Can we get some Canadians in there, eh?

Okay, I've missed the last four weeks of this show - having watched it from the start - because I was out of town and couldn't see it. Based on the reviews and comments here, do I catch up or do I bail?

Seeing Turner's 'The Fighting Temeraire' at the National Gallery in London for the first time, in 1985. Until that point I - a kid growing up on the west coast of Canada - had only seen it reproduced in one or two places: an art book here, a Penguin Classics cover there. Then there it was, in front of me, full size,…

Does this Teddy Roosevelt live with his two aunts, and spend time in the cellar 'digging the Panama Canal'?

Got to see Feore in a number of roles at the Stratford Festival in the mid-1980s, when he was starting to take on some big parts. The one that sticks with me is Iachimo in Cymbeline, specifically the part where he hides in a chest in Imogen's room and then emerges while she sleeps and takes notes, so he can persuade…

And I keep thinking of the Piranha Brothers. 'I was terrified of Doug. Everyone was terrified of Doug. I've seen grown men pull their own heads off rather than see Doug. Even Dinsdale was frightened of Doug. He used sarcasm. He knew all the tricks: dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos puns, parody, litotes, and satire.'

Agreed. Just re-read the book in preparation for seeing the film, but think I might go back and re-re-read the book instead.

I loved F Troop when I was a very little kid and it was on originally. I feel very old now. . . .

It's an old trick, certainly; I just wish it didn't invariably make you question the character's intelligence.

I'm a mother, and while I'd walk into a gang fight to keep my son safe, in Travis's situation I'd be calling the cops from the hospital and telling them to meet me at the church. Nick's safe in hospital at this point, so Travis isn't going to be helping him by going alone and unarmed, at night, to a shooting gallery.

I live in a small town where sirens and choppers are definitely not part of the aural landscape, but kept thinking 'This is just a normal day in LA' (and I've spent a good deal of time in LA and New York).

Fear the Torrent of The Walking Dead.

Ripoff - sorry, homage - corner: the opening scene in the church was straight out of 28 Days Later, and the video of the guy on the gurney attacking people, being shot, and coming back for more was done better at the start of Diary of the Dead.

On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being 'perfectly reasonable' and 10 being 'batshit insane', Travis deciding to check out the shooting gallery, by himself, at night, without telling anyone, is off the scales stupid.

'The Twelve Days of Christina' from the second series of Inside Number 9 is one of the most brilliant, heartbreaking, gut-wrenching half-hours of TV I've ever seen. Sheridan Smith is nothing short of brilliant as Christina.

"Help us Josh Charles, you’re our only hope: Fortunately Charles, who
would have chemistry with a hat rack, devastates his scenes with Lizzy
Caplan"

Not according to her father a couple of seasons back. . . .

Welcome to fucking Westeros. Can be combative.

The Lost World by Michael Crichton. Look, you want to 'homage' a 1912 novel about dinosaurs discovered in a remote location? Fine. Just come up with your own title for it, okay? Conan Doyle got there first, and in a lot of ways did it better.

Agreed that this song is Not Good. At least we don't have to hear another Not Good Christmas song - Rolf Harris's 'Six White Boomers' - again anytime soon.