Sigh… is it weird that now I'm actually kinda upset that they renewed Castle? The show's plunged straight off a cliff in terms of quality. All they care about anymore is appealing to the old bats who stick around after DWTS (as Apartment 23 rather brilliantly hit on this week).

Oddly, I think Happy Endings and Apt 23 would make a decent little block all to themselves. They're pretty compatible.

All the charm of the Just Desserts contestants mashed up with a bad Amazing Race ripoff.

I'll give anything with Claire Foy a chance, but… yeesh, this sounds godawful.  Like the goofball first-year-polisci earnestness of the early Real Worlds mixed with bad execution.

And where was the first place they actually let him play alongside white players without, you know… lynching him?  That'd be Montreal.

Good lord, I wanted Megan to whack Peggy upside the head for that baseball line. She should have added "where do you think Jackie Robinson came from, you idiot?"

My biggest exposure to HoJos is from Jacques Pepin's book - he designed a lot of the menu in the early 60s (turning down an invitation to be JFK's white house chef in the process).

If Bombshell had Disney's marketing behind it, they'd be able to get away without a star.  But in spite of everyone involved with this, there's no indication that there's anything close to the level of cultural visibility with anyone involved that the show would be sell-able without an actual name involved at some…

"since I don't hear anyone requesting  Glee songs at establishments that serve alcohol."

I thought they were a bit lower than average this past year.

"Kermit, in response: “How many times have I told you: Never eat the guest star at the beginning of the show?”"

The side projects certainly show that you need the troika dynamic to make Top Gear work.  James is fine enough on his own (the toy show was fun, if VERY slow at times), but Hammond and Clarkson are clearly at their best when they're insulting the other two. 

C'mon, he's started to joke about it now - they did a gag in the Teenage Car segment a couple of seasons ago, and Jeremy berating Fifth Gear for not having a "proper" crash, combined with Hammond's sheepish expression, is one of the best jokes they've ever done.

I mentioned it above, but, yeah, I totally think that the show intends us to sympathise with Julia. Since we're not insane, we don't.

Not quite up there with early Wesley Crusher, though.

Yeah, cheering for two teams in the same conference is about as close to a mortal hockey / sports in general fan sin as you can get. Having a backup team is fine, but not one you might see in a first round series some day.  The only thing worse would be for cheering for both halves of an actual rivalry (I've met…

I'm more surprised they haven't put it back into print.  Lord knows that novels tied to less successful properties than a middling TV show have been republished more easily.

Huh.  I vaguely remember hearing those stories when Sunset came through Toronto. And if they actually DID draw on that for the storyline, rare kudos to the writers.

Yeah - she's fine in the part, it's just that the writing's so one-note that it's unnoticeable. And it makes sense for her to understudy the star - just like McPhee, she's got potential.

Except I don't think the show intends us to sympathise with his viewpoint in the matter.