Duane Moore

Let’s get our taxonomy of the various peoples indigenous to SEC Country straight. Hillbillies are known as such because they live in the hills, mountains, and hollers of Appalachia or the Ozarks. These are primarily the fans of Tennessee and Kentucky, as well as some portions of the Arkansas and Missouri nations. Rednecks got their name from working in the fields of the coastal plains or Deep South, where the backs of their necks would become sunburned. These are your South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama/Auburn, and Mississippi school fans. Crackers are mostly located in Florida, and are a vanishing breed with all the in-migration to the state since the advent of air conditioning, but still can be seen in Gainesville on game days in their jort-wearing glory. LSU fans are traditionally known as “coon-asses,” or more recently “corn-dogs” due to their pervasive odor.

Brawl in Cell Block 99 begs to differ, sir.

You remember that little thing we had about 30 years back, called the Korean conflict? And how we failed to achieve victory? How come we didn’t cross the 38th Parallel and push those rice eaters back to the Great Wall of China? Then take the fucking wall apart brick by by brick, and nuke them back into the fucking Stone Age forever!

The Thing is my favorite of the bunch but I’d allow that reasonable minds could differ if someone had Fargo or the Shining at the top.

Your revolution is over Mr. Lebowski. Condolences. The bums lost!

No way Mahomes doesn’t take this one down the field and score.

Why’d he call me Shorty? Because you’re small. Small. S-m-all.

I had forgotten nearly everything going on, but the recaps helped and the first episode of season 2 is solid.

Oh no, no, he has health problems

I saw both of these in the theaters. Found Joe almost completely laugh free and the whole initial sequence of him at his office under the florescent lights was just actively off-putting. The bit with the luggage salesman was about the only part that made me chuckle, and Abe Vigoda is a national treasure. I actually liked Bonfire, not having read the book at the time, and found it entertaining but not particularly memorable. I’ve since read the book a couple of times and I can understand why people were so underwhelmed by the movie version.

Right full rudder!

Yes! I meant to add that one but forgot by the time I made it to the end of the list. Also don’t have the full explanation about what happened to Danvers’ husband and child. Seems like they died in an accident of some kind and it’s probably just character back story for her, but I don’t think they’ve fully explained what happened. Kali Reis is married to Brian Cohen.

We need a list of all the things they have dangled out to us in the first five episodes that will need to be resolved in the finale. Please add to or correct me if I missed some resolution/explanation. - Herd of caribou committing mass suicide - Meaning of “she’s awake” - Annie K’s tongue on the floor at Tsalal (still hoping that Clark was so in love with her that he tried to clone her and her clone “woke up” and became a Frankenstein’s monster of some kind) - How the Tsalal scientists were killed. Seems clear with the coverup story put out by Connolly and McKitterick that we’re not supposed to believe that they just froze to death, and the neat folding of the clothes exactly like Julia Navarro did can’t be just a coincidence. - Why the Tsalal scientists were killed. I’m assuming it’s because they were going to stop covering up the true pollution amounts for the mine. Or maybe Clark wanted them to do that because of Annie K. and when the rest of the scientists wouldn’t, he somehow killed them? - Ghosts? I’m prepared to accept that Navarro and her sister have hallucinations, and Navarro probably has PTSD from her time in combat (sudden flashes to her in the desert) but the idea that they both have the exact same hallucinations, including the rolling orange, seems entirely divorced from actual mental health science on schizophrenia. And what about Dead Travis leading Rose to the Tsalal scientist bodies? - Connections to Season 1. Looking like all of it is just internet fan service Easter eggs. Tuttle United was just a head fake for the real power behind it, the evil mine. Travis Kohle being Rust’s dad? I’ll be surprised if they ever go back to it. The spiral symbols? Are they really going to just dismiss them as a native warning for thin ice? After they’ve been appearing all over the place, nowhere near ice? - Darwin’s drawing of the woman with her hands cut off that was apparently a native legend told to him by his grandmother? Probably just another red herring but what’s the point then? - The hostile native guy from the hunting camp who disappeared when they came back the second time. What happened to him? Or did I miss an explanation? Any others?

It didn’t get better.

Late to the party here but a +1 on this recommendation, especially if you are a GenXer and this came out when you were in high school. It hits all the nostalgia vibes and really is an incredible story to get so many actual legends of the music business together to pull an all-nighter. The footage of icons like Diana Ross, Paul Simon, Tina Turner, and Bruce Springsteen lounging around together like a bunch of college students is just an amazing piece of cultural history.

I caught that too. Just makes no sense at all to have those cars in a place like that.

Big business exploiting the environment as the “true villain” is about as tired a trope as there is in writing these days, but I guess there’s an audience for it. I’ve always liked (well done) horror better than police procedurals anyway, so I’ll admit that could be coloring my outlook. We’ll see, maybe they’ll surprise me.

I didn’t watch seasons two or three but haven’t heard great things about them, so I’m not as concerned about the series staying true to its platonic ideal. I just want a good story that makes internal sense within whatever universe it chooses to create. If it ends up being that the mine has poisoned the water supply and causes people to see things that aren’t there and drive them crazy, then that just seems like lazy and trite writing. Especially given how there are basically no memorable or well-written characters along the way. Maybe they’ll find a way to square the circle and surprise me. I hope they do.

Off topic, but one of my favorite Mick Foley moments (this was on the Fox News Channel but it’s completely apolitical, so no CR):

That’s another good question - is the polar bear real? Eh. I’m enjoying the ride so far, but girding my loins with the expectation that it’s going to tear an ACL trying to stick the landing. I’d rather it just be like The Outsider and commit to the supernatural bit rather than try to explain all of this by conventional means.

I’m enjoying the ride so far, but going to be pissed if this is all resolved as mental illness in the family (which the help line PSA’s for every episode may be indicating). I recently watched A Haunting in Venice and all the supernatural elements were explained away with “hallucinogenic honey” that the perpetrator managed to get a bunch of people to ingest. Lame. It still wouldn’t explain your first couple of points about the caribou and dead Travis showing Rose where the frozen Tsalal guys were. No follow up on Travis Cohle being related to Rust either. There may be more to Rose’s story coming out, as they hinted in her dinner with Navarro. I also think mental illness producing hallucinations would have the same rolling orange hallucination, which is so random as to beggar belief that two schizophrenics would both have it. It also doesn’t explain the Tsalal scientists doing the same thing as Navarro’s sister - nearly folding their clothes and walking out in to their frozen doom. I’m in for the rest of the ride, but they need to do a lot of work to start tying some of this shit up on Friday’s episode.

Probably going to watch episode 4 tonight. I get it when a long running show like X-Files or Lost can’t figure out how to resolve its long story arcs and teased grand mystery. At least you got a lot of great standalone episodes along the way. But if you have a 6 episode limited series, you have to have known how you are going to tie up everything in a neat bow at the end, when you started it, right? Right?

Was that Buck Henry? LOL, I know who that is!

I didn’t think I was that old but I have no fucking clue who Ed Hardy is.