Shh, bon bon. You'll give away our secret plans.

Sorry about that. I pressed tab twice instead of capslock, then pressed enter twice.

Anyway, Tim's fucking WIG makes him a disappointing villian to me. I mean, it's not worth it to cast someone if you have to make them look ridiculous in order to do so. At one scene I swear he was trying to keep the wig from falling off, and I was hoping it would finally be admittted. And the completely ridiculous facial hair just made the whole thing worse.

And we're supposed to believe that it's Parker who's wearing a wig! That's rich.

Anyway, Tim's fucking WIG makes him a disappointing villian to me. I mean, it's not worth it to cast someone if you have to make them look ridiculous in order to do so. At one scene I swear he was trying to keep the wig from falling off, and I was hoping it would finally be admittted. And the completely ridiculous facial hair just made the whole thing worse.

I thought he looked like someone gave Curtis Armstrong a really bad dye job.

The murderer killing someone just frame someone else is always a little thin, to me. I liked the "there's always some bullshit reason to kill the dean" that was implied, though.

I thought Landry killing Mindy was just gratuitous and weird.

I'm starting to think that dialling the mysteries back to one episode length may make them better. It's the extra complications that get thrown in to sustain the mystery over time that lead to trouble.

I thought Landry killing Mindy was just gratuitous and weird.

I agreed but liked that, probably for those reasons. It's noir-- even the innocent guys are bad guys.

Also, not that Mindy deserved to die, but she was one of the bad guys. There's a reason she always looked like a 1940s femme fatale (even though she was a dean's wife in Southern California, not Veronica Lake, but I digress). Sneaking around with Landry and shipping her desperately ill son who just lost his stepfather off to live in England so she could life a life of style on a boat? What a creep.

I agreed but liked that, probably for those reasons. It's noir-- even the innocent guys are bad guys.

I liked that in the end, Mindy thought Landry had done it, and Landry thought Mindy had done it. And they were both wrong.

I feel kind of cheated that Landry was supposed to be super-competent profiler criminologist guy and he not only had no idea what was going on at any point, but he totally fucked up his own flight from, not justice but you get the idea. I would have liked to have seen him have some sort of insight somewhere along the line.

It's not a big gripe, just something I wanted from the character.

I was ok with that, -t. Seems in keeping with the series that an academic supersleuth would have no idea which end was up in a real investigation.

Yeah, I get that. It's just what I wanted.

One of many reasons why, really, I should limit my consumption of noir. But the atmosphere is so cool and the lipstick is so red and everyone is all world-weary, it's just so attractive.