Yeah, not like Don is any kind of hero either. His brand of selfishness gets less attractive over the course of the show, too, to the benefit of the character, I think. Betty is awful as a character, but I have a lot of sympathy for her.

@ Delvis - Even when Leonard's books aren't his best they're still pretty fun. I have his Complete Western Stories, which start out as pulpy near toss-offs and end up being very good. It's interesting to see the progress he makes as a writer. I second the recommendation of The Moonshine War. I read The Hot Kid…

Yeah, I had the same thought. I guess I'm the same guy. OR MAYBE WE ARE THE SAME PERSON

Well, seeing as Yojimbo's a Dashiell Hammett imitation…

I was wondering what the review for this ep would look like, since it sticks out in my mind as probably the worst example of the first season's weakness. Wasn't disappointed. It is indeed pretty silly.

My favorite was the little throw away moment where Phil walks into the kitchen just as Claire's remembered her proposal to Mitch and Cameron from last night - she's standing, frozen, with an actual egg in her hand. Took me a moment to put it all together and then I cracked up.

Maybe Coop is now, but that's leaving out the first two seasons where he was popping pills and going to gay bars simply to clench his jaw.

I guess I'm the lone detractor here. I think this is probably my last Southland ep. I'm enjoying the excellent Cooper/Tang chemistry as much as all y'all, but I've got huge problems with this show that good character interaction cannot fix. Apparently now this show is about photogenic LA cops whose biggest problem is…

Made me miss Greek.

It was more like "Youzzhhh."

I'm just under 30, and I heard it sometime in elementary school. I thought it was the greatest thing ever, laughed for a week, and recited it to all my friends.

I've wondered about the exact same thing, too, but I have to make myself stop thinking about questions like that, because actually trying to think through a zombie plague makes my suspension of disbelief just crumble. This show is worse than most zombie flicks about picking one line of reasoning and going with it,…

Haven't the writers/producers publicly copped to the fact that they are intentionally trying to create a pseudo-Latin effect, just like you laid out? I feel like I read that somewhere but can't remember where.

I feel the same about Andy vs. Liam. Whitfield reads much more intense to me, all sharp edges, both physically and in terms of personality and character. Macintyre is a little too classically heroic, with not enough of the acid vengeance I feel Whitfield brought to the role.

He's a great, practically Shakespearean villain - Aaron from Titus Andronicus comes to mind, although I don't want to go too far with that. (Titus Andronicus in general is definitely in the spirit of this show, or maybe the other way around.) "They won't let me play the hero in the arena - fine. I guess I'll just play…

@ J.P. - I think I noticed this episode that Declan was considerably lighter on the accent, which made his character tolerable. Don't know if that's a new thing or if he's been doing it for a couple episodes, but I'm glad someone told him the stupid accent wasn't working.

Emily: "As of late, I find my perception is blinded by only one thing…"

Yeah, this was definitely an A- episode for me, too. Even characters I don't like particularly came off rather sympathetic, like Declan and Charlotte. Charlotte and Jack, especially, like Carrie pointed out, are starting to look like horrible collateral damage victims in the middle of this war. And I've actually…

What's devious about it? I don't know how Real Emily supposedly found the stash spot, but her "plot" is essentially, "I'm showing up at your engagement party to fuck up all your shit." That's what the signed invitation is supposed to intimate - the real Emily Thorne is going to show up at the party.

I'm confused about the chronology here. At this point she presumably had already been to the juvenile detention facility, gotten out, and received her dad's "here's how the Graysons fucked us over" gift box from Nolan. What was she doing in Boston? Stalking Daniel, pondering future revenge? The other girl in that…