First season was dumb fun, second season was pretty damn great.  Third and fourth were a mixed bag of really solid and really dumb.  All in all, it's usually a really enjoyable show.  The main hook is that (especially for the first three seasons) the characters are likable and the show has an endearing earnestness to…

Kevin's lines aren't the greatest to begin with, and Penn's delivery of them is cringe-inducing.  When Barney and Robin went for it in the cab, I was thrilled–not so much out of excitement over their reunion, but because it hopefully means an imminent end to Kal Penn's show-ruining presence.

Brody knew they had his former torturer in custody, and so he would've been able to predict that the FT would potentially give up the e-mail address that would then lead to Faisel.  Right?

I thought she was faking.  Either that, or Claire Danes doesn't play drunk very well, because Carrie was way over the top.  Given that Danes has been pretty top notch throughout the rest of the series, I think it's fair to assume the former.

I'm excited about the addition of Esther Randolph.  The dry, sarcastic dialogue they gave her was fun, and perfectly delivered by Nicholson.  And at first glance, she appears to represent two things the show has been lacking: (a) a non-flighty and sane female character, and (b) a sympathetic and sane law enforcement…

Trixie and Jane were incredible.  Alma never quite did it for me.  Well-written, well-acted, but she skewed shrill a little too often for me to ever become as big of a fan as I was of those other two.

When he was asking Bohannon about his wife, I kept hoping he'd follow up with, "Was she a great big fat person?"

If this show goes a hundred seasons and never stops reminding me of Deadwood, that's just all right by me.

No one on this show talks or acts like a human being, and it's pretty damn infuriating.  The well scene was terrible; the well was already contaminated by having a zombie rot in it for an unspecified length of time.  There was no need for Lori to sneak out into the back field to take the test, presuming Herschel's…

Did The Chicago Code do this, or was that only in selected episodes?

At what point in this season's production did they jettison Darabont?  If it's later on, then maybe Mazzara will salvage these characters.

It's a fairly common device that a lot of shows use.  Just off the top of my head, Mad Men, Deadwood, and Hung all uniformly employ final scene/end credit musical pairings pretty effectively.  I believe It's Always Sunny has also used this technique for (almost?) every episode so far this season.