I don't watch POI, but my understanding is that the premise involves a crazy computerized thing that can predict crime.  If that's accurate, then I don't see how a cross-over could work:  Elementary takes place in the real world where that machine does not exist, and it would seriously screw up the Elementary universe…

Clyde!

I would be very happy to watch a show about the effect that war has on people once it's over.  I just don't want it to all revolve around Brody.  One season about his homecoming was interesting. Three seasons is far more than I think was necessary or relevant. This was, at least in theory, a show about the…

I want this to be a show about the CIA and the way it reacts to/partially causes the biggest threats to America, but the people running it want it to be a show about Brody and how he affects everyone around him.  That disconnect is pushing me closer and closer to just giving up on it entirely.  I think the Dana and…

It's still within the martial arts area, but I kind of loved her in Kill Bill.

In addition to Orange is the New Black:  Orphan Black, Game of Thrones, The Good Wife, Shameless, Once Upon A Time, Scandal, even Grey's Anatomy.

Excellent review — totally agree on all fronts.  It was mostly a great episode that gave me hope the show was starting to sort out its larger issues, but the Casey thing just came too out of left field.  I wish they'd just had Casey come back from the end of his Haiti trip and decide that he immediately wanted to go…

This show is a master class in how to turn a high-stakes situation into one with no stakes at all.  She has to KILL THE PRESIDENT… except that she found a way to delay having to make a decision on that until the end of the season, leaving her with nothing to do except cry between now and then.  The scary evil captors…

@avclub-b6ad9ed5179f5855fa5b91a7f2b1ee80:disqus For what it's worth (answer: approximately nothing), I do in fact practice law in federal courts.  I have seen plenty of decisions I disagree with, including some I thought were the product of truly stupid reasoning.  I have not yet seen a judge blatantly do something…

Shameless is excellent, though I'm not sure I'd subscribe to Showtime just for it.  But for me, it's worth it for Shameless + Masters of Sex + Homeland + Episodes (of which I am apparently the lone fan, but I love that show).  House of Lies is terrible, but my love for Kristen Bell/Don Cheadle means that I can't quit…

I think that would be true today, but back then smacking a woman wasn't really as frowned upon and it's less likely anyone would have believed her side of the story/that she didn't have it coming.

@avclub-b6ad9ed5179f5855fa5b91a7f2b1ee80:disqus Are you getting all your legal information from TV shows?  Because seriously, in the real world, that is not how this shit works.  Judges, ESPECIALLY federal judges, generally do not just randomly sign orders that allow the government to take property that has absolutely…

Like bradwestness, I assume that they'll just use their own money.  They just gave $28 million to a drug charity to rehab their image, I imagine they can find $8 million to ensure they don't get killed.  And however implausible the assassin story might sound, how much more implausible was everything else they've…

That's not how asset seizure works.  The criminal justice system doesn't use a guilt by association system where anyone who had a criminal family member is on the hook for unspecified amounts of money.  The government needs to have some grounds for seizing assets — either that they are the property of the person…

On what grounds could the government take Walt Jr's non-drug-related assets?  Even if Skyler isn't able to bargain her way off the hook with the location of Hank and Gomez (which I think she probably will), the government has no authority to go after Walt Jr.  He was a minor who no one alleges had anything to do with…

Well, he was literally passed out on the floor in the hallway of his building with no pants on, was incoherent, and needed to be carried into the apartment.  I don't really see how there's any defense of that scenario as consensual.

I am a big defender of this show, but this episode did not work for me at all.  In large part because the big story of the episode revolved around Christina raping James Franco (if he's black-out drunk, which he obviously was, he can't consent) and it was treated as though Franco had done something wrong by sleeping…

I don't disagree with the structural criticisms of the show (though they bother me less than they do TVDW, mostly because I find the show consistently funny and have so few currently airing comedies I can say that about).  But I strongly, STRONGLY disagree that Mindy as a character isn't understandable or is a…

Josh was always a jerk.  It just seemed like he was supposed to be a character who was a jerk on the surface but underneath was secretly a good guy, and then you found out that no, actually he's just an asshole.

I'm giving it another week before deciding whether it's fixed its structural issues — they needed an episode of place setting like this to get Mindy back to New York and Casey out of the picture in an ostensibly temporary way (I assume the point of that is to create an obstacle to Danny just making his move, which he…