Two episodes into this and loving it.

Big Ed casually talking about young pussy and the marked difference between anal sex and cutting someone's throat and penetrating the wound while he was making coffee was something else. Something else entirely.

I'm pathetic, I've binged this all day. Halfway through episode nine. So fucking good.

I love how the science of criminal behavior is the real main character here.

Yeah, very infamous serial killer. Took me a while to pick up on who/what they were doing with that character. I wish you knew anything about him just so I could theorize how they're going to use him next season with you. I guess I can put it in spoilers for anyone else that ends up watching and does know the case.

Theory for next season

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Really wasn't sure at first how BTK was at all going to be used in the next season, since his whole thing was he would kill for a while and then go completely off the radar for YEARS. Which I assume he was beginning to do at the end when burning the drawings. Unless they do a time skip to 2005 when he goofed up (definitely a write-in for silliest goose) and got caught the only thing I can see them using him for next season is as a season long pursuit storyline with no actual presence. Where all of the tactics and intuition they put together this season gets flipped upside down. They will be confronted with a serial killer who doesn't fit into any of their profiles.

Absolutely. I need to go back and revisit the songs at the end of all episodes but the last one. I did a lot of "play next episode now" and "skip intro" as I greedily tore through every episode as if it was going to be taken off Netflix today.

I dunno, she really didn't bother me? Like I understood completely why she was frustrated and doing the things she was doing. At the same time it doesn't surprise me that people dislike her and Skyler her.

I thought that was kind of the point, she was basically treated as a prop by Holden after a certain point, which snowballed. And anyone complaining about any of the rest of the cast's acting is crazy. They were all great. Especially Kemper and Tench. Holden was definitely the anchor but I don't remember anyone standing out as being bad.

Unrelated to the topics at hand, but I saw someone post this picture somewhere else saying "It's Tench" and lol'd at how accurate it was:

Holy shit this came back?