I was honestly pretty pleased to have a week off from wedding planning.

Yeah, at least Jace just triggers groans and eye rolls instead of my gag reflex.

Dancing its buns off in TV show heaven.

With 99% of shows I'd be against an alternate universe episode on principle, but I have to admit I'm weirdly excited for this one. Probably because, unlike most other alternate universe episodes, the idea behind this one is a simple and immediately intriguing one.

Oh yeah, I liked Natalie. It's a shame she seems to have dropped off the map, though hopefully she'll come back when the show goes back to school.

I think B- is pretty generous, honestly. I liked the first episode well enough, but was only able to get about halfway through this one before I started simultaneously playing games on my phone while watching. There was a total lack of drive and excitement to it. I'll give it at least one more shot, though, because…

Basically. Also, that one was a piece of shit, this one is a ton of fun.

The fact that this movie only has 1% higher on Rotten Tomatoes than Olympus Has Fallen makes me no longer understand anything about the world. That movie was a grim, joyless, incoherent piece of crap, this one is a pulpy fucking blast. It's so much fun. Its politics are also pretty fascinating; while most pure action…

Ok, I'm seeing it.

This is almost certainly the weakest episode of the show so far, but nevertheless, I like what it did with Abigail and I'll be irritated if it isn't in its proper place on the S1 DVD set.

That's pretty cool. It'd be neat to see them gradually build up a big bad over multiple seasons like that.

I believe its pulling was initially announced before the bombings, on the same day. So it seems related, but actually isn't. It was pulled in response to Sandy Hook.

So how angry is right-wing talk radio that this movie basically features Obama as one of its heroes?

I consider "Pilot," "Tests and Breasts," "I'm With the Band," "Looks and Books," "Smooching and Mooching," and "Discos and Dragons" to all be essentially equal on the pantheon of TV greatness.

Well shit. Awkward is written with a pretty clear and distinct voice, so I have a feeling we're heading straight into post-Sherman-Palladino Gilmore Girls, post-Sorkin West Wing, post/pre-Harmon Community territory here. I'd honestly rather they just wrapped it up. I mean, high school's gotta end sometime.

This is probably my favorite episode of the first half of the show (or at least tied with the pilot and "I'm With the Band," anyway). Both the freak and the geek stories are super-enjoyable. James Franco is great in the final scenes and the very last scene especially is a classic. Coach Fredricks also becomes a pretty…

I think Switched at Birth's epic-high-stakes-thriller next episode promos actually trump "on the next Mad Men" for me as TV's most hilarious promos. I'm always in a fit of giggles at the end.

The Fosters has got to be one of the most amazingly emotionally earnest shows I've seen in a long time, even more so than the likes of Switched at Birth and Parenthood. It's stayed on the right side of the earnest/cheesy line so far, but I'll admit that during the slideshow scene I felt like it was teetering on the…

Lena's mom telling Lena about how she doesn't know discrimination was a little weird, because I kept wait for Lena to point out that, hello, she's gay, of course she does. Still, points for them trying.

Of course everything with Lena carries a certain dread, as, this being television, there's a 100% chance her fixing Jude's test the other week is going to come up again and be uncovered. But maybe not for a while. Hard to say.