Horowitz has so much more to recommend him than "he don't play too loud." He was a master of color who could turn the sound of hammers hitting strings, a potential timbral monochrome in lesser hands, into a shimmering, kaleidoscopic world of nuance, depth, and magic. He communicated a profound understanding of every…

Got ham?

The real stars of the show are its fabulous lamps.

The too-brief shot of the Venus impact was gorgeous. They pack a lot of detail into their shots, so it would be nice to see them a bit longer. I know that costs money, and this show ain't called "The Expense"!

And who knew that anyone making a police drama would look at "The Killing" and say, you know, that show was good, but it just moved way too fast. I've watched three episodes of this season, and I'm pretty sure that absolutely nothing of consequence has happened. I can't really binge this show, because each episode…

Is there anyone who watched this episode and didn't go on immediately to episode 10? I mean, come on!

Hey kids, want to see a movie that's just the end of Old Yeller, over and over and over?

Me too. I thought, this is what Cranston gets for being the show's co-creator. ("Somewhere around mid-season, I get a long monologue. Something for the Emmy reel." I imagine him saying in story meeting) But I didn't mind it a bit.

Maybe the Gotham writers think if they class up the cliches enough, we won't notice or mind them. They're wrong.

This is better than "Shitter," a passable conspiracy thriller with a toilet obsession.

This seems like a "5 minutes from now" kind of future, but that's really a guess. We have seen precisely nothing of the outside world. But if it's based on the movie, that was set in the present day in the 1970s, and this is set 30 years or more later, so early 2000s? That makes no sense either. Maybe it's not…

Stray things I don't get:

Halfway through the episodes, and I can say this is what Super 8 should have been.

He did every stupid thing possible, as if he were going about asking himself, what is the dumbest conceivable thing I could do right now? Ok, I'll do that. Wait, I just thought of something stupider, so let me go back and do that too! Really made the character unsympathetic to me, to the point where I don't even want…

Meg is an attorney, for fuck's sake. She shouldn't be talking or allowing anyone to talk to the police, even if it is her ex-fiance, without a criminal lawyer present.

Favorite Jonah insult - "You sentient enema!"

"morel consequence?" let's leave mushrooms out of this.

My guess is we will get a brand new, hitherto unknown branch of mythology, tantalizingly dangled before our eyes, not obviously related to any other piece of the tangled mess from the original series, which will never be explained or explored, merely subsumed into the chaos.

Strayer observations:

"Picaresque" greenery? You mean "picturesque," right? God, how I miss editors.