This Season: "No, no more, if I eat another plotline I'm going to explode."

According to the occasional plot-dumps, the Royals are basically The Illuminati. They've got their hands into everything and are this close to controlling the entire world via backroom economic deals and whatnot. The real problem with the show is that that type of villainy is so huge that the existence of Grimms and…

That's the real problem with Finn, the character - all credit to the actor for portraying him how the writers intend. He's the kind of milquetoasty wanker who skids through life without ever learning anything or applying himself. He just occasionally manages to muster up what for him seems a critical mass of some…

My feelings about Juliette as a character are always clouded by my feelings about the actor's performance in the role, so, take this all with a grain of salt.

The best way to understand Grimms is to think of most past Grimms (especially going back 100 years or more) as really corrupt individuals who were appointed as sheriffs and bounty hunters by equally corrupt nobility. In theory, sheriffs and bounty hunters perform an invaluable service to the public good by keeping the…

In terms of never actually going to work, yes. In terms of competence, no.

That courtroom stuff was cringeworthy. It deserves a "clearly no help from their parents" award. It's so wildly inaccurate that it defies a brief rundown of everything that's wrong with it.

My hope is that Mycroft is in league with some British-based or eurocentric "good guys" (with some heavy-ass scare quotes) who want Sherlock to work for them exclusively. It's sort of difficult to imagine that the NSA or CIA haven't already black-bagged the poor bastard and hooked him up to the X-files brain-suck by…

Your objection is the equivalent of somebody reacting to a slow, sarcastic handclap by saying "stop fucking clapping when you're not actually applauding the person, that's not what clapping is for."

Since Stefan has been a vampire for over a century, it's actually possible that the "current" mortal doppelganger for Silas could be any age.

Honestly, I'm not sure it's even manslaughter. This is about as close to a clean-cut, no-psychological-funny-business instance of Not Guilty by reason of temporary insanity as you can get - which means you're Not Guilty of murder, manslaughter, or anything else.

It would've made much more sense if, in prior seasons, she did what all wealthy white women do and outsourced the real work to an offscreen Mexican. But nope, we saw her getting down'n'dirty with stuff, so this new "gag me with a spoon" attitude is flat-out ridiculous. I would've loved for her to be all "Haha! Guts…

I stick by my theory that there are extremely sordid and nepotistic reasons for her being on this - or any other - show. Also, what in the actual fuck, she was in The Artist.

We need to know more about his tenure situation before we can speculate about his true motives.

The second track on the album also had the singer pronouncing "sentence" as "senTENCE." I don't want to say that weird pronunciations never work, but it's a high-risk maneuver, and Collective Soul was never a high-risk band in any other respect.

In a surprisingly non-racist twist, the problem with The Indian in the Cupboard is actually the cupboard.

Church, King/nobility, rabble. That's 1-3. The 4th estate is most popularly defined as "the press," and credit is given to Edmund Burke.

It's the Squint Eastwood.

Huh. I definitely respect Carrie's reservations, but this episode actually convinced me to pause for a breath and take a more wait-and-see approach to the series going forward. The blatant meta could go down either way, and both the new character and the new actress had an awesome intro.

It wouldn't have bothered me as much if Tessa didn't seem like the type to know the exact number of minutes. Segue: worst Seasons of Love cover ever, or best?