I've pitched it to coupled/married friends by saying it's the best show about marriage that's not explicitly about marriage since Friday Night Lights.

I believe the tape was from a time when Stan and Oleg met to figure out a way to save Nina. Now that they have audio of Oleg meeting with a FBI agent, the feds think that they could use it to turn Oleg whereas Stan wants to use his meeting to play the long game.

On the Slate podcast (which is a vital resource for fans), they spoke about how Martha's sketch is from the POV of Clark's landlord, a man who only saw her briefly and found her attractive. It's purposely at odds with the dowdy, 'plain' Martha that her colleagues grew accustomed to and overlooked for years.

At least a part of that show lives on as NBC uses the awesome theme as their secondary Olympic music (behind the John Williams 'BUM-BUM-bah-BUM-bum' main).

They're also in the wrong order on the DVDs.

Every time the AV Club writers ask for old shows to be reviewed, I'm the jerk shouting "PROFIT!"

"I don't like a song by a middle aged guy because it sounds like it's for middle aged guys."

There were so many things wrong with that adaptation that I couldn't bother being disappointed by the end. The only part of that show that worked was Gretchen Mol's Annie and I'm glad she was able to resurrect her career with that leading to Boardwalk Empire.

I was 7 and got a tape player as a gift. Purple Rain was the cassette that I somehow got/stole from my mother's collection. That album became basically the only secular music i listened to for at least six months until I scraped together enough change to buy LL Cool J's Mama Said…. It became pretty much the first…

This fucking sucks.

His former girlfriend Irina needed to have evidence of sex in addition to the bruises so she could discredit the Polish dissident by accusing him of rape. It was both business and personal.

Yes, he's been listed as a regular for the whole season.

His turn and sprint after finding out about Gabriel and the glanders is one of my favorite GIFs of all time.

And Elizabeth wasn't sleeping with Philip either at that time. Their relationship wasn't romantic until they had sex in the pilot after disposing of the defector's body.

And this morning's was with the woman who translates the Russian dialogue - great insight into modernized speech patterns and word placement that distinguish native-born Russians from Russian speakers raised in America.

The safe house was very clearly Ditmas Park and those brownstones were either Park Slope or more likely, Bed-Stuy (the houses are set back further from the street).

I think you mean the Liza Minelli song that Sinatra covered is from this film.

The devil's farro.

I mostly enjoy the series, but you're right that QoS gets to be better by abandoning most of the Bond formula and just getting down to business.

Huh - I always though QoS wasn't a great Bond film but was a rather good film in general. It's a decent story of how far two people can go driven by nothing but pure revenge regardless of the cost to others around them.