Hey, the opening credits are back, apropos of nothing. I assumed they would be long gone, since the show is so much less about Brody now, but I guess nobody wanted to come up with something new.

And she's gorgeous enough that I could even see people who should know better considering it.

What IS an Abbazabba anyway?

I wonder why so many serious cable dramas are rooting so many of their stories in the fortunes of teen love and its attendant drama. It's not that it's a bad choice, I'm just a bit curious about it, is all.

“The rage you feel, it’s a gift. Use it."

It isn't that Dana's annoying. I don't actually find her to be annoying at all, owing largely to Morgan Saylor, whom I absolutely love in the role. My issue was simply with the sheer amount of screentime it gets each week, as it's a storyline that's very much off in its own bubble. The whole hit-and-run business last…

At least Kelly Macdonald's accent is in the ballpark.

I'm convinced there isn't a worse actor on this show than Van Alden's wife.

I never thought about that, but you're absolutely right. And it's such a startlingly obvious point. This shit would be impossible if she were hair-lipped Emily, or adult acne Amanda.

Dear Amanda,

That's about where I'm at, really. I appreciate what they're doing, but I'm struggling to become invested in it.

That's more what I meant. They're out of reasons for these flashbacks. There's positively nothing new worth telling about the past of Charming, Regina or Snow. That well is dry as shit. Let's see what other people were up to, dammit. They presumably had pasts.

Love Morgan Saylor, but I'm at this point with Dana Brody storylines…

Martha Marcy Mary Margaret May Marlene

Behold! The Sword of Power! Excalibur! Forged when the world was young, and bird and beast and flower were one with man, and death was but a dream!

This show is plum out of reasons to have flashbacks. It was arguable that they've been long past this point, but I felt this episode more or less sealed it.

I kind of loved Joan's storyline, simply for subverting where I expected it to go. Anyone could have predicted that Joey would lash out on Joan the minute she revealed she wasn't going to give him what he wanted. Hell, that's what I was predicting for the entirety of the episode. And when it happened, I wasn't really…

Now I want Conan O'Brien as a fourth wall-breaking character who notices things about which the characters are willfully unaware.

Freshman summer series.

Yeah, my interest in any potential Rayna/Deacon pairing is pretty much at zero. I don't think he actually deserves any kind of a second chance with her, and I'd be pretty disappointed if she was written to give him one. But I suppose it all depends on the circumstances. It's not like Deacon has been an entirely…