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Originally Posted by nath
Yeah, I tried to resist for long enough, and I'm not even going to try to defend the show against its critics-- there are plenty of people out there to do that that can fairly claim objectivity. But with regard to this specific part of the show: isn't that the point? In real life serial killers aren't Hannibal Lecter or Dexter Morgan; they're usually just deranged people who have twisted some combination of bad genetics, bad upbringing, and bad beliefs into some variation on a "kill all humans" practice.
The problem with this is that that isn't actually the profile of all the people who are involved. The Tuttle family, the actual upstanding pillar of society types, are clearly involved (the videotape found in the safe, etc). Where the show fell down was that it didn't even attempt to explain the connection between that and some deranged fat moron in the swamps ****ing his sister and slaughtering people.
I still give the show an A+. The acting, direction, characterization, atmospherics, dialogue, etc etc are fantastic. I don't think it stuck the landing as well as it could.