The Serpent was really well put together, with a great cast and a fantastic evocation of the time period. I have seen criticisms levelled at it that for something set in South and Southeast Asia it barely features characters from those countries (the serial killer main character is based on a person who was Indian/Vietnamese, he has another Indian character who works with him, and there are some secondary Thai characters), but I actually feel that that was appropriate to the kind of story being told. It's the story of Westerners who treated that part of the world as a sort of spiritual theme park — so of course the actual real human beings who lived in those countries would be viewed as sort of backgroun scenery to such people.

And wasn't Anya glorious in TQG?

She was great!