"We have reached the limits of what rectal probing can teach us!"

Didja notice the TV in the Solversons' in episode 2, playing a cartoon about Mars?

I just thought she was heading out on a long trip and stopped at the diner to recuperate. Maybe she was going to help someone move, or she had a lover in another city or something.

It occurs to me that in the Godfather-ish scheme of things, Rye (obviously) filled the role of Fredo, Dodd is very much Sonny, though with less of Sonny's tender affection for the women in his life, and that makes Bear analogous to Michael.

He definitely wasn't winning in Episode 1, but that's just, like, my opinion, man.

True, true. If he is a lawyer, I wonder who he'll be representing, and whether or not he'll get a chance to reference the "This is what happens when you meet a stranger in the alps" scene from The Big Lebowski in some way.

Anybody want a peanut?

"Pure" implies something that has been purified - i.e., put through filters to clean it.

RE: the opening scene. I wonder if Ohanzee is merely musing that he's being tasked with being a magician - making Rye appear out of thin air the way a magician summons a rabbit from his hat - and self-assuredly accepting that no, he's not a magician, he's a hunter.

Actually, probably he wasn't referring to Ed there - technically, Ed *did* kill for food. Not his, clearly, but someone's!

I was going by my reexamination of their interactions in E. 1 - she seems incredibly uncomfortable with Ed touching her, even casually.

"I'm Tarmac-In-My-Lungs Skip, here at Tarmac-In-My-Lungs Typewriters! I mean, there's so much Tarmac in my lungs! And there's so many electric typing machines, I *think*, I'm not too sure because I'm in this hole in the ground! They're not just for girls any more, I hope!"

You'll note that in both this episode and the previous season finale, a hero cop faces one of the villains and baldfacedly takes credit for his wife's detective work.

Oh. I thought the implication was that she was closeted and staying in the marriage for the sake of appearances.

How can something be both "pure" and "undiluted"?

A thing I noticed: Dodd's habit of trying to get people to go away by whistling was imitated by Rye in the typewriter shop in episode 1. Nice little establishment of character, there.

Though at the same time he's a lot smarter than Dodd, judging by that little "Know Thyself" comment.

That tracks, since I did point out last week that Peggy's character is probably rooted in Frances McDormand in "Burn After Reading" - manipulating events but never really understanding them, leading to worse and worse chaos.

I'm more interested in the story he tells his granddaughter, about waiting in his house in the dead of night in '79. In his words, not waiting for a "Who" so much as a "What".

You probably don't listen to "The Thrilling Adventure Hour", but Paul F Tompkins and Janet Varney are both very good at it. My mind leapt to them the instant the word left Wilson's mouth.