Dammit PDN we wrote a review on the same thing. The only difference is that this was the episode that actually made me really like Smoak. I too hated her use as a innuendo-spewing plot-solver, but I think the show is actually better now after her promotion.

I was doing cardio at the gym and watched half an episode of Criminal Minds with the audio off. That's basically my only exposure to CSI, NCIS, CM, etc. My crime procedurals stop and end at Law and Order Classic.

I listened to that new Taylor Swift song about 30 times. That's nothing special, and I did other stuff (VHS and Sinister got a viewing), but as someone who doesn't listen to pop or Top 40 music, the fact that I can unironically enjoy music ostenisbly made for people outside my gender, age range, and genre of choice,…

Nor should you, that was a beer and rage-fuelled way of asking what became of the dude (or dudette) in the body armour that opened the postal van with the Zambies in it.

That alone makes me so much more infuriated at this episode, and the show in general.

Question: Do we see what happened to riot gear ninja Felix Baumgartner? I lost track thinking about how much of The Shield I could be catching up on, a show that had too many good showrunners on staff instead of too few.

Lori: Our marriage is falling apart, I need your help. 
Rick: I've got a lot of things going on.

So a guy named Glen gets put in charge of saving a total clusterfuck of a situation, comes up with a plan to get things back on track, but no one wants to listen to him, and he’ll probably wind up screwed over for making an effort.

Agreed! I did my part to support it by watching the whole first season this week.

It feels like the last month has been nothing but the critical community rallying around previously B-list (in terms of popularity or quality) shows that have bumped up their game. Scandal, Enlightened, and New Girl are really making names for themselves for very different reasons, and that's pretty neat.

"And kids, that's how I met your ghost mother."

"Come out to the shooting lot, we'll throw together another Die Hard movie, have a few laughs…"

This week, on the return of Pushing Daisies: The gang reanimates a corpse that has drifted all the way from the west coast, and set out to Ocean Beach to find the murderer. There, they enlist the help of two scruffy, but loveable unlicensed private detectives. When the killer is traced to a high society gala event, a…

See, America? Get caught up in the same romantic drama we all do.

Maris?

This was the first time the Canadian feed had all that Chris Hardwick shit. I now understand the pain you have all been feeling.

No offense taken, I'm similarly baffled that it hasn't clicked yet. Usually, my tastes line up pretty well with that of the Commentariat, which is why I started watching it in the first place.

Oh good, I've been meaning to watch more Happy Endings.

To borrow some words from Parks, it sounds like they've taken out the show's wild stallion spirit, and replaced it with one from a camel: functional, made by committee, and still destined for the glue factory.

Mer-man.
*ihk*
Mer-man!