Biggest shock of the night: Andrea agrees with Dale for some reason. What?
 Exactly.  Only becuz the show all of a sudden needed her to. 

Just watch, Carl's going to be wearing that hat next wk.

I've always wondered this myself.  The premise of the "game" seems pretty dark for something that you can buy off the shelf at a Toys R Us.  How did it ever come to be something that Hasbro or Milton Bradley might sell to kids?

See also The Killing.

Him calling Carol an idiot to her face really surprised me.  This is the first time he's been disrespectful on the show, that I can remember, and it threw me off.  I guess Sophia is a hot button for both of those characters, so it was an interesting moment that I didn't expect.

Dude definitely looked like a Hollywood star.  But I felt like he played the character with the requisite gravity, realism, and gentleness that it overcomes that.  Just my two cents.

Huh.  Agree with you 100% in that being an unfair read on it.

I'm not paying you to rest.  Get back to work!

Dismissive?  I wonder what the criticism is.

GREAT line.

12 Angry Men!

I saw this when I was in jr high, shortly after reading the book for school.  At the time, and yeah sure still now, Gregory Peck's Atticus Finch is my filmic definition of heroism.

Thanks, I really dig it.

I really dig the blind audition aspect as well.  There's just something really fresh about it. 

Yeah, kinda in the same boat.  I actually never watched AI either and certainly didn't plan on watching this show. Somehow though, on my couch on a lazy Sunday, I found myself channel surfing and I sort of just gravitated to it. I watched an hour of the third audition episode and really enjoyed it. And I've kept…

He was out in the watermelon patch.

Which Wye Oak song is that?

Ah, yes, the duality of TWD: in this episode, we see the brawlers brawl and the bitches bitch out.

i enjoy natalie portman and colin firth as much as the next person but watching them read what mostly seemed like scripted adulation seemed forced and unnecessary and perhaps my least favorite part of the night.

my very subjective 2cents: i thought dujardin was, as you say, incredible charming.  he brought a real pop to that role and i'm glad he won it over, say, pitt and clooney.  he made it look very easy and very effortless.