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I've actually never before been in possible possession of a major spoiler for a show, so I'm not sure of the best-practices policy, but this was apparently taken from comments by an alleged extra on a youtube video somewhere, and reposted on reddit. It has to do with the final wrap-up and if true contains major spoilers, and since I don't know the real origin of the info I'm just going to drop the link here. It certainly sounds plausible. http://www.reddit.com/r/TrueBlood/comments/2ba80z/major_spoiler/

I was thinking the other day about how one line from S3 sums up the show, the infamous Debbie Pelt "They killed my Cooter" line: "He weren't no hero! He just wanted to do some V and have a little fun!" This show ain't no Wire. It just wants to do some V and have a little fun.

My main irritation with the heavy emphasis on Bill's flashback scenes is that I know it's part of an unearned clean-slate arc for him. And it just eats time from present-day scenes. At least the Pam/Eric/Ginger scenes gave comic relief and involved more than one present-day character. Anyway, aside from being annoyed with that, I enjoyed almost every other bit of this episode, even the wacky sex hijinks. This show is always at its best when it doesn't separate its cast into three or four separate TV shows, as it's always been so fond of doing. Lots of fun moments tonight. The only thing I was underwhelmed with was the Repub gala--they obviously ran out of time/money to do justice to a setup like that for Pam and Eric. And I hoped Sarah would get a well-deserved death. Not yet, I guess. I'd rather spend the last season on plot advancement in the present day so we can have something like a graceful wrap-up.

I've been assuming so, but I've never heard that phrase outside of that song, and a lot of the other episode titles seem to be direct song titles or at least close references to them.

It's available through March 2014 or so on archive.org. (What I really miss is long, funny, analytical recaps, rather than collections of pictures and a few sentences...unfortunately even Jacob succumbed to that trend over at gawker, so I have to go to TVClub to get thoughtful recaps that explain the stuff I missed to me.)

Something may have gotten in my eye when Terry showed up for Arlene. Believe me, I wasn't expecting that reaction, which means they at least managed to get me invested in Arlene surviving her ordeal. Historically, this is the part of the season when the show pivots off into another direction. I guess more yakuza and Sarah Newlin action, although none of that sounds too exciting. I wonder how high the body count will climb. I do feel some Eric death foreshadowing, but I'm pretty sure they do that every season...although this IS the last. I liked the Ginger flashbacks, although I think we deserved the missing scene where she finds out they're vampires and loses her shit. Slightly O/T but I was rewatching S3 and had an epiphany...if you remove everything having to do with Jason and the werepanthers, and everything having to do with Sam and his shitty white trash family and all his shitty backstory, you'd have a damn fine half-hour vampire dramedy. Someone should do a fan edit that's just the vampire plots, where the only filler is Lafayette and Jesus. Sans their brief stint in the Hotshot crap. Also, every scene in Merlottes with Tommy would need to be removed, but Jessica can stay.

You've summed up the show for me. Wanted to like season 1. Should have liked it, as I've loved other 'Nordic Noir' transplants and I'm always up for an autism-spectrum lead. Gave up about halfway through because I didn't know what was going on and didn't care enough to find out. I'd read season 2 had a makeover (that I guess was back-doored at the end of season 1?) and that the original show runner had left due to creative conflicts, so I thought I might find something more streamlined and with at least a bit of simplified exposition for those viewers they hoped to regain after the makeover. I guess I either missed too much of season 1 or, like you, I just don't have the right mentality/temperament for it. I'll probably watch the threads here for a few more episodes and see if the plot starts to require less explanation from other viewers online. :)

Did I miss a specific cue, or do you mean the way she was loading up on junk food at the market? I read her food-related scenes as the usual Hollywood conceit--that we're supposed to believe women can eat like that and remain a size zero. (See also: Gilmore Girls.) I don't blame the show--audiences seemingly want size-zero female leads, but sometimes food-related storylines happen. Well, they happened all the time on Gilmore Girls. Anyway, I'm just ranting now--in any case, I didn't read disordered eating in her scenes (although you've got me rethinking that weird burger scene). Just that she was bored and angsty and overindulging in a sort of immature way... ...hmm, because she was mad at her mother. Who she also lied to about eating a salad. Okay, you may be on to something.

In the interest of cutting Mireille some slack (I love her, can't help it), they seem to explicitly film things in such as way as to make everyone look as scary and haggard as possible. There's even one scene in season 3 where they manage to make her look like some kind of insane orangutan with a combination of lighting, angle and her acting choice at the time.

Well, I feel slightly better knowing that it took a village to make sense of the opening scene.

