I think I liked the Pilot a little bit more, only because the storyline with the FBI felt so formulaic— if the stereo store shake down hadn't been vital to the scene with Stan, Phillip and the caviar of creeping suspicion, I wouldn't have cared for it at all— neither Stan nor Agent Amador are playing amazingly…

I thoroughly enjoyed this episode's main plot, with Laurel (and the other cops in the station) calling Detective Lance out on his increasingly erratic and obsessive behavior when it comes to The Hood. Dr. Whale Vanch was a poor villain, but his counting the arrows The Hood carries and mounting appropriate defenses was…

Totally agree. I think that part of the reason the Men of Letters stuff is so intriguing is because for so long the show has not only felt like the world was fully mapped out, but that the world was actively shrinking with all the hunters and mystical allies that would just get killed off. I remember Maureen Ryan of…

Wow, so this season is doing the exact opposite of more recent seasons— starting off pretty blandly and ramping up from there. Depending on how epic the finale is I'll revisit my decision to recommend watching only the first five seasons of this show. As it stands, the soft reboot they've done with the Men of Letters…

I actually thought this was pretty good— they're edging away from the more obnoxious character traits (like Karen's doe eyed innocence, Ivy's cartoonish villainy and Julia's…. son), but I think it'll take them a few episodes to really hammer out the show's new rhythm. I did think the musical numbers (aside from Jeremy…

Wow, A-? Haven't watched this yet but just browsing some of the grades and how awesome was this Thursday?!

It's funny that you mention Burn Notice, because this episode kind of reminded me of one of my all time favorite episodes of that series, "End Run", where one of Michael's nemeses, Brennan, attaches a metaphorical bomb to Michael (he sends a hit man to hang out with his brother) and tasks him with stealing some sort…

I remember when I first started watching this show, somewhere in its third season, and I thought "wow, this is absolutely the craziest thing I've ever seen, how is it still on the air?!"

"All day, we hear Freddy Kruger is going to kill us in our dreams, only
when night comes, Bradley Cooper shows up and tells us we’re fat and
then steals our wallet."

If we don't count whatever the hell season 9 was, Scrubs had a pretty fantastic final season.

BANJO!

I don't think she's annoyed by her kids, but by the (in her view) horrible American crap they're spewing. She wants to raise them "Russian" and instill values like socialism and the importance of reaching space first. Yeah, I clearly know way too little about the culture of Russia from that time, but I think her…

I hope you're a female, otherwise, your wife might have some news for you….

Do we get more extra credit if we do this for The Sopranos Diaries?

A note on Castiel, I think Henry said all the super demons were killed by archangels, not just angels, so Cas probably would've gotten his ass kicked if he tried to help them out. It is kind of irksome that the boys didn't even mention him this episode, though.

Yeah, that's the feeling I got at the beginning too, especially from Mrs. Jennings. Based on the last flashback, Phillip was probably infatuated with her from the beginning, but she's pretty mission focused (and of course, traumatized) so they're only now reaching the point where they are going to be interested in a…

This was fantastic. I love pretty much any spy show, but after the most recent season of Homeland, I was getting a little demoralized with the spy genre. Glad The Americans was as excellent as it was. I'm looking forward to the reviews of this show weekly, because the back and forth Mr. VanDerWerff and Mrs. Koski have…

I did not like this episode. Everything just felt so contrived and forced. I mean, aside from the  unbelievable con, I don't see Elizabeth asking Neal to lie to Peter, much less letting Peter think he was lying for his own selfish reasons after Peter clearly revealed he was going to get back in the game as soon as he…

@drdarke:disqus I'm guessing they'll probably kill her off in Person of Interest, since they probably already filmed anything they'd need her for this season. I hope Kara just makes a daring escape, though, and they bring her on in between seasons of The Following if it is given a second season. Then again, they may…

I guess maybe my simile was in poor taste, but the basic point is that it makes a lot of sense to be more morally opposed to the creation of vampires whose only purpose will be to die than to the killing of a single vampire who just so happens to kill tons of other already existing vampires when he dies.