I loved Juliette's comment to Layla about there not being any cameras rolling. Which means that at some point it's totally going to get to Layla and Juliette will be completely unsympathetic as per usual. And it will be awesome.

Adios old friend, regular coverage of the show that gave me my username. We'll miss dissecting the inconsistent characterization, whiplash changes in relationship dynamics, and occasionally decent music in a show that does just enough things right to be tantalizing and mixes in just enough things that it does wrong to…

I see where you're coming from, but I think the way it was handled, and the abruptness of that development didn't give Badillo more depth/motivation so much as it was another milestone on Briggs's journey to wherever he's going. Especially given what an enormous risk it was, and the fact that we don't get any…

Good idea story-wise, or good idea for Badillo? Because I can't see how he'd think posing as Jangles and getting all up in Briggs's busines *wouldn't* get him shot.

Tom's implausible return was awesome, though. "Gone. Now I'm back." "You can have the boat." How could they have done anything else? He could hardly have sat this one out. This is the episode where everyone is trapped and isolated from everyone else! And he has a mole to uncover!

I do like the scenes with the housemates hanging out with the plot at the edges. It makes the world feel more lived in somehow, instead of an unnatural universe where everything has narrative import. If you had their lifestyle, you might reenact the great bear shoot-out, too.

So, what's up with Kiera's nightmare at the beginning, or was that just an excuse for a creepy visual nonsequitur? Was that meant to suggest that she didn't become a Protector voluntarily (but suppressed the memory); was it someone else's memory she was channeling; or was it just how her brain interpreted the…

IMO, there really is no comparison, aside from the fact that they both feature serial killers. I can have a fairly high tolerance for junk tv, but I was done with The Following with the episode where Kevin Bacon tells one of his FBI colleagues that James Purefoy has this charisma, he draws you in, blah blah. Not that…

I can't decide which Grayson kid is most useless (maybe it will be Patrick!)

That's because lasagna doesn't lie, like Emma.

"I came back to save Storybrooke."

Wait, The Sopranos is the landmark show for using genre trappings to tell a deeper story than the audience was expecting? I remember when that was Buffy …

Grimm does Leverage! They screwed up the gloating scene though.

Bamber's accent in the pilot of Monday Mornings was atrocious, though. I don't know why he decided he needed to try a different one, but it was all over the place and completely unnatural. Thankfully he settled back into his Apollo-cent afterwards.

Deacon played my song! And he knew the words!

I know — so actually I'm tangentially impressed with Declan too that he's not entirely incompetent at fixing air conditioners. "Huh, this bumpy gray box is nice and cool in here, so I don't know what the problem could be …"

Color me mildly impressed that Fauxmanda actually hid the laptop in a relatively hidden place. We never really got to see how wily she was — she was mostly Emily's pawn — so it came as something of a surprise.

Scarlett: Inconsistent character, or inconsistentest character ever?

If that's the case, then Declan is even more useless than we thought. Which doesn't rule it out, mind. He did ask Nolan after all.

I didn't catch the ring, but he did have the line about "wives'll always screw ya" or however it went, when Jack started fake-arguing with Amanda.