Liked for typo/username synergy.

It seems to me there are a lot of 'reasonable' individual choices & circumstances that, in aggregate, sum up to at the very least a thoughtlessness about the use of female characters. And that's something Fuller should've picked up on.

No, the hipster guys will claim to have finished it, but they never really got past page 50, either.

Having lived in State College, PA, I'd be remiss not to add Ray Gricar to the list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik… . Though I'd left the area by the time all the Sandusky stuff went down, I understand that mess gave the story new life, since he was the DA during the period when Sandusky was preying on children.

Sure. Different people will have different things that stick in their respective craws. Again, I guess what really bothers me about this episode is that I just didn't see any dramatic reason behind the many & varied legal-procedural howlers. When Will gets investigated by his friends & colleagues, even though it's…

But its distortion of real life serial killers, whether you like it or not, is a deliberate part of its hyper-stylized approach to dealing with questions of madness, evil, and intimacy.

It's not just that it wasn't realistic; it seemed sloppy, and its departures from realism didn't seem to have any grounding in heightening emotional effect or playing at the surrealistic. So I wouldn't have given half a shit about the unrealistic courtroom drama if it had been, say, a Kafkaesque mockery of the legal…

Yeah, I don't see how you could avoid a mistrial given the particulars of the judge's murder. Other than that, though, uggggggggggggh, did it ever get everything wrong.

Yeah, it really made it tough for me to enjoy the episode. The stuff that was wrong (and sometimes not even wrong) wasn't the kind of thing that only people who are in a legal profession would know is wrong ("What?! That's totally discoverable under Brady!"); it was the kind of thing that anyone who's seen a few…

Don't forget Archer!

Yup, that's the one. That's the worst trope right there.

Dexter is venerated?

The rap itself was top-notch; as good an inappropriately-aggressive white boy rap as anything Chris Parnell, the master of the medium, has done.

Oh, right. You can find the titular essay here: http://www.theatlantic.com/…

And I imply self-love*!

The show, I guess, unreflectively endorses the motto of asshole cops and gangsters everywhere: "The world needs bad men … we keep the other bad men from the door."

Yeah, the Red Riding Trilogy is a good point of comparison, although that focuses a lot more on the crimes than does TD, which seems to me is ultimately about the investigators, and not what they're investigating.

Yeah, I picked it up for cheap (Kindle version). It was … ok. I didn't feel like it was a waste of my time, but it didn't make much of an impression on me, either. I certainly wouldn't recommend it if what you're looking for is the 'crime drama w/cosmic horror overtones' thing that True Detective's doing.

"[A] fairly straight-ahead feminist story"?

If anything, I thought the show sometimes seemed too enamored of him. Yeah, he was fucked up in all sorts of ways, but he's smarter, tougher, savvier, braver, more honest, more capable, more sensitive, etc. than everyone else.