The name-checking of streets and subway stops gets on my nerves so much.

It's little things like guys clustered around a map saying "It looks like if we take I-85 north we'll get to Atlanta."

The characters don't act like they know either Georgia or how major roadways in general work.

My theory is that people who make movies think that places outside of NYC and LA (and occasionally Chicago) are zombie wastelands already.

Yeah, the "slimy bastard" was actually a step away from his "type" which was more the Prick Up Your Ears kind of character when he started.

I don't know whether it was the acting or the writing but I found Wynona Rider's character to be more of a tv type of person than I've come to expect from Simon's stuff.

Saw this movie for the first time last night. It has its flaws but it's well worth seeing. I couldn't help but see it as a precursor of Deadwood and Justified, not just because of the cast but because of the balancing act it tries (and largely succeeds) to perform between different kinds of tone. It's both big and…

The people in the show sure don't look tony.

I read a comment somewhere, can't remember where, that said they thought some kind of metacommentary on "hard evidence" was being made with all the usual devices of film noir captures breaking down almost ludicrously. The hard drive erased by accident, the tape recording of the conversation stepped on, etc. Those…

As Ani said, it's not all the evidence. There were big gaps. It was a story, her story, and she got to tell it. There is no reason to think one reporter is going to bring down all those layers of corruption. That's why it ends with a "long journey" rather than a resolution.

The idea was that she had repressed the memory of the event because she couldn't bear to remember that she had been proud of it. Not proud of the abduction but proud of being thought "pretty" by her abductor. She wasn't saying that she had blamed herself all those years; she was saying that subconsciously pride and…

I think people were more making fun of the idea that such a sad, empty bar would employ such a sad singer than making fun of Lera Lynn or her songs. I got the impression most people liked her music. I did.

I think she's good too and I liked the first song a whole lot. I'm suddenly thinking that there was a better, tighter script in there in which that bar more obviously played the central role it was apparently supposed to play. As it was, it was like there was a David Lynch movie awkwardly mixed up alongside a James…

I was thinking at one point when they held hands with each other that I would have really dug it if that had been all they did. That one hand-holding. So much promise, so much restraint, everything to come in the future. And then when that kid appeared I was like "Oh so Pizz RUINED that relationship so there could be…

What if Pizzolatto based Chad on one of his own kids, wanting him to finally see a nice fat little ginger onscreen for a change? Looking at the Chad comments, not so much here but other places, I REALLY hope that isn't the case.

I forgot about that. That was very bad.

I totally agree and I am actually, very unfashionably, against inserting social concerns into artistic things. But there's no question that in this show men DO the bad things and women get the bad things DONE to them, which is not a feminist view, no matter how many knives you give your female lead.

Haha — the point is that it doesn't matter if irrenman has written anything or not. He has exposed the fact that attacks like yours are based on the assumption that people who write well cannot find fault with this show. That is a ridiculous assumption.

I liked that relationship too. I liked that it didn't go the hackneyed route of "she was betraying him the whole time".

In isolation all four of the main characters and their scenes seem fine in retrospect because all four of them were hugely important thematically. But as a whole that's the problem right there — they were all four too much about theme, especially Paul and Frank. Neither Paul nor Frank was believable as a person rather…