It's a big ol' leap to assume Paige knows…anything, really.

Arkady really got a showcase tonight. He's now officially awesome.

That. Was. Awesome.

Glad to see they really stuck the landing.

One thing you have to understand is that Washington D.C. is obsessed with acronyms and the cliquishness understanding them connotes. Every corridor of power — from NGOs and think tanks to arms of the federal government — uses more acronyms than one could think of. And it's often because the titles themselves are…

PoI has A LOT of glimpses of greatness here and there, and the series indubitably improves over the course of the first season. Every time it really turns things up and looks like it's going to be great, however, they pump out a couple average episodes in a row and dump cold water on the whole thing.

This is some kind of roll Abrams is on.

TVDR really threaded the needle here. Terrific review.

Well, to its credit, MTV did nail that goal.

I've got to ask: what's up with the umlaut in "videö"? Are you Nordic or something and just used the wrong o, or was that intentional?

Sounds dope. Thanks for the invite…dick.

Gold.

Whoa.

You win.

Bingo…but only in hindsight. In the context of the show's principals, Todd's thinking makes a certain amount of sense.

With NBC's absence of a back catalogue? Hannibal's here for at least a second season.

Well I'll be damned. Do the provinces all share one architect? Those buildings may as well be carbon copies of beautiful residential housing buildings in Vancouver.

Chlumsky is always terrific. Killed it in In the Loop and may be doing an even better job on Veep.

Ha, frack. Just started watching stray episodes of Battlestar Galactica for the first time.

Nailed it.