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[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
This was, obviously since it's what I quoted at the site, my favorite part of Allyson's popgurls piece:
Rebecca never stole her friend's boyfriend or nursed her best girlfriend through a bad breakup with Pringles dipped in hot fudge. She went to school, hid behind her unicorn-print Mead Trapper Keeper, got good grades, and kept mostly to herself. If you turned her dial two clicks to the right, she could have ended up with a few decapitated heads in a freezer in an isolated compound in Montana.
The first 50? This is a record for me. Of course, I'm behind like 300 in the previous thread.
Just watched Episode 3. When they all went to the door with their guns raised, I kept wondering who was watching the back door.
I think I watch too many of this kind of shows, maybe.
Hey, maybe the little kid was guarding the back door with his water gun. Danny taught him well, after all.
I'm trying to think of FBI TV shows, and google is giving me no love.
Outside of the obvious, I can think of
What else is/was out there?
Really liked last night's ep. Sorry I missed the watch-n-post.
The story grabbed me and did not let go. I love that. I felt slightly skeevy for finding the serial killer guy in the backseat kind of funny - at least in that scene.
Thought the wife was phenomenal, especially when she broke down to Paul. Rebecca's coldness toward her was really well done, too, I thought. (Plus - the nun! I loved that ep.)
Funniest: the silent how to hold a gun tutorial
Also funny: "That's mine." and "How much coffee have you had?" "None."
I laughed at the four agents pointing guns at the door/kid, and I also thought, "Huh? Shouldn't one of them be, I don't know, covering the others' six or whatever?" Didn't pull me out for long, though, because... well, funny.
I thought RN was fab in this ep; I feel like I'm starting to get to know what Rebecca's deal is. And more Katie time, yay!
When the guy was driving away at the end, the look he gave the two girls on the lawn.. so. damn. skin-crawlingly awful.
It never even occurred to me that the four guns might have been funny. Aside from the whole "What are you doing?" thing, I thought it was really horrific, and purposefully so.
Twin Peaks
I figured out why I liked this episode better than the last two (which I also liked, but this one really did it for me) - it was pretty much all cat & mouse and, other than "who's the victim", not a whodunnit. The killer was revealed in act one.
The first two, while having cat & mouse elements throughout, definitely had a lot more "who's the killer?" shell game going, and with a limited number of suspects, it's either obvious (in that it had to be one of these people) or an asspull (in that it's nameless numberhead killer).
Outside of giallo movies, I generally have little use for whodunnits. And with giallo, it's the stylishness of the movies that usually hooks me in - who's the psycho is usually SUCH an afterthought. It's also probably why I liked COLUMBO so much - you ALWAYS knew whodunnit. The fun was watching Peter Falk annoy the killer into confessing work it out.
What else is/was out there?
Without a trace.
Like ita, I didn't find the four all going for the door with guns drawn funny, but I also didn't get pulled out of the story by the "who's watching the rest of the house." I didn't even stop to think about that until they said Roger was gone.