I know I'm late to this party, but damn, Eat Me is a freaky episode. I am not easily frightened by horror movies and I went to so many haunted attractions as a kid that I find them too predictable to even get startled by jump scares in them anymore. That said, Eat Me is the scariest episode of television I've ever…

You are the BEST! Seriously, thank you for this. You were already my favorite AV club reviewer but this was some nice icing on the cake. So sorry to hear you're moving on but I hope your new job is fantastic.

I'm way late for this conversation but I'm glad to see someone sticking up for Roger Ebert. I used to love reading his reviews because he was one of the few critics at the time who evaluated movies based on how well they succeeded at what they were trying to do. Many other reviewers of his generation tended to have…

I once read about how Eliza Dushku worked with a blind person to depict a non-sighted woman in an episode of something (I don't recall what)

After thinking about this ep. for a few days, I keep going over one part in my mind. I absolutely loved the part where the Cardinal offered to hear the Doctor's confession. To be clear, I'm not a very religious person, so I don't like the scene because of some sort of religious agenda on my part. What I love is the…

First off, wow. It's not every day I get to converse with an ancient Roman historian (your username is fun, btw).

Well, for what it's worth DrFlimFlam, I clearly don't know you, but if it turns out there is an afterlife and you have trouble adjusting to the eternity thing when you die, I'll do my best to find you, welcome you with a beer or other beverage of your choosing, and help you wrap your head around your new situation…

Are you a mortician? Just curious.

Ah well. I guess I'm going off with the doggy man. My last apartment didn't have a door on the bedroom so…

Also, dang, the show sure seems to take a big steaming pile on anyone without belief

Does that mean that Anubis comes for all cat lovers? I suppose that means I should not be surprised if the Jackal headed god turns up for me when I die since I love my cat and she's a rescue kitty (she found me in my driveway and insisted I be her human).

Ah. This explains it. I don't really follow stand-up comedy at all. Also, I just to be clear, I wasn't being sarcastic when I asked why "we" don't like him. I was asking the question under the assumption there was a good reason for people's reaction to him.

I was explaining why I have trouble with that bit in the book. Regardless of how or why the layover happened, the ridiculously long travel time would irk me in the show as well, were it not for the different reasons that show!Shadow and book!Shadow go to jail.

She actually says two things that explain it. First, when she first meets Shadow, she says she deals at the casino to pay rent. Later on when she's trying to talk Shadow into robbing the Casino (I think) she says it's her grandmother's house. I think it's probably her grandmother's house though because she would have…

My book is currently inside a taped up cardboard box, but I'm pretty sure that Shadow and Laura lived in Eagle Point Indiana in the book.

In reply to your last comment about Wednesday
I don't think we find out about Wednesday's role in Laura's death until pretty late in the book. After all, angry or not, Shadow loved Laura and he wouldn't knowingly work with the man who orchestrated her death. If Shadow doesn't know about Wednesday's role in Laura's…

I am apparently a pop culture idiot. Why do we hate Dane Cook? I know literally nothing about him although his name does sound familiar.

Look at it this way, the show (and book) is mostly told from Shadow's perspective. Prior to his wife's death, Shadow is just a normal dude living a normal life. Then, his wife dies, he gets released from prison, this weird old man INSISTS on hiring him as a body guard, and he keeps meeting other bizarre people who, in…

I get what you're saying, I do. But I think there's a flaw in your underlying assumptions here. You are assuming that this story is going to follow the usual tropes that a story like this would follow (i.e. dead person comes back to make amends to their loved one) and to do so in predictable, and therefore, boring…

I respectfully suggest that you wait until the story plays out a bit more before you decide whether Laura's story in this ep was superfluous. If she never significantly shows up in the story again, then you'll be right. After all, why do we care if she's only got a small part in the story from here on out? If,…