I'm always disappointed to come here and find just how few people think this show's become a stiff, terribly written, tacky shadow of its former self. After almost every new episode I rewatch one from the first four seasons to remind myself that it was really ever as good as I remember. Maybe not having Martin's books…

Bond saying "The bitch is dead." fucking imprinted on me. For my money, that might be the ballsiest, darkest move a studio blockbuster has pulled this century.

I LOVE the "Time to get out." freeze frame with the opening riff of Another Way to Die. Whenever the Bond franchise is reinvented next, I'd love to see it try its hand at a cooler, more playful and stylized aesthetic, like Edgar Wright but cool instead of geeky, with a dash of French New Wave

She's often a very good part of close-to-great-but-not-quite movies: Byzantium, Their Finest, The Girl with All the Gifts (which has some silly stuff but also an amazing score, amazing first act, and a really surprisingly grim but honest conclusion)

Oh wow at first I thought you were just slightly misguided but you're a classic right-wing dum-dum bigot. You're a little behind the times if you think calling someone an SJW or snowflake has any effect other than making you seem laughably lacking in self-awareness

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The "best friend girls who had a gay/bi thing when they were young but grew up, grew apart, and now resent/long for each other" thing is a pretty familiar narrative trope and the PB/Marceline dynamic is clearly in that tradition. There's little doubt imo that many of the writers are writing them with that implied…

I'm pretty sure those were two different events that Nolan intentionally blurred the lines between. Rylance et al were further from the beach, the plane that Hardy takes out is coming to bomb the mole/beach

I can't believe I didn't remember where I recognized Rebekah del Rio from until after the episode. My favorite Bang Bang performance so far by a mile (NIN was also good for ep 8), worth every second of its seven minutes. A great ending to a hilarious episode that also brought the series' themes of violence against…

I don't think this is, like, literal, like she made a pact with a literal angel that she literally broke and immediately died because she broke it. But in the moralistic postmodern cause-and-effect representative world of Fargo, that's what happened. She put more energy and heart into killing Emmitt than Varga when…

Oh, I see. I definitely agree that Ray Wise is God or an angel or most likely the Wandering Jew and that Nikki basically died because she betrayed/failed her mission, but I don't think Varga is or even represents anything supernatural. Like, he wishes he were the Devil or a demon, and he loves for others to think that…

I actually thought that if the cop hadn't arrived Nikki might have been talked out of killing Emmitt. There was doubt in her eyes for sure. So I took it as a little tragic irony that Wrench assumed he should nobly finish the job for her years later when that might not have been what she really wanted.

Zack's reviews this season have been bewildering and devoid of effort, which I'm disappointed to say. I used to love coming to the AV Club for thoughtful analysis that revealed to me new layers of shows I loved. Now we get, basically, "I don't really care to think that hard about it."

Legion is an embarrassment to humanity and everything Fargo-haters accuse Fargo of being. I feel like it revealed Noah Hawley as deeply hacky and over-reaching and now the variable success of Fargo confuses me to no end. At least if he puts all his effort into Legion for the next few years I can put that cognitive…

Can you elaborate on why exactly that means Varga's right?

That was my first thought as well. She was saved and given a divine mission, and not only did she deliver the message to the wrong person but she opted to kill an innocent in her pursuit of misguided retribution. The moment she made that decision her fate was sealed. A very Llewelyn Moss-style anti-climactic karmic…

This whole season I've been stupidly wondering what "this season's God/aliens" would be, as if that's really how it works. For a while I was fairly seriously wondering if a werewolf would turn up. And we got one metaphysical element with the bowling alley last episode, but it felt like something was still to come. I…

I love how that was echoed and inverted with the frame-up this episode. The season opened with a man arrested for a crime committed by another, and now we have a man confessing, only to be told another had confessed in his stead. "You did this." [He didn't.] "You didn't do this." [He did.]