father and Pitlor and…

Laura got Caspere to hire her as a prostitute and they went to his second apartment where he brought girls for sex, she drugged him and Len came in and tortured him for info but got too angry and murdered him. Yeah Caspere was their father. Len was wearing the Crow's mask when he shot Velcoro with rock salt in that…

Also, i'm sure most people noticed this, but this season was filled with references to the three Theban plays.

Like many others I was disappointed with this show for the first few episodes of the second season. But by the Vinci massacre episode things started to turn around for me. Today I watched all of TD2 because HBO ran a marathon and I realized a few things.

"That's unfortunate that you feel that way" was me saying that it's too bad you found those scenes "boring" and a "waste of time" when I got so much out of them. It sucks to feel like you've wasted your life after experiencing a creative work. The rest of my comment was an attempt to explain what, specifically, I got…

I get what you're saying and it's definitely a thought that's crossed my mind but I've always felt like this show exists in a kind of non-corporeal space - it's all symbol and emotion and psychological crimes manifesting through dream logic as physical crimes.

My interpretation of the capitalization wasn't that "we're meant to be thinking of" the symbolic/religious Lamb instead of the literal but that the capitalization allows for both to coexist within the text. Poetry, of course, is all about semiotics and the encoding of layers of meaning through language so when I read…