So with Duane Reade (see no.
fresh out of little blue pills, Stone is forced to hit the black market.
that only 10 days have passed since Naz entered Rikers.
But surely time slows down in the slammer.
Naz chooses an odd way of swinging his new weight around.
Fellow jailbirds are watchingJudge Hatchetton the communal TV and Naz changes the channel to Ellen DeGeneres.
I think I do wanna watch Ellen shake that ass today, says the other.
Thank you, Richard Price and director Steven Zaillian, for your demented minds.
The entire conversation is held as Helen and Harry are standing over a naked corpse in the morgue.
And the absurd situation is compounded when Zaillian gratuitously cuts to the corpses genitals.
The scene ends on a grave note.
Thatll be persuasive to a jury when he repeats it in court.
This is a stay, he tells the shelter worker, not a pardon.
And she, like everyone else, says no.
Thats the door behind which the cat was banished when Andrea invited Naz into her place.
Perhaps hell call the feline Gooden.)
Lets not forget the blood on the leaves in the backyard.
It could be squirrel blood, though, the investigator says.
Whats the likelihood of that?
NEXT: Duane Reade the man, the myth, the pharmacy
5.
Duane Reade
Perhaps the blood on the leaves belongs to the man with the impossible name of Duane Reade.
Thats going to be tough.
And Naz is sinking deeper into a hole in Rikers.
That writing is dazzling.
Credit again to Price and Zaillian for how they allow the scene to play out, subtly and patiently.
But my only gripe about this episode is from a much earlier moment.
We see Stone giving a talk about his profession to his sons high-school classroom.
Stone is in an impossible situation, of course.
After all, Alan Dershowitz, the famous Jewish lawyer and scholar (who helped defend O.J.
HBO was forced to defend itself a bit last week at the Television Critics Association.
The networks programming president, Casey Bloys, wasasked to explain the violence against women in the cable lineup.
Singled out wereGame of Thrones, the upcomingWestworld, andThe Night Of.
I think its something we take into account.
Its not something we want to highlight or are trying to highlight.
Whats up for debate is the number of times the show has flashed to photos of Andreas mutilated body.
We know she was stabbed 22 times.
