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Chuck's allergy is psychosomatic, but Stacey's lying? Really. There's no chance she hallucinated the gunshots to explain the chip in the concrete because something is bothering her unconscious. Something like possibly the known-but-unknown idea that her father-in-law is a murderer. Nah, can't be, 'cause women are just

Just to add to the comments of m'learned friends above: in a masculine-dominated culture, for a man to present as a woman is a dangerous, hence powerful, act. Read The Bacchae, you'll see what I mean. Drag Queens are not mocking women—they are mocking constructions of femininity.

Yeah, it's a good show. And thank god for Mad Men, or it might never have existed.

Yeah, the serial killer thing is played out today. But while watching this episode, I wondered: did they even have the term "serial killer" in 1965? Had there been enough of them to warrant the coinage? There was H.H. Holmes, of course, and Jack the Ripper, but…would the average police station even have thought such a

Really? That's disappointing. I've only one episode of "Father Brown," but I've seen it a few times. It's the one with the radioactive plates. I don't remember it being too poor, but I did kind of hate the opening credits.

I agree, can't get enough of British mysteries. Pie in the Sky, New Tricks. Rosemary and Thyme, Midsomer Murders, Prime Suspect…superb.

I saw Jimmi Simpson on Broadway in The Farnsworth Invention a few years ago and he was incredible.

Carbon Leaf, "Another Man's Woman," has two stinkers: "a pleasure-seeking yahoo with a penchant for pain," and "I painted over truth with artistic lies." Yeesh.

If you enjoy the Britcoms on this list, you should also check out The Vicar of Dibley.

"Hodgepodge claptrap." Thank you! I've been looking for a phrase to describe Cassandra Claire's fanfiction to people who really should know better than to enjoy it. The best I could some up with was "trying too hard to be Buffyesque," but yours is much better.

You forgot Pete Hutter from the Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. It turns out he was only gut-shot.

Come on, we all knew this would be crap from the promo, right? "Daddy, what's martial law?" Sheesh.

John Beard is my local news anchor. It's always a surreal delight to see him there after watching AD.

Any Flashheart episode of Blackadder, although my personal favorite is "Private Plane" from series IV.

I. Love. Press Gang. For a while in the '90's you could see it on Starz's kids channel, WAM! (yes, really); with Moffat's newly-risen profile in the US it seems like Press Gang might be ripe for exportation again.

He's sick of the Swiss!

I probably would have loved Wonderfalls if I didn't live in Buffalo and it wasn't so obviously shot on the Canadian side of the Falls, which are nothing like the part of town Jaye is supposed to live in. It shouldn't bug me, but it really, really did. I did watch the whole show and my overall thought was "I wish I had

Just saw them a few weeks ago - they put on a terrific live show.

Here in the states, Jessica Biel tried something similar to get out of her contract with the extremely G-rated TV show "Seventh Heaven." Then when she couldn't get any jobs she came crawling back.

Unfortunately, she's a terrible actor. She uniformly sucked in both "Good Morning, Miss Bliss" and the touring company of "The King and I."