Ok, show, you can fuck right off with dedicating an entire conversation to mocking Rush fans. Did the writer's girlfriend leave him for a prog rock musician or something? It dripped down from the landing above him, where there was another body and someone holding a machete. I stopped watching after the Rush scene, and now that it seems from this thread that the cold open also doesn't get explained, I'm not sure I'm going to bother continuing. I stopped watching last season due to the incomprehensible plot.

This right here, I think. It doesn't feel like it's being written by anyone who has any real passion for the tech (or the industry or the time or the place). Did this start out as someone else's project?

I think what it comes down to is that something about the way they're implementing their technobabble is resulting in an inordinate amount of the discussion tending towards picking that part of the show apart. So one way or another, they're doing it wrong. And even though I'm a tech person, I'd still much rather make fun of the ridiculous writing/characterization than quibble about 256K RAM. They have to either get it (mostly) right or they have to back-burner it more adeptly, and they're not doing either one.

I also have to make a devil's advocate argument: Silicon Valley (the recent HBO comedy) managed to make technobabble do the following: 1) Not annoy technical people 2) Not annoy non-technical people 3) Make both camps laugh

They aren't even really trying for, ahem, authenticity when it comes to the dialogue. See: "What was the solve?" Pretty soon Cameron's going to be telling someone "I feel like I lack a sense of agency as an employee of Cardiff." Or possibly screaming "YOLO!!!" This also seems like a good spot for me to mention that I'm annoyed by the fact that Cameron's muse for coding is penis. This character is obviously fully conceived and implemented by a guy.

Didn't he actually say he was hospitalized for two years? Anyone know if that strained credulity or not? I may be seeing this one through 2014 eyes, where they basically kick you out after 2 days unless you're in a coma.

I usually just think "you have to be really skinny to dress that badly and get away with it" and move on.

Drive by post, but I forgot to mention that if it wasn't for you guys, I wouldn't have realized that Jessica has totally 'Littlefingered' her southern accent. I mean, none of the actors have really been trying for a while, which seems weird to me. Wouldn't you at least still want to do a good job since it's part of your career resume?

I don't know, I didn't enter the industry until the early 90s. We preferred 'screw the pooch'. (My jaw dropped when I, female and in my early 20s, heard my grizzled old boss say that phrase for the first time in my life.) But right now it's a real television writing cliche to have a male professional warn a (usually female) professional counterpart not to 'shit the bed', I guess because it somehow is felt to perfectly illustrate the high-stakes world of (insert white-collar profession here) and the potential humiliation thereof. I believe I've now seen it in Mad Men, House of Lies (Don Cheadle to Kristen Bell) and now HACF. So we've spanned five decades or so. It's okay to retire that one. ETA: Lee Pace...if you think he looks tall now, remember how he looked next to Kristen Chenowith on House of Pies or whatever that show was called. I can't decide whether I find him attractive or not. I certainly don't mind his current tight-shirt aesthetic. And he made a pretty elf king. But his character is kind of loathsome.

It's hard for me to muster up even a decent critique. I was too busy laughing out loud at how preposterous most of the scenes were, especially almost everything relating to the hurricane. I was interested to note that Zack Whedon wrote this episode (or got writing credit for it), but it sadly didn't turn him into a name I'll be excited to see in the future. Cameron continues to be a different character every single week and it drives me nuts. Also, this is a dumb thing to be irritated about when we had multiple adult men acting like walking around in a hurricane was a good idea, but did anyone really use "solve" as a noun 30 years ago? As in "what was the solve?". I know it gets used that way now, but I want to believe it's a recent linguistic aberration. Also, attention television writers: "shit the bed" is officially a cliche. Please stop immediately.

So I guess it's pretty much a given now that Lettie Mae killed Tara? No other reason for a day-one character's death to happen offscreen than because there's going to be a reveal about it later.

The Killing - The Final Season - Official Trailer [HD] Seems somewhat spoilery.

I've heard about the Atlantic piece but I just can't. I can get my pointless sexism on reddit.

Had a chance to check it out. Episode five was finally getting closer to what I expected this show to be. There were a few little hiccups; they couldn't have telegraphed any more clearly that Gordon was going to fuck up with the Japanese businessmen. We get it, show. But I was pleasantly surprised by Cameron--that was the Cameron I've been hoping to see. And goddamn if the show didn't make me laugh when whatshisname turned out to be stuck in Adventure. And I didn't expect Joe Sr to project the image of 'perfectly reasonable' so well. Cameron figured him out WAY before I did. Still hate Joe Jr. Still don't think casting him in a primary role, if they were going to characterize him this way, was a good idea. Yes yes, Steve Jobs, I get it, but I'm talking about what makes a good television protagonist, not historical accuracy.

Random point of trivia, but is there such as a thing as a drug (prescription or other) that can make you pass a drug test? I'm pretty sure there isn't, but I'll gladly click links to reputable sources as it would help me win a recent debate with a friend.