This is only the fourth episode. How did you not realize you were going to miss "True Detective"?

More Alexandria Daddario? Thank you, Jebus.

I just laughed. A pretty shallow knowledge base here at the AV Club.

I think it makes sense—when you consider how godawful British cooking actually is, once something with flavor actually hit the island, it really caught on.

"The Nut Job" got an F.

Yep, inoculation and vaccination are two very different things. Inoculation gave you lifelong immunity, and your chances of dying from inoculation were a lot smaller than your chance of dying from a regular case of smallpox, but you could get full-blown smallpox and die from inoculation. Jonathan Edwards did.

Didn't want to surf the casting couch, you mean?

It's been a very long time since I saw "North by Northwest" but I guess I'm the only person in the world who didn't like it. I remember watching the famous crop duster scene and thinking that was just the dumbest way in the world to kill someone. IIRC they have Grant in the backseat of a car right before that, but…

Claude Rains in "Notorious" is the nicest Nazi ever. He seems to love Bergman more than Grant does.

Shirley Temple grew up to be very sexy indeed. It's a pity that her career wound down, but maybe that's why. Maybe audiences in the forties weren't prepared to see cute little Shirley Temple as a sexually desirable grown woman.

I dunno, she seems like she hits every MPDG note, madcap crazy lady who upends this button-downed repressed guy's life.

"Suspicion" would have been better if they'd gone with the book and actually made Grant a murderer.

I just watched "The Philadelphia Story" not that long ago. It's pretty badly dated and anti-feminist, but man, watching James Stewart and Cary Grant bounce off each other was tremendous.

"he’s hardly the hero of the hour. That is, and always will be, Sherlock, even when it pushes against the natural rhythm of the story."

Real Men of Genius. Mr. Giant Taco Salad Inventor…

Well, "England, 1924"—or, now that I've looked it up, apparently 1922—is all the cultural context one needs for why "white Lady, with a capital L, dating black jazz singer" is scandalous. I thought Mary would pitch a much bigger fit, actually.

They were around in 1922, although they were just another tiny group of crackpots like so many others in Germany at the time. The mention that Gregson's in Munich is what rang that bell for me. Munich was home base for the Nazis in the early days; that's where the Beer Hall Putsch will be next year.

I knew they're supposed to be in Yorkshire, think it was even mentioned in this episode—anyway, the point that it wasn't some five-star place in London, it was just the local fancy restaurant. And, as you say, the Bateses should have more cash lying around than most of the rest of the staff.

I don't like what's been done to Branson, but in this instance it makes sense—introducing some commoner to the lords at Downton as his wife would be weird. Unless she's really hot.

Well, Joe Kennedy's going to need someone to smuggle that liquor.