Biggest question of the episode: Celeste’s lawyer didn’t think to ask Mary Louise if she had filed any claims with child protective services about Celeste’s parenting? I thought she was one of the best.

The scene in The Innocents when Debrah Kerr looks out into the garden: it’s a wide landscape shot so it takes a few seconds to see the ghostly woman standing in the reeds staring back at her. If I didn’t literally jump when I saw it the first time, my psyche did.

One comment following the premiere of this season’s start in 1977 pointedly quibbled over “This Year’s Girl” as theme song as seemingly incongruous from Elvis Costello’s 1978 LP This Year’s Model without anticipating the show’s relatively rapid pace. That this episode referenced both the Ides of March and St.…

Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, 25th Hour and Inside Man are all great non-messy Spike Lee ‘joints’.

Have listened through once and love it. I get the feeling they were listening to Jackson Browne’s “Late for the Sky” a ton when recording this.

We all have differing tastes. Take the women I work with—they all love terrible music! :)

I certainly want to like A Deeper Understanding. Wouldn’t be much purpose in hate-listening to... anything, really. While I think that Lost in the Dream is overrated, it should totally be for me. Certainly, there are tracks that I really like—”Under the Pressure,” “Suffering,” “Disappearing,” and “In Reverse” are all…

Interesting, for my own part neither Slave Ambient nor Lost in the Dream ever completely won me over; I couldn’t quite connect with either of them, although I enjoyed them nonetheless. I don’t think I ever went back and tried Wagonwheel Blues, so I’ll be interested to see if that or this new record finally “grab” me.

Lost in the Dream seems to have that polarizing effect on War On Drugs fans. I LOVED it, and thought it was better than Slave Ambient or Wagonwheel Blues (which were both excellent in their own right). Upon initial listening, A Deeper Understanding tops them all. The reviewer’s right—there are countless little moments…

Cant wait to hear this. Lost In The Dream is my favourite album of the last few years. Ive only heard Pain so far, and that is a massive sounding piece of excellence. The coda is PERFECT.

Personally, I think Lost in the Dream is maybe the most overrated album of the decade, but I do like Slave Ambient and Wagonwheel Blues. So, I’m torn. I’ll probably listen to this, but eh. Not as jazzed about it.