If that's Ettor och Nollor you're talking about, it's already finished (and aired), so I don't know what ramifications that would have for his involvement with Vikings. Then again, who knows how long into production Vikings was before Ettor och Nollor wrapped. I'm just going to reiterate my prayers to the gods (with…

I agree with the Whipping Boy here. I'd say Madison really nails her part, especially that slightly heightened mania stemming from living under the expectations of the Marcia Gay Harden character.

Absolutely. The way Toby just took the money and went with Bay… lovely little bit of business.

Thanks for the kind words, and thanks for taking my objection seriously, even if you don't agree with my opinion.

"Of course you wouldn't feel great, you'd be DYING!"

I know what you mean, but it's the perfect example of lightness of touch shown by a lot of the directors working for these ABC Family shows. It shouldn't be surprising still, but it kind of is. The Connor-Jude friendship has been pitch perfect so far; even their little falling out was well handled.

I just thought I'd make the obligatory "they should just have adapted Scalped instead" comment.

Ah, that's amazing news! The blues I felt at the recent cancellation was almost on par with Bunheads and Terriers. That second season just felt like a giant leap in quality from a first season that already was pretty damn good (and ran roughshod over frikkin Copper). I know it's going to sound like heresy, but sheer…

Yay Vikings! Here's hoping for at least as many Johan Renck-directed episodes as the first season.

One of the things I miss most about the pre-internet monoculture is those soundtrack-exclusive big-deal pop songs. The Batman Forever soundtrack was such a big deal to me, introducing me to The Damned (by way of The Offspring's "Smash it Up" cover) and The Flaming Lips.

I got on my sparsely-attended bandwagon of Ridley Scott being the most overrated director ever with that enjoyable, not-terrible film. Okay, so he's definitely made some all-time classics, but the notion that he's anywhere near GOAT status is laughable. Then again, I sorta feel the same way about Spielberg, so what…

I was thinking of Mariana's friend.
Hasn't it already been established that Jude has experimented with crossdressing? Not that that automatically would make him gay, but I don't think he's supposed to be the cis-est of boys.

Lovely insight; especially the second graph. Comment of the week!

I'm pretty sure deaf people are up to speed on how to contact emergency services without being able to hear what they're saying. Let's just assume, for the sake of the show's fiction, that Text-to-911 is pretty well-developed in Kansas.

I don't think there was time for Daphne to contact her parents in between the doctor getting stabbed and the paramedics carting him off, really. My biggest problem with that last scene was the improbable pristine and unbloodied state of her top.

This seems the most likely solution. They've set one large stretch of a season (or more?) in a school break previously, so it's not like it's unheard of. If anything, this might further ratchet up SaB's already pretty compressed and frantic pace. Which I think is a good thing?

I'll say this for the stabbing storyline: the build-up and execution of the actual stabbing was pretty amazing. Sheree and Daphne sitting outside, the commotion happening offscreen, Sheree hears it, Daphne doesn't, Sheree's mom coming out, all nonchalant indignation, the two of them storming off, and then the slow…

I'd never thought of that before, but just thinking back on how well Sean Berdy plays that kind of stuff made me go all gooey inside, so I guess you're spot on!

Fingers crossed* that's not what happened to Vanessa Marano, even if the slightly forced nature of this storyline does suggest something like that.
* no pun intended, I swear.

Like:the Bay-as-nascent-alcoholic theory.
Don't like: discussion of next week's episode, which belongs below the review of next week's episode. Some of us don't live in the future, so begone, time travelling fiend!
(Thought I'd try to find a novel way of whining about previews spoilers there, and it worked out great,…