I didn’t read much analysis as things went along so I wasn’t steeped in teh various theories and deconstructions.
Other than feeling a bit like “oops, out of episodes, time to wrap this up” I’m quite satisfied and thought it improved through the season. I almost didn’t watch Episode 2.
They’re making an adaptation of *The Crying of Lot 49*? Awesome!
(Well Postal System is close enough to transportation system isn’t it?
I had the feeling there were a lot of deleted scenes from last night. And what exactly was that place? An abandoned fort the family had somehow come into possession of? And who else was in the videos- this was an organized and “group participation” thing, and you only got the leader/craziest member.
Still, the scene with Childress and his crazed sister “making flowers” were pretty damned sexy, not to mention old-fashioned romantic.
About that scene. He was painting a wall yellow, and he didn’t have any yellow paint on his ears. I watched it again to make sure. The leap from green eared spaghetti monster to old green house to green eared Errol was kind of out there. Maybe a deleted scene where he had flies buzzing his ears back when he was painting the old woman’s house green, we’ll never know.
It reminded me of the X-Files episode where a family kept a woman – the mother? – in a box and took her out occasionally for sex. If I remember right, she didn’t have any legs.
Pizzolatto says in the Sepinwall interview that Childress practiced different voices after his mouth was damaged, to help him learn to speak clearly. He was watching Cary Grant but the voice was James Mason, according to Pizzolatto.
I keep wanting to type Pizzalotto.
He’d had more than a decade to practice!
Yeah, I agree that I would have been happier with headphones/ear covers.
Pizzolatto covers your last question a bit in his interview with Sepinwall (bolding mine):
I was disappointed in Childress’s scars. I’ve seen worse acne marks than that; I was expecting something far worse.
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Oh crap, yes. HOME.One of the most disturbing episodes of television ever, made even more disturbing by the inclusion of Johnny Mathis music.
The scars were only really noticeable in HD for me.
Don’t you hate when they do that? In Dreams was one of my favorite songs until Lynch used it in a creepy scene in Blue Velvet. Now it nauseates me.
Erroll’s scars were hard to see even in HD. I noticed a bit of scarring at one corner of his mouth but that was all.
Why did he wait so many years to take vengeance on his dad? Wait until the guy is old and weak, I guess.
I thought he was a crazy person keeping his dad’s dead body around and talking to it. Was the dad meant to be alive?
Upon rewatching, I realized that the dad appeared dead, and Marty didn’t stop to render aid (which of course isn’t definitive), and the reference to bringing more water didn’t mean a drink, but water filled bags meant to repel flies. I’m voting for dead. But he couldn’t have been dead long. Perhaps his death coincides with the murder Gillbuagh and Papania were investigating? Like Errol was able to indulge himself again, after a long time of being kept to heel?
I thought at first he was meant to be alive in a “Se7en” style thing, but re-watching it now I see that he was definitely dead. His eyes and torso don’t move at all, and his mouth is sewn shut so the water wouldn’t be for him to drink.
Speaking of Se7en, what were all the pine tree air fresheners there for? I could understand if they were around the maybe dead/maybe not body (as in Se7en), but they were just in the bedroom.
That’s about as good of shot as we got.
Ooh, that’s much more clear than what showed up on my TV.
One small thing I liked about this episode was that Geraci’s prints will be on the videotape. Marty and Rust wore gloves when they handled it. Thinking ahead.
Presumably, the late Rev. Tuttle’s would be on the original copy too. It’s unclear whether Steve handled the original, but most likely, considering they’d already ran off at least seven copies, Steve’s wasn’t the actual tape from Tuttle’s safe.
Well, I was really curious to see the midpoint reup of the ‘quest’, and it didn’t disappoint.
The layers and entwinning of arcs: So crafted and smart.
Great, great duo.
Being a civil war nut, I was wondering about the “fort” too.
That was a helluva gutting that Rust survived. Especially with all of the head butting that he initiated and the way the knife must have moved around.
I read that it was an old family plantation home or something, from back when they had money.