Seven for me.  It's the ultimate 'shut-off-the-TV-and-go-to-bed-you-idiot' message.  I will comply.

That was a rough time for me personally — you all know why — but I agree.  It's probably the best dramatic TV episode of all time… either that or Mission Accomplished on The Wire. 

Replying to constant815… there's a billionaire on the show who wants to build a basketball arena or something — maybe it was bringing a Major League Lacrosse team to Seattle, I don't know.  There's also a running subplot about how many flights the main detective can miss.

That was my favorite part of the first season: the horrific bloody cage that looked like the aftermath of an Oz knife-fight… that turned out to be from a teen girl's nosebleed.

You quit at the right time.  Since the summer, I still have the last half of the most recent season left to watch and don't know what to do with it, like a month-old bag of chips in the kitchen.  It's not good for me and it's going bad but… I already opened it.

Fun fact: The V stands for Vichy.

They'll never stop Ted Mo-sby!
Have no fears,
he's got stories for years.
Like, his life becomes a mo-vie…

We all need a lesson in sunk costs.  It applies to TV even more so than anything else.

Your story checks out.  He's legit, guys.

I read all of this and imagined one of those Senate scenes from Rome.  VDW as Cato in the black robe, fighting for what is just.

Replying to dolphin… I haven't seen The Shield — yet, although I've been meaning to — and haven't really heard many people put it in the upper echelon of all-time greats, except for that one guy who always talks about Walt Goggins in the Justified comments whose name escapes me.  Is it 'up there'?

I've thought about watching it a few times but keep putting it off… after O'Neal mentioned that Adam Scott is in it, it's moving to the top of the list.  Dude is everywhere, it's awesome.

I won't believe it until after I've seen it twice.

Great episode — extremely tense — but I had a couple of (small?) problems with it:

Swiper, no swiping!  Swiper, no swiping!  Swiper, no swiping!

Eleven here. I am 10% awesomer — OK, sadder — than you.

C'mon, surely Dexter has one of those voice-altering apps on his phone, so the call to 911 sounded like a husky British woman.

This season really improved by adding nice subtle touches.  The bit with the dog tags really stood out.  He knew he was going to die, so he gave them to his kid because he wouldn't die as some unknown soldier here — he had made a name for himself, although it was more of a notoriety thing than anything else.

The CIA should put windows on drones to make them seem friendlier.

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