Nice catch.

It's the DA's call, and she'll want as much as she thinks she can get, but the senator's pressure will never relent.

Not fair to Daniel, to be retraumatized like this, dragged through a carbon copy of that first ugly coerced testimony. I don't blame him at all for surrendering, but I want him to have a chance for truth and healing.

It was especially extra-misty.

Of course.

At any rate, I thought he was bluffing. And the editor called his bluff.

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When did I say L&O was shit? It isn't. It's its own kind of thing, a very formal series with its own significant, formal pleasures.

Oh, I'm glad on George's account and yours. Enjoy!

Bottle episode, or Pinteresque one-act play?

Sheen was on the Craig Ferguson show a couple of weeks ago, and he remarked that there's nothing like knowing you're having an on-camera sex scene in a couple of weeks to really get you to stick to your diet and exercise schedule.

By the way, I can't believe that the reviewer called for "cheerier music." Beauty with no pain in it would hardly have been able to reach through Daniel's wall to touch him. Arvo Part: perfect choice.

Pro tip: when all else fails, turn on closed captioning. (I didn't need it in this case but sometimes I do. Some shows are more accurately captioned than others, though.)

The show I continue to compare The Leftovers unfavorably to is The Returned. There might or might not be more answers after its first season, but even its mysteries felt more—present.

It could be the mission statement for this show.

By the way, I loved all the conversation between Daniel and Janet this episode. You can see that his wry, offbeat, intellectual approach to life doesn't come only from the second half of his life, locked up alone with books. It comes from the first half of his life as well; that sneaky, thinky, literary sense of…

I'm waiting comfortably to learn more about Jared. Everyone's sort of ignoring him as they deal with Daniel and his issues, and he's letting them, so "we" are, too. But that is bound to change.

There are palm trees in the Bay Area. Just not as many of them. But we've got 'em.

Ah, I'd forgotten that. Good on the showrunners for reminding me then.

And given that Stavros chews his pills, even that they'd taste the same.