I'm pretty sure he quit during the whole process of he and Boo getting together, friends being mean, not being together, and then being together before the season break.

Pretty sure Full House never taught us anything, though, so *phew!*

Yes, you alone have the clear vision. You alone are the original iconoclast! Please pity we poor saps actually enjoying the show… we don't know the pinched-mouth buzz-kill crankiness we're missing.

I didn't realize that! That's so cool.

What a nightmarish alternate universe! Even AMBER?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, indeed!

Doesn't this show have the same basic serial killer as the Mentalist?

No, he was just pointing out that the same character was called Slade in Teen Titans Go because it skewed younger but that he can be called Deathstroke in this more grown-up series.

I like the long hair, personally, but rowr either way. Rowr, I said.

The clearest thought I formed while watching this, exhausted after a long Monday, was, "Frankie is *gorgeous!*"

I could tell from the release date.

The whole slate, really, but for me War Horse was especially egregious. I also didn't think Hugo was really Oscar material. I mean, it's set in France, and there are no French people in the film. Everyone speaks with a British accent. It's ridiculous. Beautiful but paced like shit, too. The omissions were…

I think they broke me last year when they nominated The War Horse. Don't get me wrong, it's a perfectly fine film considering it time-traveled to 2011 from 1953 with absolutely no changes made in the interim. It's basically How Green Was My Valley with horses.

I tried to watch (old) Upstairs, Downstairs for the first time after seeing DA season 1 and it was as if DA was a remake in a lot of ways — similar storylines and beats were hit, even down to the gay footman (though DA handled that [unsurprisingly] much better. It isn't close enough to truly call it a remake, but DA…

Dave's "I wish I knew how to make you come…" jokes were this series' equivalent (nod?) to Tobias Funke's "I blue myself."

No, he does Mystery and she does Masterpiece. They rebranded both shows a bit.

I think my favorite thing about the episode was that the maid didn't utter a long, drawn-out scream upon discovering the body. I get so tired of that trope: women shriek for apparently hours; men just look horrified. Whenever they have a woman gasp or react less hysterically or have a man shrieking in these…

Did you ever see the pilot they did for that? It was actually pretty great, I thought.

Did you ever see the pilot they did for that? It was actually pretty great, I thought.

Yes and no. I actually stopped watching the show for a couple of weeks I was so angry about that. Apparently they realized that was dumb and pretended it never happened?

Yes and no. I actually stopped watching the show for a couple of weeks I was so angry about that. Apparently they realized that was dumb and pretended it never happened?