Isn't that a net too-broad, though? Can you think of any well-known serial killers in popular culture who wouldn't fit that bill? Hannibal Lecter the successful socialite, Patrick Bateman the corporate suit, Tom Ripley the dashing American, Sweeney Todd the mildly grumpy barber… Every one of them with a stack of…

Eh, I don't think you can argue an "essence of human nature" theme in a show that pins its evil on a quasi-voodoo death cult. These don't really reconcile. And you can't argue the show critiques the dehumanization of serial killers when the whole first ten minutes of the finale was the crazy hillbilly box-o'-tropes:…

You're right… I'll change it. I do think what the actors do in that scene is offensive, but it's of a different sort.

- For all the Agustin hate I've shoveled this season, I really want a gif of him tripping balls on the train, which made me cackle like a maniac.

Not sure I understand your response: I said I found his change the most compelling part of that moment. My criticism is that I don't feel the show was engaging with these ideas at more than a surface level.

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I know I'm going to get a lot of heat for this, but I think the finale went a long way to justifying Nussbaum's criticism that the show's philosophy was never more than surface-level. I understand it was important to lay out Rust's quasi-Nietzschean worldview so that he could ditch it in the final moments of the…

There's a lot of truth to that (see also: every film about writers, ever), but based on the descriptions of his art and the reactions of his friends, I think they did intend him to be a bad artist. At least so far. The only Agustin scene I've enjoyed so far is his bafflement at Patrick and Dom's reactions to his…

I'm having a lot of trouble caring about Agustin because his one defining character trait (other than "asshole") is "artist", and … Well, the work we've seen (or heard about) hasn't been very interesting or thoughtful, so he just looks like an amateur, which makes it harder to wish him success. I think they've done…

If he’s not here, that’s on you, sweetie.

Loved everything about this episode except for the ending. I was hoping we'd never see the scarred man, because he's been stalking around the outskirts of the episodes for so long he's been becoming almost a mythical figure. Now that he's just a human being, it deflates things a little.

His Facebook page is crazy, and he responds to every single comment people leave there. Since he appears to be having the time of his life, I say more power to him, but this photo will never not terrify me.

It vexes me. I'm terribly vexed.

That's exactly my trajectory as well, and I still haven't seen 2 and 3, although… As time as passed, I've come to respect just how audacious the opening of the first movie is (I wasn't a fan of the tv show, so the bait-and-switch didn't hit me quite as hard. But Dowd is right that you'd never see that in a…

playing along with Jeopardy! is a tedious chore

It's not too far afield from the medieval Morality Plays, which could get pretty violent and gory. I think these were more effective in ages with more widespread belief, and less widespread skepticism.

Totally valid points: there was no reason I should have left Kevin off my shit list except that I expect a boyfriend (sic) to be more protective. But yeah, his comment was just as bad.

If I were single I would happily volunteer myself.

I have determined that I am one of exactly three people on the planet that prefers Tony Gillingham to Charles Blake

Olympians train with extraordinary focus and dedication for what could be a single moment on international sports’ greatest stage. So it’s only natural that after the games are over, they often want to let off steam by poking fun at themselves in public.