I refuse to play by your cutesy rules.

Sharp is indeed fantastic in that show, as is Suranne Jones. I wasn't completely sold on S&B during the first two seasons, but man alive that third season is something else. I don't know if the show made a leap in quality between seasons, or if the rather idiosyncratic rhythms of the writing and acting took that long…

Ah, State of Play. What a brilliant cast that was. Seriously, you have to go nine spots down on that list on the wikipedia page before you find the first name that doesn't induce an automatic "they're in this? Fuck yes!" reaction from me. That's not to say James Laurenson isn't great, but I hadn't put a name to that…

I say, the darkness is simply pouring down out there tonight! This your doing, Uskglass?

God yes. That would've been an immensely better show if it had been a procedural centered on Liev Schreiber and his sidekicks, with Dash Mihok and Marsan kicking around the margins. Just about every other element of Ray Donovan was off.

To be fair, if it had been Khan, I would've been utterly surprised, because honestly, who could have known?!

If you do a google search for "Imogen Poops" on the internet, most of the hits seem to be non-anglophone sources misspelling her name that way in earnest. I find this highly amusing, since I am, at heart, a simple fellow of simple pleasures.

And as for ratings, while it's on the bubble, I would resist making any judgments—I believe this is a show CBS believes it can grow.

When I first saw this comment, I thought you were talking about two different bands called Silver and Cold. Athough I've never heard about a band called Cold, I do like Silver quite a bit.

I'm not sweating it too much, frankly, since the show has already shown a willingness to flesh out those characters. Even if they only got one spotlight episode each last season, that's still generous compared to some shows. My bête noire in that regard is Castle, which went two seasons with two regulars (the Irish…

I know, right? It's almost like they're two different characters or something,

That's amazing! I didn't notice it at all. but, along with me being oblivious, I'd say it's another testament to how great those scenes were, that the show can omit something as ubiquitous as a emotionally instructive score, and have it seem normal.

One of the more hilarious misdirects the show has done, that.

I hope we get some spotlight episodes (or even arcs) for both Gregson and Bell this season. Quinn and Hill's work in the margins this season has been top notch, and even though the Sherlock/Joan relationship has been well deserving of the focus it's gotten so far, I'd like to see the other two regulars get more play…

I can definitely understand the balking at a perceived contrivance, but to me, the plot construction took nothing away from the power of the episode. I very much enjoy that almost overpowering sense of inevitability in a story, as long as it hits home emotionally, on character level. Every part of Abigail's story,…

Super harsh.

Nuh-uh. I bet he's polishing one right now.

Well, in Norway it's Derrick and Rex. I know the latter is Austrian, but nobody else does. After all, he is a German Shepherd. …I'll just go downvote myself now.

I'm holding off on my first re-read until closer to the next book's release (whenever the heck that might be), and when I do, I think I'm going to try out this combined reading order for AFFC and ADWD. I've heard good things.

I'm going to take slight issue with that first statement; Enon is one of my absolute favourite acts of the last fifteen years (High Society pretty close to being my top album of the 00s), but if these are the results of their improvisatory ways, I doubt Crooks on Tape are going to stir the same fannish devotion with…