Who is Patti Smith? The article assumes I recognise her, like one of those science fiction novels that uses words you've never heard in a roughly familier context. She looks like the pottery teacher at an annoyingly progressive school for wayward teenagers, but hey, who am I to judge?

I met Captain Mal Fillion once. I had been invited to a screening of Serenity, because my friend's wife didn't want to go. (Yeah, I don't get that either.) I got to sit in the reserved section and everything ; right behind the (unoccupied) seat reserved for Adam Baldwin.
All I could say when I shook his hand was,…

The audience won't recognise the eponymous hero of Castle, which is basically, "Murder She Wrote", and thus the very definition of generic (all demos) television?
They tip the hat to Firefly, sure, but they know he'll be recognized. He's done shout outs to Cap'n Mal in Castle, too.

Surely, any criticism of this show is a tacit admission that you watch it, which is enough to make any sentient being hang their head in shame. I don't know if I'd vote for a person who admitted to watching this show, never mind buy a used car from them.

This was like elevator music.
Not interesting enough to be offensive, just an insistent, pervasive thrum of sound and colour that subtly reminds you of your mortality and the ultimate futility of any endevour, however well intentioned.

I don't think his real problem was that the kid was white, or French for that matter. His problem was that the kid was dating his daughter, and all that implies. All fathers have dated someone's daughter (some even marry them) and they know what teenage boys are like, having been teenage boys themselves.

Where can I buy a "Grey Rock" painting? They look conducive to deep thought; like Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis, or something by Leonard Cohen.

It's in dreads; and while I'm not not a barber, or an expert in the hirsute appendages, it's my understanding that it's a pretty low maintenence style.

"Sherlock kept pronouncing it “zeb-ra”

"Plotlines pile atop one another, character histories are redefined and recontextualized in response to shifting narrative needs…"

"…you must make a friend of horror.
Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they
are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies."

Those cells are beginning to bother me. Do they have sleeping and bathroom facilities, or are the villains just stuck in that tiny padded room? And how is that legal, or even humane?

"Hungover Caitlin is also charming, in a different way"

"Julain Sands, who deserves so much better"
Does he, though? Even though his name is almost exactly like the well known shameless ham and luvvie for hire Julian Sands?

"I should’ve recognize the inevitable betrayal earlier"

Exactly; he's already done it. or is doing it, depending on your viewpoint. We, the viewers, just aren't aware of it yet.

Yeah, but, then that would be revealed as a hook, or cold open, or whatever insiders call it, and the rest of the movie could be a, "previously…" and we learn how they got to the situation that led to them being beaten up and thrown out of a penthouse window/being slaughtered by a horde of Uruk-Hai, or whatever.
It…

"…Penny lets it be known that Amy’s nickname for him is “The Virgin Piña Colada” "
But… thinking back to season one's, "The Grasshopper Experiment", Wouldn't Sheldon be a Virgin Cuba Libre?
Yes, yes, I know; I should get out more, I'm a such a weirdo, etc.etc.

Hey, remember when Angel got even more somber and brooding than usual and abandoned his crew to fight alone? And then when he came back, they'd forged themselves into an effective force and were doing fine without him?
I'm kind of expecting something like that here. Laurel is getting better; so is Roy (as was pointed…

"Let's get soused"