I have read exactly none of those (looking at the list, I've actually read nothing of hers from after 1970), and will put them on top of my Murdoch to-read pile.

I always get the feeling when I'm reading her that I probably would get much more out of it if I had anything close to a classic education, but luckily, there's enough going on that's accessible even for a rube like me. I can still get giddy just thinking about the way I felt the first time I read The Unicorn or The…

Fuggedabuddies for life!

John Allison, yaaassssss. Are you reading "Expecting To Fly"? To my shame, I haven't read all of Bobbins and ScaryGoRound, so I can't really make any authoritative statements, but it feels like the best work I've ever seen from him. Which is kind of a scary and beautiful feeling — and apposite for this feature, I…

With my avatar, answering this question truthfully kinda feels like showing up to a band's show wearing their t-shirt, but who cares: John Reis.

I'd imagine disappointment is a very familiar feeling to an Arsenal fan.

I see what you mean. Except, of course, Better Off Ted was original, and not an only-intermittently-as-good retread of its creator's superior previous show.

Esther'd

Absolutely. I may have been a bit unclear in my initial comment, but my issue was not with the character's reaction, but how the show chose to convey it.

With a little Adam Levine thrown in for "good" measure.

He directed the pilot for Crossbones as well. Sepinwall and Fienberg spent a few minutes on their podcast sputtering in disbelief that Slade was capable of what they perceived as quite shoddy craft compared to what they were used to seeing from him on Hannibal.

Re the Irish-ness of the Shelbys, given the strong "gypsy" (Romani) connections, I'd say that they're at least not all the way Irish. It's been too long since I watched the first series for me to remember anything more specific than that, I'm sorry.

Wait, I know this one! Good Christian Finches, right?

Note to self: consumption of alcohol in large doses seems to have impaired judgment and cognitive functions, as well as ability to take jokes. Must investigate this further.

Ahoy. Also: boats, boats, and indeed, boats.

I prefer this one!

A show that could be described "as the heir to the Breaking Bad throne" surviving anywhere on the ABC schedule these days — regardless of quality — sounds like the pipiest of pipe dreams. And Friday nights at 8:30? Fugeddaboutit.

Yeah, that was the one sequence I disliked as well; mostly because I couldn't turn my brain off to the degree required to overlook how deeply silly it was for these two moderately competent criminals to think that the watch was in Hayes' possession, and not in police custody (they were right, but there was no logical…

Argh, life got in the way of my Moonlighting watching last weekend/the start of this week, so I might as well just accept that I'm not going to be able to keep up your pace, and instead amble along in your dust, at safe distance, like some sort of overly wordy straggler.

Were there continuing storylines, or was it another one of those CSI/NCIS/Criminal Minds type dealies, with as little soap as possible? (I prefer the former)