It's like what Canadians do when foreign-born, but subsequently naturalised, citizens win an Olympic medal. 'Yes, he/she may have been born somewhere else, but they're Canadian now, dammit, and that's what counts!'

Welles over Wilder? Really? I mean yes, of course Welles was brilliant, but looked at over an entire career, output, and a variety of genres, Wilder is the clear winner.

Fun fact: there's a town an hour south of where I live in the British Columbia interior called Lytton, named after Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who was Secretary of State for the Colonies when the town was named in the 1850s (it already had a name, courtesy of the Nlaka'pamux (Thompson) First Nations who'd lived there for…

Apparently someone at TNT also watches 'Funny or Die', where they caught Dockery starring with Michael Chiklis in Tough Justice.

And, as it’s now 1966, Gini’s children Tessa and Henry are now sexually
active teenagers, and Libby has somehow given birth to two more
children, even though she had a difficult time getting pregnant with the
first one.

I'm appalled with two 'p's.

Agreed that Nicolas Nickleby is brilliant. I was blown away when I saw the filmed version in 1982. So many great actors - my favourites in the cast being Rees, John Woodvine, Edward Petherbridge, John McEnery, Bob Peck, Alun Armstrong, David Threlfall, and the amazing Suzanne Bertish - making every part, however…

Definite hints of the Brett series (the look of the street scene, and en echo of Patrick Gowers' theme music for the series), as well as the opening scene of Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, where Homes complains about how he's depicted in Watson's accounts of the cases. 'You've saddled me with this…

He is back in Spectre. Between Penny Dreadful, James Bond, and starring in the West End in The Trial (to great reviews), he's having a rather good year.

When Vanessa challenged it and the doll's eyes darted sideways in fear, I thought 'That doll is a better actor than many live actors.'

Especially since Rusk seems to understand that not everything has a rational explanation; he's prepared to consider the supernatural, which makes me wonder what his back story is.

Rory Kinnear, the actor who plays Clare, is a classically trained actor who's won two Olivier Awards (the British theatre equivalent of the Tonys), most recently for playing Iago in Othello at the National Theatre, and he's currently getting raves for playing Josef K in Kafka's The Trial at the Young Vic.

I think Lily's confrontation with Clare in episode 8 made Clare finally realise, and be appalled by, his own monstrousness. He's been pretty single-minded about wanting revenge on Victor, but when shown that for Lily that isn't enough - she wants revenge on all humankind - he decides he wants to ally himself with…

Holy sh*t, Clare and the Putneys. Familiarity with the source material made me think (hope?) 'Yeah, maybe he'll show them', and as soon as Clare's hands curled around the bars I knew it would happen (and yes, it was satisfying, particularly Lavinia's screams as Clare walked away). Still, RIP David Haig as Mr. Putney;…

Don't know if you're familiar with Conan Doyle's short story 'The Captain of the Polestar'; it's a brilliant supernatural short story set on a whaling ship in the Arctic (ACD served as a ship's surgeon on such a vessel in his early days), and was written before Conan Doyle found fame with Sherlock Holmes. There are a…

Yes.

Extraordinary how the most beautiful, loving, moving, and tender scene was Vanessa and Ethan in their 'might have been' life. So beautifully understated, yet so full of love and life and passion.

That Vanessa doll really needs an Emmy nomination (but only if Eva Green gets one as well).

That whole scene between Vanessa and Clare had me close to tears. Two lost, tortured souls reaching out to each other. Part of me wishes Vanessa had gone with him.

And whoever wins won't have Sepp Blatter smarming around, so that's something.