The season takes place over the course of exactly a year. Beginning and ending with Frank's birthday.

So, I'm really surprised I haven't seen anyone bring up the "groundskeeper" supposedly hired "by the city (maybe it was parish)" to take care of the lawn at the school. I read probably 500 or so comments, but didn't see anything about that guy. He has to be the very next step in Rust's investigation, no?

My mistake, no idea why I thought that. The post was too long winded anyway. I'll re-write it more succinctly tomorrow. Gotta sleep.

Its a delightful show when it doesn't go too far with the "issue episodes". This spanking ep was probably the best job they've done with one of these yet. They tend of stray into hamfisted territory and grate on you sometimes.

Ah, well first I'd like to say my comments came off a bit rougher than I intended.

"I don't really want to hate on Carrie Underwood much more than people
already have……………she clearly put into getting her vocals right
carries over to other aspects of her performance."

Sigh. No "Same Trailer Different Park", but Fallout Boy made the list and Kanye's unlistenable noise that everyone seems to consider "music" is rated the best because, I don't know, critics all want to be "edgy" and are afraid to undervalue anything "artsy".

Wow. I'm not usually one to say this, but who the hell is this reviewer? This was one of the best episodes in a loooooong time. It hit all the show's strengths while avoiding all its weaknesses. Bah, Scroogebug.

I believe they meant the current Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. show, not the FX show The Shield. Otherwise I agree with your remarks.

Yeah, and as I said I get that, but its almost like it turns her whole character vanilla. And as hornacek below me touched on, maybe that's the whole point. To be this bland Whatever and then something will happen and she cuts her hair and becomes more sharply defined and she's allowed to act beyond "bambi" or…

I came in to say this. John Popper will bury you in the desert if you get within a thousand yards of his secret underground silo mansion.

The wig is getting ridiculous. Something has to be done about it. How about….Lizzy gets her haircut so that its the same length as Megan Boone's? Its not like she's got a buzzcut right now or something.

I enjoy Phil's retro SNL reviews because he's an armchair SNL historian and really has an appreciation for the show and a lot of the conceptual variants on comedy and how they make sketches work or not. But again, he's engaged in that material, as you said, and so he comes at it completely differently than he comes…

"Surely Alan Alda's character is Lizzy's *creator*. And Red is trying to protect her from him. The husband is hired to keep an eye on her and oil her regularly."

Not sure if its been mentioned yet, but it was most definitely not the first "non-emergency fill-in" for the daily show. Stephen Colbert hosted it for several week stretches several times, and Corddry hosted for a week at least once as well, though the latter may qualify for "emergency fill-in". It had just been…

I think you mean THE STEW MAKER.

She then undermines this by zip-tying up another guy who came back to capture her, because we all know when clandestinely assaulting a superior force you should keep as many people alive as possible, especially after you've already killed at least one. Because, what, morals?

That's the maximum amount of sweat possible before her wig falls off.

Its really quite a lovely, deliberate album.

Also its probably worth noting that perhaps this is the big shakeup we've all been sort of hoping the show would attempt, although it appears they're doing it rather wrongheadedly. For example I don't know what on earth you gain from killing Dembe and Luli, who were delightful little caricatures that made for some…