It's killing me not to be able to share the sheer awesomeness of this moment with anybody.

Seriously, go back to the 37-minute mark and look for Tom's quote (which I referenced above), followed by the crucial camera cut. Then watch it again and check for the gleam in his eye. You won't regret it.

"We have to figure out what's the worst set and the best set, and it's tough. They're really close." Tom, salvaging the episode. I can't be the only one who got this, right??

Great season so far. I love that the players themselves corrected what I felt was the conceptual flaw of setting up too many variables by essentially removing the HII from consideration in the pre-merge phase of the game. BvW + RI provided plenty of confounding subplots to make for entertaining and unpredictable…

Whether he did or not, he didn't have to fill out a job application for 27 years, didn't punch a clock, and didn't have to explain himself to anyone. I hope he has some money, but even if not those years are well and goodly banked.

Maybe so. I hope to read about it when it happens.

He's been in business a long time and he's getting old — how can a 27-year run with a single business venture be thought of as anything other than a success?

Jason having to sit there all season despite his obvious utter lack of interest in a competition that doesn't include him will be a source of great amusement for me.

A Halloween episode that does not feature Gail in a revealing costume is just….I mean, I like Hugh fine, but come on…….

Agreed, this review was just fine.

I wonder about that — the actor audibly stumbled right before saying "nucular", and it made me think he'd tried over and over again to say it correctly and just couldn't do it. Not to mention he had all the charisma of a Magnum P.I. villain. I think maybe Claire Danes ad libbed the line "I never want to see you…

Bennett: "Nucular."
Me: "Oh, come on!"

I also thought the structure of this episode was strange — somewhere around the third or fourth scene cut I began anticipating a different storyline to emerge.  But it stuck with Brody, and though each scene was effective (save for the clunky introduction of Carrie's name), his story advanced too quickly.  He went…

Leah Sears reminds me of my grandmother once she hit 90 — tart-tongued but kind-hearted.

To me, that scene was a chunk of red meat tossed to a particular segment of Homeland viewers — those who enjoy watching because some Muslims are the enemy.  Saul's rant will go straight to the pleasure center of their brains, and thus keep them watching while future episode scripts dial back his intolerant display, as…

I agree — that was one of the most well-acted scenes in the recent seasons of the show.  It was sort of a shock, really, to see David Zayas hit a different note.

Probably I did.  But when a Ludlum title quip in a George Segal comment thread is at stake, time is of the essence.  Any port in a storm, you know?

So apparently there's a movie called "The Quiller Memorandum", and it's based on a book wherein "two British agents are murdered by a mysterious Neonazi organization in West Berlin", and this book was not written by Robert Ludlum?  Forget the Browns game yesterday; THIS is the upset of the century.

I liked it.

Marissa had a great play available to her, and hinted at making it, but for whatever reason failed to do so.  Who would be a more loyal tribemate than someone who had sworn off her loved one?  She could have made a long-term play, saying that she could be cobbled into any post-merge alliance, because she was the first…