Monroe tortures Nora to force her to reveal where Miles is. Why? They stumble into each other practically every week now. The take-a-loved-one-hostage tactic pretty much guarantees Miles will coming running. It might have been more compelling had there been a prolonged cat-and-mouse between Miles and Monroe - but oh…

I hadn't been watching this either until a last fall - I was sick, decided to watch the first episode on Netflix, and spent the next couple of days gulping down the first two seasons. Then I went back to work and everyone treated me like a lunatic when I started raving about show - as if I were talking about some…

"But as unhinged as Rachel seems to be, she can’t hold a candle to the man she’s vowed to destroy, as Monroe’s paranoia has only grown worse following the events of “Home.”

For a while during the 1990s, it seemed to me that Grégoire Colin would pop up every so often in movies that I found memorable but unsettling - Olivier Olivier, Before the Rain, The Dreamlife of Angels, among others. I still don't recall seeing anything with him recently, at least in films that make it to the theaters.

Winona and Daniel Day Lewis sorta did that in 'The Crucible,' no?

Even though it's only desperation bringing them together - and probably only for now - it was kind of sweet seeing Tyrion and Cersei treating one another like adults for once.

I guess I"m not understanding what it means when this show gets criticized as 'wildly inconsistent.' Does everything work? No. But it has a distinctive brand of humor, one that draws off the fact that Mindy herself is willfully inconsistent person and as a result of that creates / attracts a kind of environment where…

I watched the first two or three episodes of this show and thought it was horrible. Then I came back about 5 or 6 episodes ago and was surprised at how much funnier it was. It's not perfect by any means but the cast seems to be clicking a lot better.

He would have been great, too. Any number of actors! I know what you mean about continuing on with this show, though…I think it's the infuriating gap between potential and execution that keeps drawing me in, somewhat to my own self-astonishment.

I was watching David Lyons doing his usual thing last night - I guess the Monroe Republic runs on brooding, grimacing, and glowering as its main currency - and wondered what Mark Pellegrino was doing, standing there in a second fiddle role. He needs a better agent.

Yeah, I agree for the most part. The contrast is fairly clear - the Northerners are just of a different culture that gives them a different set of strengths and disadvantages, especially in contrast to the Lannisters and Tyrells and probably the rest of Westeros. Everyone remarks at how good a man Ned Stark was and I…

I was laughing out loud during that whole scene, especially when Dan had to make a fish face to correct Serena's misreading of Gary's pantomime of an angler as a filmmaker.

That's kind of what happened to me. I used to enjoy hate watching this show but the last couple of episodes I can't even follow what's happening - I get distracted by something and then look at the screen and wonder who these various strange people are, and then boom, it's over.

Did Don seem a little pained when he was listening in on Peggy's presentation, because he might have thought Peggy's presentation might have been better than his? Maybe not, but that's why I thought he decided he needed to take his anger out on Megan.

I thought the most compelling character was Drone 166, followed by the number 49.

If this is in fact the end, I can't remember another series that's left me so profoundly depressed. These past two episodes - what 1-2 punch to the gut, really. Kudos to Michael Cudlitz and Regina King, especially. What can you say about a show with two of the most memorable characters in recent memory who really…

Those scenes with Cooper and Lucero and the meth heads made this as harrowing an episode of TV I've ever seen. I always look forward to an hour of fine drama from this show, but this one kept me up for a while, it was so upsetting.

These are good questions, but the "explanation" was dumped on us in such a casual, offhand manner that I feel like the show's just saying, here you go, chew on that for a bit if you want and move on. My guess is we're probably never going back to it.

Mad Men, still your number one source for dry humor.

Tonally this episode seemed not quite right to me - the trial caper was almost slapstick funny (I did enjoy it quite a bit, though), then there was the deadly serious machinations involving the royals, and the exasperating, ever-spinning wheel that is Juliette.