The kind with frills that spin!

I knew that the OAUT Excalibur couldn't be real, it just didn't have the presence of the one from that classic movie.

LOL Ichabod:  I rather liked the Powwows. 

Judging by the review (I haven't seen the episode yet.), it's starting to look like this show being "American Torchwood" was too much to hope for. At least they made the British characters the tech geeks and the Asian one the action hero.

I finally saw this over the weekend on DVR.  This show is actually American Torchwood without the retcon.  They even imported team members from the UK, and suddenly I expected the Doctor to appear.  Agent Coulson is Jack Harkness, who I suspect has had something dark and unholy done to him to bring him back to…

My only complaint about this installment is that the play didn't really sell me on why Henry Percy had to join the rebellion.  The condition about making the king ransom Edmund Mortimer before Hotspur would give up his prisoners seemed really unreasonable to me on Hotspur's part.  I know that Mortimer is his wife's…

I agree the sudden transformation of Bunchy was really weird.  This theme could have been something they could have used next season with a more devastating effect.  I'm not sure what they would have to work with next season if Ray and Mickey reconcile.  There wasn't enough in this season to make us feel sympathetic…

I remember reading this cycle of plays in my college Shakespearean Drama class.  It really is something to watch the cream of the British acting establishment flesh out these roles and give their interpretation.  Richard II really wasn't thought of as one the better plays by my then professor, but this production…

I think last week's botched non-execution of Mickey caused many serious AV Club viewers to tune out.

The reveal of Ray having been molested is one big piece of the puzzle.  It also explains why his children have no religious beliefs whatsoever.  I don't know why he greets his half-brother like he just met him for the first time.  He staplegunned his chest for goodness sakes!

I'm hoping for an acceptable incorporation of the concept of alternative timelines.  The show touched on it with the death of Kellogg's mother without the disappearance of Kellogg.  This piece of the puzzle will have to have some connection to the Freelancers, but I don't know how the writers will resolve this.

Actually for a while "Second" seemed to indicate double in that elements of the show were duplicating, or the theme of duality  Check this out:

I have to join the long list of people who watch this show except I know why and I think what pulls me in are the strong performances by Liev Schreiber, Paula Malcolmson, and Jon Voight.

After a few days it looks like it's time for a postmortem analysis now that I've finished going through the stages of grief.  If a show is going to gain an audience from word of mouth marketing, since all other advertising for Magic City was pretty anemic, more interesting plot developments needed to happen in the…

True, but on the other hand, it's Ike's formidable charisma that motivates a bunch of women to help him in the first place.  Not only does Ike have the ability to talk, but In the words of Lentulus Batiatus, Ike could "talk the scales off of a snake(ie Meg Bannock)".  The writers sure put a lot of seduceable females…

So Ike manages to loosen the mob's hold on the hotel, but loses most of his family.

Interesting alliances are shaping up as this series comes to a close.  I don't think the Vera and Mercy scenes are too far fetched.  As fellow Cubans in an Anglo world who happen to have a family connection to the same workplace, I would think they would have had more than just a passing familiarity with each other.

Judging from the review and comments, my instincts were right on about ditching this show in the middle of the first season. There still seems to be too much implausibility and bad character choices, even in the third season!

Just when I was beginning to think that the nudity you find on the Starz channel was on the decline, we get a racy episode like this one that made me nostalgic for the orgy scenes in Spartacus.

A very good episode overall.  I think what makes this show great is how well matched Ben and Ike are against each other.  Ben, the ruthless, perceptive, yet psychopathic Butcher vs Ike, the resourceful, charismatic hotel CEO.  Ben's only weakness seems to be his inability to "fuck his wife", while Ike's seem to be his…