Absolutely right about the dialogue. It's really, really clumsy and overworked.

I see your point, but this isn't quite the same situation. I totally believe that someone could get fired from a U.S. Attorney's office for drug use, but I don't think it would play out that way here given the specifics of the situation. Tara's spying poses a real threat to Rhoades' cases, whereas doing lines off a…

That's what Turkey WANTS you to think. (I'm kidding, by the way. I don't know anything about Turkish law.)

Fixed. I had just typed the word piece and I typed it that way again. Please spare me the guillotine.

It wouldn't be gross if said billionaire had made his (fairly obvious) feelings known sooner rather than being opaque about his true motives and quietly sabotaging her relationship with Jonas.

In the interest of full transparency, it was rushed. I usually get screeners for the episodes late in the week, but Showtime insisted on holding this until air time out of misplaced concern that someone would spoil the fifth season finale of Homeland. I'd already booked conflicting holiday flight plans, so I was left…

I think the industry is still trying to wrap its arms around the impact of delayed viewing. Ad prices are still mostly based on live viewership because DVR viewers can skip commercials. Networks have started charging more for shows with really big +3 numbers, but +7 is where the biggest bumps happen because a lot of…

We love Walkthroughs, but they are extremely time-consuming, so many times it's just the difficulty of getting someone on the phone for that long. Cue & A interviews run pretty long too, which is almost always the answer to the question "How come you didn't ask about the song I like?" There isn't always time. (Also,…

Yup. The +3 numbers are killer.

You're right that Carrie made the timeline in season one while she was off her meds, but I didn't buy the significance of that then and I still don't. A timeline of a major terrorist's activities is not the sort of out-of-the-box stroke of genius that episode tries to make it out to be. That timeline would have…

I don't need to have an intimate knowledge of bipolar disorder or the medications that treat it to have an opinion on the story being told about them. My point is not about the nuances of psychopharmacology, it's about the way the character has been written.

They're not great, but I wouldn't call it a toss-up. If it continues to decline in the back nine, it's in trouble. If the current numbers hold, it'll be safe for another year unless every one of ABC's midseason dramas is strong out of the gate.

Whoops! Fixed. I'd love to say this mishap cleared up the difference between the two once and for all, but I'm still not confident.

I can agree with you as it regards Dar's opportunism, but Saul's defection to Mossad would be a much, much bigger embarrassment to the agency than Allison's involvement with the SVR, because at the end of the day, she's just the Berlin station chief. That's why she was so scared of losing her post after the security…

Just for the record, there's never been a mention of or allusion to Black Lives Matter that I haven't mentioned in my review.

God bless you. Healthy disagreement is great, but this argument drives me insane. It's like someone serving you Bagel Bites, and if you don't like them, saying "Well, apparently someone doesn't like pizza." Anyone who thinks disliking Empire equates to disliking soaps needs to watch more soaps.

You right tho! I rewatched it and I see exactly what you mean. I still think the execution was a little bit off because Hakeem said what and /where/ the tattoo was, then had Cookie verify it, as if could be a big coincidence that Laz has the same animal tattooed on the same place on his body as his kidnappers. A…

Friends! Should I get a cat? I find them adorable but I don't want it to give me that Magical Negro vibe. I don't want anyone, of any race, expecting me to mix them up some poison, then shoot myself and escort them through the other side. At most, I'm willing to smoke you up and make you some chocolate milk. That's…

I'm disappointed by your use of the shopworn "Magical Cat" trope.

Yeah, these are all fair points. I don't think it's really about guilt, it's more the fact that The Leftovers has been unpredictable in almost every way this season, and such an overt use of a hackneyed trope seems lazy by comparison. The writers thought including Ghost Patti's commentary about the trope was enough to…