If Tony, and the ghost and/or hologram of Michelle, are not in every episode of the new 24 I'm going to torture someone, damn it. No one wants that.

Ah I really can't wait for the five eighths of next season in which everyone except Ted just adores the Very Sexy Baby, the quarter taken up by independent rock, and that last little bit where I remember all these tired tropes and wheel-spinning are, somehow, why I really like Friends v. 2.

Olivier's bodyguard was almost a photo negative of Grace Jones as May Day.

He not a professional merc, he's just Donnie who probably is being blackmailed or extorted. Max Headroom looked around for a monitor for Alison after whatever happened to her last one and the best he could do was Donnie.

He wouldn't have to be spying since he was a teenager. Alison's previous monitor could have been a teacher, foster parent, social worker, etc. When you're a kid strange adults pop in your life all the time, people who you're not really sure who they are or what they do, and people your parents tell you to trust…

Funniest take on farce I've seen since that episode of Party Down.

I love how, for the second time, Shaw got the drop on Reese because he was on his cell.

Since you've probably already figured out what it means from context: it's an older word (google ngram says 1780ish) but became pretty popular in the 90s because a lot of hip-hop artists were using it in their rhymes. It comes from the word "gaff," a long pole with a hook on it for getting big fish into a boat. Also…

Fake John Hurt is working for Nathan. The laptop is the same laptop from the flashback, in which Finch entered his remote access password to the Machine. Nathan gaffles the laptop, fakes his own death (which the "newborn" Machine can only interpret as Nathan actually dying), in the process making it look like the…

Finch's real name is David Lightman.

Yeah I read that (or something like that ) too. For the longest time, having seen the commercials, I coulda swore it was Tim Daly.

Yes, totally filler, but:

This is weird, but I just rewatched the pilot to Castle after the clip show: 1. that show is getting worse 2. I love all of Stana's hairstyles except her current one 3. Castle's (or Beckett's) totally gonna propose in the finale, right?

This is probably the most important episode of the series, plot-wise, and it's definitely the turning point, the growing-the-beard moment for the series as well. If you just watched this for the first time (so lucky) then watch it again.

A doctor (or a team, efficient and unscrupulous, like that bunker in Cabin in the Woods) are doing an experiment. They make 50 clones and subtly set them at each other whilst monitoring all of them on GPS. The last one standing, the titular child who not only has no mother or father but has to murder the rest of her…

Agreed on the homage. Seriously, is there an English-language sci-fi/fantasy/horror writer born after, let's say 1965, that doesn't owe a deeply personal debt, or at least a crumb of inspiration, to King?

I think this show has the largest disparity between writing and acting on TV right now (not counting a few reality shows, but the other way).

Yeah I don't think Finch is to the point where he trusts her with access to the most powerful weapon since the ICBM. In fact Finch still doesn't trust Reese with the barest outlines of his past (excepting what Reese found out on his own) yet.

In the real world: it's difficult but possible. In the TV and film world of super-spies, especially protagonist, anti-hero super-spies: come on.

two things: 1. Harold is a paranoid. If she got in the library uninvited (and Emerson's expression conveyed that) she is just proving her skills as an operator. 2. Why should Harold fill in the blanks for Shaw when he already has a "Shaw" on the payroll? He knows she will figure it out eventually (still doesn't…