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Justin Chon!

Watch the next one, Fifteen Million Merits, brilliant.

Johnny Lee Miller is a brilliant comic actor. This Sherlock has essentially been… realized in tonight's performance. How brilliant. He was like a camp, pissed off British impersonation done by an overdressed parrot. Everybody helped, Joan did the straight man foil, Mycroft provided hairdo, odd suit and parrot-gestures

She wasn't all that confused about her ethics until this arc though. That is to say, she had to face ethical dilemmas (such as with Bishop) but she was ultimately trying to do the right thing. Now, not so much. It's okay though, they have enough likable characters on the show.

Melissa George has played the villain a lot but that's no reason to typecast her… I thought she was great in this episode too.

It's been part of her character but she's never really been a terrible person before. And all of a sudden, she just IS. Screwing over the people who hired her, people she claims to admire (just the other week she was going on about how much pro bono work they do), and then happily accepting her husband abusing his

That was his supervillain in a big office way of telling Eli that he was taking away her judgeship.

It's really cool that American TV can embrace complicated characters, that Alicia's not a hero anymore. That scene where Will and Kalinda plotted to rule the world kind of killed the nuance a bit because it set them up like supervillains. It's great that they're exploring the mean, vindictive sign of human nature,

The Birdcage is magnificent. As is Nathan Lane who somehow managed to make Pepper realizing that he was loved seem kind of tender and sweet despite the ridiculous situation they were all written into.

Hey, since this is Showtime and all, there's another show that is a lot better than this… any chance the AV Club wants to go back and review Queer as Folk? Don't get me wrong, this is good, it's just that Queer as Folk (US) is brilliant.

I love that show but the way they show gay men is ridiculous. Very much pre-Queer as Folk. However, even Jack was more sexualized than Mitch and Cam.

With the Mitchell and Cam thing, they've clearly never had any sexual attraction to each other, nor actually like each other. The guy who plays Mitchell is a gay man, he should have some pride. The Indian family on the Simpsons have more nuance than this. Bert and Ernie liked each other more.

Also, this has nothing to do with The Good Wife… they were arguing serious points through drama as they always have. This tosh from Elementary is more like the new Benedict Cumberbatch movie.

This show has always been deeply in favour of government power, police power over the rights of individuals.

It's just. They all treat sex and relationships as largely casually, disposable and forgettable. I don't mean it in a harsh way but when they get upset about things other people get upset about in terms of relationships, like adultery, it just… doesn't seem real. Elizabeth's reaction was in keeping with their don't

Oh but hey, Alicia crying over the deathrow inmate might help America admit that it's a cruel and barbaric practice.

I thought sneak peaks were things that said "Hey," and then were really dramatic and misleading. But someone in Hollywood thinks people can't handle plots, so they warn us about everything in trailers… and now it's ruining TV.

Wait, the happy ending is that he stays in prison? Is that life without parole? If a Governer stays an execution, is there re-sentencing?

I thought the Brooks story was so weird. I can understand that they didn't want to make it all gloomy so they could maximise Shane's guilt, but making a story about how nobody likes their dead colleague? Not at all? It was bizarre. And then to turn that into a group bonding session? They are each other's people