I am still disappointed every week. Not every Sherlock & Watson worthy mystery is a murder. Even if they feel obligated to bring the NYPD into every episode, they could pick a different crime.

Yes, past seasons seemed to be shot less on soundstages & showed where characters like Peggy & Don came from. This season Joan supposedly lives in a declasse area but we never see her go outside even to hail a taxi let alone brave the train or the streets. It's just direct from hall to office to fancy restaurant.…

It's one you could get from the movies and magazines, which have done this slice & the Italian mob life slice ad nauseum. I love the dresses and the frame motifs but they've stopped trying for any NYC(let alone what LA was actually like then) and are shooting inside restaurant, office & penthouse sets with the…

I don't know either but do know that in US premeditated crimes are charged & sentenced differently than spontaneous ones . Now that I think about it, if we were writing the laws, any battery on a child by an adult should be charged more harshly, because by definition they have less physical strength to defend…

Yes, guess I was trying to write for the general audience, too. Even my Falun Gong friends back then had different reasons for not being so sentimental about Chins depending on whether their parents were forced to farm instead of go to school or they came from Hong Kong or Taiwan.

This was set back when communism was still at least a hangover so it seemed weird that grownups who grew up in Taiwan & lame Florida school principals would not have more complicated political reactions to what I think was still called "mainland China" if not "Red China." The heavy handed "lesson" seemed like more…

It's such a thin slice of those times—NYC with no Nuyoricans, superficial Life Magazine level nods to the oversimplified often done themes. Visually stunning.

No, it was rude & snide then, because that's how Peggy was raised, too & 28 was considered by the medical profession pretty old to carry a first pregnancy even in the 80s—-the medical charts called a 28 year old an "elderly primapara."

1).Since he's now allowed to drink at work again he's not desperate for a nip—didn't he headpoint to a drink in progress in front of him? 2). He's dismissive of Mathis & the drink—barely notrude enough to not reject the gift but not caring enough to explain that his advice was given in the interest of keeping the…

He has been successful & typecast in those roles, but in person he is kinda sexy & if not for industry stereotyping when he played his teenage roles, could have been a romantic lead. At that time looking "ethnic" meant at best sidekick or nerd at worst terrorist in American movies. Omar Metwally was cast as a…

Let's start a flying meme—maybe tie it to the Peter Pan theme?

But lots of stepfathers & fathers do. Education/citizenship now for those with few options & "make a man of you" then for drifting druggies.

Yes, came to the review last night expecting paens of praise for the visual allusions, but even tho John TEti obsessed on the male characters in version 101 & only mentioned women in relation to Don Don Don, he missed the whole "real boy" "never grow up" motif. Maybe because unlike so many fans, he was not hoping…

Why did Sally want the other girls to know that her Dad grew up poor? Is she getting some appreciation/self-consciousness about being a prep school & suburban girl? Is she secretly proud of him for what he's accomplished/given his family?

In his honor, I will read his memoir ! and don't want the Dad to turn into every other situation comedy embarrassing ineffective dumb Dad, but must admit I am liking that he is kind of adventurous, open-minded, fun-loving , sex-positive & caring for his wife & kids.

True that & maybe he phoned this in/it was all that was wanted in this role, but he did of flickers of humor/understanding on CI, so maybe he does have other flavors?

You don't need to slime Ms. Rimes to argue your points. I agree Foley is wooden & used to think the part was written that way, for him to be an automaton killer. But since her shows have employed a plethora of men hyped as crushworthy, from McDreamy to McSteamy, it seems unjustified as well as disrespectful of a…

Except that this Sherlock was presented as a purist solving the crimes to occupy himself, without any investment in the aims/procedures of Scotland yard & is not bothered if Lestrade benefits. Joan is invested in the conventional police protocol of "going after the big fish" and is very bothered that the policewoman…

Almost made up for the fact that once again in this episode it was told, not shown.

Hannah was boring, predictable & tedious, maybe because the writer gave no flavor of that neighborhood she worked in & it was all "tell" not "show." Just a token woman other than Joan for Sherlock & Joan to evaluate differently.