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The thing I love about that fight scene is the part where Hannibal uses his apron as a weapon, which is somehow even more perfect for him than kitchen knives.

This is going to be one of those cases where everyone starts to comment just as the reviews are ending, isn't it? Count me among those who will miss the regular coverage.

I think you're downplaying Juliette's role. She also tried to get herself psyched up to do taxes. That's a big deal!

"Aiden is obviously a gigantic moron who has never heard of having a storage unit in which to stash the important relics you steal from the mentors you kill."

The Jack and Emily stuff worked better this episode than it has since the demise of Sammy the Wonder Dog, even if it was a tad forced. Petulant Jack was never a good look on him.

Seriously, about Wu. During the showering scene when they talked about Mishkin radiating people I forgot for a moment that Wu wasn't in the know. How does that make sense anymore? And then the next scene was Renard telling them what he'd learned about Mishkin's assassination M.O., so the whole thing made even less

I actually liked the phone business in "Day" given that it's a core function of the Tardis's "camoflage." In the context of the anniversary it was nice to give a wink to that aspect of it. But I hope they don't go back to that well too often; having those be Handles's dying words worked for me, but if they call back

Yes, but will 12 remember to reroute the phone back through the console?

Even better — only Charlotte was actually watching! Poor thing.

I watched the last two episodes back-to-back so the "someone will die" was fresh in my mind … I could have sworn that there was audio of Juliette screaming "NO!!!" in the promo, but that was probably a callback to her mom's death, because Panettiere is so good at playing characters losing their shit. Nevertheless, I

I watched the old UK series back in the day (although all I can remember of it now is the word "jaunt") and the last monthly review intrigued me enough to catch up in this incarnation. The first four episodes were good enough to keep me watching out of residual nostalgia but it feels like a lot of wasted potential.

They don't have to shoot them all, but an episode ago they were all, "We've got to kill Horn or Aaron'll never be safe!" They were completely prepared to do just that and damn the collateral damage, up to and including not-so-dear old dad. So given that, doesn't it feel like a missed opportunity? Wouldn't Miles or

Hmm. Maybe I buy that, but her other relationships made more sense. Teddy was her partner in raising her family; Deacon was her partner in music. Liam was the exciting new alternative to both of them (as well as inspiring her to take a new musical direction). Luke? Eh.

The dialogue on this show is miles better than it was (though Charlie still had the requisite "Then I'm coming with you!" line — every time she speaks it's like someone has pulled a string on her back). But why do characters still have to do stupid things to make the plot work? You find that all the bad guys are

I've missed the Nashville coverage (could you guess?) and am glad to at least have monthly check-ins. Even with its ups and downs the show has enough WTF that I was sad not to be able to lolwhut about it with y'all. (My favorite non-kiss moment with Juliette last week: "I guess nice just ain't my color.")

Well, yes, we know Nick is pretty non-violent for a Grimm, but he's still got a body count. It's just nice to remember that just because he's better than your average Grimm (from a Wesen point of view), it doesn't mean that the gang is 100% on the same side (Renard least of all).

Besides which, a lot of the discussion last week called Nick out for his hypocrisy about turning himself in because he happened to kill a human this time, when he's killed plenty of Wesen before while in full control of his faculties. It was good for the show to address it, and Renard was the best character for it to

"Really, I feel fine. My face hurts though."

I'm glad there's someone else who wants to call him Sterling. Neal's not a fan of guns, though, and I suspect that even if Hagen's definitely a different flavor of criminal than Caffrey, there's still some respect there for the forgery skills.

It's from "Love Like Mine," especially in the early going of the show when you could only hear it in the ultra-overproduced version where characters would sing along without really knowing the words. (The real lyrics are something like "Gonna lock my door / sleep with my phone" which doesn't make a whole lot more