To Andrew Overbye:  Hi.  Actually, I found the characterizations to be much broader and simplistic in this first installment —faults I lay solely at the feet of the writer/director.  The only surprising character development of the night (for me) was that Sally's voice and physical carriage had changed in such a…

Even in the worst of those episodes —I always found flashes of brilliance, daring, depth, or the poetical/metaphorical.  There wasn't a single line of dialogue, a performance, or a composition that struck me as being anything better than functional or workmanlike on this latest ep.

Thanks for catching my dumb typo.  Corrected; but I stand by the assessment. 

Yeah, Todd.  Clearly.  They don't really shoot it in the past, either.  Nevertheless, the show HAS (re)created NYC exteriors in earlier installments.  Thanks for weighing in with this salient detail, however.  It doesn't exactly address my criticism, but it did manage to be brief —with an air of knowing snarkiness.

I’m afraid I can’t agree with those who found this first new episode to be anything other than a major step backwards.  From the cheapo opening shots of the "racial protest" I thought: Where are the wide shots showing what this would BE like ON FREAKING MADISON AVE. in the '60s!  No reaction shots, nothing.  (In…

The potential Republican Presidential candidates campaign speeches?

Just(ified) a brief aside, apropos of nada:  I was just(ified) cable channel surfing, and landed on "Minority Report" just(ified) as Quarles seemingly had an intense closeup…—and I abruptly remembered that I'd forgotten that Neal McDonough was part of Tom's Crew in that P.K. Dick S.F. flick.  Then I changed the…

Cool.  I saw that playing in a double feature, along with the all-Jewish-starring "Well, I'm Not Really All That Hungry, But Just a Nosh Maybe, That Is If You're Having Something, Games."

Easy:  The random guy invested in five-dollar bills and Lincoln-head nickles…which suddenly shot-up in popularity.

Yup; admitted.  Actually, I thought the movie was rather artful and sad and even a bit…er, penetrating.  Psychologically.  (—In fact, both films are certainly better —and more gutsy— than, say, something by David "Serial Green Filter" Fincher.)

Gulp.  Don't…don't you think I KNOW that?!?!?  AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

I can't say that any movie has actually made me sick (—there IS one movie that, based on a single clip, I can't bring myself to ever see —out of absolute fear connected to my deepest phobia; and I can't even tell anyone what it is because of the insightful power-over-me that it would give them—) …but the most…

So, is this better or worse than the young adult porno film "The Hummer Games"?

Deliverance.  (Will the pale hand of the past rise up to drag him down to a watery Hell?)

I agree with you; it's just that the story structure gains power, in both examples, by NOT insisting absolutely on the hopelessness (—which, as I see it, is not the same as HOPEFUL:  maybe, although it's unlikely, he found all the bugs and is smarter than his adversaries; maybe AT LEAST he lives to fight another day,…

If you're talking about the scene where the police search the apartment of the (framed) bomber…yeah, wow; I tell everyone about that one:  It moves from one perfect multi-actor composition to another to another through fantastically tight quarters with such precision —yet the acting and story-telling are still right…

Gene Hackman provides a how-hopeful-or-bad-do-ya-wanna-feel ending twofer:  The Conversation and Night Moves.

The more footage I see of this movie, the worse it looks.  Considering it's from the semi-hack director who gave the world Pleasantswill and Airbisquit…well, my hunger has virtually subsided.  (I'll place my AV CLUB bet now:  Review Grade:  C-.)

A lovely bit of reverie, there.  Thanks for the remembrances of penguins past.

Did anyone else notice that these guys drove past Walt's "Breaking Bad" Meth RV going in the opposite direction?  (Subtitle:  Justo kidding.)