This episode just hit all kinds of bad notes with me. Starting with Cary joining David Lee in his latest paranoiac frenzy, to Alicia giving cover to the government's killing of an ISIS propagandist. That's propagandist.

In the comics, Rick and Andrea fell into the easy domestic relationship. But she was never as dumb in the comics as she was on the show. Comic Michonne and Rick have a more brother/sister relationship, as she seeks merely sexual relationships with different men, like Tyreese.

Oh, wait around. It'll be back.

That sound you heard at 10:01 pm was the bulk of The Walking Dead's Alabama audience tuning out in rage.

I'm convinced Rip is a total loser as leader. First, he lies to the team to get them on board. Then, he repeatedly puts them in situations where he shows little concern for their well-being.

Arrow and Flash's efforts to be seen as engaging action shows seem to be continually undone by what I will call CW soap operatic plot contrivances. I remain skeptical that Oliver will end up married to Felicity, but the writers will bring them JUST THIS CLOSE to a wedding, before breaking them up with this grating…

Flag-waving horseshit aside, I thought that the first movie ended just as things were getting interesting. The earthquake in the first movie caused devastation to this country on a structural, social, and psychological level. The damage caused would lead to such disruption and devastation across the country that…

So we finally got our American Crime. I was hoping we could avoid a school shooting, the same way I was hoping we could avoid the gay bashing. But, fortunately, they have found a way to place us into the situation, and give us insight a lot of shows wouldn't have given the same material. For comparison, I think of the…

On a related topic, noted show-killer and Facinelli progenitor, Jason Gedrick, was on Major Crimes Monday night.

This show was so shallow, it made Miami Vice seem like Tolstoy. And Peter Facinelli's roadshow Tom Cruise impersonation started to curdle about halfway through the run. Still, I bought the full season on DVD for $16 at Best Buy a few years ago. Good laundry-folding TV.

And it's clearly the most Ryan Murphy-esque thing about the show.

The other American Crime (on ABC, mind you), favored us with the word "skeet," a couple weeks back. Surely, we live in revolutionary times.

If we're talking about the same poster, I had that up in my room in my mom's house until the 90's, when she converted my old room into an office, and it had to come down. I might have tried to hold onto it, but I was living with a girlfriend at the time, and needed to act like I wasn't… attached to it.

Did anyone ever see 52 Pickup? A way, way out of print 80's potboiler starring Roy Scheider and Vanity. She was typecast as a stripper/hooker or something, and yes, she got naked. But I remember being kind of impressed that she could act like she was turned on by leathery old Roy.

The bar's kinda low. But I give the edge to Vanity 6. Vanity seemed more convincing as Prince's female equivalent. Appolonia was less persuasive, as a singer and actress.

Let me ask you this: Would Ruth Bader Ginsberg's death be greeted any differently by conservatives?
False equivalencies, indeed.

You know what? You got me…

Did I see another hallway fight?

My objection to this particular show is, Better Call Saul has a much more limited focus and smaller cast, than the Walking Dead. How many episodes are Odenkirk and Gilligan committed to do?

My issues with the NSA storylines were, a) These guys have been depicted as goofballs, capriciously playing with people's lives, and b) It never goes anywhere. They feature it once, and then it's forgotten for six or seven episodes.