I can't work out what those are.

No! Diglicity!

I suspect it helped that Norton made it clear he wanted to make the experience comfortable for him and that he wasn't alone on the sofa. Tom Hanks apparently told Norton that he enjoyed the show because the focus wasn't always on him. That set-up would probably really work for someone like Ford. Get someone like…

I suspect it helped that Norton made it clear he wanted to make the experience comfortable for him and that he wasn't alone on the sofa. Tom Hanks apparently told Norton that he enjoyed the show because the focus wasn't always on him. That set-up would probably really work for someone like Ford. Get someone like…

Here's a picture of Victoria Smurfit with Colin Salmon (Walter in Arrow): http://images.kino.de/flbil…

I actually started watching this for Emma Rigby because she was so, so good on a BBC series called Prisoners' Wives. She played a naïve wife of a guy involved in black market dealings and absolutely mastered the arc from denial, through betrayal to determination to do the right thing, even while knowing the police…

Or editing is like a language and a different dialect will have just as good an effect on viewers used to that dialect, but seem awkward to those who aren't.

Agree completely. The way Miles's idealism was first not taken seriously then exposed as a fraud already annoyed me. There's good stuff to be made out of the security/privacy conundrum, but only if both sides get a fair shake. Then at the end, with the bracelets and the gloating over Miles… Uh.

I would just point out that the second season of Revenge killed Declan. So it wasn't all bad. (Although, to be fair, I thought most of the problems with his character were because of the second season, so…)

I demand a Howard the Duck/Veep mash-up by Armando Ianucci.

Yeah. I didn't want to suggest that the UK was somehow ahead. I was just surprised McFarland thought anyone might find it worthy of comment. I've not heard anyone comment on it in almost 20 years. Mind you, that's not the only weird perspective in this review.

My guess: procedurals are seen as formulaic from a storytelling perspective, which is what most TV reviewers feel most comfortable commenting on. Procedurals instead tend to rely on the strength of their casts, and not many TV reviewers know how to review acting.

Well, this review has shown that "procedural" has just become a generic criticism for anything a reviewer doesn't like, rather than a word with a meaning. It would be nice if TV critics would judge a show on what it's trying to do, rather than against some other criteria they've decided belongs to a 'Golden Age' drama.

Mixed-race casting has been a thing in the UK theatre scene for a very long time now. I remember a friend of mine commenting on it once, saying that seeing black actors playing English historical figures broke her suspension of disbelief, but that was in 1994.

Yeah. McFarland has let his personal animus against Branagh poison his reading of the film. Branagh's Henry is pretty much perfect and hits precisely the right notes: you can see the arrogant little shit that Hal must have been and why precisely those characteristics turn out to be perfect for a war leader. Whether…

He mentioned they'd messaged each other a few times, then suddenly he started getting weird stuff from her and all the other odd things happening with her account.

I liked, "Philosopher-in-chief to the intellectually bankrupt."

I've hated that joke for a while now. It's just really mean-spirited and against the tone of the rest of the show, where even April is basically decent. I think it was the proposal episode where they destroyed his life savings. That really soured what should have been a highpoint in Leslie's character arc.

If this show commits to its combination of psychedelia and darkness, it'll be pretty great. My biggest disappointment was Emma Rigby, since she was really great in a BBC series called Prisoners' Wives, but was too OTT here. Still, her Prisoners' Wives character developed a lot through the series and she was fantastic…

Yeah. My major, major issue with last season was how they kept trying to draw a distinction between the Hood and the Huntress (which sounds like a Disney movie now that I type it) on the murder issue when there wasn't one. This ep was awesome in a lot of ways (Walter's back!), but dealing with that head on, admitting…