The Turn of the Screw, The Aspern Papers, and, if you're up for it, his late-period novels (The Golden Bowl is my personal favorite)  are great but kind of like swimming through molasses: the opposite of a beach read, though patience and close attention pays off (unlike, say, with late James Joyce).

Yeah, I can't see how the moral choice facing Maisie at the end of the novel would really be translated into current, 21st century terms.  Which is probably why the movie apparently axes one of the book's chief characters (Mrs. Wix): the moral viewpoint she represents just wouldn't have any resonance today.

FUCKING DVR kaputed while I was out of the country for 2 weeks and did not record the finale.  And of course, now that I'm home, it's too late for any re-broadcasts.  How can I watch it without breaking any laws?

Put me in the camp that liked the Zhukov flashbacks and thought the show has foreshadowed them just fine, even if we hadn't seen much of Zhukov lately.  (Of course I was also less harsh on the similar, but more justified, complaint re: the Stan-Amador flashbacks.)  And unlike Todd, while I found Elizabeth's breakdown…

Well, shit.  My DVR cut off the last few minutes, but judging from what I read here, on the whole I don't regret not seeing those last few minutes.

Oh, wow…Southland can be dark sometimes, but this was just a whole different level of darkness.

Dammit, why aren't people watching this show?

Way too disjointed.

Or in real life.  A disturbingly high percentage of the people I've met that I've actively disliked just happen to have gone to Princeton.

She looks a little like Lindsay Lohan (if LL hadn't herself go to s**t)

All of these outpourings, in addition to making me tear up, confirm that there will never be another Roger Ebert.  Somehow he managed to bridge the divide between the popular and the elite, between old media and new - he had to be the only movie critic who became a household name through TV and then *expanded* his…

I don't do serial killer dramas, but I may watch this just for Mads Mikkelsen.  Interestingly, we all know him as the villain from Casino Royale, but he's a bona fide leading man and something of a heartthrob in his native Denmark.  See, e.g., "Before the Wedding" and last year's "A Royal Affair").  He's…

Aha, that answers my question above.  Man, I miss so many things on this show, it's kind of embarrassing.

@apropostrophe:disqus How would Ben's gf's bro (cousin?) know which gang's initials to put up?  Seems too much of a coincidence he'd hit on strokeface's.  And the guy seemed a little too freaked out to be responsible for cutting up the babysitter.  Then again, if he were that freaked out, I don't see him rummaging…

No, I thought it was really good, too.  Def at least a B+ or A-, but then I think every episode this season has been strong.

I don't think Stan & Amador's closeness was retconned, exactly.  For me "retcon" implies you're rewriting a show's history in a way that's inconsistent with what we've seen so far.  We haven't *seen* evidence of their closeness, but it's not like we've seen anything that directly contradicts it, either; the show just…

So I feel like every week I miss one of the plot points, probably because I sometimes miss critical snatches of dialogue.  Who was the guy Cooper and Lucero were looking for and (I think) arrested at Felix's grave, and why did they want him?

Yeah, I couldn't tell who was responsible, either, but I lean towards brainlock's interpretation.

That was seriously the highlight of the episode.

Right?  I did the reverse of you and watched Americans first, but man, that was a killer Southland ep, too.