And when you do see the baby, she's not crying as much as the sound would have you believe. I once worked on a TV episode of another show that had a crying baby, and a voice artist was brought in to provide the crying sound. Very freaky, this full-grown man standing off-camera sobbing like an infant.

Oh god, and every genxer I know is going to lap this up.

Sorrow floats. And now I feel gross, just thinking about that awful book.

I like the shutter sound! It enhances the sense that everyone is watching everyone.

APPLAUSE

Best line ever in a play (in the otherwise forgettable The Chalk Garden):

Same here. I haven't finished the season yet, so don't know if they'll start to explore whether a prison guard and inmate could ever have a truly consensual relationship, but the use of music and sexual tension really doesn't bode well.

I agree with this. I don't find keeping tabs on what's happening with Larry's career, friends, and relationships at all interesting, nor when they show us Polly either — I think the show rather stops dead when they go over to take a look at that world. I think I'd find it less obtrusive and more interesting to just…

One of the things I had particularly noticed in the book is that Piper Kerman starts right off by telling us that dated men and women in college, that she had a girlfriend, and that now she was engaged to a man she was crazy about, but decided to keep her sexual history under wraps in prison for self-protection…

I'm guessing Lea DeLaria and the purloined tool.

Wait, your copy didn't automatically open to that page?

Heather Graham is sort of perfect for this.

Wow, that is pretty cool!

I just read the book, and she's very focused on portraying what she describes as a culture of helping your fellow inmates get through. She compares the experience to her time at Smith College, and notes many parallels in the all-women communities she lived in.

I love when Bill is the voice of reason. I will maintain until my dying day that of all of them, Bill grows up to be the most successful adult. he seems totally weird as a teen, but his shit will be dealt with.

Styx really was the perfect, yet embarrassing, and embarrassingly perfect soundtrack to our lives in the very early 80s.

is there some kind of union rule that requires all TV detectives now to be on the autism spectrum? it's becoming a cliche.

Totally agree with this. I wanted Copper to be so much better than it was. Ripper Street isn't a GREAT show, but it's serviceable and enjoyable in a way Copper just isn't.

I find that annoying too. Ditto the happy-go-lucky beer blasts on the beach, because nobody has paperwork to do, needs to get some sleep, or would rather watch TV alone in their rooms instead of spend another waking minute with their work colleagues/housemates.

Mary, Meghan, Lynne, Gina, Nicole — heat that eyeliner with a Bic lighter wherever you are!