The sharpness of the knife doesn't help?

I know nothing about gutting 8 year olds.

I wish the Madison-did-it thing had taken a bit longer to be obvious

I really liked it this way. As with the act shifting, it means that it's not a whodunnit. It's a how/if justice will get served, and who'll buy it along the way.

There are no good arteries on that path, though. A stab to the stomach is going to take forever to kill the kid. Unless she lucked out with his relative smallness and got through the guts.

I'd buy genitals to sternum. Looked like there was splatter on the pavement by the pool. My guess would be that she came up behind him and reached around. Stick him right above the pelvic bone and zip up to the solar plexus. Thin enough knife, slack enough muscles, strong enough psycho ten-year-old...I'd buy it. Kid didn't look like the type to have real good muscle tone, if she zipped it up fast enough, he might not have clenched up on her.

Nothing in the groin area?

Not centre line and in the front, no. The big distributor is behind the guts, and splits fairly high up.

Mesenteric artery system.

Nothing in the groin area?

Only the femoral, which would require cutting along the join of the leg, I think -- not what occurs to me when I hear "gutting". On the other hand, I kind of breeze past the specific physical details anyway.

And to tell the truth, I have no idea what I'm talking about.

I did really like this episode. I thought the tape over the doll's mouth was a lovely touch, perhaps the touch that made the difference between too obvious and interesting for me.

For all the gore that has been shown and the complaints by reviewers about all the gore that has been shown, the only thing that really bothered me was in this episode. Up until now, the explicit mutilations, etc., haven't bothered me (well, they bothered me because, ew, but not such that I wouldn't want them included) because they really seemed necessary to the show. But in this episode, the full on view of Henry's (I think that was his name...the dead boy) dead mom's face at the end just seemed gratuitous.

In general, I really want to see more of the supporting characters. Well, we're seeing enough of Paul, and almost enough Webb, but too much Rachel and not enough of Mel and Danny. So far, I really like Mel and Danny and want to see more!

Hate to post and run, but must actually do work now. I'll be back later to see how much everyone disagrees with me. Keep up the good work, Tim!

see I thought Henry's body looked fake to me.. like a CPR dummy. at least that was my impression.. it didn't seem real to me.

Interestingly, it was the shot of the boy's face at the beginning that bugged me, while the shot of the mom's face at the end was a callback that didn't so much.