Maybe I'm being overly critical (okay, I am), but this installment was particularly underwhelming, especially considering how strong the start to the series was. For instance, some of the battle scenes looked like they came from a second-rate action film, which, instead of contrasting the subdued sequences involving…

The Tenant must be my favorite case of this. The protagonist's slow succumbing to madness is depicted brilliantly. Visually striking, disturbing, darkly humorous: delirium rarely gets any better.
Also, Barton Fink is perfection, in every single one of its ways.

Apparently, the same people who thought Julian Fellowes was capable of adapting Shakespeare at all. Fellowes seems to have become the epitome of useless period drama after a toothless Vanity Fair adaptation (Reese Witherspoon in a sari = classic Thackeray), staggeringly pointless Young Victoria and that one Titanic…

Oh dear. It's the last episode of Black Mirror all over again.
Maybe I just miss that show, with all its weird satire, 375 dystopian futures and pig-fucking ministers. Good times.

Yeah, that long black skirt is very distracting.

This isn't the first lemons joke, and I still don't get it. Did I miss a newswire or something?

Prestigious actors like to have fun too! And if playing batshit insane serial killing sex-crazed devil incarnate is not fun, I don't know what is.

Peter's scenes were a bit more fun than usual this time."You are a rude backroom huckster, but that is irrelevant to this." Hee.

According to Wikipedia, the next episode is penned by late Henry Bromell and his son, whatever that means (well, I guess Henry Bromell plotted it but had no time to work on the dialogue, probably?). Considering Bromell wrote the best (Q&A, which won him a well-deserved Emmy this year) and the worst (Broken Hearts,…

Well, you never know with TV shows anyway. This one was on AMC, with precious prestige dramas and all that, so she might have thought it would actually be good.
I really hope Ehle stars in a great show soon, preferably in a leading role. She is so underused, dammit.

He also wrote August: Osage County, by the way. 
I love him on the show so far.

So good to have it back.
What strikes me every time is how funny this show is when it wants to be. Actually, with all its gags and one-liners, it's funnier than most sitcoms on the air.
And Jeffrey Tambor is delightful. It can never be said enough. A recurring character, hopefully?

The grade for this came as a surprise, to be honest; it's not that the show is bad, it just never gets to the level it clearly hopes to reach. The concept is admirable, of course, and it gets the desperate-yet-hopeful tone of the book perfectly, but in the end, it feels somewhat vacuous and cut short.
Don't get me…

Yep, not a great episode. I watched it back-to-back with the premiere, and the contrast is striking.
The main problem for me is how little the show is suited to the type of wacky caricature they are trying to do here. Hyperbolic and broad humor feels natural on traditional multi-camera sitcoms, it can enliven stylized…

I vote for "Relevés". 
*shudders just thinking about it*
*keeps shuddering while remembering other episodes*

Of course, you're both right here (and I have no idea how to reply to people on Disqus, ugh). Negligence in cases like this can be pretty frustrating. But still, there will always be mistakes, like there will always be screw-ups no matter how many professionals are involved in the process (groundbreaking arguments, I…

"You’re a loner. You keep your distance. You travel freely through foreign lands."
"Yeah, babe. I'm a loner alright. I'm just a lonely loner on a lonely road. Alone."

You're right. It's a great story. Also, it's a fairly simple self-contained story, so it wouldn't have to be stretched out into a movie trilogy or a two-season TV show. I wouldn't mind, though.

I'm not the only one who laughed out loud at the sight of Lee Pace being faaabulooous, right? Right?!
…Okay then.

I wouldn't call it great, but it's a decent show. Striking the balance between glum determination and sprightly desperation is admirable in its own right, especially considering the source material. And given the respect with which they handle said material, added scenes with Evil Gov't Officials don't hurt (they…