God bless you, Raf(f?)i. The best part of his cameo for me, tho, had to be Ruxin's double-take after Rafi capped his 9/11 cop story with a "never forget."

I'm all for big-upping BA's genre work (TRANSSIBERIAN in particular, if only for the work Emily Mortimer & Woody Harrelson do in it), but folks that want to see a rom-com worth a damn (featuring Hope Davis in one of her first "big" roles &, briefly, Philip Seymour Hoffman) need to get with NEXT STOP WONDERLAND.

Well said, Schiels.

Another thing re: that conversation / argument: Hank swears that from now on he'll treat Britt like an actual partner going forward. So of course, he then checks Steph into a hospital that he needs to pay for with the bearer bonds. Never mind the legal / Gustafson-up-ass ramifications — Britt's going to probably…

Maybe it's reading too much into the situation, but I imagined Adam was the prototypical upper-middle-class latchkey kid, the sort that has both the free time to dream about traveling the world & the semi-negligent never-home parents that would let him charge stuff on their credit cards w/out asking many questions.

Cigarette holder, I think — it was mentioned in the pilot, something about Gustafson using those while trying to quit smoking, to deal with the oral fixation thing.

Frankenstein & The Flower Girl
That's the vibe I was getting w/ Steph & the little girl (Elle?). The way Steph was acting "off" up to that point, coupled w/ this girl playing outside by herself, letting a stranger just mosey on up & talk to her, & all the unspoken stuff of how Steph acts when her meds aren't right ……

Yeah, I meant another 12-13 on top of the rest of S1.

Her need to self-sabotage is probably born from the same impulses that made her willing to stay w/ Britt after she found out about his "stalking" her. It's almost like her thought process is: Britt's a fantastic guy, but he's also a former thief, so I'm getting exactly what I deserve, but I don't deserve to have it…

@Neckbeard: "There's definitely a deep and personal past between Hank and Katie. The slow reveal of their pre-Britt relationship is one a several dozen reasons to keep watching this show."

Swagger
This show's got enough for three networks. Everything the creators have done — from teasing Britt's "true identity," to suddenly moving the goalposts wrt the Lindus stuff, to letting their hyper-charming leads show how awkward and horrible they can truly be — is the stuff of brass balls. It's like the best…