Previous encounters between Brody and Carrie involved them drinking heavily; I just assumed she was trying to recapture past moments.

Right, sorry, forgot about Rubicon. There was a change from the pilot, though, with the more conspiracy theory/everything fits together tone to the carefully observed day-to-day life of intel analysts show it became. And I see how that had a hard time finding an audience.

I think her best strategy is definitely to leak any proof of corruption somehow or arrange for it to come to light without directly releasing it. Then once Peter is publicly tainted, she has a better shot in the next election. (Nothing's stopping her from running again, right?)

I think Josh Charles could absolutely be phased out and is much more dispensable. I like the character and the actor, but wouldn't that be a ballsy move?

@Prankster36:disqus I feel the same way - it's not awful, just mediocre. I think the hate is more about frustration than anything else, though. I'm behind a couple of episodes, but I can't muster much enthusiasm to get back to it, unless I read something hopeful here. I think for me it feels like such a missed…

Killing and Hell On Wheels probably looked really damn good in concept. I'm not watching HoW anymore, just reading along here, but I'm still hoping it figures out what it's doing. (Why the hell didn't they just adapt Brian Azzarello's Loveless?)

I loved Bond when I was about 12 and Licence was my fav, because Bond was a grim quiet badass and the villains were (comparatively) more realistic. Still hate the shit out of that theme song though.

I enjoyed Bag when I read it, but the details have faded. I'm a King fan, and I've never felt like going back to it. Christ, I've read Rose Madder two or three times, and I might be the only person who liked that book.

A…wide-on? That's a thing people say?

Nobody knows that he's a secret Muslim though.

Treason is fairly specific: "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court."

@avclub-19db33a7920e55ba3a32ab69d87f65b8:disqus  - "one of those taser things that shoots from a distance. (What do you call those?)" - Tasers. You may be thinking of what are commonly called "stun guns," which are the ones that don't shoot electrodes at a distance. 
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I really hope the rest of the series isn't Jax slowly becoming Clay and making expedient greed related choices. It might be dramatic and tragic, but I don't know if I'm up for a slow ugly descent.

Carl clearly has a bunch of hero levels, judging by the way he soaked up that deer rifle round.

I started to feel like an abused spouse somewhere in the second season of Heroes. The vast amounts of schadenfreude I derived when I stopped watching the show and only read the ruthless AV Club recaps almost made up for it, though.

Could be true, I saw this episode on hulu and it was drenched with CANON IMAGIN8TION (seriously?) ads.

I live in Berkeley and was thinking all the same things, so you're not alone!

Totally should.

I listen to almost no hip hop and I knew that was Lil Wayne. Just saying, if you guys didn't know who that was, you're not plugged in to popular culture. I couldn't name a single track by Lil Wayne but I 1) know what he looks like and 2) that he's massively popular.

They had really good chemistry in that wine drinking scene. When they aren't writing Jasmine like an irrational harpy you can see why she and Crosby originally liked each other.