In fairness to Megan here…she was a good copywriter. She had some legitimate creative talent, she was well-respected and liked around the office where she could have just been viewed as the beneficiary of Don's nepotism and she was good at reading clients and telling them what they needed to hear. Yes, she needed an…

She was actually briefly in True Detective for just a second - in E5 she was out on a double date with Rust, Maggie and Marty.

"I saw him with the biggest, blackest prostitute I had ever seen!"

"You'll never believe the movies AV Club left off this list!"

Silence has a lot more that makes it great than just Lector, though. There's not been a better depiction of what it's like to be a woman in a male-dominated profession that I can think of. But it's all really subtly-communicated through the shots of the male characters through Clarice's POV. The male characters are…

Not only that, the writers had to hammer it home over and over again.

Thomas Ligotti is a great writer but The Conspiracy Against the Human Race is not an original work, either. Ligotti can turn a phrase, but TCAHR is mostly an exploration of ideas laid out by Peter Wessel Zappfe in 1933 - read his The Last Messiah essay sometime if you feel like what's missing from your life is a…

I actually thought the whole point of that section was that Aveline only becomes an appealing commercial property when she's attached to a benevolent white protector. Abstergo is looking for their The Help.

Gus killing Malvo was the right writing decision. It was a callback to the first episode - then, he backed down from Malvo in fear of leaving his daughter without a parent. It was that same fear -that Solverson might have died, that allowed him to confront Malvo in the end.

Sort of. The God of the Torah is like a shitty boss that comes into work really angry and pissed off and is mean to everyone, but as soon as you've left work he's done with you. The God of the New Testament is like a boss that's cheery when he comes in and is nice to everyone at work. He plans pizza parties and is…

Lily Tomlin holds no ill will against Russell:

I thought she was good, but she was just doing a much younger, hotter version of the (admittedly awesome) character done by Melissa Leo in The Fighter.

Barry Minkow, another white collar criminal, ran a carpet cleaning company that essentially functioned as a Ponzi scheme in the '80s. He got caught, served 6 years on a 25 year sentence, and turned his life around! He became a minister, started a investigative firm specialized in fraud discovery, made television…

The direction I think things are going in:
This case is going to be inspired by the Satanic Panic of the '80s and '90s. Too much emphasis was placed on the perceived anti-Christian nature of the crime in the first episode for it to not lead to something.
My guess is they'll find a suspect who is probably not guilty but…

While I think McConaughey's philosophy was meant to be a bit exasperating and alienating, I'm not sure I'd call it high school philosophy. His ideas on the self and free will are increasingly supported by neuroscience, and ideas similar to his notion of human consciousness and life itself as a source of suffering can…

Definitely Christmas 1991, when I got my Super Nintendo. My dad was awesome and got up early to hook it up to his big screen. I hate to think that I peaked at 8, but I can't recall another experience of such pure, unrestrained in-the-moment happiness as when I came down to see Super Mario World waiting to be played by…