Yeah, that's a terrific scene. I really enjoy how even the smaller characters in this show get a moment or two to make them memorable. This mousy kid revealing that he'd known Masters' fib from the beginning, while keeping things non-confrontational was a great touch.

Sheen's has been the best and most emotionally affecting performance I've seen the last two years. When he is occasionally laid bare, it really feels like we're seeing something we shouldn't. As if we've walked into a room where a stranger is having a private moment. I can't recall getting that feeling from a…

I'd assume he masturbated while thinking of Virginia…

I loved how they couldn't figure out how to work a door. It reminded me of the old Far Side comic.

That ends with a shrug and leads to nothing.

Looked like Bob Vila to me.

C'mon, Tara's mom did awesome! And we all loved her!

To be fair, I'm not sure the current batch of writers knew what "allegory" means.

THE STRAIN: The characters still suck, but now the plot doesn't blow! Sundays at 10!

Prediction: I will enjoy Masters of Sex and The Last Ship more. And even Falling Skies.

It's a HARD job!

Exactly. Marco has zero power in their relationship, and knows it.

BSG lost me when I realized that pretty much every character had attempted suicide. They kept hitting that button, and it ended up making me laugh. Once you start laughing at scenes of suicide on a show, it's never going to be able to move you again.

There are people in all of our lives whose names we don't know and whose faces we wouldn't recognize out of context. Any of them could become a more important part of our lives at a moment's notice.

Also, he didn't falsify data, he threatened to. He was clearly bluffing out of fear over the story, and even more clearly regretted that mistake almost immediately. He's in the middle of a crisis of conscience before his boss even comes into the room. So much so that Vance's character, who seems already aware of…

If she were bisexual, I expect she'd have been able to tell her husband she loved him. She liked him well enough, there was just nothing romantic there.

I don't think the pace has been a problem at all. The problem is that I still don't care whether any of these people are eaten, and most of them I WANT to be eaten.

Yeah, they struggled a bit with the reboot idea, but once the season gets going, it has a string of really terrific episodes leading up to another incredibly movie-like multi-part story.

1812! 1812!

While an obvious step below The Wire, The Bridge faces two similar problems: The lack of an easy "hook" to draw in new viewers, and a large focus on non-white people that limits its appeal to the average viewer.