— I didn't recall him saying he doesn't remember attacking his brother.  I thought the idea was that he wanted to semi-downplay the fight, particularly because the fight erupted over Dylan calling her a whore.

Just as I was verbally rooting for Norman to make out with Bradley last week, this week, I was actually cringing when Norma started "interviewing" Emma.

@avclub-5e7e49d9ac705cfa3a4ec1b2b4692404:disqus Yeah - weird if it wasn't them.  When the guy started crying about his boss, but then took out that roll of cash, I thought one HAD to assume that "he feels guilty about being involved in burning the dude, but not so guilty that he won't buy some drinks and lapdances."

No, that was all imagined.  He hasn't met the mother yet (and won't for 45 days), but he was pointing out that he was so over being alone and wishes he could have done things differently.

While I've been warm on most of the season (once we got past the trainwreck first five episodes or so), I still kind of felt a sense of laziness at times.  Rather than continuing in their trend of innovating as far as the narrative goes, Bays, Thomas and co were seemingly recycling their old ideas and relying on stuff…

Can relate to him on this one.  I get a really brutal flu in the first month of every year, and I've never had a flu shot.

Loved the Russo storyline.  Thought the Frank stuff was forced, insincere and lame…kind of the opposite of what they wanted to achieve.

This was her law school professor, which means the affair would have started when she was between ~22 and 25.  Since the first hookup was 15 years prior to the present, that technically would allow for her to be in her late 30s.

I hope the Foley thing is just as simple as "Fitz wanted him to spy on Olivia, he fell in love with her, and now he's hiding it from Fitz" and not something where he himself is another shade of weird with a different agenda.  Not EVERYTHING has to be dialed up to max volume.

I agree that she looked especially great this week, but are there many times when Marley DOESN'T look pretty?

She was also topless in a Homeland episode….so, you're in the clear.

*I'm still confused why Rachel acted like the Brody/gigolo thing was such a shocking reveal.  She basically figured this out three episodes ago!

So I actually caught up on the entire series during this hiatus, and while I'm hooked, this episode (and review) reveals exactly why I simultaneously hate and love the show.

I kind of assumed that Huck is aware of the camera/tip-off thing and likely WANTED Quinn to be spotted for some reason, but who knows.

The material for Gus felt forced in the season premiere, but Dule Hill has completely stolen the past three episodes.  He's just awesome.

That was a reasonable enough conclusion up front, but if I remember correctly, the way they cut to her being in bed with him suggested a "romantic" connection rather than a business one.

One of the best aspects of the first few "Americans" episodes was how organically they weaved the "marriage problems" into the broader spy storyline.  That was what made the show so uniquely appealing, and I figured it would only evolve into a more valuable element as the show progressed.

Pitchfork will embrace "pop" artists.  They love Drake over there (to an almost nauseating extent—he's NOT a legendary rapper).  I've seen high marks for Rihanna and Nicki Minaj songs as well.  And I think "Call Me Maybe" ranked on last year's charts.

Well, to your point, the song DIDN'T take off that well.  Considering how excited the marketplace was for his return to music, anything he released was going to be very successful as far as the charts were concerned.

Maybe I'm too one-dimensional and old-fashioned, but I just don't get it up for lengthy computerized production outtros the way I do live instrument solos.  And so - I want to throw my iPhone through a window everytime the song drifts from an actual Justin Timberlake vocal song into some masturbatory production…