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Paul Shuster
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"Hodor is dead." — Jian Yang

Everybody loves a clown, so why don't you?

If you kill a guy with a machete and then don't take the ear, what was the point?

Why on Earth would anyone ever want to leave TV? Where else can you play really great roles?

Heh… I actually thought True Detective was a clever riff on Robert Chambers book The King in Yellow, which was always one of my favorite old timey uses of the unreliable narrator.

I loved the Riddler from my childhood because Frank Gorshin.

Prediction: Mr. Whisper (aka Mr. Wicker, Brother Manfred, Mr. Winchester) never shows up or is mentioned for the entire series.

There was a women's prison that was used as a "rape camp" in Texas. Real horror stories out of that one:

The saddest moment for me was when he told Linda to put her hood up.

Maybe he was a dentist before he became a hit man. You remember Orin Scrivello, DDS?

He sent the neighbor lady in to "check the stove" when he knew Gus's men were watching the house. However, as bad as Walter was, he would never have sent Skyler to do something like that.

It's pure Southern Gothic, which is timeless.

I always thought of Karl more as something like a feral child grown into adulthood rather than an actually mentally disabled person. He has a problem with self expression, but he's a lot smarter than his enemies give him credit for. (He's also laconic, but I think that goes along with both his poor ability to express

Steampunk is all over, it's all Clockpunk now. Gotta get with the times….

I'd include Fringe. So many horrors. Marionette girl could've been on Hannibal..

I'm hungry.

Ah, Larrick may be the "Jared" of the Nicaraguan Death Squads…

From an operation perspective, it's far better for the Soviets to outfit their entire stealth submarine fleet with stealth propellers that don't work than to kill one subs worth of sailors.

He also blamed them for fitting it to a larger class of submarine than the Americans were using.

He did a good job, which is why probably no one ever has heard of the group he infiltrated.