I gave up on this show last season. I just came here to see who is responsible for Classic Poe after David Sims' departure. And now I just have to say: Poor Sonia. On the bright side, she inherited The Good Wife from Sims… but also The Following? Shudder. And this so very soon after Hostages…

I suppose you mean Bella. And, yes, upon rewatching, that was of course not professionally correct (though totally on purpose). But he didn't straight-up tell her that death was a cure, it was implied but possible to pick up (especially for someone in Bella's state of mind), and he certainly didn't tell her to commit…

Wow, over 800 comments. Well deserved.

Jeez, I even missed the name-drop. I must have developed some serious selective attention control skills with regards to him.
Gotta say, though, I still find him less grating than Blake, and of course He-who-shall-not-be-named. Still, Kalinda can murder him for all I care.

Science is represented here by one study that showed that dogs just react to their owner's behavior when they present a guilty look. I'm a dog owner myself, so I was inclined to disagree, until I realized that shame is a very human emotion and maybe really something that only develops through extensive socialization…

Fantastic episode, an A for me, as well. The Good Wife seems determined to become the best show on television. Between this, Hannibal and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, I'm really loving television right now.
Admittedly, I thought last year's midseason point episode "Red Team, Blue Team" was more fun. But this episode was a…

Yes, that was great. Her look reminded me of a shamefaced puppy (except science claims dogs can't actually feel shame).

If I may chime in, I'd like to mention that Matthew Rhys played Dylan Thomas in the movie The Edge of Love. Maybe that can make you feel better? Sadly, though, he ends up being a bit sleazy, too, but it's not nearly as bad as Fitz. Maybe Fitz-lite. (On the plus side for me, the movie also has Cillian Murphy in it.)

Yeah, what you said a bit farther down was sort of what I felt, too, but I've heard worse and I thought it was at least less egregious than it has been with Archie Panjabi sometimes.
Jack Davenport still holds a sweet spot in my heart from being one of the few good - consistently good - things on Smash (the other…

I missed this show so much, I thought it would never return.
I really, really liked this episode, at every turn thinking "Oh God, this show!" It's all so very layered and complicated and the NSA scenes just make me really angry, but on the other hand, the two guys are also pretty funny.
Like probably every person…

Yes, and Clothilde Hesme isn't exactly unknown either. Truth is, with those three actors I thought, "Wow, they are doing television? Must be good." Because in France, much like it is (used to be?) in the US, bona fide film stars don't usually do television unless it's something really special (mostly on Canal+. Case…

Thank you, that's awesome! Now I'm reassured and can sleep better at night…

Well… White Collar is the only show I watch, but I think it's an okay choice to drop that one. While I always - usually - enjoy reading AVClub reviews of episodes I have watched, White Collar is a show that doesn't exactly scream to have all its depth explored by a write-up.

Yes, regarding the "Always Murder" trope - that annoys me, too (and I also mentioned it in my comment). Even the fantastic Leviathan episode about the heist had a murder in it, just not as the hook for the beginning, but later on.

Well, I have to agree that this episode fell a little flat for me.
I didn't think the crime of the week was particularly inspired. The Black Swan angle was very obvious here, what with the lesbian seduction, and as usual in ballet-inspired fiction I find the über-dramatic backstabbing to be somewhat over the top.
I…

Well, I suppose we'll just have to agree to disagree on that one. Like someone else put it in the comment section here, you can't shoot someone and call the ambulance, then say you saved their life when they survive. And is it really the way Sherlock would see this, or is it the way the writers want us to see it?

Yes, I know that it's dangerous to shoot someone in the shoulder. I don't know if it's more dangerous to shoot someone in the shoulder than the chest. My point is actually, how can you say "that person saved my life" when she shot you and technically managed to kill you? Mary didn't shoot Magnussen to incapacitate…

I can't quite pinpoint where exactly the reviewer lost me, but the reviewer lost me somewhere…

That's really interesting, thanks.
But I think that would actually have been a very compelling backstory for her character. It would maybe have made the show a lot darker, but I personally can imagine this might have worked very well. But okay…

Thank you for pointing out that Mark Gatiss is in fact the showrunner (executive producer) of Sherlock, a decision announced by Steven Moffat in 2008, so that the latter would be able to concentrate on Doctor Who. It saved me the time to write my own outraged comment about this, instead giving me time to write this…