Oddly - I haven't noticed any.

Well there's Sprague Grayden. I guess I've seen so many familiar faces and looking on IMDB I now know why. Allison's brother on Medium. Rachel on Mad Men. Even Mitch Pileggi, who I thought was Gray from Jericho but he's really Skinner from X-files.

...I'm surprised by how much Hamlet there is in it

I'm waiting for Clay to lean over to Jax's ear and whisper "I killed Mufasa".

Sprague Graydon - that's right.

Allison's brother? I guess I don't remember him.

Rachel - of course.

Kim Coates - who has played a baddie on 5 million things including the Dresden Files.

Kim Coates - who has played a baddie on 5 million things including the Dresden Files.

Ah, he looked familiar too. Loved that his character says a prayer for the dead girls as they cremate them.

Hell, everyone looks familiar. They even got (casting spoiler from previews?) Dutch from the Shield coming on, as an ATF guy I think.

Over at TWOP some folks are suggesting that Jax is a cop. But, how could he be a cop?

So far as we know he's where he's always been, right?

And if he were a cop, his mom would have to know too, right?

Yes - that's what I meant about . . . well, it's not like he's been away from town somewhere doing stuff that the family doesn't know about.

he doesn't have to be a cop to be an informant.

Very true.

I wonder if he started doubting the rightness of the family business and went looking into his father's things or went looking into his father's things and found stuff to make him doubt the family business.

I think the latter.

We are going to a friends' wedding today. The groom's brother is an actor. Not famous or anything, but you may know him as the guy who bursts into Al's office naked and furious in the first episode of Deadwood. It's a memorable scene--he's a big burly guy and not the kind of actor one normally sees in a long nude scene. It will be very funny to meet him--today he will be in a tux, and my only other view of him has been buck naked!