Reality. Fargo's "reality." Yeah.

This is how the Man keeps us divided, man!

Summary: The above commenter likes art that looks like stuff.

That was by far my favorite moment of the season so far, too! It's like Mike got the other end of the short stick [REDACTED] got in No Country For Old Men after the [REDACTED] massacre.

Damn straight. I mean, you don't have to be a genius to figure out the Coenverse is not supposed to be the most rationalistic of worlds. It seems pretty clear it's intended at least in part as an allegory about American values, and that takes precedence over petty realism.

1968, starred Alan Arkin, so yeah, definitely both a movie and book title.

"Now, Mister Milligan was the only smart fellow in the entire city of Sioux Falls, so he got right back in his car and…" — A History of True Crime in the Mid-West

I loved High Weirdness! You'd probably enjoy digging up a copy of the Whole Earth Review's _Fringes of Reason_, too. I still giggle every time I drive through northern California, where you can still occasionally spot billboards advertising Eckankar.

Yeah, that's what I came here to say immediately after watching this episode. I used to be a legal transcriptionist. Can't go into detail obviously, but one of my cases was about a bunch of cops who got busted at the tavern where they were holding their precinct Xmas party. Nope, I have no trouble at all seeing the…

I think that's a Huell Howser in its larval form. Give him 30-40 years to mature; he'll be okay.

So you're saying you love him, my little Bobbiesattva?

Nope. Because that's a ludicrous oversimplification. Claims of what it is and what it can actually do are dramatically exaggerated, but every valid criticism of hypnotism I have ever seen has turned out to be about some hyperbolic woo-laden claim about it, not clear evidence that there's *nothing* behi…

Seriously, thank you for the testimony. I'm from Ohio, grew up in the 1980s there, and I don't have much trouble imagining this kind of stuff happening in my hometown either.

"An AVClub user was named Final Arbiter of Taste & Justice today, ending God's lengthy search for someone to straighten this country out. User 'bisr' will have final say on every known subject, including who should be put to death, what clothes everyone should wear, what movies suck, and whether bald men who grow…

Lots of strong opinion, but where's the part where you back it up with any detail or explain to us why the critical majority is dead wrong? Your comment is the verbal equivalent of throwing a hat on the ground and stomping on it; it conveys no information aside from "Boy, is this dude pissed off about something."

Never go full Cerebus.

Surely there comes a point where this sort of ""irony"" and run-of-the-mill arrested adolescence overlap. Getting the joke doesn't really oblige us to be impressed with it, or think it's a good substitute for actually giving an irony-free crap about the things you say.

And one of them is posting about it on the AV Club, expecting us to conflate the actions with eight people with a religion of 1.6 billion… a good number of which publicly mourned for us on 9/11. Or has your superior conservative intellect let that little fact slip, already?

Eight. "When eight of them." Goddamned listen to yourself. How many Muslims are in the world, exactly? 1.6 billion. Do you even goddamned realize how many people are in a billion? Do you realize like what an idiot you sound like, condemning that many people, from an extremely large and diverse religion with…