I shamelessly admit that I still watch Desperate Housewives. But, as that tends to be up on Hulu the next day, I hardly ever bother taping it.

Also, in the age of Twitter, I'm surprised that more open-air reality shows (i.e., ones that aren't in a secluded house/island that's cut off from the world) aren't spoiled by onlookers with smart phones posting video and/or tweets.

Point being, even if the girls weren't around to notice it, I can believe that other Americans *would* notice a staged camera shoot around a passport on the ground and that they might ask what was going on, at which point they might be indirectly motivated — without direct producer interference — to participate in…

I loved how, in their interview, they were already talking about how this was the hardest thing they'd ever done. What exactly had they done up until this point? Find an umbrella? Board a plane? Walk around for a few hours? I've never been so terrified of growing old as I am now.

I expected the NFL to run late, and taped extra, accordingly. Wasn't a problem, since I had to tape "The Good Wife" anyway (amazing episode tonight, by the way) — but I'm mortified that this then required me to tape part of "CSI: Miami," too. Ugh.

It's a little too early for producers to start rigging things for the "favorites," though, no? I mean, why allow the grandparents to wander around aimlessly for four hours without giving *them* a clue?

Honestly, how did the boobs (okay, well…) not notice the camera crew suspiciously filming *the floor* behind them as they got into the car and then drove off? It seems as if you could catch a lot of cues from simply watching the cameramen, although maybe it's more surreptitiously done on their end than it appears to…

I actually think she was just repeating Kripke's mandate throughout the series's run, that they must base their monsters on actual urban legends, albeit with a "Supernatural" spin. The genies, tricksters, and other monsters of that nature always seemed super-clever: now it's time to start being even more inventive.

My gut keeps saying that they wanted to keep Cas as the big bad this season, but resolved it in response to fan reactions. Which is sort of the problem with being held hostage by your fans, especially when they don't ever want to see anything change. Hopefully, this compromise won't bite them in the ass — but as I've…

He's not going to be winning any awards, but compared to the usual levels of actual *depth* behind the acting, that was a terrific episode for Collins.

iI mean, if he'd stayed God, he still wouldn't have been a regular, any more than Lucifer, Eve, Yellow Eyes or any other big "bad" was — and to my eyes, that might've been more interesting. What would the boys have to fight if Cas were God? What new demons might show up to fill the "peaceful" world Cas had created?…

I guess that's the advantage Supernatural has: it's going to reinterpret everything but the name (as it did in that episode at the hotel last year with all the foreign gods), so even if they were referring to the bible's Leviathan, the end result can be anything.

Yeah, but if you're going to ask Warren Ellis to write a season of anything, can't we do better? Politics being what they are, can't we at last get Transmetropolitan off the ground? Or at the very least, revive Global Frequency, a far more interesting concept than Person of Interest?

Strong offering, though I'm not quite sure how Leviathan is supposed to be one of the "old" monsters — he's a prince of hell, along with Lucifer, no? — and while I enjoy the Sam/Lucifer scenes, they feel like familiar ground, if not for Supernatural, then for the genre in general.

Definitely orange, but not sure why. I was expecting purple (Blue - Earth 1 and Red - Earth 2). So the theory above about a third Earth (Yellow) butting in? Curious. If next week shows us what's up with Fauxlivia and company . . . and uses a Green sequence . . . I guess we'll have our answer. (And maybe that's where…

I guess the question is, will we see an American version of Luther. And if so, will it keep Idris in the lead, considering that he's fairly well-known over the states?

I gave it a B+, personally — I thought the actual execution of the pilot was terrific, and I was impressed that they crammed so much in and still managed to develop Bello: watch her face when she gets the call that she's on the case (while she's with her father) and listen to her in the scene that you commented on…

I've really not been having the same problem with this aspect of the show; yes, it's a bit overwrought and dated, but it's not *bad* — they don't hate her because she's a woman, they hate her for her bitchiness (Hillary Syndrome) and, as a result, mock the fact that she's Other (i.e., a woman). If they're sexist, it's…

He's also on Sons of Anarchy. Where I believe someone actually called him "Lem" (or "Lemon Head") in last week's episode.

Yeah, but I can totally imagine some other dude turning him into one. Let's hope he never ends up in prison.