Yeah; Louie is re-inventing what a television "comedy" can and should be. Todd isn't anything we haven't seen before—cringe humor with a talented cast. I'm just not sure there's any reason for me to watch this instead of, say, Eastbound and Down, which at least has a little social commentary to it.

I'm hoping for the latter, but I'm expecting the former; as far as I know, Dexter keeps abandoning plots left and right, and I've yet to see anything actually committed to and dealt with long-term, which is my major complaint with what is otherwise a completely in-the-moment entertaining show. (Which is why I compare…

I dunno; I'd actually prefer to be a little surprised by where the story might go. As Buffy—a similarly genred show—taught us, the worst Big Bad, the most evil . . . that tends to comes from the place you'd least expect it (nerds, best friends). Right now, with the sinister stuff being downplayed (the sigil under the…

Apathy, you mean Replacement Daniel Jackson Can't Lose? The word naquida or something like that comes to mind, but that's about all I remember about him….

Keeping the spoilers to a minimum, especially since the first episode hasn't even premiered yet, but the next two episodes (502 and 503) are old-school Dexter, as he stalks a new potential target for The Code. The resolution of that leads to the introduction of Julia Stiles, and I didn't even know Peter Weller was on…

Now What?
Look, if you liked Dexter before, you're going to like this season, too. It's more of the same, and as you point out, Hall is the man at playing a character who has to communicate with the audience without using the standard palette of emotions. The masks he wears to blend in (speaking metaphorically here)…

Disagreement
Todd, my problem with Nikita is that it's one note. If it's possible, it's even less subtle than the usual CW show—and not nearly as fun as Supernatural. You may not have liked "La Femme Nikita" (I am that fan you're looking for), but especially for its time, it was an interesting twist on the usual spy…

Gerritv, that's not true. Each season has some good dances and some excellent dancers, so when you cherry pick the best of the best, of course it smokes the current batch of material. But Travis's mother dance this season was pretty good, I really liked the Adichike/Comfort lyrical hip-hop from last week, Alex/Twitch…

What I Loved….
…was the look on the other dancer's faces when nobody was sent home. I'm sure the three safe dancers were thinking to themselves, "Wait, what? So now there's a 33% chance I'm going home if I get a bad number next week?" It would serve them right if VoteForTheWorst somehow kept Jose *out* of the bottom…

Sorry. Nobody cries that deeply, or that long, from being slapped in the face. And Comfort had tears in her eyes, too.

Oh, if Billy'd had a critical injury, I'd totally suspect Jose of sabotaging everyone else with his kung-fu skills (if we're talking about big conspiracies). But he didn't—he had a common leg injury, which as mentioned elsewhere, it's odd *hasn't* happened on previous seasons of the show.

So long as the guys slap the girls on the ass, it passes the So You Think You Have Standards test. And while they may not hit them, there's been plenty of contemporary numbers where they shove them or fling them across the stage.

If Jose gets by, it'll be because of anger at Billy for not dancing and because of his own smiley personality. But he doesn't have the votes to win this either, and at least with Billy, there's the chance he'll drastically improve—especially with a week of rest under his belt. I think it really comes down to the…

Honestly, I was disappointed, too—but I can't say that I blame Billy, who was already knocked off the show once before for an illness. After seeing the other two really talented dancers get knocked out for—I guess—straining themselves, no wonder he wants to take it easy. (I'm guessing that Billy's unseen dance was a…

The Bell Tolls For Thee
I would be surprised if Billy were eliminated, considering that his injury doesn't seem to prevent him from continuing (just from dancing that one week), and considering that Nigel went out of his way to praise how well Billy *would* have danced that step routine. (I agree, it was awful; I felt…

Ending Twist?
You mean you didn't like the way he screwed off the top of that bottle? What else were you expecting?

I loved every bit of that comment Porkchop, from the description of the tvtropes people to the definition of "genre savvy." I'd say that modern noirs tend to work the same way, with the detectives all-too aware of how they're supposed to act. Reminds me of what I liked about "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang."

Both shows are overrated, as is Matt Nix, although to be fair, Burn Notice has gotten *worse* with age, not better—though I think the addition of a new cast-member might help, so long as they continue to let Bruce Campbell (who knows how to handle B-level material) on the set.

The show especially needs a new name, what with "The Other Guys"—which looks exactly the same as this, only with Marky Mark and Will Ferrell—coming out in theaters. That only goes to show just how redundant *THIS* show is: the buddy cop formula isn't above being tinkered with, guys….

Ajax, that doesn't surprise me, especially since FOX will most likely be using the pairing to decide which one of the two to cancel. If only there were a way to get Bradley Whitford onto Human Target, we wouldn't be having this problem . . .