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Agree on the Sarah Newlin thing coming across as tone deaf. I get that we're supposed to remember she was one of the prime movers of the vampire holocaust, but turning her into a repentant but still sassy Buddhist fugitive (as opposed to an ongoing threat) was a very weird choice if they meant for the viewers to sustain hatred for her. And as much of a mess as s5/s6 were, I bet a lot of people can't even remember what she did. Hell, I would have been happy to have her settle down with Jason.

My current theory is they leaked the foiler about human Bill so people would be shocked. But they dragged out the conversions about his death and then his death for so bloody long. No pun intended. I can't really blame them for Sookie ending up with nameless rando. People were going to be unhappy no matter what.

Rewatching S5 and S6 recently, and it's just crazy how they spend hour upon hour upon hour on Terry's b-plots, including an entire half-episode devoted to his funeral and flashback scenes. While other major characters die this season and...well, you know. I like the actor fine, back to his Gilmore Girls days, but obviously someone behind the scenes was passionately in love with him. Meanwhile, I'll take a moment to point out again how stupid it was that the vampires feeding on Bill in the sunlight room didn't just walk through the doorway Eric came through to escape the sun.

Just wanted to say I think it's supposed to be clear Daniel didn't do it. But the plea deal required him to confess AND to debrief them on how he did it. He couldn't claim in the debrief he didn't do it because those weren't the terms. That was the whole point. The senator wanted him on record to protect his own reputation. Daniel wasn't getting out of the room until he told some version of "I did it". It was a charade and everyone knew it, but what Daniel did in there was give up, not confess. Which I guess is what he did originally, so kudos, show. Meanwhile: I'm generally a Tawney fan but they had to make her go way too naive and tone-deaf to how men operate to be like "Sorry you were humiliated and emasculated by my new romantic interest, he told me all about it. Bummer." Even a more enlightened man (person) than Teddy would still take that as a re-victimization by his attacker.

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I have to agree with you guys. Not to pile on, but Joe felt like what happens when a freshman TV writer tries to create a typical AMC anti-hero out of thin air.

Good point. Elsewhere I've seen people asking the question, "So what's left for AMC original shows once Mad Men is over?" and there aren't a lot of top-tier answers to that question.

I've had a lot of frustrations with season 1, the uneven characterization and OTT moments being my biggest issues, but overall I'm pleased and will watch season 2 to see if they work out some of the kinks.

(Psst. We got renewed.)

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Unfortunately, screenshots are the new recaps. Even Jacob does it now. I can only assume this means someone did the marketing research and determined that "less words, more pictures" = more clicks.

I'm willing to let them have the Jessica/Hoyt thing only grudgingly, especially having watched older seasons recently where he turned into a creepy fang banger/stalker and then joined a murdering hate group (why couldn't they let him keep some dignity?), and then seeing how much of a jackass he was to Bridget...but yes, fine, I'll go along with this storyline, but I could have lived without seeing their sex scene, especially with the Disney orchestra in the background. Full points for the Ginger scene, though. The actors must have had a blast with that.

I agree. And to put my own spin on it, they both seem weird and twitchy when they're around almost anyone else, but when they're alone together they make some weird kind of sense, and that's got to be a very difficult thing to let go of if you spend most of your time feeling isolated. I see that people have differing opinions on the type and degree of their attraction to each other, but the show has completely sold me on the idea that they are kindred souls of some kind. And they each have one specific lie in relation to the situation that they tell themselves and each other: Tawney that they can't be together, and Daniel that he's not a good person.

I may have missed it, but why was Arlene wearing such a fancy cut-out cocktail dress at the bar? Re: Tara...my feeling at this point is that they left her death off-screen and ambiguous precisely so that we would wonder if Lettie Mae did it. Plus a few subtle cues like LM saying she 'took care of' Tara. Which in turn means they wanted us to wonder that for a few episodes, because they had absolutely nothing else to build tension with because that storyline sucked so hard.

I had to skip through some of the more brutal scenes, and as a result I'm slightly confused about how the military plot is supposed to have gone. Would anyone be willing to clarify? I get that Kyle was the murderer, and that Joan Allen was his mother. I don't quite get who his father was (Philip, I guess?) and how he ended up living with them. Philip basically pulled a Ned Stark and brought him home? Meanwhile, the military kids have some weird hazing ritual where they pretend to make the newbies kill their parents, only Kyle took it seriously and they were dumb enough to have brought a loaded handgun to this 'hazing'? How was the hazing SUPPOSED to go? Parents wake up to find that these military school students are in their bedroom with a loaded weapon and...everyone laughs it off? Kids these days? Then what is supposed to have happened? After that point I can't follow the find-the-guns logic...or why, if the other cadets who were sort of in on it didn't want Kyle to remember what happened, they chose to try to drive him crazy again...and why they didn't seem to have any fear of him when they already saw that he was quite capable of murder. Overall, I felt the "A" plot (military murder) was overly complicated and strained credulity (in typical The Killing fashion, I guess), but the deus ex machina solution of the B plot (Skinner's death) felt lazy. Wish Jacob was still writing real recaps.

I think the baby thing is to pile more pressure on Holder, since he's not the one who pulled the trigger. I don't think the writers care about putting Linden and Holder together. They're both way too fucked up now.

Season four, not really a spoiler, but I've just queued up the first episode and did a double-take when the first F-bomb was dropped. I love you, Netflix resurrection.

Isn't there a scene in season one where Daniel's "confession" tape is played? I don't remember how coherent it was, just that he had apparently covered her body with flowers.

I don't post much, but I have to say, that one caught me very off-guard while at the same time being totally "yes of course!". Naturally humans would want to role-play as these pale, graceful, heavily ritualized aliens, the same way goth kids pretend they're vampires or whatever. I have to give the show full credit for that. I often can't tell where the show is really aimed, in that Farscapey way, but this felt fresh and inspired rather than somewhat random.

That whole weird lawyer scene was so bizarre. Didn't he used to be King of Louisiana? How does he not have access to a lawyer? Eric was able to pull one out of his ass in S3 to will his stuff to Pam when he thought he was going to die. How is a lawyer asking for ten million dollars also running a waiting room with 300 dying vampires when it's going to turn out most of them can't use their legal services anyway? Not one of them knew of their legal disenfranchisement? The setup was so stupid. I get that it was supposed to show us what the post-hep-v world was like for vampires, but the whole thing just killed suspension of disbelief. The Tara / Lettie Mae thing has been dragging on for five freaking episodes now. Maybe Eric and/or Pam can end up with Sarah's sister.

I agree that it's probably a dream sequence. Maybe they're building up to an interesting fakeout.

It was extra weird because there was a real, organic character in there, one that we all knew should be there, and they kept either hiding her or making her behave, too frequently, like a feral animal. It's like they tried to contort these characters into unnatural positions (personality-wise) for the sake of being obtuse and therefore...artsy and AMC?...but it often just felt weird and inconsistently written.

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