Yes! Spin Off!
The Good Judge! I'm all for that. So long as I keep getting some Good Wife action. And perhaps just a tad more (Damn) Good Sexy Boots.

Exactly; this was one of the first sincere episodes of the Office I've seen in a while; I think the last one was, what, Niagara?

A quartet of cheers.

Of course, I meant, "took the g out of your breakfast, now all you've got left is your ego." This is why I leave the rapping to the big little boys like Glover.

If Gambino comes to my town, I'm going to buy a ticket. His rapping is actually poetic, fresh, original, and funny. "e. e. cumming on her face/now that's poetry in motion"; "took the e out of your breakfast, now all you've got left is your ego."

Yeah, and you have to admit, it's one of the first times a comedy made you tense, wondering what exactly the punchline would be that would justify this shaggy dog story. Only to realize . . . there was no punchline. It was serious. And then to realize . . . that that was the punchline. And then to realize that that…

If you're of the mindset that a comedy must always make you laugh, whether it's mindless or not, then I can understand this episode disappointing you. But I prefer comedies to dig a little deeper and to not simply play it for laughs; it's richer, then, when it actually gets you. Like every episode or not, however, and…

Oh, man, did "The Shield" know how to ratchet up the tension — and also over some good guys stealing some supposedly "lost" money — though "Breaking Bad" is the current gold standard for tension. One Minute, anyone? Or the season three finale?

Bang, bang, bang mother fucker! It looks like Lenore has moved from taking a would-be pimp's mind bullets to standing in the crossfire of a through-and-through drug dealer's violent clan.

I've no doubt that Art knows what's what; whether he'd ever bother to attempt to prosecute one of his best marshals for *returning* stolen property is a whole 'nother question. Based on what he knows of Raylan, he'd see only that Raylan was enforcing the law in a way that would allow his ex-wife to *not* go to prison,…

Also, remember that these episodes are edited. David's a smart guy. Perhaps he already realizes that he's low man on the totem pole. A girl like Sarita is a clear goat for the Final Two or Three; post-merge, she'll be no threat at all to winning *or* losing. No wonder David wanted her out.

Agreed. By combining Reward/Immunity challenges, weaker players haven't been as glaringly apparent, and the drama/stress of losing has been mitigated by getting it all done in one fell swoop. Also, and I've said this before, but the whole "You can't sit the same person out twice in a row" situation doesn't seem to…

On average, the merge will likely happen some time in the next three episodes, which also means that someone may soon be returning from Redemption Island. Kicking out Stephanie is the wrong move, then, for two reasons: 1) If they lose because of Sarita, they go into the merge 6-5 or worse. 2) Even if they still win,…

My Opinions Have Changed
Yeah, this isn't even remotely close to the order I originally had, and I'm surprised to say that I've actually grown invested in some of the singers. Gosh darn it, I like them.

It's time to give him the S**t My Dad Says litmus test; if he laughs at that, then it's time either to send him to a nursing home or get him an agent. Your call.

We're led to believe, from the very beginning, that he's aware and embarrassed by his condition. (I mean, clearly he knows he forgets things: he carries a pad around with him.) On the up-side, part of his condition involves forgetting his earlier embarrassments. The wink doesn't seem to belie any of that; it just…

Grant, the Assassin
What a great episode for him; the guy reminds me a little of Ozzy, though, in that he's nice, easy-going, and physically fit, but also very short-sighted: does he really think Rob'll take him to the end?

Unless it's an urban myth I've been believing all these years, yes, professional boxers register their fists as deadly weapons. I seem to remember Tyson getting into some trouble over that back in the early '90s.

Yeah, but it's that lingering other stuff from the pilot that seems to be dragging down this episode for me now. I love Leight, and I loved his work on In Treatment — and that's perhaps why I got so into the "alternative" coach and his boxing-as-therapy methods. Again, I rest on the larger points I'm making: Lights…

Sure, there's corruption in the sport of boxing — but we don't need to see the generic corruption stuff. When Brennan first appeared (and if you look back at the earliest episodes), his stuff was tied toward Lights as a boxer, and his manipulations were all about staking a bigger claim in the $10M fight (15%, to say…