Her accent's definitely improved— I only caught her sounding Australian every other line this episode.

This episode was a weird one for me. Because while I absolutely agree that the dialogue and character moments were top notch and on par with previous episodes in this spectacular season, the actual exposition felt rather forced. Implausible circumstances seemed to pile up one after another, and while this show isn't…

I'm honestly kind of surprised that this show is so well received. It's so ridiculously over the top and and exaggerated I thought the AVClub would consider it terrible. Truthfully, I don't know whether I'm really ready to call this show superior to Strike Back, but it's definitely good. Getting the problems out of…

Yeah, this episode broke my Likability Index; I didn't like anything about anyone last night, and it was hardly a laugh out loud episode, but man if that wasn't compelling TV. Particularly the trainwreck of Marnie's singing and the bad-sex scene.

Wow, did not go into this episode expecting to like it much, but putting the focus on Rumple, Cora, Regina and Snow made it much more tolerable than if they'd tried to shoehorn Emma in there. Regina finally has a real reason to hate Snow and try to frame her for murder!

The scene pictured in this review's header began in such a way that I thought we were going to be treated to a profound moment like Sean Hayes' Scrubs character endured. As usual, I had way too much faith in this show.

I'm not going to lie… I'm trying to figure out if there's some hidden meaning with this post just because you used the word "Rubicon". I might have a problem.

Thank God White Collar didn't trip up on its back episode order of the season like literally every other show on USA Network (OK, I guess Necessary Roughness was alright)! I haven't enjoyed a caper as much as this one since probably the episode where Neal grabbed the music box (loved the call backs to that 1st-2nd…

@avclub-954aef1dd01f3d3bb8e12966116cfdd1:disqus I loved Greek and Kyle XY, which is why I gave Secret Life a chance but it was just… terrible. But I'll definitely jump on this one since the first season is up on Netflix.

RE: romantic subplots. That's good to hear, I been thinking of checking this series out but I was afraid after The Secret Life of the American Teenager, which is all about gossip, hormones and scheming.

I'm that guy that watched this cause it was an event episode, so I can't say much for the overarching storylines, but I was thoroughly surprised that an ABC Family show had such a group of well developed, young characters whose storylines were NOT solely focused on romance/sexual tension. When Daphne and whatshisface…

Please tell me you're not talking about young Snow?! Unless you mean her lines, cause she nails Ginnifer Goodwin perfectly.

IS IT A GLICE SHIRT?!!!

I was going against the grain on the last few episodes— thought last week's outing was genuinely a good piece of TV— but yeah, this episode just brought back everything that was wrong in the first season— I mean, Ellis? Really show?

Hm, I hadn't thought that far about it, that's definitely a good point and now that scene doesn't seem completely without merit.

Yeah, Ayana was the one that taught Esther how to make the Originals, and she is a descendant of Q. Which now leaves me wondering… Will the White Oak stake work on Silas? Theoretically he's just an older version of the Originals, but it may be that Ayana didn't teach Esther how to perform the spell correctly (either…

Thanks for the link. The exchange between her and the interviewer about Jeremy's death and whether it was a "fake-out" deserves mad props. To think the writers actually planned people to speculate about whether Jeremy would be brought back to life like that.

Even Soylent Green?! Yeah, I guess it wasn't really that surprising looking back.

It definitely wasn't a backdoor pilot, but I could see this introduction as the first step in a spin off of her own show. Actually, they could be doing something like what The Vampire Diaries is doing with The Originals and dropping in minor characters who are going to join her as supporting cast in the real backdoor…

Am I the only one that finds it weird that he never comes into the comments section? I have to wonder if he has a dupe where he says really nice things about all the shows he reviews with perfect spelling and grammar.