I've been restricted to only the primetime NBC coverage for the first time since they expanded across the multiple platforms, and it's been awful. Not as awful as, say, the NFL early games on CBS, but a step down from what I saw during the past several games. Scott Hamilton, one medal ceremony a night, Scott Hamilton,…

Thriller was the first album I bought with my own (well, "own") money. And the second, after it got stepped on. And probably the three-hundredth, plus one more, as my collection kept changing formats. Still find myself stuck listening to it and only it for a week or more whenever it cycles up on shuffle.

Elvis Presley. That's pretty much it. That was my weekend. (Except when it was Game of Thrones!)

I … didn't get either of those until just now.

I … didn't get either of those until just now.

Just liking a fellow veteran of the corded VCR remote days. Oh the dirty jokes I must have missed!

Just liking a fellow veteran of the corded VCR remote days. Oh the dirty jokes I must have missed!

I hope no one ever sees the Google logs for the ridiculous things I'm querying to try to figure this one out.

I hope no one ever sees the Google logs for the ridiculous things I'm querying to try to figure this one out.

The whole episode I kept thinking it was way too early to be setting up a spinoff with this crappy of a backdoor pilot. What was the point of making Valentina Wesen if it was never addressed in the episode? Just to tenuously tie a ghost story to the show's mythology? Ugh.

The whole episode I kept thinking it was way too early to be setting up a spinoff with this crappy of a backdoor pilot. What was the point of making Valentina Wesen if it was never addressed in the episode? Just to tenuously tie a ghost story to the show's mythology? Ugh.

I'm hoping he'll turn out to be a sinister agent of Renard's brother. The casting track record on this show is juuuust terrible enough that they might think he'd be able to pull it off.

I'm hoping he'll turn out to be a sinister agent of Renard's brother. The casting track record on this show is juuuust terrible enough that they might think he'd be able to pull it off.

I was leaning toward the wife needing Mrs Grindle's services after some unsavory and/or non-consenting business with Maguire (who reacted pretty strangely to Molly digging for Corcoran gossip), with the kid getting caught in the fallout somehow. But yours fits better with this horrible ongoing child prostitution…

I was leaning toward the wife needing Mrs Grindle's services after some unsavory and/or non-consenting business with Maguire (who reacted pretty strangely to Molly digging for Corcoran gossip), with the kid getting caught in the fallout somehow. But yours fits better with this horrible ongoing child prostitution…

Late to the party but I find it really interesting that everyone on the show and most viewers assume Louis voted Hardman in. In a show this fond of twists, and the way they lingered over his waffling on the ballot, *and* the way Louis has become a sort of stealth sympathetic character this season, I walked away…

Late to the party but I find it really interesting that everyone on the show and most viewers assume Louis voted Hardman in. In a show this fond of twists, and the way they lingered over his waffling on the ballot, *and* the way Louis has become a sort of stealth sympathetic character this season, I walked away…

There was an audible "Come on!" from the next room at that line when I was watching last night, so I'll gladly accept the comparison.

There was an audible "Come on!" from the next room at that line when I was watching last night, so I'll gladly accept the comparison.

I'd love to be able to watch individual events instead of the primetime package, but the streaming hasn't worked for more than a minute out of every hour for me yet. And not everyone has the luxury to tune in to the web or a cable channel during the day when the NBC networks cram their favorite sport in.