I thought I heard the sound of fanboys & girls simultaneously splooshing…

Nick Offerman with a horse and a scotch is now my new wallpaper… this really made my day…

I wouldn't even have known about this had the ad not been thrust upon while I was streaming in an attempt to catch up on some quality shows.

I don't really remember anything specific about the episode (although I know I watched it), but to this day my mother always brings this up as a great example of how to talk to children about death.

I am happy for Ioan Gruffudd, although I don't know where my devotion for him comes from. But he, Michael Sheen and Matthew Rhys make for a charming Welsh trinity on US shows.

Eek… I thought Monday nights couldn't get worse with Murder in the First. Now I think I might actually miss it… dark times indeed

I've enjoyed the show all along, but there have been some nice beats this summer. I loved when Ferg made his little stand last week!

Either way, the concept for both shows seems to be firmly planted in a 90's sensibility…

I would champion a combo of both 'Opening Band' and 'Paul and Storm: Theme Song'

This is the best thing I've heard all day. Spoils of Babylon was a perfect spoof, but there's still more to be mined from the epic miniseries era.

I hadn't really identified with any of the characters until this episode. I, like the Clark girls, have an uncontrollable urge to climb Lee Pace and muss his hair…

And I'm sorry if I came across as overly defensive - I just didn't want to waste time/space going over things we already both understand (you know the interwebs - lots of ignorance clashing with lots of preachy know-it-alls).

I think it depends on the definition of "artist" and the definition of "entertain". I think sometimes a work is a story someone needed to tell, sometime it's an exercise in the artist showing you how clever s/he is, sometimes it's creative people on a whim who are curious to move some pieces around and see what shakes…

I take your point, but I don't know… I rather enjoy that it's all one big joke to them. Sometimes critics and cinephiles get a bad case of caput tuum in ano and it's rather endearing that Coens are perhaps interested primarily in making stories to entertain themselves first and foremost.

I'm well aware that the Penny Dreadfuls were disposable entertainment in the same vein as pulp novels of more recent decades. But I'm also not suggesting a direct adaptation either - sift through a few and stitch together a new story from the workable elements.

I didn't think this episode was as strong as many of the others, but overall this has been a stellar season. Really brilliant.

I'm not surprised, but this show has been so wildly uneven, I'm not sure I'm going to make it through the first one.

The Man Who Wasn't There has been brought up in so many conversations around this show, I'm shocked at how few people have seen it.

Odenkirk is one of the real marks of quality for this show - as stated in the review, it would have been so easy for that character to be one dimensional, but the writing and the portrayal perfectly demonstrate that one of the difficulties in life are good ol' well-meaning folks who just can't see what's in front of…

I agree. I think it's largely the casting of Freeman that makes me empathetic to the character, although this last turn after the jump felt like a "still with him now…?" elbow in the ribs.