Behind the Mask sounds very reminiscent of Man Bites Dog.

Absolutely agree about Ellis being the not-so-secret weapon of this show, and though I've always liked Chloe, Maze (and Trixie), I thought Amanadiel really came through as a character here too: the contrast between his reaction to thinking he was going to die and Lucifer's when he was bleeding out was telling.

What plot hole are you referring to? That Johnny divorced Nelly the day before her arrest? That was the point of the scene early on in the records office: Johnny was looking for a record of the divorce to destroy it, but was chased away. Johnny was taking a risk that it might still exist, but it's reasonable of him to…

Great review of a great episode.

Yeah. The Alex thing really pulled me out of the show. Hank had to devote all of one of his major powers to protecting her and she offered… what, exactly? Hey, instead of bringing her along, why not use that amazing mental protection ability to get Superman on-side instead? So much stupid. :-(

Is that why the My So-Called Life reviews were never finished?

Good to see regular coverage, although I hope there's a little less complaining in later reviews. This definitely wasn't the best ep of the season: the one about burning the wings and the one with the priest were both better.

Yeah. That was a very weird comment by the reviewer. She might not watch the show for the case, but it's a procedural. The case of the week is the backbone of any episode.

80s: Grace Jones
90s: Lucy Lawless
00s: Gina Torres

I thought this was dire, unfortunately. The emotional stuff fell flat for all the reasons Genevieve spelled out. But the case was absurd - an apparently Scandanavian-extraction middle-aged mortician passing himself off as a small, old Asian lady to people who knew her. That really would take a master of disguise. The…

Yeah. It was tough to follow. My reconstruction after having seen it a second time:

I agree, but I didn't get much of a meta vibe from this ep either. There was Sherlock's comment about appearing in different media, which I took as a throw-away joke, but otherwise I thought the through-line in this episode was much more about parents and kids, including Sherlock's fascination with Cassie.

I've seen quite a few defenses of the show by book fans and it's cool that it works for them. But that doesn't invalidate a non-reader's critiques, including when they miss things that to a book-reader seem very obvious.

I watched the first episode and, like the reviewer, thought that the space third was by far the most interesting. Then they fridged a female character to give the male lead angst. Blech. Sorry to hear that it stays a sausage fest.

Daniel Wu as well. He just looks a bit consternated all the time. Great screen fighter, but a horribly wooden actor on the evidence of this show.

I agree. Thinking about it, Ecclestone's Doctor is arguably the only 'purely' new Doctor we've had. Tenant's was reminiscent of Davison, Smith's recalled Troughton, and Capaldi's has been compared to Tom Baker's. That just makes it even sadder that Ecclestone didn't feel able to stay on.

So completely irrelevant to the plot and point of the story, but: the Osgood for much of this story must have been human, right? Since Zygella would've needed a human template to become the new Osgood.

Huh. There's a movie opening in Germany this month called The State Against Fritz Bauer, with the rather wonderful Burghart Klaussner (the pastor from The White Ribbon) as the lead. Judging from the trailer, it's more about whether patriotism means you keep past secrets for the good of the country (spoiler: no, you…

It is full of pranks, on famous people as well as the public. But this is the kind of thing they do on the latter: https://www.youtube.com/wat… So pretty warm-hearted. Also, even though Ant & Dec have been ridiculously wealthy for a long time now, they still have the personas of ordinary working-class lads from the…

Yeah. There was a nod to that in Season 1 when he went after the 1%, but even there he let them off after killing their employees. I just head-canoned that as him really hating non-union labor.