There was no point to having a Two Days Earlier thing rather than present everything chronologically, but that first throat that Miles slits was awesome. Nora distracts the dude; Miles waltzes in, slashes, takes the dude's gun—all in one motion.

Seriously: great work here. I'm glad you deferred to your brain. :)

I'm a little worried it'll be empty calories, like a last-second reveal that Emily's father is alive or something like that, rather than a more robust furthering of the main stories. But it'll certainly be full of incident, of that I am sure.

Surely that money could be better spent elsewhere, no? Maybe break up the empty whiteness of the albino house, hang a painting or something.

It was so obvious that the thread wasn't changing the woven circle at all…

How were they saying "Ulysses"?

IMO Rita was never anything but irritating and shrill. I don't remember Lila too well beyond "Pardon my tits" and Dexter's earliest iteration of finding someone who will accept him, darkness and all. (It always goes badly eventually.) So I think their pairing in Defiance is a step up, if anything.

My mind was blown anew. Not just Nirvana but Dylan? WTF. It's out of all proportion to the general production values of the show.

Is the actress wearing some sort of fake teeth/dentures? I don't remember that overbite from Dexter or Hustle or even something as recent as The Finder.

That duct-tape bra must have been REALLY well-behaved in its past lives.

YMMV of course, but Mia Kirshner is absurdly hot. What stuck in my craw was that this was something of a Benz-centric episode. Please, show, no Benz-related flashbacks unless there are people around whose name occasionally ends in -us.

I have to say, the review is excellent. Great breakdown of why some seemingly-interesting concepts are narratively inert. Very logical!

It has something of a "Jeremiah" feel to it, though slightly upgraded…The standing sets are a dead giveaway for the show's Canadian-ness.

Reading your post, it strikes me that maybe the whole thing (Robin's freak-out) was written as a character beat for *Ted* (which is something of a disservice to Robin…), in that he was being super-noble about saying she and Barney are a good match, etc., going so far as to contradict his own basic nature.

Maybe you accidentally Triangled the relevant sitcom-memories? (Or they're in Italy; if those are the two options, we are equally screwed.)

On the left? So we're going counterclockwas?

Was (Not Was).

That pun was surprisingly boob-free. And pretty darned funny.

@avclub-da518aecddbf5c94588f53562012c452:disqus : Oh, that's right: She played Edgerton's wife (and was surprisingly grounded and non-annoying).

Awesome Freudian slip!