I thought so at the time, too. It's just in retrospect. Dan Stevens quits, so OK, you have to kill off Matthew. Was it really necessary to kill off Sybil too? Also, as I said below, I really hated it when the Dowager Countess leaned on Dr. Clarkson to basically let the earl off the hook.

Wait, what? Moriarty hid the daughter away someplace? Pretty sure that actually is kidnapping, since she is not the custodial parent.

Yeah, they really are running out of ideas. I remember a while back they were testing some dumbass viral video about shoes that let you run on water, and it was fucking embarrassing. They used to be a great show—the episode where they proved it was theoretically possible for the Alcatraz escapees to reach land was…

"Wreck-It Ralph" was fucking fantastic, and probably the best thing that Disney proper has produced since said Little Mermaid-Aladdin-Lion King renaissance.

I don't expect y'all to review it, but that was just a weird statement, or at least it read like a weird statement before you mentioned that this review was written before Christmas. You don't even have to go to illegal downloads or whatever, you can just go to Wikipedia and other sources to read plot summaries. …

Wait, wait. BATES is the one who rapes Anna? His own wife? WTF?

Well, that makes sense, such as it is. Still feels cheap onscreen.

I thought American broadcast TV was pretty much out of the business of doing self-contained miniseries like this.

She'll never be better than when she was getting naked in "Poison Ivy 3"

I thought for a moment that it was a feature about Season 2 of "The Americans"

I thought "Bauer" was farmer

"most real people's stories lack traditional ideas of dramatic storytelling."

That's true, you know. Lindh was a hippie dipshit upper-class white kid that got way the fuck over his head.

"It's my understanding the ideologically-driven double agents were rare, treasured assets"

I think there is a pretty good case for that cynical POV that folks like Ames did not affect "the lives of ordinary people". Ames got some CIA assets killed. Well, what did that matter to all of us in the good old USA, in the end? Sell secrets to Al Qaeda, and maybe a plane crashes into the building you're in.

I dunno, I will wager one shiny nickel that there's someone tending bar or waitressing or something in Los Angeles right now that would have loved the chance to play in an ABC miniseries.

Natalie Dormer can wear the hell out of some clothes. Very nice coat she was wearing when she and Joan were sparring at the crime scene.

You realize this is an American website?

I got an iphone from my work. Doesn't seem unrealistic that the NYPD would give them out to officers.

That's the biggest plot hole in the whole series, honestly, Sherlock's failure to realize that Irene Adler was faking her American accent. Although I thought Dormer did a decent job with it.