Lord of The Curry

I offer my services for this wholeheartedly DA. For reals.

Any year, any show, any episode, any length. The Shield, Season 3, Episode 11- "Strays". Written by Glen Mazzara, Directed by David Mamet. Starring Michael Chiklis, Catherine Dent, Walton Goggins, Kenny Johnson, Jay Karnes, David Rees Snell, Benito Martinez, Michael Jace and CCH Pounder. Guest Starring Clark Gregg and Rebecca Pidgeon. Alright, so I love this episode for a few reasons. One is that it's directed by David Mamet. I had to pick a playwright for a Grade 13 (OAC to you old-school canucks) drama class and I picked Mamet and loved everything of his that I read. He's the type of guy in Hollywood that has his own clique, like a PT Anderson kinda thing and it's demonstrated in this episode w/ the casting of Clark Gregg as The Rapist and Rebecca Pidgeon as his wife, both of whom he's worked with before. The second reason is the character of Dutch Wagenbach, played by Jay Karnes. Now, Dutch has been my second favorite character on this show next to Vic for a while now but this episode is what made me put him up there as my tied-for-fave guy on the show. His character took a huge, unexpected turn in this episode which made my love for him grow immensely (in a sick way, as you'll soon see). Throughout Season Two Dutch has been chasing a character known as "The Cuddler Rapist" whose MO has been raping elderly women. Over time he progressed to murder-rapes. Dutch is very heavy on the book knowledge and not so heavy on the street knowledge so he spends all his time trying to profile this guy and figure him out to the best definition he can find. They hit dead end after dead end until they end up catching the guy on a parking ticket technicallity, which leads to his arrest. When Will finally agrees to talk, he chooses Dutch to be the guy he gives his confession to. He quickly confesses to the three murders and seven rapes and tells Dutch that he came here today to find out why he does what he does. He calls it his "passion" and talks about "the thing" that happens to him. What transpires over the course of this episode is probably some of the best work on television I've ever seen, period. The mental game of cat and mouse played between the two is brilliant. Dutch tries as hard as he can to understand Will's mentality but he can't because all he's got is definitions and medical terminology. Then Will tells the story of how he found a puppy once walking home and how his father told him he couldn't keep it and gave him a bag and some rope and told him to go drown it. Will didn't want to kill it just because his father said so but he ended up choking the puppy to death anyways. "There's a look in a things eyes, people too, right before they die. They're on the edge of this big black hole and they'll do anything not to get sucked in." Dutch, fascinated and driven by his need to figure out who this guy is, guesses as to his motives, all of them incorrect. After Dutch is done Will calmly sits down and says "I'd like to go back to my cell now. You can't help me". Dutch is shattered by this and doesn't know what to do. On his way out of the station he sees Will's wife, who had no knowledge of what her husband was doing. She asks him what she should do with her life and he says "I can't help you." Later that night, Dutch is lying awake in bed when he hears a meowing outside his door. He goes outside and a cat comes over to him. Dutch picks that cat up and begins to pet it, until he starts to choke it to death. The cat hisses and scratches the shit out of Dutch but to no avil. The camerawork here is awesome, as all we see is Dutch's eyes until you finally understand that he's seen "the thing" that Will was talking about. The cat drops from his hands to the ground, dead. I found this episode to be fascinating due to the balls-out work from Jay Karnes and Clark Gregg. To see Dutch's character go from know-it-all detective to being humbled by this monster when he realizes that he can't help him was amazing. To cap it all off, you have the icing on the cake, the brilliant ending where Dutch shows just how far he'll go to understand what Will was thinking. That's some good fucking television. Now tell yours.

What a fucking asinine thread title. Since we have to watch it we might as well discuss it? Who HAS to watch this?

That's an awesome episode. Gerard: You did a good job, Gil. Grissom: I've got a good team.

Sauga? W00T~! M City, nigga.

I am in absolute fucking disbelief that people are supporting the Rey/Eddy angle in any way.

Kerry Shcall is an early favorite. He's thrown down with the man they call Fedor.

For a honkey from an even more crackered-out province.........CC is pretty gangsta.

They say once you suck you never forget how.

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i think i've mentioned before that i've never really been into the dirty south sound. not at all, actually. i respect outkast for their musical exploits, but my respect is nowhere near the enjoyment i get from the others. doggystyle is a hit after hit album. its actually quite amazing. its even more amazing how snoop made a decided turn away from everything that made him great. kinda like whats happened to 50 cent. except 50 was never great. but now he's got mobb deep & mop in g unit. mobb deep's the infamous album is quite great, too. just another group and/or album that is light years ahead of anything tupac ever touched. heck, even kanye couldn't touch that. sadly, mobb deep have been trying to make commercial pop rap like kanye that is sorta poor. maybe they'll return to their roots with 50. i just mindlessly ranted about everything but the topic at hand. on the point, i am scared about kanye telling all franz ferdinand & kaiser chief fans to buy his album because he was directly influenced by the whole angular dance rock whatever fad. that is really really really scary. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Don't worry, you're the only one who seems scared by all this.

And eventually those people will stop caring. Even the biggest Cena supporters can admit this: He is not going to get more over then he currently is therefore he can only slide downward from here.

Bejamin hate? Masters and Carlito love? Is this thread on PCP?

I'm pretty sure the Benoit jobbing thing was a result of the Hassan Incident.

If you live in the Castro District of San Francisco, sure.

Either you've attended every Smackdown taping since Benoit was traded, you know everybody in the crowd since or you're dillusional. I really don't think anybody was thinking that.

When the fuck did Adam Levine become a precious commodity in the hip-hop community? Considering that Kanye raps about being fucked over at the Grammy's on the new cd I don't think it's too far fetched to consider their pairing as a p.r thing.

Porter is good, Porter is wise. You could choose to not like shitty wrestlers and make an attempt at taste elevation. Here, try this: When Masters or Snitsky is on, change the channel. Trust me, it works.

Are you shitting me? Benoit has looked like a complete fucking joke since debuting on Smackdown. If "credibilty exiting their feud" indicates a continuation of Benoit vs Flair/Batista, being outlasted by Snitsky and Batista at Survivor Series and being made to look like a total moron the night he managed RAW is indicative of credibility then Chris had it coming out the ass. 'Cause that's certainly where he was getting fucked.

I enjoy the idea of a Rock/Benjy feud to but to even attempt to base it on athletics is a joke considering it's obvious (or at least should be) to even the markiest of marks that Benjamin would whoop Rocks ass. 'Sides, last time Rock tried to fuck around with somebody over athletics he managed to turn himself heel and lose the title.

Kanye + Maroon 5 Singer on new album = Obvious and pathetic publicity stunt. This is done solely so the people who hated on Maroon 5 after they won the Best New Artist Grammy can say "Man, that Kanye is such a cool dude, working with the guy who beat him out for the Grammy he was supposed to win".

God that match will suck ass. I'd take Cena/Michaels over that and my cautiousness regarding that match has already been stated.

Of all the people, including the side-players in the Benoit vs HHH feud there was only one clear loser: Benoit. The proof is in their post-SummerSlam spots. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You would think more people would notice that Hunter stayed at the top level and Benoit moved back down to the midcard/upper midcard after Benoit 'won' their feud. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well, see, HHH jobbed to Benoit a lot. A LOT, I TELLS YA. HOW COULD HE BE THE WINNER I ASK YOU?

Of all the people, including the side-players in the Benoit vs HHH feud there was only one clear loser: Benoit. The proof is in their post-SummerSlam spots.

Fuck the both of you.