Schroder's self-defense has its manic highs and depressive lows, but in the end maybe the best case for showing him mercy is made by his abandoned father, in a flashback to a day early in Erik's American childhood when he fled from a challenge laid down by a schoolyard bully.
Maybe the best case scenario is that American Gods, as a television series, will understand America a little better than its source material, offering nuance and useful truth.
In the best case, maybe they can get a college scholarship.
Still, he said, "if you're thinking strategically, maybe it wasn't the best case".
DAVID DENBY: Oh, maybe best first film, in which case "Margin Call," with its extraordinary ensemble acting, would have won an award — well, it may win best screenplay.
Before, Kinect saw you as a big lump maybe with arms and in the best case scenario with two legs.
"We thought we'd make maybe a few hundred of these devices," Upton wrote later, "or, best case, a lifetime production run of a few thousand".
Maybe best to skip that entire angle.
