…I did not realize how much I wanted that until now.

I also really like how much they committed to that - the Peralta of "ME Time" would have never blown his shot with a pretty, Die Hard-loving, Nets-rooting-for girl to help out Boyle, and here, he only mentioned his date as a distraction. Fully-committed-friend Peralta is one of the best Peraltas.

Or he could just keep showing up on Brooklyn 99 as Ambiguously Ethnic Character.

It is weird how all of these successful or very likely successful shows headed by SNL alums are…not on NBC. They used to be very good about hanging on to them.

This was the first episode I watched live (having just finished catching up during the Super Bowl), so maybe I was inclined to be more generous than usual, but I thought this was a solid A. I like what they're doing with the Peralta-Santiago relationship - the combination of the actors' chemistry and the slow pace…

I agree - they've been able to build his friendly competition with Coach into something resembling characterization. I don't know that the "Fire and Ice" thing would have happened last season.

Well, I don't know if I'd go that far. He's definitely not comparable to his SNL peers (Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, even Andy Samberg), but he is quite good at what he does. He did the Jimmy Fallon route of realizing that, while he would utterly fail as an actor, he's got a good gig with the late night host route, except…

It's hard to beat "Blink" for jump scares, but "Midnight" is the single creepiest, lingering, nightmare-inducing episode of Tennant's entire era. I would say the entire new series, but I'm a huge "Night Terrors" apologist because the one thing I can't stand, horror-wise, is creepy dolls.

I'm not sure if it was actually clear what their relationship was at this point…I seem to recall it mostly as Rose keeping Mickey around as a backup plan in case this whole Doctor thing didn't work out, and Mickey being so hopelessly in love with her he just went along with it.

So. Madame de Pompadour as proto-Amy Pond? I know that this is one of the places people usually point when they claim Moffat is plagiarizing from himself, but I'm more inclined to come down on the other side of that, which is that he's working through seasons to build and explore a theme. I think that, at his best,…

I just started watching Spartacus…by which I mean I got through two and a half seasons last weekend. I liked Slade before, but after watching him in Spartacus, I've realized Manu Bennet is one of the best things to happen to Arrow.

To be fair, it's not like she's given very much to work with…but you could also fit her range into a teaspoon, so, yeah, she's not doing anything with what she's given either. I'm just starting to feel bad for her when she has to do scenes with literally any other actor on the show, because it's just embarrassing to…

As much fun as Hiddleston is as Loki, I really hope they recognize the diminishing returns on that character. He's perfect scheming in the background and reluctantly assisting the heroes; I don't think, though, that he could carry a movie.

On the one hand, I like that they're platonic because there aren't enough solid platonic relationships on television, but on the other hand, we could power New York with the chemistry between them, and basically I haven't been this conflicted about a couple since Peter and Olivia.

I'm pretty sure they're still married in the future episodes, though. Or at least on astonishingly good terms for people who are divorced (though I guess Ted is the best man at his ex-girlfriend's wedding. so…)

Not that you're wrong…but this is one episode in the back half of their ninth and final season. If this isn't the time to exploit the emotional involvement with these characters for some inside joke-based humor, when is? If the entire season were like this, I could agree more with you, but for a single episode that…

All of the little quirks could have gone so, so badly, but the fact that they were grounded in real character work made the fact that the writers were effectively squeezing 9 seasons worth of quirk into 2 acts not seem so contrived. I'm really happy we got an entire episode to focus just on her.

Perhaps the minorest of nitpicks…I didn't think that the Mother left Louis in spite of Max's permission - she left him because of it. Louis was her settling for something not quite good enough because she didn't think she had the right to look for something real, and that conversation with Max gave her the courage to…

The fanbase is definitely the worst part of Doctor Who, and I say that as someone who really enjoys coming here to comment on it. For some reason, this is a show which inspires extreme opinions and absurd backlash, to the point where it's very nearly impossible to find a place to discuss it where the discussions don't…

That's why I'm hoping Clara comes into her own in the next season or two - if Amy and Rory were Eleven's most important companions, maybe she'll work best with Twelve.