His pathetic glee at finally being called by his real name pushed it to just the right side of treacly. It was easily the most heartwarming moment of the episode, but it's still absurdly hilarious that this is the greatest thing that's ever happened to him.

I was made cautiously hopeful by the first two episodes, but not enough so that I don't read the reviews before watching each new one.

So how long do you think it's going to take these network execs to realize that people who don't want to pay for cable also aren't going to pay for seventeen different a la carte streaming services?

I loved that; seemed like a gesture towards the idea that, while Elizabeth has been making efforts to move closer to her daughter, Paige is also, at least subconsciously, moving towards her mother. It makes the potential for Paige becoming a Soviet operative much more interesting, because there's some reciprocity in…

Oleg: Man, dating a double agent sure sucks, doesn't it?
Martha: …oh.

I dropped this season after the first few episodes, but I'm getting the sense that there might be a decent couple of episodes total out of editing together just the Abbie/Ichabod scenes from the show and ignoring everything else.

He was so proud of that response, and then so dejected when he heard it come out of his mouth.

So maybe it's because I marathoned the first four episodes this afternoon (and I suspect this will be a show that lends itself much better to binge than week-to-week watching), but I thought it really came together tonight. It just felt so much more at home in its own silliness and self-awareness, while still allowing…

Although I did like the call back to the zipper bit when Gareth suggested clocks.

I agree - it's a challenging thing to criticize, because basically it's two agendas bumping up against each other, both of which are valuable in their own right - on the one hand, there's the great subversion of gender roles that was Beiste S2-5, and on the other hand, there is the fact that more transgender…

I was holding out for him to play Oliver's long lost brother on Arrow, but this is acceptable. Just as long as the DC tv universe gradually turns into a sneak Spartacus sequel, I don't mind how they do it.

It was a similar problem with the two Naevias - the actress changed at such a drastic point for the character that what would have seemed like range for one person playing it seemed like two different characters.

A few weeks ago I decided to put a moratorium on watching or reading anything about discontented suburbanites, which seems limiting but is actually hugely freeing. It wasn't just that I was getting bored of seeing that same story over and over again - it was that I had to justify to myself not watching/reading it (But …

Honestly, I kind of agree with you. I'm not sure I like them together romantically, but their friend chemistry was off the charts.

On the Karen Gillan point, man I hope so. Sure, she's stunning, but the thing that I think gets lost in that is how much range she actually has. Eliza Dooley is nothing like Amy Pond is nothing like Nebula (although, fine, you can probably put that down partially to the prosthetics) is nothing like her…

That montage at the end did feel a little shoehorned to make something like a finale out of what was essentially a decent midseason episode, but damn if it didn't still more or less work. I still stand by the theory that this show could literally stick Karen Gillan and John Cho in a room for half an hour and it would…

Man, I hope Joel McHale never gets a real career.

I still can't figure out how Seth Meyers has an SNL buddy on every other night (it seems) and still manages to make the interviews sound so blatantly rehearsed and absent chemistry.

The subway advertisements made this seem way more surreal than it ended up being. I'm slightly disappointed by that.

Yeah, but the "Get Lucky" sequence was still the most glorious musical sequence on the show until last night.