So, I have only recently picked up watching Castle about a month ago—my fiancée and I watch it when we're home from work and needing some brain-numbing TNT reruns—and I'm fascinated by how the show lurches among genres. Tonight, we watched an episode where Castle used hypno-therapy to recount his abduction in Thailand…

This isn't an Anne Hathaway newswire, pal.

The scene in Family Tree, with Chris O'Dowd, Carrie Aizley, and Begley listening to the awful "R&B music" in the car may have been the hardest I laughed in all of 2013. The genius moment was mostly a Chris Guest musical choice, but I just howled at Begley grooving so hard to that tripe.

I love the screencap for this review—Theroux is like, "You want some…Leftovers?

The best kind of way!

We'll know the DNA is evil in this show because it believes in man-made climate change.

It appears that the US film industry has exported John Cusack to China for the foreseeable future. Can someone fill me in on where we sent Joan?

I can't… It's just not possible… I'm a Gladiator.

But he gets results!

I prefer to win my Star Wars memorabilia from my friends in games of sabacc, fair and square.

He could have altered it. Pray he doesn't alter it any further.

Cabin in the Forest Whitaker

Neat! I learned something today.

Also, it occurred to me just now that the cult is based in Clearwater. Do you think that's an accident, or was a bit of nominative determinism?

Up until a few days ago, I think you could have sat somewhere in Arizona* and watched that exact thing happen.

Maybe the explanation is that her records were…

Now that you mention the notion of time travel, I wouldn't have been opposed to a mid-series time-jump in Minority Report. Get us close to the full, authoritative implementation of the program by introducing the Colin Ferrell character a season in, refer to other detectives (Anderton), then time-jump to deal with the…

I had the same thought, but could only make it to the episode where an Internet-using Luddite terrorist was introduced. One, I thought it might be smart (or at least clever), but it turned pretty lowest-common-denominator, and I couldn't really deal with slick/dumb/sort of cheap looking. And two, the violence seemed…

That's what I thought, too. It would have been more interesting (and an interesting meditation on determinism!) if we as an audience knew the endgame, but got to see how it was argued over by charismatic politicians, how different cops embraced or rejected it, and the kinks were worked out. The show would have had a…

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