Norbert!!!!!!

This. So much. I do not take this show very seriously at all, but the look on his face during that scene made me want to weep. Brian d'Arcy James is just perfection. Everything about him in this episode was excellent.

I think they cared that she was missing. They mentioned multiple times that she wasn't answering texts or calls, but they just thought that she was taking some alone time after being abandoned by her mom. And they didn't need to find her after Klaus let her go because he had let her go. I'm assuming that was Bonnie's…

Being the "least racist" doesn't automatically mean "not racist." And the fact that Lane had a romantic relationship with a black woman doesn't mean that he would be comfortable handing over a wallet with a great deal of cash in it to a black male cab driver. I'm not saying that Lane is in the Klan or anything. Just…

Oh, she showed concern for his well-being. After she found out Rebekah had taken him, there was a whole scene of her trying to convince Stefan that they needed to drop everything and go try to save Damon. Stefan was not super interested in that plan, which seemed to bother Elena. I was just really expecting there to…

I still maintain that the episode of Always Sunny in which Dee and Charlie think they are addicted to the taste of human meat (and Dennis and Mac decide to hunt "the most dangerous game" aka Rickety Cricket) caused me to throw up. Particularly the scene where Dee and Charlie are in a morgue trying to psych themselves…

I was totally prepared for the Damon/Elena rescue scene to be a fakeout, just like the Stefan/Katherine sex scene from last season. However, I was not prepared for there to be no post-real-rescue Damon/Elena moment wherein she might at least express her concern for his well-being. I had been looking forward to such a…

I think it was a more subtle racism than the Y&R guys throwing water bombs at them. But I think that his decision to return the wallet himself instead of letting the cabbie take it to dispatch (especially when he realized there was a significant amount of cash in the wallet) was at least partly racially motivated.

Also, did anyone else notice that when Don dropped his kids off at the Francis house, he referred to Betty and Henry as "Morticia and Lurch"?

The whole conversation between Lane and Joan was just delightful to me. Especially Lane trying to reenact Megan's dance for Joan. He just seems to genuinely like and respect Joan so much, that I can't help but like him. Even after he had been super racist at that cabbie.

It was not even a little bit surprising to me that a man who pays hookers to slap him around would be turned on by a hot chick in her underwear verbally abusing him/bossing him around.

I don't hate Betty either, although I certainly find her unlikeable at times. I just think she's really sad. She grew up being groomed to be a perfect housewife and, like many other women at the time, wasn't satisfied with the thing that she was supposed to want. And I think that by the end of the third season she had…

I defended last week's episode against all who called it boring. But this week's was kind of a bummer for me. Not to get too intensely shipper-y, but I am kind of bummed at all the fighting between Damon and Elena. They seem so far away from those "Where were you, Damon?" and "I don't know what I would do if you…

@avclub-a9e90c61bfc6c4d55863d6bdc5c78ad8:disqus For some reason it won't let me reply to you under your thread, but there are two potential origins for the name Finn. One is Scandanavian that comes from an Old Norse name that just meant "dude from Finland" (loosely translated, lol), while the other is an Irish name…

"Recapitate" is my new favorite word.

Sage is at least a couple centuries younger than the Originals, I think, since Rebekah said that Sage and Finn had a thing 900 years ago (c.1200 AD) and the Original family became vampires presumably during the 900s AD (based on when Vikings would have "discovered" North America).

I loved absolutely everything about this episode. Snarky Damon returned in full force. Elena finally admitted (or at least didn't deny) that she loves Damon.

Bodaway Macawi is one person.