"My father is a very bad man."

When they were lifting up the awning in the garage shop before it started it was like lifting the curtain on The Streetfight Scene.

The conspiracy in this thing is so huge that really anyone could be the Birdman. The land deal thing and the sex ring thing could either be tied together or it could turn out that one is a red herring for the other. I have a compulsion to figure out whodunnit, even with the shittiest murder mysteries, so it's quite an…

The great thing about Miami Vice was that their dicks were always in the background, in the architecture and set design, so they didn't have to brood on them verbally.

The great thing about Miami Vice was that their dicks were always in the background, in the architecture and set design, so they didn't have to brood on them verbally.

He was smashing rats before you HAD all your teeth, mister.

Seeing as there were zero ramifications for Velcoro beating up that bully's dad I don't have high hopes.

But the "bad coffee" line accomplished that, I thought. Going up to the guy and making a more direct threat didn't seem menacing so much as pathetic. And if that was on purpose — if the character is meant to be menacing one minute and ineffective the next minute — then I don't see how any actor could pull that off…

The dialogue for him is terrible but the problem is also that his lines need to be spoken by a Character — a real criminal type like Al Swearingen or a Christopher Walken kind of gangster — and Vaughan is trying to play the part straight. The result is just deer-in-the-headlights.

I agree with your second sentence but not with your first sentence.

I've been waiting for someone to point that out. I wondered if I would have to do it myself.

I don't think Pizzollato is capable of original writing. I think he is one of those people who gets very enthusiastic about things he watches and reads, and stays up late scrawling down stories that he thinks are "inspired" by these things but that are in fact just rehashes of them. I think this explains why each of…

He is dangerously close to being a gay man written in 1980.

It's good. Like a lot of Altman films. There are some people who like Altman. JO calls us morons but somehow we keep on keeping on.

I thought the same thing. It stuck out horribly. At the very least he would have said "What are you going on about?"

I think The Leftovers is still worse, but this one is gaining.

Does "homage" mean "take the worst elements of something that's already third-rate and just churn them out verbatim"?

I think McConaughey's weirdness just sold it better. It really was just as clichéd in Season 1.

Her dialogue was very bad in this episode, very quippy. She was better in the previous episode. I think all the actors are doing as well as they can with writing that isn't given their characters any consistency or shape.

The locales were fine, but yes it was a fanciful and mannered Louisiana for sure. I thought it was kind of supposed to be, tbh.