The one thing I couldn't get behind on This is the End: Not the Rapture, not all the demons and hell-beasts, not that people still like the Backstreet Boys, not even Danny McBride's latent evil genius- no, it was that Jay Baruchel went apeshit over how good a Carl's Jr. burger was. Not stopping at In-n-Out, skipping…

Honestly, I thought the same thing. I knew they weren't in New England, but the Mid-Atlantic (NY, NJ, eastern PA) have a lot of them.

DD is everywhere in PA- and it's just the worst. So, I guess when you order a coffee "regular" in NE, you get the cream and metric ton of sugar (at least in PA you have to specify what you want- still a crappy cup of coffee though).

Awful, awful burgers. However, their breakfast is really worth checking out. The biscuits (based on the Roy Rogers fried chicken chain's recipe) are amazing; just about everything on their breakfast menu is solid, and if you are road-tripping outside of NE, it's a guilty pleasure.

I agree- I guess it helped lighten an otherwise pretty dark episode. If there's a flaw that Elementary has, it's that the murder(s)-of-the-week can give short-shrift to the victim- merely acting as a vessel conducive to showcase Sherlock and Joan's investigative brilliance. Every ep doesn't have to be a murder.

Like Myles alluded to, if there's a flaw that Elementary has, it's that the murder(s)-of-the-week can essentially give short-shrift to the victim- merely acting as a vessel conducive to showcase Sherlock and Joan's investigative brilliance. You're not wrong though, in listing the brutality of this episode- the Alicia…

If anything, Daredevil seems to be pretty equal-opportunity when it comes to who gets victimized. The rate of men getting murdered as opposed to women is higher on the show, and whether it's a blind courier catching a stray bullet to the head, a rookie cop who probably isn't crooked getting his throat slit, or any…

Plus-side: The guys know their stuff, and it could continue to be a window into the grittier side of the Marvel universe.

God help me, I laughed at this.

Very true; between that and The Americans, both shows seem to be filmed in a perma-blue filter. It doesn't help that it's either raining, snowing, or just overcast for all the settings.

Fuck you [dramatic pause] The Killing!

Exactly! Just look at what happened at Katyn- wait, bad example. I got it: The 26 Baku Commis- shoot, no, that was a coverup too. Medvedev Forest…aw crap. Let me get back to you, OK?

Disagree about GP, but Red Eye sucked hard, which is a shame. I was hoping that it was going to be like an Ostern wrapped in a mystery enrobed in a jewel-lined corset, but instead it just meandered with nary a sense of history and geography.

Yep- Martin Cruz Smith is awesome, and his Renko stories, while going far afield at times, are well-written and doubly entertaining.

Shut up- you're ruining Iggy's narrative!

I actually really liked it. D'Onofrio played Orson Welles twice in films, both at relatively young points in his career (and Welles' career as well). At times, his vocal adjustments harkened to later-Welles, like when he was playing a gruff, corrupt detective in Touch of Evil. It worked for me, with D'Onofrio…

Thank you for giving us a standalone Middle review- it's just like old times.

"contemporary Baltic history"

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