I liked it a lot, but I still also think 1 is the best. Agreed about Jennifer Jason Leigh. Didn’t work for me. Everything else did. The horror-esque atmosphere of some of the episodes were great. And the final scene was perfect. Gonna go back and watch 4. Never did watch it went it aired.
I think it was right up there with the first or second season for me. I found it very entertaining.
I lost momentum on season 5 maybe 4-5 episodes ago; it was a bit overstuffed yet kinda repetitive (Dot gets in trouble, Dot home-alones her way out of trouble) and verging on silly (see again: home alone). I think especially seeing the praise for JJL (who I typically love but found cat-pettingly, mustache-twirlingly hammy here) got me thinking maybe the show's just not my flavor anymore.
You talk about Home Alone like it’s not an extremely entertaining romp. The whole premise is a cat and mouse game where the mouse has grown into a great white shark. I understand after the gas station and multiple home invasion scenes how it might be a bit repetitive but I enjoy watching someone make bold choices to escape seemingly inescapable situations.
Agree. I also think her performance was in part an homage (or at least a nod) to her role in Hudsucker Proxy.
I follow a couple critics on bluesky and their praise of the season has very often included JJL; it's heartening to hear maybe I'm not alone (seriously, there were like two episodes in a row where a near-stranger meets with her and she launches into a monologue about the nature of debt).
The last scene of the season doesn't retroactively make everything better, but it is still pretty solid.
JJLs performance was almost a note-for-note version of her Hudsucker Proxy role, just slowed down to a lower BPM. But The Hudsucker Proxy is absolutely fantastic and criminally underrated in the Coen brothers filmography so I'm fine with that.
You can definitely dive into S4 without prior knowledge, and man, E1 was really good. I'm pretty excited about this season after being lukewarm on S2 and 3.
There’s a smalll Easter egg call back from season 3 to season 1 but other than some of the pervasive imagery between the seasons they are all completely independent of each other. Season 2 took place in California and is better than it got credit for but it wasn’t as good as the first season. Season 3 was great though it ends in a bit of an anti climactic sort of way.
The laugh was for the quip at the end not the whole take. While I agree with your statement completely, I will say if they wanted to pivot and open things up further into the supernatural/unexplained this season would be a good place to do it. I don’t think it would go full X-Files but they could expand the grey area a bit more with this season.
It's like a gritty version of Twin Peaks where each season is its own separate Blue Rose case.
