"We need more men!"
"What kind of men? Short men? Melancholy?"

Paul Marrane is one of the names for "The Wandering Jew" of legend, cursed to walk the earth for mocking Christ on the cross, and when Nikki mentions the bowling alley, he's like, huh, so that's what you see, weird. So i just took it as some sort of an interlude between life and death and she is given the chance to…

I agree with your reservations about the show, and on top of the deliberate slow, slow, slowness, in general, to then tack on a scene or two in actual slo-mo every episode, like this one (the bridge post jump and the examination of the package) has me rolling eyes every time it's done, especially when it's followed by…

I'm going to go to bat again in defense of Dheepan. I think Ignatiy is good film critic and I enjoy his writing, best on this site by a mile. While I don't always agree with his assessment, I find his criticism to be generally well observed and explained, but I just don't understand his harsh take on Dheepan (he gave…

I watched The Comeback earlier this year having noticed a lot of praise for the show over time, and uh, I didn't like it at all, not quite terrible, but Valerie Cherish was just such an awful person, I never felt any sympathy for her, and those 21 relatively laugh free eps felt like an eternity. Along with Lance…

"Jesus?"
"He's not my son."
"You're denying paternity."
"Well, Mary. It's her word against mine. So…"

I just rewatched Prometheus not having seeing it since opening day in 3D, with a super excited friend, who emerged way too angry and disappointed afterwards, leading to an evening of debate. i thought then as well as on this rewatch, that's it's great sci-fi. The production design and the seamless blend of CGI are…

And what of the Wee Baby Seamus?

The show has walked such a fine line with Kevin Sr., whether he has some connection with an actual supernatural element that arose in the wake of the Departure, or to what degree his elaborate, committed delusions are just a continuing manifestation of his mental illness. The way he insists he's now aboriginal, his…

In The (AV Club), it’s more of a passable but ultimately unstructured airing of vague grievances.

Yup. And most likely Varga is Gurka not Yuria, who would have been about 2 years old if that when the Berlin Wall came down.

Weird coincidence that Carrie Coon's character on The Leftovers was also invisible to and flummoxed by tech. And she's Ennis' step daughter, so no sci fi author bloodline.

I love cool women in all flavors, thin blondes among them, i just noticed as I wrote that the main actresses were all rather dark haired and ethnically pretty far from northern European heritage, an amused aside, no slight intended to the fairest of the fair. (And Florence Faivre really stood out to me in her brief…

I don't know of anything else she's done, but with her line readings here, she's a blast.

What a beautiful and hilarious episode, I love the bone dry, slightly absurd humor so goddamn much, I laughed aloud half a dozen times, despite the sorrow at the core of it all, this is just an amazing, special show. Everyone and their other has made this observation, but Carrie Coon is just off the charts talented, i…

I just want to take a moment out of respect, after jamming through both seasons the past few days, and say how much I dig this series. Outstanding work from the creative team and the great cast, (and I love all the gorgeous women, Bobbie, Drummer, Naomi, Julie, Octavia, Avasarala, not a scrawny Barbie doll in sight,)…

The theme of thwarted ambitions, simmering resentment, and jealousy, both familial and professional, leading to petty revenges and senseless murders, while at the same time humble, decent people try to survive in a world that breeds more and more of this violence and narcissism and despair is far from shallow and…

"Could I order some pie? Or have you single-handedly depleted the global strategic pie reserve?"

I would guess Varga is Gurka, maybe, crappy teeth, vaguely eastern european accent, proven sociopath, that would seem to fit

Critics, schmiticks, I say. That was a great episode of TV, from the cold open in East Germany that gave us a Varga, or who else?, back story until the air conditoner smashed Scoot Mcnairy's head, that was great TV, sharply written and observed, peopled with appropriate weirdos, and dark and funny as hell, (and Super…